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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.

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Manename · 25/08/2026 17:45

Love the Beatles, Paul McCartney only had a good voice and now it’s embarrassing.
Many others mentioned
Another one that doesn’t like Kate Bush

NoName47 · 25/08/2026 18:16

Sam Smith - whiny annoying voice.

lljkk · 25/08/2026 18:26

I don't tend to write whole artists off.

Rather they have specific songs I don 't like.
I suppose Patsy Cline comes close to no appeal for me.

Someonesomewhereinsummertime · 25/08/2026 19:12

Madonna - found her cringey even when I was young in the 80s. I remember when she claimed she wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe 'comic and sexual'. I mean, talk about having a high opinion of yourself! Absolutely deluded.
Spice Girls - similarly, just found the girl power stuff embarrassing. Any time Geri speaks (even now) I almost cringe myself inside out.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 25/08/2026 19:24

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

The streets aren’t indie lol

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 25/08/2026 19:26

So you do realise that Amy Winehouse is dead? I wasn’t a fan until I saw her at Glastonbury.
For me it’s Kanye or whatever he’s called now. Johnny rotten from the sex pistols

stample · 25/08/2026 19:32

LlynTegid · 24/08/2026 07:31

Coldplay.

Talented musicians with awful material.

Came to say this also

sunandpeonies · 25/08/2026 20:27

Adele
Sting

Thebinisrightthere · 25/08/2026 20:41

SpareVanKeys · 25/08/2026 17:31

Ooh lots of these. You don’t hear them much these days, but Muse. Great howling racket..should sell their music with paracetamol.

Dh likes Wetleg so we’re reminded regularly about the chaise-bloody-lounge in our house 🫩

The singer from Muse has a very annoying habit of squeaking when he's inhaling, usually at the start of every line he sings. Once it was pointed out to me I can't unhear it

mashpatooties · 26/08/2026 09:33

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 25/08/2026 19:26

So you do realise that Amy Winehouse is dead? I wasn’t a fan until I saw her at Glastonbury.
For me it’s Kanye or whatever he’s called now. Johnny rotten from the sex pistols

Yes, that's why she's so popular I'm guessing.

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BillieWiper · 26/08/2026 13:36

Sladuf1 · 25/08/2026 07:29

Your username is great by the way. I knew instantly which Bruno Mars song you meant because that guitar in it really does sound like a rip-off of The Police. That banal lyric you mentioned, and the stupid sound effect after his, “oh, yeah, yeahs” in the intro make that song very cringe. Woop, woop, woop, woop, woop, woop, woop, woop (or whatever it’s supposed to be).

Thank you! 😊
Yeah that's the one. I can't stand it but have a compulsion to listen to it now for a piss take! Haha 😂

BillieWiper · 26/08/2026 13:41

mashpatooties · 25/08/2026 03:04

I'd say both boyfriends were famous arseholes and her addiction as most people's addictions doesn't illicit hate in me but does illicit feelings of tedium and irritation. Her lack of giving a shit about her fans and general entitlement is the cherry on the cake.
Robbie Williams is a grade A cock, agreed.

I'm interested in which is the second famous arsehole bf? I'm not counting Pete Doherty as they didn't officially date.

Glad you're in agreement re RW! 😁

mashpatooties · 26/08/2026 17:07

BillieWiper · 26/08/2026 13:41

I'm interested in which is the second famous arsehole bf? I'm not counting Pete Doherty as they didn't officially date.

Glad you're in agreement re RW! 😁

Reg Traviss was a big user, treated her like arm candy, cheated on her and was emotionally unavailable - at least that's what was reported. Maybe she just liked this type of man.

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BillieWiper · 26/08/2026 18:54

mashpatooties · 26/08/2026 17:07

Reg Traviss was a big user, treated her like arm candy, cheated on her and was emotionally unavailable - at least that's what was reported. Maybe she just liked this type of man.

Ahhh...I never heard that about RT in the press or among gossip mongers. I worked with one of her best friends and she didn't ever say anything bad about him that I was aware of. But I'd hardly be the person to know the inside gossip!

He certainly looked a bit of a twat, posing like a 1950s gangster. Claiming to be a film director (what films?!) and in reality he just lived with his mum above a pub!

I met that Blake fella a couple years before he got with her and he was a total mug. Wearing a bucket hat and string vest with his false squeaky mockney accent.

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