Music artists you just aren't impressed with

[watashimokomi]

There is nothing impressive in Enrique Iglesias - his father was great but the nature rests on Juloi's son.

[BoredJen]

Originally Posted by BlackWolf

Right, we've been over the Arctic Monkeys, you know where I stand. But I don't see your argument as far as The Streets goes, it's Hip-Hop and rather "grimey" at that, the beats are supposed to be like that, it isn't meant to be some glossy club sound.

I'm not talking about the beats, I'm talking about his spoken word style delivery over the beats. No one's asking for glossy, I'm simply saying it's not musical.

[watashimokomi]

I am also not impressed with some of the Eurovision competitors wining - like Ruslana (from UA), like lady from Greese, like those nonsence Lordy band from........ I just do not understand people - it was a total joke and this total joke won the game.

[Whitnatious]

One group that I just can't stand is Hawthorne Heights. I have no idea how they even got signed. These guys need to disappear. They can't play music and they know it.

[BoredJen]

I've thought of a couple more. One of them is Kanye West. Wow. Did this guy really rhyme "arm" with "arm"? His beats are fun and catchy I guess, but his lyrics certainly leave something to be desired. And I used to think his ego was an act, which I thought was kind of fun and a clever way to lampoon mainstream rappers. But I'm thinking more and more that it's not an act and now it's just scary.

The second one is At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta. Now, I understand the title of this thread is music artists you are not impressed with and I am impressed by them as musicians. But listening to their music is just torture to me. They are guilty of the same thing most bands of their kind are guilty of; they try way too hard. And in the midst of trying too hard they completely lose any kind of heart or soul, which as musicians they clearly have or they wouldn't try so hard. And not only that, but they try so hard and take themselves so seriously that their music kind of becomes laughable.

[Captain Beefheart]

The thing about Mars Volta is that the approach is almost more important than the notes or content and in that sense they're one of those brilliant bands that is brilliant almost because they DON'T consistently put out good music. Not to say they're Enos or Fripps, but they ride the line between careful composition and the attempt at short-circuiting the physical form, the brain and the heart to all work at the same time.

For my money Deloused is probably one of the best albums in the last 10 years, I know phrases like that get thrown out in vain, but it's true.

[watashimokomi]

I am not really impressed with Nelly Furtado

[Captain Beefheart]

I actually like Nelly Furtado, not enuff to buy a record, but among the contemporary pop artists of today she doesn't make want to rip the car stereo like say Aguilera.

Which is funny because before the last album, she tried to shy away from what was expected of her, collaborating with people like Bela Fleck, Caetano Veloso and the Kronos Quarter, record flunked so her label probably went for the predictable route, hired Timbaland. Sucess.

[watashimokomi]

and that is exactly why it is strange to me
why to hire someone to have success

[Captain Beefheart]

Because she has a record label to answer to? You know the one who actually finances her project, so she can stay in fancy hotels, live the good life. She wasn't a house hold name or established enuff to actually release another record like "Folklore", and being faced with the looming pressure of being sacked if it didn't sell.



You pretty much gotta sell your soul to SPECTRE to get that kind of artistic "freedom".

[Karma]

Lilly Allen and Kate Nash.........what is it all about, talking instead of singing??? not my thing at all.

[Irn Bru]

50 Cent. Really really bugs me.