Popular music artists that you just can't stand.

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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.

Harry Styles. Sorry I just think he has no substance. Most of his songs are a bit shit he cosplays at being out there and quirky it all seems like an act. I think he queerbaits a bit too.

‘Self licking lollipop’ 😂

Annie Lennox.

Solo singer/songwriter/guitarists and their self-absorbed navel-gazing 'meaningful' monologue lyrics.

I love Coldplay, ive seen them 3 times live and it was amazing. ....
....but the world cup half time concert was just about unforgivable! 🤣

God, yes, Annie lennox. Never saw the point of her.

You've over stepped the mark now !!

U2, I genuinely don't understand how they fill stadiums with their terrible dreary tunes.

Abba

Oh yes and them. Their current track is a whisker away from Chas and Dave.

I don't get the adoration for Beyonce at all. There's the odd song I don't mind, but find her mostly very mediocre.

Like nails on a chalkboard

I’m glad a couple of posters have said Taylor Swift. I don’t dislike her, I just find her music very forgettable and I wish my colleagues wouldn’t gush over her at lunchtimes - it’s so boring!

On the other hand, I like some of Olivia Rodrigo’s stuff, even though it’s clearly not written for my age group.

To be honest I don't like anything rnb, they're talented but just not for me

I’ve definitely found a thread with my kinda people!

I can relate to so many points you’ve all made so far. I’ve been telling myself I have impossibly high standards for most music released after I turned 21 (back in 2007), and I have a really eclectic taste in music. It isn’t just me.

Taylor Swift - I’ve really tried, but as @Cattenberg and others have mentioned, I just find the songs forgettable. The only one that ever stuck in my head was “Love Story,”and that could have been any number of “country pop” radio songs from the 90s onwards. She is not a modern day Joni Mitchell!

Coldplay - as others mentioned, clearly talented but so many of their songs are dreary or, in my view, little better than elevator music. I don’t think Chris Martin’s high register works at all either! That bit in “Fix You,” when he sings, “stuck in reverse?” 😱 They hit the big time when I was a teenager and I swear I was the only person at school my age who liked so-called, “guitar bands,” who couldn’t understand the appeal.

Ed Sheeran - a case of lucky he was around in the “right” era, in my opinion. I don’t think he’d have enjoyed anywhere near the level of success if he’d been around in the 80s or 90s with a lot more competition on the singer-songwriter front. Plus the fact we seemed to have more bands than solo artists back then. My best mate and I call him Ned Sherrin. For me the lyrics in “Shape of You” are some of the cringiest we’ve had since Des’ree’s “Life:” - “and now my bed sheets smell like you.” 😖

I can understand this. I’m convinced it’s the voice that does it for me. However, “I should have bought you flowers…” Do me a favour!

The lyrics to Uptown Junk get on my wick, but to be fair even the intro of that does. I genuinely laughed out loud when I read The Gap Band and others had made copyright claims. It is a blatant rip-off of quite a few songs.
Then again I find most of the songs I’ve heard from him reductive.

Jeezo, they have NEW stuff out? FFS, I thought they'd given up in the mid-2000s.

Or as I used to sing to myself

"last night you were in my room and now my bedsheets smell like poo ooh wah ooh wah"

Made the song more bearable 😀

Oasis. Pair of egotistical brothers with an awful attitude just playing the same songs in one key from the first two albums over and over again.

Yep, at some point she decided to give up singing and just honk over backing music. Why???

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Janelle Monae. Her voice is so weedy. I have never understood the hype. She wouldn't cut it as a jobbing back up singer, so how come so many allowances are made for her thin voice as a lead artist?

Yeah, can’t stand him full stop. Total diva (friend knows him well) with a strangely high voice.

Controversial one - The Smiths , or specifically Morrisey. Miserable songs sung by a miserable man.
I read a novel, can't remember what it was, in which one of the characters didn't like The Smiths. I laughed out loud and woke OH up .
Ed Sheeran, very dull.
Rap in general.

Winehouse had one boyfriend who was famously an arsehole. The others she dated were perfectly reasonable decent blokes. And I don't see why someone being an addict would make you hate them?

I agree it was frustrating watching her seemingly falling apart before our eyes but that elicits sympathy in me as opposed to hatred. So I'm not in agreement with you really about her.

I don't like Taylor Swift. I can't stand her music and her style.

Another one I can't stand is Geri Halliwell. She's such a bullshitter. And that awful simpering way she hangs like a limpet from her posh husband and wears nothing but white. Plus she can't sing or write or present to save her life.

Robbie Williams is another megalomaniac with very limited talent. I'm not fond of him at all.

Bruno m
Pink
Jess glynn cos she sounds like a demented sheep
Oasis cos Liams got a whiny voice
Sam Smiths just annoying
Dua Lipa, just don't get it 😂