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Popular music artists that you just can't stand.

164 replies

mashpatooties · 24/08/2026 07:11

I just can't stand...Amy Winehouse.
There I said it.
When I've said this out loud in front of friends, they've behaved as though I've taken a shit in their handbag.
The voice is wonderful I agree. But:

  1. Her shitty attitude
  2. The addictions (yeah it's an illness 🫩)
  3. Bad choices in men
  4. Was she really so outstandingly wonderful that we forgive the unprofessionalism? Late to gigs, arseholed on stage etc etc
I've seen the documentaries. She was vulnerable. Her family/friends/ milkman took advantage.

What about you?

Lauryn Hill also pisses me off.

OP posts:
Mimimayhem18 · 24/08/2026 07:13

Bruno Mars gives me unexplainable rage! I have to turn the radio off whenever I hear him.

mashpatooties · 24/08/2026 07:28

Mimimayhem18 · 24/08/2026 07:13

Bruno Mars gives me unexplainable rage! I have to turn the radio off whenever I hear him.

😊 I love Bruno! Little biscuit!

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PersephoneParlormaid · 24/08/2026 07:30

Where I work, they have the radio on all day, and I’m so fed up of hearing Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars on repeat. One day I counted 4 TS songs and 5 BM.

LlynTegid · 24/08/2026 07:31

Coldplay.

Talented musicians with awful material.

TherapistInATabard · 24/08/2026 07:31

I promise I thought this before the weird obsession with rubber, but I can’t stand Sam Smith’s voice.

Airconfan · 24/08/2026 07:35

The streets or any indie music similar. I don’t understand how talking (not singing or rapping) is music.

Just thinking of them saying “gosh you are fit but don’t you know it” makes me rage. It’s not music if you just talk

StrawberryMatchaLatte · 24/08/2026 07:38

Ed Sheeran. I'm sure he's a nice person but listening to his music is like watching paint dry.

Sherararara · 24/08/2026 07:40

Oasis. Talentless idiots who can’t sing.

mtobrokeme · 24/08/2026 07:40

Pink. Not one good song. I don’t care that she can dangle upside down or do a cartwheel. All that is to deflect attention away from her aforementioned shite music.

Shhhhitsmagic · 24/08/2026 07:41

James Blunt. Anyone seen his new video? 😱

Coinkidinki · 24/08/2026 07:43

Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
Ariana Grande

To clarify, it's their music I don't like - I'm sure they're decent human beings so far as mega stars ever can be!

wildnwilde · 24/08/2026 08:04

Miley Cyrus

RC1623 · 24/08/2026 08:06

Will probably be shot down for these but… Queen and ABBA 🫣

Raspbellies · 24/08/2026 08:09

Drake. Dull and shit. He doesn't even sound like he's having fun.
He has two good songs, one because he did it with Rihanna and the other because it's a massive sample.

Purplecatshopaholic · 24/08/2026 08:11

LlynTegid · 24/08/2026 07:31

Coldplay.

Talented musicians with awful material.

Hard agree. I’m sure they’re lovely people, blah, blah, but god the music is shite.

Screamingabdabz · 24/08/2026 08:12

Yes I agree with you about Amy Winehouse op. I just think that affected voice is overrated and she looked awful. That 60s thing with the addiction scruff does nothing for me - it’s so uncool. It taints her music.

For different and obvious reasons - Michael Jackson - can’t seperate his music from
what he did and who he was.

DreamingOfGeneHunt · 24/08/2026 08:12

Adele
George Ezra
Sam Smith
Ed Sheeran

Generally I can enjoy something from most people's catalogue as it were but I just can't take their voices.

toastandegg · 24/08/2026 08:13

Florence and the Machine - wailing wankers

YosoyEduardo · 24/08/2026 08:14

Madonna really gets on me wazz

shellyleppard · 24/08/2026 08:14

Any of the rap artist....i turn it off if they start.

YosoyEduardo · 24/08/2026 08:15

Used to love Beyonce when she was in destiny's child but these days I can't stand her!

KimWexlersPonyTail · 24/08/2026 08:20

Ed Sheeran, just don't get it with him. His music just goes straight in one ear and out the other. Couldn't hum any one of his songs or remember a single word of them.

localnotail · 24/08/2026 08:21

Police/ Sting - cant stand his voice, really grating
Coldplay, and any other whiney music, especially accompanied by guitar - eughh

Taylor Swift - not so much that I "cant stand her" - but I cant even tell when its her singing or some other contemporary female singer (as I dont really know her songs), she is so beige I have no idea why she is so popular - there are other female artists who (to me) sound exactly like her.

LittleGreenDuck · 24/08/2026 08:24

toastandegg · 24/08/2026 08:13

Florence and the Machine - wailing wankers

Yes!

Also Wet Leg. I have a visceral reaction to that stupid chaise longue song. Luckily, it’s not often played these days.

Crazycockerpoo · 24/08/2026 08:24

Good job we all like different things really 😁 I've been to see a number of these artists mentioned above haha.