In search of the worst musical act EVER. Who's yours?

[UnkeptBiscuit]

Watch that at your own risk.

 

[ManaAdvent]

Sir, you are no Goku and you are definitely not a good singer.

Also, Justin Bieber and pretty much anything Kids Bop related....ANYTHING.

 

[BonsaiK]

So, my fellow Escapists, who, in your opinion, is the worst musical act ever?

Wow, I love it when these threads turn up. They surface on average about once a month, and every time they do I always discover great music I've never heard of before.

My "thanks for enriching my life" award this time around goes to:

[awesomeness snipped]

Why do they exsist.

To entertain me, that's why. Thanks for introducing me to Blood On The Dance Floor, that's awesome. I had your video on repeat while I was cooking dinner just now.

I also struggle to get my head around why anybody would hate Millionaires, Brokencyde or Hello Kitty Suicide Club. I keep forgetting that I'm on a games website, not a music fan's website. I suppose each to their own.

To get back OT, here's my picks for worst artist:

Spoiler: dont you wish autotune was invented in the 60s jesus christ

Spoiler: thanks for dumbing down an entire genre worldwide into sloppy hippie garbage

Spoiler: want some mindless electronic garbage so repetitive and boring its like a musical groundhog day here you go

Spoiler: if I made music this bad I wouldnt put my face on it either

Oh, and you folks picking on bands with young kids, homemade webcam karaokes and so forth are just mean-spirited bullies and I hope someone steals your lunchbox.

 

[BonsaiK]

Don't you think you're being elitist?
Who are you to look down upon the musical tastes of others?
Music is a purely subjective experience and you have no right to decide what musical taste is "the right one"

I agree with you. I'm being no more elitist than anybody else in this thread.

 

[BonsaiK]

To entertain me, that's why. Thanks for introducing me to Blood On The Dance Floor, that's awesome. I had your video on repeat while I was cooking dinner just now.

I also struggle to get my head around why anybody would hate Millionaires, Brokencyde or Hello Kitty Suicide Club. I keep forgetting that I'm on a games website, not a music fan's website. I suppose each to their own.

Maybe they have working ears, iunno.

Also read "music fan" as "music snob", I assume.

Don't you think you're being elitist?
Who are you to look down upon the musical tastes of others?
Music is a purely subjective experience and you have no right to decide what musical taste is "the right one"

I agree with you. I'm being no more elitist than anybody else in this thread.

Ah, you were being sarcastic then?

If not:

I also struggle to get my head around why anybody would hate Millionaires, Brokencyde or Hello Kitty Suicide Club. I keep forgetting that I'm on a games website, not a music fan's website. I suppose each to their own.

Sounds pretty elitist to me.

Both of these replies are essentially the same reply so I'll deal with them together.

When I say "music fan" I mean "someone who likes music". I don't mean "someone who knows more about music", "someone who is snobby about music" or whatever. I believe that the real snobbery and elitism is actually inherent in other people's vitriolic comments of dislike towards these groups. It's fine to say you dislike something but some of the comments go way, way beyond that, almost to the point where if you said them directly to the groups you'd probably be up for some kind of legal action. My point is that people who aren't really into music for the actual music might no bother to listen to stuff that they could potentially like, because forum peer pressure tells them not to, or because they don't think it's "cool", or any number of other reasons which have nothing to do with the music itself. I further illustrated that by posting some stuff that I don't particularly like, which I'm sure many other people here do. I'm not saying my opinion is "better", in fact my post should be demonstrating to anybody who reads it that taste is 100% subjective. I'm astonished that people are interpreting my post exactly 180 degrees to how it was intended.

 

[BonsaiK]

So it's fine for you to question, and even insult other people's musical tastes, but when someone calls you out on it, you make a big empassioned speech about the subjectivity of music? Really? And implying that a music "fan" would like your sort of music is elitism. Deal with it. You've said it, stop trying to pretend you've said something else.

My point is more that someone who actually liked music might be open to more things than someone for whom music wasn't a primary interest. So rather than suggesting a music fan would like what I like (which is theoretically possible but highly unlikely in practice), I'm instead suggesting that someone who didn't really care much about music would potentially not like certain types of music based on ideas and concepts that have absolutely nothing to do with music itself. There are a lot of manifestations of that type of thinking in popular culture, like the dichotomy between "straight-edge" punks and people who abhor that type of scene, or christian vs. satanic heavy metal. In each case the music becomes so subsumed in the attached meanings and the larger anthropological context that people actually stop listening to the music. I'm arguing that this is happening on this forum with Brokencyde, Millionaires, etc. Of course, that's fine, because music means different things to different people. I just don't call these people "music fans", because to me they're not - they're fans of something else, something a bit more broad than the actual music, and that's something I know about all too well because I experience it every day. That's not a criticism though, and I think where we're talking past each other a little is that you're assuming a qualitative aspect to my use of the term "music fan" that isn't actually intended. To me the term "music fan" doesn't carry any intrinsic value, positive or negative, it's just a descriptive term.

 

[Ambi]

I don't find anything unlistenable. In fact, the songs that are really bad actually become good because they're so bad they're funny, but there's a tonne of "meh" music out there that I won't bother listing.

Spoiler: Yes, I know I'm picking on kids songs, but this sucks. What's with the siren?

Spoiler: I'm at the taco bellWUT?

Spoiler: GOD RUULES!

Spoiler: Fuck The World

Spoiler: I think I hate this one the most. I woke up at 5am once and had it playing through my head. It's evil.

Spoiler: English as a second language, emigrated from Africa to Australia, tries to mimic African-American gangsters

 

[BonsaiK]

My point is more that someone who actually liked music might be open to more things than someone for whom music wasn't a primary interest. So rather than suggesting a music fan would like what I like (which is theoretically possible but highly unlikely in practice), I'm instead suggesting that someone who didn't really care much about music would potentially not like certain types of music based on ideas and concepts that have absolutely nothing to do with music itself. There are a lot of manifestations of that type of thinking in popular culture, like the dichotomy between "straight-edge" punks and people who abhor that type of scene, or christian vs. satanic heavy metal. In each case the music becomes so subsumed in the attached meanings and the larger anthropological context that people actually stop listening to the music. I'm arguing that this is happening on this forum with Brokencyde, Millionaires, etc. Of course, that's fine, because music means different things to different people. I just don't call these people "music fans", because to me they're not - they're fans of something else, something a bit more broad than the actual music, and that's something I know about all too well because I experience it every day. That's not a criticism though, and I think where we're talking past each other a little is that you're assuming a qualitative aspect to my use of the term "music fan" that isn't actually intended. To me the term "music fan" doesn't carry any intrinsic value, positive or negative, it's just a descriptive term.

But to anyone with a proper grasp of the english language, it does. A music "fan" would know and understand music more, thus implying his taste is more refined, and under some interpretations, more correct. And I'm pretty sure you've just implied that people who don't like your sort of music aren't real fans of music, as if your taste is the only taste. Which, again, is elitist. Your point was never that. You made your point up a post ago when you were challenged.

Maybe people don't like your music because it sounds unappealing to them. Maybe noone gives a shit about the lables or meanings and just don't like the way it sounds. But you like it, so that coudln't be right, could it?

And just for the record, people who care less about music tend to be more open, because, you know, they don't care and all.

But they do care about plenty of things and that's exactly the point.

I actually thought that the gut reaction to the term "music fan" would be negative for many people because use of the world "fan" could be taken to imply uncritical acceptance like a bunch of zomboid Beatles fans waiting behind a police cordon at the airport in 1964 for them to get off the plane, but I used the word grudgingly hoping that people would perceive it neutrally. If I really wanted people to extrapolate the meaning that you have, I could have used "afficionado" or "lover", but I didn't, and the reason why I didn't is because that isn't what I'm trying to say at all.

Anyway it doesn't matter now because I've told you where I'm coming from. If you want to still believe that I'm saying or implying a bunch of things that I'm not, despite me spelling out my actual meaning for you in very detailed terms, then there's not much more I can say to you except "have a nice day".

 

[snowpuppy]

good lord i wouldn't even classify that as music! in the mean time im going to drown out those terrible songs with my entire arseanle of tunes. Alternitive Away!

 

[HandfulofWolf]

Oh yeah. Because apparently sex sells. Just not when you look like a sex criminal and refer to your penis as a tralala.

EDIT- Embed fail fixed to the joy of Escapists everywhere.

 

[Drudgelmir]

These kids. Oh God.

Dear God NO! First time I tried to load this, adobe crashed. True Story.

 

[Illesdan]

I have to admit, Gunther trying to breath new life into 70s male porn stereotypes really did make me smile.