music artists that you hate and can't understand why they're popular.

[refujiunderground]

LADY GAGA. she fucking sucks. out of curosity, my black ass decided to download two of her albums and play them in my brother's car when i went to the gym. huge mistake. she cannot sing to save her life and her music is simple as can be. with the way i see all these people hyping her up especially the lgbt community, you would think she was the ultimate package but dayum, she's terrible. i can't stand any of her songs, couldn't stand the singles either. fuck that bitch. i can't wait for that bitch's 15 minutes to let up. she's like an akon for woman.


kid cudi. dude has no business making music. he can't sing, he can't produce, he can't write for shit. all he does is ride on this gimmick about how different he is, about how he's a loner, how he smokes weed and says whatever (i don't know what the fuck he does. he doesn't rap, he doesn't sing.) over beats that pretty much aren't entirely rap but also aren't entirely rock, pop, or whatever he tries to brand himself as. i also think he's an arrogant dickhead too like the rest of these new rappers that think that because they have a buzz, that they are at the level of established rappers with talent (jay-z, nas, eminem, wu-tang, etc) to the point where they could talk shit about them like how drake and big sean was dissing ludacris. then when those established rappers put their ass in check like how ludacris did to drake and big sean recently or like how jay-z did to that bitch ass rapper the game, they bitch up and start copping pleas, apologizing like pussies.

another artist that i think is greatly overrated is alicia keys. i don't hate her but she can't sing either. she's overrated as hell too. don't like any of her music maybe except one or two songs from her whole catalog.

lil wayne. smh @ people calling him the greatest rapper of all time. dude says the dumbest shit and people act as if he's kicking knowledge. the carter 4 was terrible and yet people are still on his dick.

 

[anchihiro]

Westlife, but thankfully they're retiring now.

 

[cliffdweller]

1. The "divas" who have their voices filtered through computer programs to give the appearance that they can actually sing, when all they really do is act outrageous and show their beavers. Rihanna, Katy Perry, Gaga, etc.

2. Whiny, emo grunge rock. Nickelback, et al.

3. 99.9% of rap/hip-hop artists. 50 Cent, Eminem, etc.

I rarely listen to anything recorded in the last 20 years at least, with very few exceptions, and the majority of the artists I listen to are dead.

 

[FanofFiction]

I don't like Katy Perry or Lady Gaga at all. Lil Wayne and Chris Brown are quite bad as well.

 

[refujiunderground]

As I was watching the AMA's last night I noticed what a bunch of talentless hacks we have.

My list is huge but I'm just going to name a few:

Katy Perry
Eminem
Justin Bieber
Taylor Swift
Adele
Pitbull
Rihanna
Mariah Carey
Enrique Iglesias
And just about every single rapper out there.

i agree with the whole entire list except for those two. katy paty isn't so much of a bad singer either. not a fan of her but she can hold a note.

i know eminem is a homophobe and yes, i was and still am offended by the homophobic comments he has said especially the ones on the marshall mathers lp but he is still one talented ass rapper. i love his music except for the homophobic shit he says. didn't like recovery though mainly because of the beats.

 

[refujiunderground]

I don't agree with your choice of Lady Gaga. I think she's the only artist up there at that level that's any good. But that's just my opinion.



Spewing crap and talking about what you hate isn't talent. It's not just that he's a homophobe, there's more to his crap than that. And I also find him to be the worst of white trash out there.

well, if you don't like eminem, you probably won't like rap music even the positive forms of rap music. rap is basically thinking music. however, being that people like to dance, be entertained and don't like to think that much, the music has to be dumbed down. it takes a lot of talent to say something to make people think while at the same time being able to market yourself to the general public. eminem and jay-z are two examples of rappers that have managed to dumb themselves down to a point where they are able to retain some form of intelligence in their music.

yeah, eminem says homophobic content in his music but that's not what he's only about. he pretty much represents the average guy in america that is trying to survive in a country and a society that is slowly diminishing into shit. he's just like any one of us. yeah, he has issues and all but shit, i can relate to the things he says. don't be fooled by some of the content. eminem is just a regular person like anyone of us. i don't agree with his homophobic comment but aside from that though, he's cool in my book.

lady gaga on the other hand is just one of those privileged kids whose parents told her she could be anything she wants to be and succeeded in living her dream despite not being musicially inclined to begin with. if there's one thing i noticed is that there are a lot of lady gaga's in the music industry such as britney spears and justin timberlake which are NOT musically inclined at all and you can tell right off the bat. it comes off like they're trying way too hard because it's something that they don't have in them to begin with. they're not naturals when it comes to making music. maybe that's why lady gaga pretty much makes the same song over and over again singing over a one drum kick beat about dumb shit. and people call it talent. i bet you that some years from now, people will come to their senses and realize that lady gaga's music really is terrible.

 

[refujiunderground]

I'd like to add Jay-Z. I don't get it.

About rappers:

Ya, I get the whole rap thing and them bitching about how hard they have it. But when you make millions of dollars, you're full of shit.

yeah, you just don't understand.

you have to look at where these people come from. jay-z grew up in the projects back in the 80s when things were really fucked up because of crack. there weren't much opportunities going on at the time for young black men especially in poor communities like bed-sty where he came up. when people found out there was a way out the ghetto by rapping where all you just needed was talent and appeal, many people went for it. jay-z tossed his hat, rapped his way out the ghetto despite having many shortcomes such as his first two albums flopping, and was able to make a goldmine out of nothing. he is in the same class as bill gates, steve jobs, and etc because he worked his way to the top. even if you don't like him, you have to respect him.

 

[EvilTwinTwo]

As I was watching the AMA's last night I noticed what a bunch of talentless hacks we have.

My list is huge but I'm just going to name a few:

Katy Perry
Eminem
Justin Bieber
Taylor Swift
Adele
Pitbull
Rihanna
Mariah Carey
Enrique Iglesias
And just about every single rapper out there.

JHo needs to be at the top of this list. If you're going to include Adele and Mariah then Lady Gaga belongs there also. While she have talent the material she's released so far doesn't back it up.

 

[refujiunderground]

Actually, the dude is a fucking millionaire. What the fuck is he bitching about? He made his money so now he can STFU and let someone else who is actually struggling make his/her case.

lol. you have to look at where these people come from to understand. i don't know how you came up but eminem was probably poorer than you ever have been in your life. to make it worse, he came up in a dysfunctional household. instead of ending up a product of his community, which he could have easily ended up being in the detroit area, he busted his ass to get to where he got. maybe he's rapping about his past and current struggles to inspire people such as yourself that there is a better tomorrow. i know that's why i stopped hating on him nearly 10 years ago when that's what i realized what he was doing besides entertaining and showing off his talent. maybe you need to give these rappers a chance instead of judging them off of what you think they're about. rapping is just about money and women. you need to look around you. only thing i could give lady gaga is how she's using her fame to be a voice for the lgbt community at a time when we're being attacked heavily by politicans and the entire country and women which are still being treated like second class citizens.

 

[GayLad87]

Lady gaga and justin bieber

 

[refujiunderground]

Look up an artist by the name of "K'naan"... he grew up in Mogadishu during the Somali civil war. Jay-Z has nothing on him. But the industry mostly ignores artists like K'naan... so that's why I don't really listen to rap all that much anyways.

jay-z has nothing on him?

did you grow up in the projects or a bad neighborhood during the 70s, 80s and 90s? did you grow up in a single parent household with three other siblings? did you grow up around drug dealers, murderers, drug addicts, and crime in general? i can go on. my guess is that you haven't and if you did, you probably must have forgot what it was like to be poor and underprivileged.

who said that you needed to live in a third world country during a civil war to know what a struggle is? do you realize how many people have fallen victim to the ghetto? it's very easy to undermine it but when you actually been there and come out in one piece, it's a different story. being that jay-z used to be a drug dealer that grew up in one of the roughest projects in brooklyn in the 80s and made it out alive and where he's at is something you have to . you sound very ignorant right now. don't hate the player, hate the game. there's many people that come from well off backgrounds that end up in the dumps even when they have everything going for them. why don't you hate on them for fucking themselves up? instead you're hating on someone that was probably poorer than what you have ever been in your life for no reason other than some of the things he says in his music. pathetic.

 

[FanofFiction]

I also don't like Eminem for his homophobia and other bigotries. No matter how talented a person is, I can't look around that fact.

 

[refujiunderground]

I had a fucked up life growing up. I still can't relate to Eminem.

But how inspiring is it when you rap about faggots and women being whores. Seriously?

I know those aren't all he raps about but if you're going to add that to your songs, you deserve to be criticized for them. Because now you're not talking about struggle, you're just talking shit. You're putting down people who are already put down.

like i said, to me, his music goes beyond that if you allow yourself to get past his ignorance. it still doesn't take away the fact that he has talent.

to me, if anything, eminem only represents a large viewpoint of the country. to me, he's no near a threat as the government is. eminem can only say homophobic things but the government can legalize it and has done so.

 

[refujiunderground]

Did you grow up in a country that completely fell into civil war with no government, no schools, nothing? I'm sorry but you're not talking sense here.

You asked people to provide artists they hate, then you proceed to attack them.

And don't even try to attack me. I've had a tough upbringing. I grew up with reggaeton/urbano.

you're missing the point. you sound like one of those people that tell all the people in america that are living in poverty to be happy about their situation because they're not living in a country that fell into civil war with no government, schooling or nothing. what is the point? poor is poor. either way, i wouldn't want to be in any of those situations. you are basically said that jay-z didn't struggle for shit despite being poor and living in the projects compared to k'naan's corny ass because he came from a fucked up country. my question is would you want to be in any of their shoes when they were coming up?

i'm not attacking you for hating jay-z, i'm just questioning why you're hating on him for because to me, the reason you gave doesn't make any sense.

 

[refujiunderground]

You don't know anything about me! Period! Don't even tell me what I'm ignorant about.

And there is a difference between poverty and extreme poverty.

I don't like Jay-Z because I don't think he's that talented and I don't like his music. That's all!

you already said that. i moved on. keep it moving.

difference? poverty is poverty. does it really make a difference? either way, you are still poor. some people may be content with coming from k'naan's position to jay-z's position but they're pretty much in the same boat. speaking for myself, i wouldn't want to go from one war zone to another war zone and be happy with it thinking that i made it. hell no. fuck the hood. the only way to go would be up.

and as for your last point, okay.

 

[Drugstore Cowboy]

lady gaga
rihanna
katy perry
lil wayne
drake
pitbul
justin beiber
miley cyrus

and my list goes on and on

 

[refujiunderground]

So poverty and struggle is a major requirement for you and how you decide who has talent and who doesn't?

no, it's not. i meant that as a way of respect if someone can pull themselves out of a shitty situation and bring themselves up. i'll listen to anything that sounds good and i have a picky, unusual taste in music to the point where i'll like songs from an artists even though i may not like them. most people around me identify me as a "hater" because i don't like most of the music artists out at all except a selected few which i'll support religiously such as coldplay, musiq soulchild, and gza from the wu tang clan. otherwise, i'm really selective from which records i buy from who or what i like because i'm just not into a lot of music that is out or has been out since the last decade. the 90s were better. for the record, i'm not a jay-z fan and even though i'm an eminem fan, if he puts out some music that i'm not all that interested in, i won't buy it or check for it. that's what i did with recovery. his lyrics were on point but the beats and the songs weren't doing it for me so i didn't buy it.

and in terms of talent. if they can hold a note, rap their ass off, make something that is just mind blowing or whatever, and is timeless where i can play it now and it still sounds great 10 years later, that's talent. a lot of the artists out today music will be gone and forgotten years from now. they're only making music that is good for the moment. no offense but i don't think lady gaga makes timeless music. people will forget about her music later on down the road because i don't see anybody still playing the songs like polka face or just dance anymore. she's no madonna. eventually somebody will take her spot. the only reason why brittney spears was able to have that much staying power was because she had that media machine behind her which forced everybody to like her corny ass.

add brittney spears to the list. i can't stand her at all. her voice is HORRIBLE.

 

[unloadonme]

I agree with the OP about Lady Gaga who for quite some time I naively believed to be a drag artiste. I think I'd have to cast my net a bit wider though and say (a) The Beatles and (b) just about any new act since the year 2000.

 

[refujiunderground]

Same thing was said about Madonna and she's still kicking it.



I have to agree with you on Britney Spears.

they probably was talking about if madonna would still be popular some years from now or whatever. madonna pretty much was doing things that were unheard of in her time anyway so she most definitely made a name for herself. madonna has timeless records to. can't say the same thing for lady gaga though. nobody's playing telephone, just dance or pokerface anymore. nowadays, the music industry is not built for artists such as how to have a long self life anyway. as soon as she makes one record that doesn't strike a buzz, then she's pretty much done. if you ask me, she's already losing steam. i bet you that it'll all be over two years from now. she's not going to be around for long.

 

[Telstra]

I don't know why people like heavy metal.
It is just noise.