Generally it is a reaction to having the popular stuff forced into their spaces. Pop music like Coldplay makes its way into movies, shows, and store music so it is always there to cause annoyance.
Like I hate Jared fucking Leto because he keeps getting into movies I would otherwise want to enjoy. If he was only in movies I don’t want to watch then I wouldn’t think of him at all, like the other actors and actresses that don’t ever think about.
I think you’re sort of right. It’s not simply because they’re popular, it’s because the popularity means they get inescapable radio play. Over time you resent it more and more.
I don’t know if he went worldwide or if he’s just a British thing, but Lewis Capaldi is the worst offender for this in my mind. There was about 3 months where Somebody You Loved wasn’t being played by at least 2 stations at a time. 2 or 3 times an hour, every hour, every station, every day.
It was a great song the first 5 times. The next 5000 not so much.
I’m just a little too young for that. Mid 40s lol. Probably the last time it will be seen as radio doesn’t matter much. Speaking of which, maybe it was “iloveradio” bullshit that made it overplayed. I’m not even in a small area and I miss my local radio stations.
In that case you might remember people having similar reactions to Hootie & the Blowfish or Nickelback.
They’re all very popular, with big-selling albums, but very ‘safe’, overproduced, bland perhaps. That combined with overexposure creates a backlash and it becomes cool to hate them.
There were definitely backlashes to big popular artists of prior decades, like Elvis and the Beatles. Partly it was couched in that “They’re corrupting the youth” conservatism, but also anything that’s popular with tween and teen girls tends to catch a lot of flack regardless of whether or not it’s deserved. Think Twilight or One Direction. I don’t care for either, but they both became out-sized hate figures for weird adult men. There was no shortage of enraged nerd hot takes when that sparkly vampire guy was cast as Batman.
I think Coldplay is kind of on the same page. Which is obviously faint praise, but they have a sort of inoffensively palatable sound which is both the reason they’re so successful and the thing people dislike about them. But it’s probably not worth getting angry about.
I think it is mostly the massive success. Some people have a belief that anything that is very popular is by definition bad.
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Generally it is a reaction to having the popular stuff forced into their spaces. Pop music like Coldplay makes its way into movies, shows, and store music so it is always there to cause annoyance.
Like I hate Jared fucking Leto because he keeps getting into movies I would otherwise want to enjoy. If he was only in movies I don’t want to watch then I wouldn’t think of him at all, like the other actors and actresses that don’t ever think about.
More like, it’s the lowest common denominator type stuff. In other words, average at best.
I think you’re sort of right. It’s not simply because they’re popular, it’s because the popularity means they get inescapable radio play. Over time you resent it more and more.
I don’t know if he went worldwide or if he’s just a British thing, but Lewis Capaldi is the worst offender for this in my mind. There was about 3 months where Somebody You Loved wasn’t being played by at least 2 stations at a time. 2 or 3 times an hour, every hour, every station, every day.
It was a great song the first 5 times. The next 5000 not so much.
I’m old. Imagine if old bands got that stigma. Omg did emo culture do it?
Old enough to remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.
I’m just a little too young for that. Mid 40s lol. Probably the last time it will be seen as radio doesn’t matter much. Speaking of which, maybe it was “iloveradio” bullshit that made it overplayed. I’m not even in a small area and I miss my local radio stations.
In that case you might remember people having similar reactions to Hootie & the Blowfish or Nickelback.
They’re all very popular, with big-selling albums, but very ‘safe’, overproduced, bland perhaps. That combined with overexposure creates a backlash and it becomes cool to hate them.
Gotcha. I was just happy to be able to skip eventually. Never hated.
iHeartRadio is a cancer. They’re just consolidating everything like Ticketmaster did with venues.
I’m old, and we definitely did this in the 1900s.
There were definitely backlashes to big popular artists of prior decades, like Elvis and the Beatles. Partly it was couched in that “They’re corrupting the youth” conservatism, but also anything that’s popular with tween and teen girls tends to catch a lot of flack regardless of whether or not it’s deserved. Think Twilight or One Direction. I don’t care for either, but they both became out-sized hate figures for weird adult men. There was no shortage of enraged nerd hot takes when that sparkly vampire guy was cast as Batman.
I think Coldplay is kind of on the same page. Which is obviously faint praise, but they have a sort of inoffensively palatable sound which is both the reason they’re so successful and the thing people dislike about them. But it’s probably not worth getting angry about.