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What musical artist/band do you think is overrated?
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Sand Dancer
Currently catless
Cardi B? Justin Bieber?
AC/DC
Koldo
Outstanding Member
You won't beat me when it comes down to controversy.
I choose... The Beatles.
Make no mistake, It has some good songs. There is no dispute. But overrated.
May the battle begin, for I have made some enemies just now.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Anyone who uses auto tune is definitely overrated.
Cept maybe Cher. She only uses autotune on occasion for effect, and people who grew up with her in the 70s already knows her natural voice is spectacular.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I think the Beatles were ahead of their time, but your right, there were plenty of bands that had music just as good if not superior.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Until Brian Johnson arrived..
I'm with you.
I abhor Marilyn Manson.
This is probably more of a thorn in my side because I've had far too many people walk up to me and say "You must be a Marilyn Manson fan, right?" No! No, no, no! The man's voice is like nails on a chalkboard. No!
I don't like any of those, either, with the exception of Ozzy.
I don't like Zeppelin or Zappa. I don't know the others.
The Doors.
Winner Frube. Can't stand them.
The Beatles, by far
Beyonce
Taylor Swift
Billie Eilish
Lana Del Rey
Adele
Metallica
KISS
Paramore
My Chemical Romance
Fall Out Boy
Avenged Sevenfold
Ghost
Slipknot
U2
Beyonce
Taylor Swift
Billie Eilish
Lana Del Rey
Adele
Metallica
KISS
Paramore
My Chemical Romance
Fall Out Boy
Avenged Sevenfold
Ghost
Slipknot
U2
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Elvis, Beatles, all pop divas and boy bands ever.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Agree with all but Ghost.
Absent some objective criterion to measure the merit of a band or an artist, I don't think there's any solid basis on which I could declare any to be overrated. They just cater to different tastes that may not align with mine.
However, I think any artist with questionable conduct or a dubious history whose personality, rather than only their art, is glorified by many fans would be a suitable candidate for the "overrated" label. Marilyn Manson, Chris Brown, and Machine Gun Kelly all either fall or have previously fallen within this category.
However, I think any artist with questionable conduct or a dubious history whose personality, rather than only their art, is glorified by many fans would be a suitable candidate for the "overrated" label. Marilyn Manson, Chris Brown, and Machine Gun Kelly all either fall or have previously fallen within this category.
Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
I agree with several of the people here who said The Beatles. The were good, revolutionary for their time, but since everybody copies their style they don't feel as unique as they probably were in the 60's. Taylor Swift had some pretty good albums, and then there was reputation and Midnights, both were pretty bad, and I was surprised "Karma" got its own music video when the song was so mediocre. Swift deserves her recognition and fame though, she changed the music scene forever.
My best shuffled-friendly long playlist has only five Beatles songs but 26 Taylor Swift songs are on that playlist. The playlist is 1,525 songs in total. According to Last FM Taylor Swift is my fourth-played artist at 5,919 scrobbles. So no, I don't really believe Taylor Swift is overrated, but I think some people have an unhealthy obsession with her. My best Taylor Swift playlist has some really good songs on it, and I play it semi-often. I have Beatles playlists I've curated myself but I've never played one of them from start to finish, not even the shorter ones.
Pretty much everything hip-hop/rap is overrated to me. Music declined significantly in sales not just because of Napster and streaming but also because hip-hop and rap dominated the charts for such a long time. And now there's even a worse genre out there: trap, which is hip-hop music about drugs. Great. Just another genre of music that I can't relate to. I can't even really name any artists in this genres off the top of my head because they are all so bland and boring. But Eminem had some bangers, like "Rap God", "Lose Yourself and "When I'm Gone". I do like Will Smith as a bland pasty white boy but he hasn't made any music since the mid-zeros, so he doesn't count.
There are more artists now that are severely underrated rather than overrated. Train's last album, AM Gold, flopped, even if it was pretty good, Five For Fighting hasn't made significant impact since his song "100 Years", Martin Page continues to release music that is usually completely overlooked by most people, and Sting hasn't made a really good contemporary pop album since Sacred Love. I believe Britpop artists like Oasis and Blur deserved their fame, but Blur didn't get the fame in America like they should have, despite having some bangers in their Britpop trilogy.
Most of the time fame is deserved, but sometimes the contemporary music landscape produces some real duds out there. "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus will not be remembered a year from now, and her fame in particular is so exaggerated that I feel like she shouldn't be famous at all. She gets hundreds of millions of hits on Spotify when older artists fade out of existence with subjectively better music than her. 80's was a great time for music and I regret being born in '89, not being able to experience that decade and its music candidly. By the time I got satellite TV MTV was already playing things like Beavis and Butthead, unfortunately.
Billie Eilish has virtually no talent and she even sang on the latest Bond song, but then there's artists like Olivia Rodrigo who I feel like their fame is fully deserved. Rodrigo is better than just about all of her contemporaries. She's someone I would argue should be as big as the biggest artists, and I hope this fame she has carries on album after album, because I plan on listening to everything she makes. She's one of the few current popular artists I remember and would pay to see in concert. Eilish is so overrated and well ... creepy. I don't like "Bad Guy", it's just a "Bad Song" to me. And she is completely overrated, to a ridiculous amount.
(I have "Bad Guy" on my long playlist but it's just a song I love to hate. What else can I say?)
My best shuffled-friendly long playlist has only five Beatles songs but 26 Taylor Swift songs are on that playlist. The playlist is 1,525 songs in total. According to Last FM Taylor Swift is my fourth-played artist at 5,919 scrobbles. So no, I don't really believe Taylor Swift is overrated, but I think some people have an unhealthy obsession with her. My best Taylor Swift playlist has some really good songs on it, and I play it semi-often. I have Beatles playlists I've curated myself but I've never played one of them from start to finish, not even the shorter ones.
Pretty much everything hip-hop/rap is overrated to me. Music declined significantly in sales not just because of Napster and streaming but also because hip-hop and rap dominated the charts for such a long time. And now there's even a worse genre out there: trap, which is hip-hop music about drugs. Great. Just another genre of music that I can't relate to. I can't even really name any artists in this genres off the top of my head because they are all so bland and boring. But Eminem had some bangers, like "Rap God", "Lose Yourself and "When I'm Gone". I do like Will Smith as a bland pasty white boy but he hasn't made any music since the mid-zeros, so he doesn't count.
There are more artists now that are severely underrated rather than overrated. Train's last album, AM Gold, flopped, even if it was pretty good, Five For Fighting hasn't made significant impact since his song "100 Years", Martin Page continues to release music that is usually completely overlooked by most people, and Sting hasn't made a really good contemporary pop album since Sacred Love. I believe Britpop artists like Oasis and Blur deserved their fame, but Blur didn't get the fame in America like they should have, despite having some bangers in their Britpop trilogy.
Most of the time fame is deserved, but sometimes the contemporary music landscape produces some real duds out there. "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus will not be remembered a year from now, and her fame in particular is so exaggerated that I feel like she shouldn't be famous at all. She gets hundreds of millions of hits on Spotify when older artists fade out of existence with subjectively better music than her. 80's was a great time for music and I regret being born in '89, not being able to experience that decade and its music candidly. By the time I got satellite TV MTV was already playing things like Beavis and Butthead, unfortunately.
Billie Eilish has virtually no talent and she even sang on the latest Bond song, but then there's artists like Olivia Rodrigo who I feel like their fame is fully deserved. Rodrigo is better than just about all of her contemporaries. She's someone I would argue should be as big as the biggest artists, and I hope this fame she has carries on album after album, because I plan on listening to everything she makes. She's one of the few current popular artists I remember and would pay to see in concert. Eilish is so overrated and well ... creepy. I don't like "Bad Guy", it's just a "Bad Song" to me. And she is completely overrated, to a ridiculous amount.
(I have "Bad Guy" on my long playlist but it's just a song I love to hate. What else can I say?)
I'm not sure I am qualified to judge so many, given I just didn't/don't listen to them. As to the Beatles, well it did seem to be a preference to so many at the time - the Beatles or the Rolling Stones - and the audience for either probably varied anyway. For myself, I was more into the Yardbirds at the time (Blues and Jazz over Pop any day) and where some members transformed into Led Zeppelin, with an emphasis on musicianship as much as song-writing. I didn't mind the Rolling Stones but the Beatles were too poppy for me, although I did of course recognise how popular they were and as to how they changed over the years to influence so many.
Coltrane
Holst
Mozart
Weird Al
Leonard Cohen (lyrics are Ok though)
Neil Diamond
Morris Day
That's all of them. Everybody else is good.
Holst
Mozart
Weird Al
Leonard Cohen (lyrics are Ok though)
Neil Diamond
Morris Day
That's all of them. Everybody else is good.