I wasn't saying "screw YOU" specifically, I was referring to snide anti-pop people who may have tried to quote me.thebobmaster said:I'm glad to hear that about Adele. She really is talented, and relatively fresh in this era of pop music (there are other artists doing the same "piano and vocals" thing, but not near as many as, say, rappers and boy bands), she just needs new material.lacktheknack said:How'd I get ninja'd on Rihanna!?thebobmaster said:Like the topic said, what are some musical artists, or acts, that you are just getting tired of hearing? You know, you don't mind hearing them even once a day, but hearing them over and over just wears on you.
For my part, I have two artists. The first one is Adele. She is a pretty good pianist, and a damn good singer. However, she has just too many hits off of her last album getting a ton of airtime on radio and talent competitions, and they all are about the same exact subject. Good artist, but she needs some more material than "my break-up sucked".
The second one is...a lot more debatable as to being "good", but it is Rihanna. She has the ability to make decent songs. In fact, each year she's done at least one song I enjoyed. 2012 had "Take Care", and 2011 had "Only Girl (In the World)". Problem is, she's not doing one single a year. She's doing 4 or 5, and most of them are crap (in fact, "Birthday Cake" is literally the worst song I've ever heard). She needs to slow down and take a break between albums. And if her record producer won't let her, she needs to find a new one, before she collapses on stage from exhaustion.
It's really too bad that she's literally not allowed to stop. Seven albums in... six years, I think.
Also, if it makes you feel better, Adele said that she's taking a break, and that she may come back for "27" or so, where she hopes to have significantly happier, or at least different, songs.
OT: If Rihanna is already taken (screw you, Take Care was the best song of 2012), then I'll go with... well, I guess I've burned out a bit with Portishead, but that's my fault (they've only released three albums, and their band is eighteen years old).
As for "Take Care", it wasn't my favorite song of the year, if you recall from my review of 2012's Billboard chart, but it was my second favorite, and probably objectively better than the song I put at number one, which was "Everybody Talks" by Neon Trees.
But yeah, I think we can both agree that Take Care was bleeding fantastic.