Classic rock is not outdated music and has withstood the test of time.
I don’t think that’s necessarily unpopular as it is old-fashioned, though, so here’s a probably unpopular opinion: I have no clue why Katy Perry, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, and just about every other big music star these days and for the past 10 or so years are so popular. Their music isn’t any good (at least the ones that I’ve heard) and there’s no band backing them up like Queen or Bob Seger.
Oh and also I think the Beach Boys are right up there with Queen and The Beatles. Don’t know if that’s unpopular.
At least in this topic, I think that liking older music and disliking newer music is actually the popular opinion.
I’ll throw my hat in the ring and say that I can’t listen to most older music without some sense of irony. I think it’s mostly because hearing the older production values often distracts me from the music. (I also veer towards heavy music that wasn’t producible at the time, so a lot of early distorted guitar, however rebellious it may have been at the time, makes the song quaint to me.)
What does a band have to do with it? If you don’t someone’s songwriting or vocal performance anyway, would a backing band save it?
I guess I didn’t clarify. What I meant is that most pop stars these days are one-man shows. Sure, they’ve got backup dancers (and I’d assume occasionally backup vocals) that do stuff in the background, but way back when, and these are just the first examples that popped into my head, you’d have the dude everyone knows, generally the lead singer, and then other members of the band that are a constant of the shows.
Taking the example of Queen, everyone knows about Freddie, but Queen wasn’t just Freddie. There was John, Brian, and Roger as well, showing up to every show. While I don’t claim to know extensively about modern touring pop star shows, as far as I’m aware they don’t often have live bands there with members consistently showing up.
As for how it affects the show in general, it makes it more entertaining. Again, using Queen as an example, shows wouldn’t be as interesting. Sure, he’s entertaining and funky, but you wouldn’t see him playing air guitar next to Brian May or jumping off of Roger’s drum set (like in Play the Game, I believe). There was just more to the old shows than watching a single person and the occasional backup dancer.
I will note, though, that I have never been to a live concert, only watched them online and on the Super Bowl halftime show.
I honestly agree. Most music nowadays seems to be all about the main artist, even if they’re part of a band or music group. It’s telling that the shows focus on the lead singer rather than a group.
So you’re saying that me simply assembling a playlist of pre-existing songs featured in a certain movie is somehow worse than spending extra money on buying an entire soundtrack of exclusive music from a certain movie?
This is something called “immersion”. Star Lord got picked up from the Earth in the nineties, so it makes sense for him to listen to the music from that era because that’s all he had on him when he got kidnapped.
Like, let’s say I want to make a film set in the sixties. Making modern-sounding music for it would completely ruin the sixties vibe I’m going for. Making new music that sounds like it’s from the sixties is completely redundant because there’s already actual sixties music. So, why not use it if it’s perfectly immersive and nostalgia-inducing for those who lived in that era?
I would rather hear an actual Beatles song in my hypothetical sixties movie than a digitalised soulless remake of it. There’s some music that can’t be improved.
That’s honestly a very good take. I wouldn’t really call it an unpopular opinion though, as I’m yet to meet a person who would say otherwise.
This is an interesting point, I definitely agree with this. Another example of how it used to be that comes to my mind is Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Yeah, obviously the main focus in their shows is the lead singer Anthony Kiedis, but everyone else (the bassist, the drummer and the guitarist) has matching charisma and presence on stage. Nowadays stuff like this is a big rarity.
Well, I guess you could kinda say that it is still a thing outside of the western music scene. Stuff like K-pop comes to mind, but I’m not nearly familiar enough with it to say for sure.
As for some hot music takes of my own, Imagine Dragons is a highly mediocre band and hearing Ed Sheeran’s music makes me not want to have ears anymore
I love how a song that was made in literally less than 24 hours and has no deep meaning whatsoever (pop, rap, etc.) gets all the fame, glory and attention while the classical masterpieces that took years to compose and express the soul and heart of man are called “boring”.
I still really like 2000’s Post-Grunge rock music like Creed, Nickelback, 3 Doors Down and Daughtry. That stuff got me into rock and music in general.
I’m not a big Nu-Metal fan and can only take bands like Limp Bizkit, System Of A Down and Korn in very small doses.
I’m not an 80’s, 90’s or 2000’s/2010’s/2020’s Metallica fan. I like all their albums and I don’t think Metallica ever made a bad album.
I still really like 90’s grunge/alternative rock music even if I don’t completely agree with the ideology of the music and with everything it was all about.
I like hair metal music…but I don’t listen to it all time or all that often and I’ve never been in an environment where that was all I was forced to listen to or something.
I can like objectively “bad music” and stuff like Fiona Apple and Norah Jones at the same time.
I can like rock music and stuff like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Nelly Furtado, Michelle Branch, early P!nk, etc. at the same time…but then again I have to take the later in small doses.
I personally wouldn’t say Norah Jones is objectively bad, I gladly alternate between her and the rest of the music you mentioned, and so much more beyond that
Same. I have very… random taste in music, and there are several Norah Jones songs that I’ve liked thanks to my mom playing them a lot when I was much younger.
Another unpopular opinion of music opinion is that I love Creed’s Weathered album cover and I don’t get why it’s made fun of so much or why it’s considered tacky looking.
The infamous SEX!!! meme in the song Signs doesn’t bother me either and I think it’s funny in a good way.
Weird Al improved it. A polka beat fits the lyrics better than a slow, mournful one (seriously, the original is too slow at times). I think a lot of music sounds better at 1.5x speed, just like audiobooks read by certain readers.
well I woke up to the sound of silence and cries were cutting like knives in a fistfight and I found you with a bottle of wine your head in the curtains and heart like the fourth of july…
