Album Rating: 3.0

SIA RULES



"All music relies on image. Sorry to keep bringing up Nirvana but it's a good example. Kids/teens at the time latched on to the rebellious nature of the music with the flannel shirts/ripped jeans/general angst etc. Just because you don't like the image pop artists create for themselves doesn't mean you can't acknowledge that all music is based on image."



^this is p. much true tho

Album Rating: 3.0

"Sure man, try to convince yourself that the only reason some of these artists are famous is because of their catchy songs, whatever"

transparently moving the goalposts. exceptions don't make the rule. this is why i can't take y'all seriously



also, 1d are catchy, like it or not tbh

What are yoy even on about ? Have I ever said that the whole genre of pop is like this ? No I fucking didn't

this is acting is the worst pop album this year.

For fucks sake the majority of pop music is catchy stop saying that as if it's some kind of a rare medium inside the genre.

Album Rating: 3.0

"What are yoy even on about ? Have I ever said that the whole genre of pop is like this ? No I fucking didn't"



neither did i imply it? so i assumed u were talking about a general rule, instead of all pop artists ever, which is also wrong?



"For fucks sake 90% of pop music is catchy stop saying that as if it's some kind of a rare medium inside the genre"

I'm giving you direct counter-examples bruh, what r u complaining abt. sia, david guetta, 5sos, adele, etc

Album Rating: 3.5

newsflash guys, most people actually don't like music. Either they can't or they just won't relate emotionally nor intelectually to what they listen to. Music is just background noise and has not any conscious impact on their lives so they just don't care.



It's just like food. Some people simply CAN'T enjoy food as much as others, that's why they are so picky and why they have shitty taste. Most stuff just tastes bad to them, and they can't change that.



What I'm trying to say is: don't judge people on their music taste, that's a shitty move. Most people's lives don't revolve around this stuff.

Wait wait, you don't think these artists are "catchy" ?

Album Rating: 3.0

'Newsflash guys, most people actually don't like music. Either they can't or they just won't relate emotionally nor intelectually to what they listen to. Music is just background noise and has not had any conscious impact on their lives so they just don't care.'



So fucking true.

hence why a lot of people only listen to radio hits
to have on while driving or something like that where it's background noise

Album Rating: 3.0

"Wait wait, you don't think these artists are 'catchy'?"



i do, save 5sos. now, do you think they got where they are coz people wanna bone them? do you wanna bone them? i bet not lmao



probably the last statement i'll make about my posts and prolly last argument, don't want this to get ugly and i'm already frustrating u 👀 👀

'do you think they got where they are coz people wanna bone them? do you wanna bone them?'

yes to both ;)

Album Rating: 3.0

holy shit

Album Rating: 3.0

now we need to talk about the elephant in the room: popular artists of genres outside of pop that got popular just because they're catchy, cuz not everything pop is catchy, and not every catchy thing is pop 👀 👀

I mean Sia and Adele maybe
David Guetta of course not

But really again you seem to be implying that this is what I think of all artists. I mean Adele has good music, not just catchy because catchy can be shit she legit has some bangers so it's natural she's popular. Sia I don't know that well really, and David Guetta yeah he has some tracks he is kinda popular but nowhere on the level as the ones I mentioned.
It's not that you can't get attention for your good pop music, it's that you can get attention even if your pop music is shit as longg as you got the other factors right. And yeah last post really, anyways have a nice day or night, cause rn it's night where I am.

Rolling in the Deep rules and I'm not afraid to admit that I love it

Album Rating: 4.0

What I will say is this:



Carefully packaged and marketed =/= bad

Very focused on image =/= bad

Music whose primary fanbase is not ardent music fans =/= bad



A lot of the arguments made here do actually have some merit, but just because they happen to be true doesn't mean that the music is bad. Hell, the Beatles practically invented the boy-band template and appealed (at the beginning at least) almost exclusively to teenage girls (ie not the kinds of folks commenting in these threads by and large) and, well, they're the Beatles. I can only speak for myself here, but Emotion is one of my favorite albums of the decade thus far. I hear you when you say a lot of things which boil down to "it's mass-marketed pop music", but I think it's great all the same. Who are you to be the gatekeepers of what music is good and what music is not worth listening to?

It's why reviews are always personal opinion. I can hate an album, give it a 1, whatever, but I'm not gonna begrudge anyone who likes it. Shea Serrano has a great article about this on Grantland (RIP) where he goes to a J. Cole concert and just talks to a bunch of people for whom J. Cole (who Serrano hates) means a lot. Like, music is made for a lot of people, and if you're not in the target audience that just kinda happens sometimes, right?

Album Rating: 3.5

"It's why reviews are always personal opinion."



Man have I been harrased for saying this.

I wake up and there is over 10 pages of serious discussion of Pop as a Genre.

Album Rating: 4.0

Anyone who treats reviews as objective fact and Word of God is coming from a pretty narrow perspective. Like, I'm just some dude on the internet, feel free to disagree with what I'm saying! The way two people listen to an album can be 100% different from each other - I'm sure somebody's had a revelatory experience to like Ronnie Radke or some shit, and good for them tbh