Shitty Music. (The Nickelback Thread)

[Timinator]

I'm trying to listen to a lot of new albums this year. The good and the bad, basically anything that is on the wikipedia "list of 2024 albums"
Came across this absolute horseshit yesterday. Shameful.

These folks agree.

[Timinator]

Good point, but I also think pop music just used to be better. Madonna and Michael Jackson recorded much better songs than Swift, Sheeran, etc. Most of the modern pop music that I hear sounds generic and is just kind of loud and obnoxious with no soul.

I think so too, but remember: so has every single generation.

[scorpiusdiamond]

I think so too, but remember: so has every single generation.

Absolutely, the reason those artists stick out is because they were memorable. I think in 40 years we’ll remember the innovative artists from this era and not the generic ones.

We also live in a time where the mainstream is more in our face than ever, but also the underground is more accessible than ever. My daughter is able to listen to so much barely known music now, but when I was her age I could only hear what was on the radio/on TV, with no access to the music I would eventually find and love.

[GulDukat]

Thought this was funny. Not sure where to post it:

[Space Suicide]

Keeping the hits coming

I ain't made in China
From all the cheapest parts
I ain't one for driving
Them imported foreign cars
I'm more like American muscle
From 1966
Yeah, I ain't made in China
I'm American as it gets

I ain't made by Uyghur kids
For pennies on the dollar
I'm made in the USA
It says so on my collar
Tried and true
Red, white and blue
My roots run way too thick
Yeah, I ain't made in China
'Cause I'm American as it gets

And I'm hat over heart
Doing my part
To love the flag
That drapes over the caskets
Of the ones who don't come back

I'm a gun-totin', locked and loaded
God-fearing son of a bitch
Lord knows I ain't made in China
I'm American as it gets

Red-blooded as they come
I'll die for being free
I'm proud of where I'm from

Foreign-made or city-raised
I'm proud to say I'm neither
And I ain't selling 'em any of mine
And I ain't buying theirs either
If you got something to say about that
I couldn't give two shits
'Cause I ain't made in China
I'm American as it gets

And I'm hat over heart
Doing my part
To love the flag
That drapes over the caskets
Of the ones who don't come back

I'm a gun-totin', locked and loaded
God-fearing son of a bitch
Lord knows I ain't made in China
I'm American as it gets

Lord knows I ain't made in China
'Cause I'm American as it gets

[GulDukat]

Did Trey Parker and Matt Stone help him write the lyrics?

[chuckrh]

Keeping the hits coming

Coming soon to a fine Native American entertainment complex near you....

[GulDukat]

Sacha Baron Cohen did it better:

[GulDukat]

I don't think Aaron Lewis reads much, but he might want to skim this:

Myth Busting: Made in America – Foreign Vehicles Made in the USA

...some of the most popular vehicles from foreign automakers are built by American workers. In contrast, some “American” vehicles are produced outside of the United States.

[BRoswell]

I don't think Aaron Lewis reads much, but he might want to skim this:

Myth Busting: Made in America – Foreign Vehicles Made in the USA

But...but...cars and trucks...and red, white, and blue...and MAGA...and...and...*puke*.

[GulDukat]

Is there a way to have a Randy Marsh AI voice sing that Aaron Lewis song?

[raptors661]

This fuckin idiot forgot the lyrics to the National Anthem after calling out people who have messed up singing it in the past. He can fuck all the way off with this song.

[GulDukat]

The Grateful Dead are The Dave Matthews Band for hippies.

[Jinsai]

The Grateful Dead are The Dave Matthews Band for hippies.

Wharf Rat is a better song than all of the DMB catalogue combined... which actually sounds like a terrible thing, a combination of all the Dave Matthews songs... but Wharf Rat is awesome

I like the drums and space stuff from the dead

[GulDukat]

The Tortured Poets Department? Not commenting on the quality of the album, but I think it's funny to think of Taylor Swift as some kind of tortured poet, unless the title is tongue-in-cheek?

[GulDukat]

Let's stick with this Rolling Stone guy for a sec... "I spent the weekend hearing the most genius live performer Taylor Swift do the greatest onstage triumph of her life. Three nights of agony and joy and tears. My in-depth report on the Eras Tour and her epic emotional TAYPOCALYPSE"

What the FUCK is going on here

Rob Sheffield has given the new Taylor Swift 5/5 stars in the new Rolling Stone. I haven't heard the album and I'm not a "hater," but give me a fucking break.

[thefragile_jake]

Taylor Swift is bullshit, and I'm drowning in her press, and it's driving me insane. I have never been so disinterested in something that I cannot avoid.

100% this.

I remember thinking Folklore was fine at the time, but I went back two years ago and the only songs I like feel like more dream pop stuff than anything else.