base talk Post your unpopular pop opinion - will it survive ATRL's new like/dislike feature?

[Cleanromantic]

The majority of Gaga's music is awful.

 

The electropop music of the late 2000s and early 2010s is so bad and dated and the fact that most atrlers look at it positively reveals their absolute lack of taste.

 

Rihanna and Dua Lipa are only successful because of their looks. Every other POP girl has some sort of talent to fall back on, but those two would be nothing without their beauty.

[Bones]

Janet’s probably way better than Beyoncé, Tinashe, Chloe, Normani, Alicia, Ciara, Summer Walker, Janelle, Lauryn Hill, Whitney, the only woman who is actually able to live up to her is SZA in my opinion, I fear. (I know they’re in different realms all in all but that is still my opinion). 

[Wicked]

The current music scene is a result of over-correction of bully mentality that was the norm for decades. Now when someone is lazy or "bad" they get coddled instead of critiqued. This applies to all genres.

[Wicked]

2 hours ago, Bones said:

Janet’s probably way better than Beyoncé, Tinashe, Chloe, Normani, Alicia, Ciara, Summer Walker, Janelle, Lauryn Hill, Whitney, the only woman who is actually able to live up to her is SZA in my opinion, I fear. (I know they’re in different realms all in all but that is still my opinion). 

I was with you until this. SZA gives nothing, she has an interesting pen but that's it. (and Summer Walker is a better lyricist imo) 

[Specter]

Y'all really saying Witness was better than Anti?

[Pokemonfan1515]

Lizzo is an MPG and gets unfair hate just because of bodyshaming. 

[#Beautiful]

8 hours ago, Wicked said:

The current music scene is a result of over-correction of bully mentality that was the norm for decades. Now when someone is lazy or "bad" they get coddled instead of critiqued. This applies to all genres.

I wanted to give this a like but I ran out of reactions

[DonnaSpring]

Donna Summer is underrated and up there with the Likes of Madonna and MJ  

[halcyonday]

8 hours ago, Phantom said:

Y'all really saying Witness was better than Anti?

Duh

[crymelanie]

Melanie Martinez outsold your faves with the best album of 2023

[crymelanie]

katy losing grammys with roar is a crime against humanity #KATYFOREVER

[crymelanie]

COCC IS LANAS WORST TAKE EVER

[John Slayne]

Hole is better than Nirvana 

[The7thStranger]

• Bad Blood is one of the worst pop songs ever released.
   
• Madonna hides behind ageism/sexism discussions to protect herself against legitimate criticism and concern for her well-being.
   
• The Beatles and the Beach Boys are, though important, supremely overrated and get too much credit over their contemporaries and predecessors.
   
• Discipline and 20 Y.O. are a good records.
   
• I've said it a million times, and I'll say it again: If we're going to cancel people like Azealia Banks and Kanye West, we need to cancel Eminem. He wrote and released an incredibly earnest murder fantasy about the mother of his own child.
   
• Britney's fans treat her like an infant instead of the adult that she is. They scream she needs love and support whenever she is criticized for odd or poor behavior, but then fire missiles at you if you even so much as express that she doesn't appear well and needs help. Help does not need to be a conversatorship or a loss of autonomy. It just means help.
   
• Americans need to listen more to music that comes from outside the English-speaking world and/or outside English-speaking media. Although I strongly dislike k-pop, I'm glad it's pushed people to listen to something outside their typical wheelhouse.
   
• A lot of criticism lobbied at Janet Jackson is rooted in racism.
   
• Stock-Aitken-Waterman–produced music has aged like milk. Their work was very repetitive, and I generally don't enjoy it.
   
• Katy Perry, whether you like her music or not, doesn't deserve the hatred she gets. People are truly nasty to her without good reason.
   
• You can still be a racist even if you like (insert name of POC performer).
   
• Justin Timberlake deserved every ounce of criticism he got for that second Superbowl performance. It was incredibly distasteful and a show of how he disrespects the artists who came before him (Janet and Prince).
   
• Lana's music is incredibly middle-of-the-road.
   
• Regardless of how involved in the songwriting process Beyoncé may or may not be on any given track, her albums can be absolutely excellent. She is, at the very least, a great curator of sound, and she knows how to put a record together. The way she contorts the music industry to her whim (the same way Taylor does) is impressive.
   
• Taylor Swift is Madonna's true successor. Nobody else even comes close.

[queenoftheclouds]

EDM music is overrated

[Specter]

7 hours ago, halcyonday said:

Duh

Please, ch

 

[P.O.P]

Hard work >>>>>>> talent

 

People like Jennifer Lopez deserve everything they get 

[Ras]

Poker Face sounds less dated in 2023 than it did in 2015

[SinnerCity]

@GraceRandolph getting ratioed in this thread 

 

I have never seen someone say so many wrong things, one after the other, consecutively, in a row.

[Bones]

10 hours ago, The7thStranger said:

• Bad Blood is one of the worst pop songs ever released.
   
• Madonna hides behind ageism/sexism discussions to protect herself against legitimate criticism and concern for her well-being.
   
• The Beatles and the Beach Boys are, though important, supremely overrated and get too much credit over their contemporaries and predecessors.
   
• Discipline and 20 Y.O. are a good records.
   
• I've said it a million times, and I'll say it again: If we're going to cancel people like Azealia Banks and Kanye West, we need to cancel Eminem. He wrote and released an incredibly earnest murder fantasy about the mother of his own child.
   
• Britney's fans treat her like an infant instead of the adult that she is. They scream she needs love and support whenever she is criticized for odd or poor behavior, but then fire missiles at you if you even so much as express that she doesn't appear well and needs help. Help does not need to be a conversatorship or a loss of autonomy. It just means help.
   
• Americans need to listen more to music that comes from outside the English-speaking world and/or outside English-speaking media. Although I strongly dislike k-pop, I'm glad it's pushed people to listen to something outside their typical wheelhouse.
   
• A lot of criticism lobbied at Janet Jackson is rooted in racism.
   
• Stock-Aitken-Waterman–produced music has aged like milk. Their work was very repetitive, and I generally don't enjoy it.
   
• Katy Perry, whether you like her music or not, doesn't deserve the hatred she gets. People are truly nasty to her without good reason.
   
• You can still be a racist even if you like (insert name of POC performer).
   
• Justin Timberlake deserved every ounce of criticism he got for that second Superbowl performance. It was incredibly distasteful and a show of how he disrespects the artists who came before him (Janet and Prince).
   
• Lana's music is incredibly middle-of-the-road.
   
• Regardless of how involved in the songwriting process Beyoncé may or may not be on any given track, her albums can be absolutely excellent. She is, at the very least, a great curator of sound, and she knows how to put a record together. The way she contorts the music industry to her whim (the same way Taylor does) is impressive.
   
• Taylor Swift is Madonna's true successor. Nobody else even comes close.

Wow the way this was perfect until the last horrid opinion

[Aethereal]

Fantasy is one of the worst Mariah's singles.

[TheRealGâteau]

13 hours ago, The7thStranger said:

• Britney's fans treat her like an infant instead of the adult that she is. They scream she needs love and support whenever she is criticized for odd or poor behavior, but then fire missiles at you if you even so much as express that she doesn't appear well and needs help. Help does not need to be a conversatorship or a loss of autonomy. It just means help.

Baby one more time indeed. 

[Heirloom]

Sometimes I hate how overtly-pretentious some of these alt-pop girlies (yeah looking at you Robyn and Sky Ferreira). Like did it really need years to figure the production choices for Honey? 
 

That’s why I adore the brashness and the attitude from Charli or Ellie Goulding. Be honest, after all you’re writing pop music not some orchestral piece of music.

[The7thStranger]

3 hours ago, Bones said:

Wow the way this was perfect until the last horrid opinion

I meant this more in terms of industry influence and the amount of mayhem she causes. Artistically speaking, they are worlds apart.

[CBC]

pop music peaked in the 00s