Music, again
Aug. 9th, 2006 01:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI recently started to watch a PrincessTutu AMV, but I had to stop after about 58 seconds because the song was annoying me.
It was by Yellowcard.
Every time I've ever heard a song by Yellowcard I have failed to understand why anyone thinks it ought to be heard. It's not that I have anything particular against the band. It's that they, well, suck.
They suck the same way A Simple Plan sucks and Good Charlotte sucks. They all suck by being completely indistinguishable from each other and then ripping off the an even more vanilla version of the formula used by Hoobastank who in turned ripped their formula off Linkin Park Lite.
Honestly it's so much garbage that I cringe to hear it. I know where the song is going from the first notes, I know exactly what the chorus will sound like, and when it ends I know what the verse will sound like, and then the bridge. BECAUSE THEY ALL SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME. I sometimes literally cannot tell them apart on the radio, by music or by vocals or by lyrics. Certainly not by music. And the sound they're so dilligently copying is really pretty boring in the first place, and only comes in two flavors.
1) Sing verses; yell chorus with banging drums and crashing background junk.
2) Yell verses with banging drums and crashing background junk; sing chorus.
Option number two is the mainstay formula of Linkin Park, but although most LP songs sound the same to me, at least they have a more interesting variety of background noise, some variety in their styles, visual artistic ambition if not musical artistic ambition, and lyrics that don't sound like they were written by a 9th grader.
Why does the radio play this shit? Does anyone over the age of 17 actually enjoy this shit? Am I the only person who hears this on the radio and say "Wow, that is shit." ?
It was by Yellowcard.
Every time I've ever heard a song by Yellowcard I have failed to understand why anyone thinks it ought to be heard. It's not that I have anything particular against the band. It's that they, well, suck.
They suck the same way A Simple Plan sucks and Good Charlotte sucks. They all suck by being completely indistinguishable from each other and then ripping off the an even more vanilla version of the formula used by Hoobastank who in turned ripped their formula off Linkin Park Lite.
Honestly it's so much garbage that I cringe to hear it. I know where the song is going from the first notes, I know exactly what the chorus will sound like, and when it ends I know what the verse will sound like, and then the bridge. BECAUSE THEY ALL SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME. I sometimes literally cannot tell them apart on the radio, by music or by vocals or by lyrics. Certainly not by music. And the sound they're so dilligently copying is really pretty boring in the first place, and only comes in two flavors.
1) Sing verses; yell chorus with banging drums and crashing background junk.
2) Yell verses with banging drums and crashing background junk; sing chorus.
Option number two is the mainstay formula of Linkin Park, but although most LP songs sound the same to me, at least they have a more interesting variety of background noise, some variety in their styles, visual artistic ambition if not musical artistic ambition, and lyrics that don't sound like they were written by a 9th grader.
Why does the radio play this shit? Does anyone over the age of 17 actually enjoy this shit? Am I the only person who hears this on the radio and say "Wow, that is shit." ?
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Date: 2006-08-09 05:00 pm (UTC)