This so much. When this song came out, every club played it and most house parties played it. Although, I tend to dislike the Black Eyed Peas in general.Silvanus said:
What's the most overrated song ever?
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I remember this being on Kerrang every half an hour or something, it's not a bad song but it's is so overrated and over played in my opinion.
This:
A genuinely awful song with obnoxious lyrics and an equally obnoxious performance that went triple platinum.
Everyone seems to love it, just goes to show that a strong marketing campaign can trump talent any day of the week.
A genuinely awful song with obnoxious lyrics and an equally obnoxious performance that went triple platinum.
Everyone seems to love it, just goes to show that a strong marketing campaign can trump talent any day of the week.
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Although I'd like to expand this to: Anything by AC/DC. I don't find the band all that offensive mind you. They even have a few songs I consider enjoyable. But for life of me, I can't understand how they get so much airplay on the radio, on soundtracks, commercials... whatever. It'd be one thing if those things would go through the AC/DC catalog and cherry pick more than 4 of their songs, but it's always Back in Black, Highway to Hell, Shoot to Thrill, Thunderstruck. Always.
If I had a music related prayer, it would be for God to send some different AC/DC CDs out to the radio stations of the world and let them try a different track every once in a while.
This brought back my middle school years. Every party, school dance, or football game played this damn song at least twice. Glad he dropped off the face of the earth after Turn my Swag on.Mortons4ck said:
OT: Closer to the Edge by Thirty Seconds to Mars.
That song was played almost non-stop on my Mom's radio station. I love Thirty Seconds to Mars too, but damn even I get tired of hearing the same song multiple times a day.
Essentially everything by Pink Floyd.
I mean, I used to be a big fan of psychedelic music, but I don't see why they're considered so god-tier when you have groups like Animal Collective who have perfected psychedelic to a tee. Pink Floyd aren't bad, but they are so, so overrated.
There are fantastic psychedelic groups today who get overlooked completely because people just can't move on. That and, well, we haven't really had a lot of real LSD going around for a while now anyway.
I mean, I used to be a big fan of psychedelic music, but I don't see why they're considered so god-tier when you have groups like Animal Collective who have perfected psychedelic to a tee. Pink Floyd aren't bad, but they are so, so overrated.
There are fantastic psychedelic groups today who get overlooked completely because people just can't move on. That and, well, we haven't really had a lot of real LSD going around for a while now anyway.
Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. The only blurred lines I'm seeing when hearing that song are the lines between reality and poorly written rape hentai.Robot Number V said:
Its already been said, but Gangnam style. The song was average at best, and never would have caught on if not for its music video. Psy's stuff all sounds very similar to me, and its all very average.
Certainly not worthy of its seemingly godlike status it had for about 4 months straight.
Certainly not worthy of its seemingly godlike status it had for about 4 months straight.
I cant really think of many overrated songs because there are a lot of songs I dont like that other people do. However this is "commercial pop crap" that lots of people into rock music would agree with me on.
Nice to see another appreciator of animal collective btw.
Actually, I can think of one, Sweet Child of Mine by GnR. I like it as a song, the riff is one of the most recognizable in recent music but it was originally a string skipping exercise by slash, coupled with a cheesy poem axl rose wrote about his girlfriend. The outro "where are we going to go now" is literally saying "well how the fuck are we supposed to finish this?" and it is just way too overplayed.
As for underrated music I dont see many Leanord Cohen fans around nowadays, Bob Dylan is probably rated right where he should be, the velvet underground too, and The Grateful Dead are often overlooked when talking about good sixties music, though a lot of their songs i dont like, but the ones I do are masterpieces. Jefferson Airplane too for that matter. I also think Purple Haze was one of Hendrix' weaker songs, but i love to play it anyway. More fun to play than to listen too imo and the lyrics are good.
Edit: Shit i forgot about coldplay, middle of the road boring pop rock, but the hating coldplay club is rather large so that evens the overratedness out.
Nice to see another appreciator of animal collective btw.
Actually, I can think of one, Sweet Child of Mine by GnR. I like it as a song, the riff is one of the most recognizable in recent music but it was originally a string skipping exercise by slash, coupled with a cheesy poem axl rose wrote about his girlfriend. The outro "where are we going to go now" is literally saying "well how the fuck are we supposed to finish this?" and it is just way too overplayed.
As for underrated music I dont see many Leanord Cohen fans around nowadays, Bob Dylan is probably rated right where he should be, the velvet underground too, and The Grateful Dead are often overlooked when talking about good sixties music, though a lot of their songs i dont like, but the ones I do are masterpieces. Jefferson Airplane too for that matter. I also think Purple Haze was one of Hendrix' weaker songs, but i love to play it anyway. More fun to play than to listen too imo and the lyrics are good.
Edit: Shit i forgot about coldplay, middle of the road boring pop rock, but the hating coldplay club is rather large so that evens the overratedness out.
Saying this as a fan of the Beatles myself, I'll gladly nominate almost the entire "White Album" as being almost criminally overrated.
I've gotten into relatively heated arguments over this with other fans and I just don't see how that album is considered their crowning achievement.
Side one has some pretty solid tracks. I love "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Back in the USSR" and even "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" but the other 27 tracks on the album are mediocre at best and at times downright terrible.
I've gotten into relatively heated arguments over this with other fans and I just don't see how that album is considered their crowning achievement.
Side one has some pretty solid tracks. I love "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Back in the USSR" and even "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" but the other 27 tracks on the album are mediocre at best and at times downright terrible.
I dont know, its not a very cohecive album in my opinion but there are great great songs on it, the ones you mentioned, hapiness is a warm gun and wild honey pie. Helter Skelter deserves a mention too just for inspiring Charles Manson to start a race war. Seargent Peppers is one that I think is more overrated. The only song I really like off that is A day in the life, but i havent listened to it for a while.Diddy_Mao said:
I dunno. This is tough. Music tends to eventually get rated right about where it belongs. You're just going to end up with people voting for pet hates and songs they don't particularly care for.
I guess...I dunno. Madonna? I think people got very invested in her constant image makeovers and lost track of the fact her music really fell off a cliff after the 80's.
I guess...I dunno. Madonna? I think people got very invested in her constant image makeovers and lost track of the fact her music really fell off a cliff after the 80's.
Any by the following; Drake, Tulisa, Jessy J, Blood on The Dancefloor, Lady Gaga, Eminem (post early 2000s)... Eminem doesn't come up as an error when typing? Even though it's completely gibberish as a word? ...See?
Pretty much any of the shitty, tedious crap in the charts (all of the charts). These people have no talent and they need to die where nobody will hear the wind shackle their vile yellow bones, lest someone have the misfortune to hear their legacy, being about the same quality as the drivel they made in life.
Pretty much any of the shitty, tedious crap in the charts (all of the charts). These people have no talent and they need to die where nobody will hear the wind shackle their vile yellow bones, lest someone have the misfortune to hear their legacy, being about the same quality as the drivel they made in life.
I read the title and this was the first thing that sprang to my mind. Why it always tops 'best-of-all-time' lists is beyond me.Kenbo Slice said:
My pick would be "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles. It regularly gets picked as one of the greatest songs ever by music critics, for what I can only assume is the reason that it's the best song by the best band ever. I dispute that the Beatles are the best band ever on a number of levels, but even beyond that, that song wouldn't make my top ten list of Beatles songs. I just don't get it.
While the first two songs that popped into my head were "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Stairway to Heaven" I did eventually think of a more deserving offender.
"Don't Stop Believing". Out of all the hit songs from your parents music collection to become ironic sing-along bar songs, this one is easily the most overrated.
"Don't Stop Believing". Out of all the hit songs from your parents music collection to become ironic sing-along bar songs, this one is easily the most overrated.
Currently: Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke
I cringe and scowl and contemplate nuclear holocaust whenever I heard that damn song. Added to the fact that my mother absolutely loves it and has to play it at full volume every single time...
Previously: Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day
I've actually gotten over this for the most part recently, but even still I can't listen to it more than once every couple days before my annoyance begins to rise again.
I cringe and scowl and contemplate nuclear holocaust whenever I heard that damn song. Added to the fact that my mother absolutely loves it and has to play it at full volume every single time...
Previously: Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day
I've actually gotten over this for the most part recently, but even still I can't listen to it more than once every couple days before my annoyance begins to rise again.