So how about you? What artist is overrated and not deserving of all the praise they get?
What music artist is the most overrated in your opinion?
So how about you? What artist is overrated and not deserving of all the praise they get?
Rod Stewart always gave me the heebie jeebies... and he couldn't sing either.
Elvis... I like his stuff, by if he hadn't been Elvis then someone else would have been... the times were right for it
Kiss. What did they actually produce?
Meatloaf, same reason.
And finally, and most controversially, Springsteen. I did like his stuff. But not much of it. I'm not sure who made him The Boss.
I agree with most of this.
Eminem is definitely overrated. I think the doors were the silliest stupidest band. I've despised everything they've done.
For me it’s Drake 😅
He has catchy songs and a few great tracks, but the nonstop praise like he’s the most versatile artist ever feels exaggerated. A lot of his music blends together vibe-wise, and he leans heavily on trends instead of evolving artistically. Massive hits, yes. Genius-level innovation, not really in my opinion. 🎧
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I'm gonna piss off all the Swifties but I've never heard a Taylor Swift song that stuck with me. Or maybe I've never heard one at all because I can't name one. While her lyrics may resonate with young women, they aren't fundamental enough to resonate with everyone male and female of all ages. And her stuff lacks the hooks, melody and beat, to make them great pop music. I just can't imagine walking around humming a Taylor Swift song all day after hearing it on the car radio. And I can't imagine people 25 years from now rocking out the her music from their youth.
Don't get me wrong. As a person / artist / woman I think she's amazing. Intelligent. Well grounded, or as well grounded as anyone in the music industry can be. A well balanced personality with admirable morality and ethics. Exactly the type of woman I'd want around me as a friend. But the Beatles she is not.
I'm gonna gag on these words but Miley Cyrus has turned out to be a better performer. There's just the small matter of her being a severe head case I'd never want anywhere near me.
Have you not heard or seen the video for "The Fate of Ophelia". I have to admit it is rather amazing. The video has some visual very good visual clues and Easter eggs (if you know where to look very quickly). It also helps to understand WHY she wrote the song: It is about her relationship with Travis Kelcey and how he saved her "from the fate of Ophelia" (from MacBeth by Shakespeare).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70cExuzZM
The Partridge Family. Yea they had record after record of smash hits and a popular show, but what have they done lately? And those 70's costumes... ugh... like they just left a funeral... what were the prop people thinking?
Clearly a creation of a demented Hollywood empire hell bent on brain washing innocent children into purchasing sugary cereals. Devious! Disgusting!! Delicious?
All hail Danny Bonaduce though... he was, still is, and forever will be... cool!!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/EW4E0jAeAf8Susan Dey (Laurie Partridge) is a GREAT actress, though.
@beefcakebradybatson Yes she was a star!
D**N SKIPPY !!!
I know I'm gonna take some heat for this, especially from the older generation but, "The Beatles". Yes, I am aware heavy metal wouldn't exist had it not been for the Beatles. It's not even about their music. They have good songs and they have shit songs, like a lot of bands, but it's their FANBASE that made me fed up with them. This guy on YouTube was doing a band contest, and the fucking Beatles were beating out bands like AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple! It was so obvious from the start that The Beatles are gonna win. Beatles fans are extremely arrogant and have no respect or admiration for other artists or genres. "Here Comes The Sun" over "Iron Man"? REALLY?
Beatles fans think we should love and respect the Beatles, yet they don't love or respect other artists. They have to be the most stuck up arrogant fans in the music world.
Kid Rock. The guy just sounds like every other singer in that genre. And to top it off, the man throws tantrums and storms off stage if the audience doesn’t participate in his concerts the way he likes. And this was the man chosen to lead an alternative superbowl halftime show? What a telling choice.
There's PLENTY of them!! Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond (child molester), Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Cher, Madonna, Elvis Presley, Wayne Newton, Tom Waits, The Bee Gees (first couple albums were cool, after that, they were dead boring!!), The Rolling Stones (same deal as The Bee Gees) and I could probably come up with loads of others.
All popular rappers and pop artists are grossly overrated. For bands, Nirvana, U2, Dire Straits, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Metallica, Dave Matthews band, The Warning, Halestorm, Ghost are just a few that are overrated.
I'm certainly not a Swiftie.
I nominate Taylor Swift. That looks more like a cult than an artist. Her fans calling themselves "swifties?" Puh-leeese! And can this women even sing?
Her „music“ is so arbitrary and boring, as if a horde of monkeys had stomped on all the AI machines available and the management chose the „best“ of the results. 🙄
T. Swift. It's far more marketing than good music.
Apparently, everybody in this thread knows Taylor Swift but I don't, so I'm going to take a look at what she does now, excuse me 😂
Taylor Swift. And Sabrina Carpenter. I can't stand any of those Nazi darlings in the pop industry.
The Beatles. Easily the Beatles. John Lenin is trash and "Imagine" is one of the worst songs ever written.
That's not a Beatles song.
@Danzigdawson I know. Still sucks.
Taylor Swift. Few of her songs are fine and catchy but way too repetitive. And all her songs are the same, teen girl crying over a teen guy.
All of em, I've never been a celeb ass kisser, I don't get the whole thing but the drama is pretty interesting when they get themselves arrested and stuff 💀
Taylor Swift, she isn't even that talented of a singer, and her lip singing on your Eras tour kinda confirms it.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/xMNYiDH-fDYEric CRAPTON !!! (And Kid C**k, I meaan, Kid Rock, but Crapton is an overrated musician and an a**hole. :See : His Aug.5,1976 support of U. K. white supremacist politician Enoch Powell's "Rivers Of Blood" speech.)
Chris Brown.
His music is trash and he promotes domestic violence outside of his music.
I think Bruno Mars.. he has nice songs but he’s overrated in my opinion
I dont understand the Tate McRae or Addison Rae hype. Tbh thought they were the same person
Taylor Swift. She is talented but not on the scale of Elvis.
Insert any rap or hiphop artist here please.
Are you kidding, he's on the endangered species list! He's a white Rapper!
Beatles, Elvis, almost all of the latest pop acts.
Katey Perry.. Do not get the joy at all..
excuse you?
lmao... that's the Aussie Football Super Bowl, right?
Kind of yeah..
Called AFL Grand final and the idiots ( organisers ) always feel inadequate and try and get something " main stream , family - international '
We had Meat Loaf when he was alive..
Watch the YouTube clip if time it's hilarious , he was seriously horrendous, as in , I sounded better..
hahaha
Our former Prime Minister does !!!
I do.(As does our former Prime Minister, Mr. Trudeau The Younger, Ms. Perry's beau. You haven't seen Ms. Perry's spuds !!! D**N , LAD!!!)
Aria grande. Her music sucks yet she's everywhere
IMHO, pretty much any rapper is overrated.
Pink Floyd, definitely.
Taylor Swift.
I won't offend the elderly... lmao
Almost any rap artist is overrated.
YEAH, BUDDY!!!
I agree, Eminem.
Beyonce - 35 Grammy's? C'mon. LOL
Ned Sheeran. That is all.
Bruce Springsteen.
Michael Jackson
Taylor Swift
Most whose discography starts after 2000.
Bruce Springsteen
Millie Vannelli lol
Taylor Swift.
Elvis
Heavy metal.
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