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I hated it when it came out but I’ve been going back to it recently.
The older you get the more you have nostalgia for different times. You don’t only have nostalgia for your childhood. You’ll have it for your teenage years, college, your 20s, etc. This music was big when I was in college so that’s what it reminds me of.
I concede that it has nothing to do with the quality of the music.
The older you get the more you have nostalgia for different times. You don’t only have nostalgia for your childhood. You’ll have it for your teenage years, college, your 20s, etc. This music was big when I was in college so that’s what it reminds me of.
The real sign that you’re old is when you have nostalgia about that time when you have nostalgia.
I concede that it has nothing to do with the quality of the music.
You’re better than the vast majority, who confuse nostalgia with quality all the time.
my experience of music and culture was objectively better when i had less health problems
there, I just solved nostalgia
One of my friends still really likes this music
Mumford and sons, lumineers, x ambassadors, that type of garbage
So I guess there’s a market for it somewhere
I like some of it in a “nostalgic shit music i used to like when i didn’t have much of an identity”, so yeah.
does clap your hands say yeah fit under this category?
I only know the name of that band because I have Satan said dance likes on Spotify. So I do not know
I don’t think so. They can be kind of folksy but clap your hands say yeah are distinctly different, weird, and interesting in a way Lumineers and Mumford are not.
I won free tickets to a Lumineers show at fiddlers green in Denver. I have had some dog shit concert experiences but that one took it. I think I lasted two songs? Terrible. And they were nominated for multiple grammies!
Yeah I saw them on Roskilde Festival in like… 2011? It was the concert that made me be like “maybe folk isn’t really my thing after all”. Thankfully I know now that there is a lot of good folk out there, it is just absolutely not made by these dorks.
All music is bad and haram
Unironically the fastest way to destroy any Muslim internet space with infighting is to watch someone drop that one
I know very little about Islam, why would The Big Ilah ban music and why would people choose to follow a religion that doesn’t like music?
I’m not Muslim myself, so I’m not sure. I think it’s a doctrinal quibble that gets out of hand sometimes. My very limited understanding is that only a few sects ban it, but they’re pretty enthusiastic.
“without music and icons, all we have left is calligraphy, come on man!”
Thesis: No music allowed.
Antithesis: The call to prayer and the prayers themselves are musical.
Synthesis. Calls to prayer and prayers that ROCK OUT.
You crafted: Christian metal!
rocking out but not too much, because that’s sinful
You got a example?
“IVE BEEN SLEEPIN IN MY BED”
“THIS IS GONNA BE THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!”
Sure there are more
“Home” by Phillip Phillips, “Little Lion Man” by Mumford & Sons
Ah, now I know. Yell, pause, clap, singing…
I still like The Lumineers…
Cleopatra is an awesome album, but I haven’t enjoyed their more recent stuff as much.
That’s the album I have! I just listened to it the other day while doing dishes.
OH Ophelia, you been on my mind girl since the flood!
there is a fucking thing called “the dead south” and they are like my curse . Youtube does not stop recomending me theeir fucking Song to me …
they walk a Railwaytrack and are all dressed in this 20’s folksy clap step way … and its probably hunting me since this shit was In ,…they mus be the Most Nepo of Nepo … real bad vibes musi
A couple years ago I got hit with the same campaign. Idk what changed about my online presence but for a few months I heard that song several times a day and then one day it just stopped. I’m sorry to have passed the cursed AdSense profile on to you but I’m not sorry to be rid of it.
It has also stopped mostly sometimes it still pops up but its power has diminshed … I have since then acended to a new “Fuck anglo Music in general” status so i dont know if i killed it by this nuke option , but like a unforgiving master, i have teached my algorithm.
Thanks for the links, I love these!
Keep it dead
Things that should be dead:
The South
Evil
Presidents
Kennedys
Great addition!
As seen on “Renegades,” the song that X Ambassadors (only known for “Renegades”) were paid by Jeep to make to promote the Jeep Renegade. It still pops in my head now and then because it’s just the perfect example of corporate co-opting of the idea of nonconformity.
Also just a really shitty song.
I unironically do not believe bad music exists. There are genres we subjectively find annoying or distasteful but there is absolutely no such thing as objectively bad music/low quality music.
I mean, music that is soulless and obviously low-effort in its production exists, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to it being bad.
The music people hate the most is what played when they worked retail.
Oh this post is giving me flashbacks. To restaurants instead of retail but
If the stomp clap hey genre didn’t exist, I’d be completely agree.
I was tempted to say something like this but I thought it’d take away from my point
i think you’re right, and its a great post. 
i just have to hate on this musicI think making a joke about it is a lot less weird than the tendency to say a specific genre is “bad” without any trace of irony. When it’s joked about, it draws attention to how absurd the idea of objectively judging music is- while also giving you the ability to express your distaste for a specific genre at the same time.
Like being “racist” towards white people, it subverts the norm in a way that seems to conform to it at first.
And, to be clear, I have never heard this genre of music and don’t plan to after this thread.
I listened to the examples discussed in this thread and I’m like… it’s fine? I guess they’re kinda hipstery but it’s fine what’s the big deal.
To each there own comrade
The only music I can’t stomach is the white nationalist sort of country music, the stuff all about beer, god, driving a truck. Bleh. It’s so cloying and clearly made by middle class suburban ghouls pretending to be rural country people. I include that Oliver Anthony idiot here, and Jason Aldean. The worst culprit is Luke Bryan. Just propagandists working for coordinated fascists, all of them.
I gotta ask what you think of musicians who make music that’s intentionally supposed to be bad. Like Lou Reed possibly made Metal Machine Music as an insult to his record company. Bob Dylan made the album “Self Portrait” bad on purpose as well. My personal favorite is Hanatarash, who made music so inaccessible their performances were actually dangerous. They’d include construction equipment like jackhammers in their music, and one time they had to be stopped from throwing a lit molotov cocktail on stage. They eventually got banned from every venue in Japan for insurance reasons.
Then there’s Hello Kitty Suicide Club which is on a different level
Sometimes, music that’s made to be “intentionally bad” ends up having people who like it anyways. Like the one dude on TikTok who tried to make an “objectively bad song” but accidentally made kickass breakcore
I’d bet that people who intentionally make bad music end up making music that sucks according to the people that like the genre they’re making, not music that’s universally bad
I think Fleet Foxes are pretty good and still hold up.
Father John misty or nothin’
Never got into him because the guy that recommended it to me was an insufferable hipster who I was becoming aware wasn’t actually cool for hanging out with teenagers. What are the good albums?
Pure Comedy was one of my favorites (caution: lib takes included in lyrics). God’s favorite customer has some bangers as well, specifically Mr Tillman
It’s not their fault. I had a roommate that listened to them so much that I don’t think I ever want to hear them again.
I’m there with Adele. Objectively excellent singer and yet I’ve heard Hello so many times I’d drive off a cliff rather than listen to it willingly
Fleet Foxes were the artistically ambitious version of what the corporate industry ripped off. Mumford and Sons ain’t doin any discordant trumpet breakdowns.
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Rich people should be identified and shunned when they create music
Lmao
Never ask a chart music person why their parents names are blue on Wikipedia.
they’re all rich unless they’re some sort of local novelty noise punk band barely scraping by through dive bar performances. or alternatively, an exception
White Americans shouldn’t be allowed to make music. Some of the euros are alright
Fuck it dude I’m saying it
Some white people make good music
Controversial take, but I’ll allow it.
uuhh ??
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lmao he’s joking
but frankly we’re like one more imagine dragons away from white people having their music privileges taken forever
I’m sure he is…
okay, good? i’d be worried about your reading comprehension if you weren’t, since it’s pretty obvious.
Deleted cuz it did kinda suck lol. Will admit it, I thought longer about it an just only know pop music from the west
Lmao this is delusional.
There’s plenty of local scenes and there’s plenty of people that do it for fun or passion (actually the majority) and some of those are very lucky to cut thru the line of nepo-babies.Yeah I’ll tak the L, shitty take. Was making a classic mistake of hating capitalism but conflating it with western culture. There’s good and I was in a pissy mood and forgot. Good crit
No worries
This is incoherent.
On one hand that shit sucks on the other hand without it high school me wouldn’t have been sent down the rabbit hole into actual 60s folk revival and Pete Seeger and shit so who can say if it’s good or bad.
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Or old carpentry shops/butchers/grocers lol
Mumford and Sons WILL be a shop somewhere I just don’t know where.
Funeral home, mens formal wear, or local moving company all work too
Small agricultural/car mechanic shops where i’m at
Correct!!
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Everyone’s corny wedding pictures for over a decade now.
