Gustavo S. Buschle said:
I don't really understand it myself, the "their songs sound the same" just isn't really a valid argument for me, also, no one has ever given me an example of how they sound bad people just say things like "His singing is bad" but don't specify. The worst part in my in my opinion is how the ratio of how bad they are to how much hate they get is so huge compared to most mainstream bands/singers.
I'd say all their songs sound the same is a reasonable argument, to expand on that point the general opinion is once you've listened to two songs (a fast one and a slow one), you've pretty much listened to their whole catalogue, they've never tried to expand their sound or experiment with new stuff, it's all cookie cutter stuff really. There's loads of videos out there with two songs playing and you really can't distinguish between them.
Sounding bad is a rather subjective argument, to me it sounds bad, to you it sounds good because we have different tastes. I could present you with any nickleback song and explain why I think it was bad, wheras you would like the bits I present to you, leading to you not thinking people can show you an example. To them it's an example, to you it's reinforcing your argument. Neither of you is ever going to change your opinions until you either grow bored of them (I've done it with plenty of bands) and stop liking them, or the hater lets their standards slide.
On the singing front, same again, and if I think he sings bad, it would apply across their whole discography, as opposed to a specific section I don't know why I would have to show an example here you don't like his singing, you don't like his singing, not much more too it. Not quite sure what you're going with that to be honest.
I'd say the reason they get more hate is because they're posers, trying extremely hard to be rock n roll, while churning out the same mainstream friendly rubbish. If you're Rock n Roll, you're rock n roll and you don't need to try to be something you're not. Look at Lemmy from Motorhead, to him its just all about the music, nothing more and nothing less, he gets up there to play some rocking tunes and have a great time, he does whatever he wants and doesn't attempt to appeal to certain demographics, to him it's just "if it sounds great to me, great, if other people like it, they'll listen to it"
It's different to actual pop rock and wuss rock in the sense that the "musicians" aren't
trying to be rock and roll, granted it's soulless crap but they're not trying to act as if they're in with the actual subculture. Pretty much any subculture will eat posers alive, it's an impossible market to crack with a lab grown band as they just get spotted a mile off. You're never going to see a lab grown band get into a subculture as it's not just something to listen to like mainstream music, which most people are quite happy to just discard next time the next chart topping lab grown single comes along, for a lot of subcultures the music is a big part of who they are and will stay loyal to a band forever. No ones going to remember Justin Bieber a few years from now, heck most people can't even remember "the next big thing" from X factor last year.
Well that wall of text appeared from nowhere, I only meant to make a quick point ><
