Y’know, this is a really weird comment to read considering how just yesterday I was telling someone that my absolute first memory is meeting him when I saw The Wiggles when I was like 2.
I never understood why Nickleback was so hated and became the butt end of every pop culture joke for like 8 years. Sure their music was bland and formulaic but it was no worse than 80% of popular music.
Agreed. Neha Kakkar stealing a living murdering remakes of classic songs by legendary singers, and then using her brand to build her husband's and brother's brands. Everything wrong with Bollywood in a nutshell.
I scrolled so far and didn't see Adam Levine...he is such a fucking tool. Literally made one good album (imo) with Maroon 5. Songs about Jane was fantastic, but I can't escape his suckage. His very existence is just irritating...
Songs About Jane is actually just a great album. Then it seems like Levine took the reigns for himself and turned Maroon 5 into a standard pop band, launching him into total stardom, and now he has transformed into a tool. Bleck.
I dislike most of the maroon 5 catalog, but they paid their dues. Working back in the LA club scene for a long long time before they got their break. Band can actually play. He’s a solid guitar player too.
While I don't particularly like the dude, and I can't stand maroon 5, his performance of purple rain at Howard Stern's birthday party some years back made me respect him as a musician. The performance also has a cameo from that dickbag from Train, who I also hate, but boy if they don't kill it...
The worst thing about these threads is just how it's the same reddit-centric answers repeated over and over. This sub is such a wild west when it comes to any sort of moderation, I've scrolled halfway down the page and have only seen three unique answers.
The top upvoted comments are people that Reddit notoriously always hates (DJ Khaled, Drake, MGK) like nobody overrates these people if you read any reddit thread lol
Beyonce (she's runs a sweatshop), Drake (a groomer, apparently), Cardi B (she drugged men), Chris Brown (he beats women). We are just missing someone somehow tying James Corden and the Kardashians into the conversation and we are hitting our Reddit milestones.
I think [insert artist here] is overrated because I have only heard one or two of their songs in the radio and the general public seems to like them. No I have never actually listened to their albums or mixtapes.
So I read an article once that interviewed Drake's personal trainer. He said something along the lines of "Drake is so fit that he can do 100 burpees in an hour!" or something like that.
Kid Rock. I don't care what he's rated, it's better than he deserves. If the worst music ever recorded were stuffed in a trash bag, Kid Rock would be the liquid that leaks out on the kitchen floor.
Child me knew the song was going to be bomb once I saw “Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbul” in the title. Maybe she was a bigger hit in Europe than in the states
This style makes sense when you realize a lot of the dudes doing production work on modern country got their start on arena rock in the 80s or butt rock in the 90s. Most modern pop/bro country isn’t really so much musically descended from George Jones or even Kenny Chesney as it is from 3 Doors Down and Bon Jovi.
Some of y’all don’t seem to be understanding the question. Your musician isn’t overrated if they are a terrible person, they’re overrated if they overly praised without actually bringing much to the table. id say right now Ice Spice is an overrated musician. Kanye and Beyonce are not, they have greatly influenced Hip-Hop as a whole and even though I don’t care for Beyonce I gotta give her her flowers.
Ice Spice is a great answer lol. Munch was pretty fun, but it is clear she's so popular because she is fine as hell. And she is fine as hell. But she'll vanish after a couple years and another beautiful person will take her place.
Yngwie Malmsteen. Considered the greatest guitarist in history by many, all of his music sounds the same. Just super fast notes going widdly widdly, it's all classical sauce and sounds like christmas horror music at times which is cool but it never breaks that mold. I would put others like Tosin Abasi and John Petrucci over him. They may not be on the same level as Malmsteen in some areas but it's all about how music hits the ear, and I can only listen to like 2 Malmsteen songs anymore because the rest is going to be just shredding for the sake of shredding. Don't get me wrong, he's amazing, but I can't call him the greatest, even when we're talking skill level. If you see some of these flamenco guitarists shred then you'll see who I'm talking about.
Malmsteen isn't really something I would listen to (I do play guitar so I listen to a lot of instrumental wanky guitar music), but I saw him on a tour with Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tosin Abasi and seeing them all onstage at the same time really put into perspective how talented Malmsteen is. Yes, he's a total douche and his music is repetitive and just fast showboating, but he was noticeably faster and cleaner than those dudes. He's not a great songwriter but he can play the fuck out of a guitar. He's also really, really fucking good at wearing too many necklaces at once
Santana at least brought a lot of Latin music conventions to western popular music and especially rock guitar. Yngwie just brought lackluster power metal when other bands are writing way better songs, and virtuoso guitar that has zero expression in his playing
Early Malmsteen really had some unseen energy, it still give me the shills. I get what you say about flamenco players and such, be he added the crazy rock'n'roll touch to that, in a kind of way EVH did.
"He's got to calm down. He's not Paganini – though he thinks he is. When Yngwie can break all of his strings but one, and play the same piece on one string, then I'll be impressed.” - Yngwie’s idol Ritchie Blackmore
Only considered the greatest guitarist in history to people who have a surface level interest in guitar. Most players I know and see know that title is mostly attributed to Guthrie Govan.
But most people who don't play guitar have never even heard of Yngwie. Say what you will about how he fits into the world of guitar, but I think to take the crown of "most overrated", somebody needs to be a household name. Outside of guitar nerds, Yngwie doesn't even "rate", much less be overrated.
Drake. Doesn’t write his own lyrics. Doesn’t produce his own beats. Sings in all auto tune. Raps about being a gangster and starting at the bottom but he was on a Canadian teen drama where he played a kid in a wheelchair so he got to sit on his ass all day. Talentless hack
I just... Don't care for her music? My best friends crucify me when I say this, but I don't get where she gets this reputation of being such a lyricist. As far as I can tell her lyrics aren't anything super special. I like my lyrics to be more poetic, maybe that's why I don't get it?
His feature in Lil Nas X's clip is hilarious. His whole feature is like "I ain't gay, it's cool though. But if I'm in this clip I want people to know I'm not gay. Can we put a woman in the clip with me? And make it clear I slept with her because I'm not gay. But yeah, great stuff Lil Nas!....not gay..."
I took my daughter to see her. It was my daughter's first concert, and she loved it. Sang every song and danced nonstop. It's not my generation or my music. But she had the time of her life, and that is fine with me.
In certain circles that are mostly made up of disaffected pale posh girls, Grimes is highly rated. For someone who puts so much effort into portraying themselves as boundlessly eccentric, her music is bizarrely unremarkable
I'm just about the exact opposite of a "disaffected pale posh girl" and some of her albums are amazing. Now I hate her as a person but that's a different story.
Katy perry? I get that she was cute and the songs were decent, but she had very limited vocal range and strangled a few songs to death. She practically drowned that “fireworks” song face down in a bathtub
Have you ever listened to a live session? I know her songs that end up on the radio come off that way. She has a great natural voice and fantastic breath control. Most vocalists today use some sort of pitch correction or other tools. I've seen her live and she sang with no backing track on one song for sure because there were no instrumentals for a good bit of it, just her voice.
Murray from The Wiggles. He claims to be "The King of Guitars" yet I haven't even seen him do so much as a single pinch harmonic. Pathetic.
At least he’s better than Jeff - that wanker is always falling asleep!
Y’know, this is a really weird comment to read considering how just yesterday I was telling someone that my absolute first memory is meeting him when I saw The Wiggles when I was like 2.
As a Nickelback fan, I have nothing to worry about reading this
Don’t worry, imagine dragons replaced them years ago in that realm
I never understood why Nickleback was so hated and became the butt end of every pop culture joke for like 8 years. Sure their music was bland and formulaic but it was no worse than 80% of popular music.
I legit only hated the lead singer cause he was banging avril lavinge. as a teenage boy at the time it seemed justified.
The cover band guy my college girlfriend cheated on me with
Did he write a song that got big in Europe? Called something like AmeriSauce doesn't know?
I knew a dude who's girlfriend cheated on him with Mike Mills from REM. The turtle-looking bass player. He got pissed off whenever he heard them.
Scottie Doesn't Know? Are you really Scottie??
Scotty doesn’t know.
"I'm so sorry, babe!"
i think your girlfriend was probably overrated here and if anything you escaped before you got in too deep with her!
Apparently people really don’t like Drake.
He’s about as urban as a 75 acre vegetable farm
you mean Jimmy from Degrassi?
Don't like his music, and seems like he's got shady behavior with minors and young women. I don't blame anyone for disliking the guy.
His music is just so boring.
Understandable, have a nice day
thank God no one is trashing my favs
That's me, nervously scrolling through the comments 😅
I had to sort by controversial just to find an artist I had ever listened to in the first place.
I don't know man, that one guy said Mozart and I'm about to write him a whole ass sonnet explaining why he's wrong and should unplug his router.
The kakkar siblings
Agreed. Neha Kakkar stealing a living murdering remakes of classic songs by legendary singers, and then using her brand to build her husband's and brother's brands. Everything wrong with Bollywood in a nutshell.
Surprised to see them here. I was just expecting English musicians
I know neha kakkar. Who's the other one?
Fiercely overrated
Neha Kakkar has such a shrill voice. I can't stand any of her remake songs with Tanishk.
This is a modern Bollywood musician hate thread and I am all for it.
However, Sonu Kakkar is great with actual talent.
sorts by Controversial
The real answers honestly. Nobody rates DJ Khaled, Adam Levine, or Machine Gun Kelly that highly to begin with
God I fucking hate that the Android app removed this.
This post has morphed from overrated musician into “who do you dislike regardless of their music”
This subreddit, man.
It always does
Luke Bryan. Sounds like a 3rd grader wrote all of his lyrics.
His music is exactly what bo burnham was singing about in "pandering"
“Girl ya make my speakers go boom boom” is the intellectual’s country music
“Out where the corn rows grow row row my boat”
Can't hear about Luke Bryan and country music without thinking about Bo Burnham's masterpiece
Who is the most overrated musician and why is it Drake?
Listen to passion fruit and feel now ways.
Drake is the musical equivalent of the color beige.
I scrolled so far and didn't see Adam Levine...he is such a fucking tool. Literally made one good album (imo) with Maroon 5. Songs about Jane was fantastic, but I can't escape his suckage. His very existence is just irritating...
Songs About Jane is actually just a great album. Then it seems like Levine took the reigns for himself and turned Maroon 5 into a standard pop band, launching him into total stardom, and now he has transformed into a tool. Bleck.
That’s a bit of an insult. Tools are useful.
I dislike most of the maroon 5 catalog, but they paid their dues. Working back in the LA club scene for a long long time before they got their break. Band can actually play. He’s a solid guitar player too.
I can NOT stand Adam Levine. What makes me dislike him the most is just how talented of a musician he truly is.
I used to have a little backpack with my disc player in it blasting Songs About Jane 24/7 when I was 10. Such a banger album.
He's made decent music and he's decent at guitar... But I dunno, I just don't enjoy the way he does all of it.
Is he really overrated though? I don't see a lot of people really heralding him as a legend.
While I don't particularly like the dude, and I can't stand maroon 5, his performance of purple rain at Howard Stern's birthday party some years back made me respect him as a musician. The performance also has a cameo from that dickbag from Train, who I also hate, but boy if they don't kill it...
Holy fucking fuck
From the
Watch American Horror Story season 2 to see his demise!
DJ Khaled
Plenty of examples of this guy making a fool of himself, but my personal favorite is his appearance on Hot Ones. He acts like an absolute tool.
OP said musician
I don’t think anyone rates DJ Khaled’s musicianship highly
Can I slap my name onto this song? And say "Another one"?
If you haven't watched him play guitar you need to
“Musician”
We the best music
In all fairness, OP did say MUSICIAN.
MGK
Picked a fight with eminem and got chased out of rap. Then he decided to pick a fight with slip knot
Is he really overrated? I see nothing but hate for him online.
He is a successful singer, rapper, and actor. And sucks at all of them.
who is mgk please?
Hotel Diablo Def a good album
This is the most Reddit thread ever
The worst thing about these threads is just how it's the same reddit-centric answers repeated over and over. This sub is such a wild west when it comes to any sort of moderation, I've scrolled halfway down the page and have only seen three unique answers.
The top upvoted comments are people that Reddit notoriously always hates (DJ Khaled, Drake, MGK) like nobody overrates these people if you read any reddit thread lol
That's the most meta comment in the most Reddit thread ever. True though.
Beyonce (she's runs a sweatshop), Drake (a groomer, apparently), Cardi B (she drugged men), Chris Brown (he beats women). We are just missing someone somehow tying James Corden and the Kardashians into the conversation and we are hitting our Reddit milestones.
I think [insert artist here] is overrated because I have only heard one or two of their songs in the radio and the general public seems to like them. No I have never actually listened to their albums or mixtapes.
"Oh look at me! I'm cool because I listen to Radiohead and not to (c)rap like Drake or po(o)p like Doja Cat 😎"
Time for Reddit’s daily “I don’t like Beyoncé and Drake” post
Don’t forget Dj Khaled…as if he’s anybody’s favorite “musician” lol
Reddit is like a classic rock station: The same 200 comments repeated ad nauseam.
Mozart. He did nothing since 1791.
Also he forgot to write lyrics for the most songs
Mozart composed for 30 years. He’s been decomposing for 225 years.
I am a real fan. I can name every one of his symphonies.
Dude is just coasting on his early material
Yeah, screw him! He's decomposing anyway.
Seriously. You're only as good as your last album, and what was the last thing he dropped?
Drake
So I read an article once that interviewed Drake's personal trainer. He said something along the lines of "Drake is so fit that he can do 100 burpees in an hour!" or something like that.
Grown ass man with the emotional maturity of a high schooler. Explains his relationships with literal high schoolers
People don't talk enough about the fact that he very obviously grooms young girls either. He's a pervert and his music isn't even that good.
Kid Rock. I don't care what he's rated, it's better than he deserves. If the worst music ever recorded were stuffed in a trash bag, Kid Rock would be the liquid that leaks out on the kitchen floor.
Study links drinking while pregnant to being at a Kid Rock concert
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Ask any Kid Rock fan how much Sudafed you can get for a catalytic converter. They know.
Jennifer Lopez
She's gone way downhill ever since Taco-Flavored Kisses.
I would disagree that J-Lo is overrated - I don't think she has ever really been 'rated'.
Child me knew the song was going to be bomb once I saw “Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbul” in the title. Maybe she was a bigger hit in Europe than in the states
No one has ever rated jlo highly vocally. She has made a lot of catchy pop music, and is a great performer. Don't really see her fitting on this list.
Every single pop country artist
🎶 Blue jeans, cold beer, no Jews, you didn’t hear that🎶
This style makes sense when you realize a lot of the dudes doing production work on modern country got their start on arena rock in the 80s or butt rock in the 90s. Most modern pop/bro country isn’t really so much musically descended from George Jones or even Kenny Chesney as it is from 3 Doors Down and Bon Jovi.
Some of y’all don’t seem to be understanding the question. Your musician isn’t overrated if they are a terrible person, they’re overrated if they overly praised without actually bringing much to the table. id say right now Ice Spice is an overrated musician. Kanye and Beyonce are not, they have greatly influenced Hip-Hop as a whole and even though I don’t care for Beyonce I gotta give her her flowers.
The only good take in this thread.
Ice Spice is a great answer lol. Munch was pretty fun, but it is clear she's so popular because she is fine as hell. And she is fine as hell. But she'll vanish after a couple years and another beautiful person will take her place.
🔥take
Imo Ed Sheeran is overrated. Most songs are average lyrics packed in an unemotional guitar pling plong that sparks no excitement whatsoever.
Yngwie Malmsteen. Considered the greatest guitarist in history by many, all of his music sounds the same. Just super fast notes going widdly widdly, it's all classical sauce and sounds like christmas horror music at times which is cool but it never breaks that mold. I would put others like Tosin Abasi and John Petrucci over him. They may not be on the same level as Malmsteen in some areas but it's all about how music hits the ear, and I can only listen to like 2 Malmsteen songs anymore because the rest is going to be just shredding for the sake of shredding. Don't get me wrong, he's amazing, but I can't call him the greatest, even when we're talking skill level. If you see some of these flamenco guitarists shred then you'll see who I'm talking about.
To quote Dave Mustaine: “Eric Johnson can say more in 2 notes than Yngwie can say in 2,000.”
Malmsteen isn't really something I would listen to (I do play guitar so I listen to a lot of instrumental wanky guitar music), but I saw him on a tour with Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tosin Abasi and seeing them all onstage at the same time really put into perspective how talented Malmsteen is. Yes, he's a total douche and his music is repetitive and just fast showboating, but he was noticeably faster and cleaner than those dudes. He's not a great songwriter but he can play the fuck out of a guitar. He's also really, really fucking good at wearing too many necklaces at once
100% agree, it’s just music that exists to highlight the fact that he’s a virtuoso. It’s all very masturbatory to me.
Guitarist here...
Al Di Meola's work with Return to Forever is insane
Fucking FINALLY someone who isn't just whining about modern pop music like an obnoxious hipster.
Santana at least brought a lot of Latin music conventions to western popular music and especially rock guitar. Yngwie just brought lackluster power metal when other bands are writing way better songs, and virtuoso guitar that has zero expression in his playing
Early Malmsteen really had some unseen energy, it still give me the shills. I get what you say about flamenco players and such, be he added the crazy rock'n'roll touch to that, in a kind of way EVH did.
"He's got to calm down. He's not Paganini – though he thinks he is. When Yngwie can break all of his strings but one, and play the same piece on one string, then I'll be impressed.” - Yngwie’s idol Ritchie Blackmore
I don't know anyone that considers him the best.
Only considered the greatest guitarist in history to people who have a surface level interest in guitar. Most players I know and see know that title is mostly attributed to Guthrie Govan.
But most people who don't play guitar have never even heard of Yngwie. Say what you will about how he fits into the world of guitar, but I think to take the crown of "most overrated", somebody needs to be a household name. Outside of guitar nerds, Yngwie doesn't even "rate", much less be overrated.
Thank you for naming an actual musician.
These answers really show Reddit's demographic
Jared Leto and Adam Levine
I don't know, Jared Leto wasn't all bad back with 30 Second to Mars. They absolutely released a couple solid tracks.
Drake. Doesn’t write his own lyrics. Doesn’t produce his own beats. Sings in all auto tune. Raps about being a gangster and starting at the bottom but he was on a Canadian teen drama where he played a kid in a wheelchair so he got to sit on his ass all day. Talentless hack
Maybe the song was supposed to be called “Started On My Bottom” then
It's pretty fucking rare for a rapper to produce their own beats...
Fucking Aubrey. He will forever be Wheelchair Jimmy in my mind.
He's also a fucking pedophile and nobody ever seems to care. Fucking hate Drake.
this how I know you aint listen to Tuscan Leather smfh
Dj kahlid is up there
Beyonce. Don't get me wrong, she's good, but I don't understand the God-like status she's achieved.
I just... Don't care for her music? My best friends crucify me when I say this, but I don't get where she gets this reputation of being such a lyricist. As far as I can tell her lyrics aren't anything super special. I like my lyrics to be more poetic, maybe that's why I don't get it?
I don't listen to her music but she uses child and sweatshop labor for her clothes so she can catch a boat to fuck off island in my book.
Beyoncé isn’t a musician, Beyoncé is a brand.
Maroon 5
harry styles is a talented performer but his music is very mid and commercial
I told my husband he's like Barry Manilow or Tom Jones for his generation. No one said they are amazing musicians but they were swoon-worthy.
I mean him and his bandmates have said their labels were so picky with production they lacked creativity... it's why Zayn left
Michael Bolton.
“Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks."
jack sparrow was an all time great
It doesn't get much better than when he sings 'When a man loves a woman.'
He’s… pretty good.
Isn't "a no talent ass clown" what Michael Bolton said about him in Office Space?
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Train blows and yet they sell out stadiums. Stop the Train.
Beato
Pat Finnerty fan, love to see it
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His feature in Lil Nas X's clip is hilarious. His whole feature is like "I ain't gay, it's cool though. But if I'm in this clip I want people to know I'm not gay. Can we put a woman in the clip with me? And make it clear I slept with her because I'm not gay. But yeah, great stuff Lil Nas!....not gay..."
Cardi B
Cardi b makes music for girls that skip showers and febreeze their panties
Who is out here overhyping cardi b?
Madison Beer. People give her too much credit cus she's hot
Wait, she sings?
I've seen the name and face on social media before, but until today I assumed she was just some random influencer rather than a popular singer.
I took my daughter to see her. It was my daughter's first concert, and she loved it. Sang every song and danced nonstop. It's not my generation or my music. But she had the time of her life, and that is fine with me.
I don't even know who that is
I never cared for KISS
Hmm, once you strip all the gimmick away their songs are really not much there. But I guess a lot of simple songs really get people going.
Drake. Drake. Drake.
I’m gonna say it…. Luke Bryan.
In certain circles that are mostly made up of disaffected pale posh girls, Grimes is highly rated. For someone who puts so much effort into portraying themselves as boundlessly eccentric, her music is bizarrely unremarkable
art angels is a great album
I don't personally agree with your assessment, as I think her music is brilliant, but I will say that Grimes kinda sucks as a person.
I'm just about the exact opposite of a "disaffected pale posh girl" and some of her albums are amazing. Now I hate her as a person but that's a different story.
This comment section is very unseasoned
Cardiff B
Ah, yes the acclaimed Welsh female rapper.
WAP
Katy perry? I get that she was cute and the songs were decent, but she had very limited vocal range and strangled a few songs to death. She practically drowned that “fireworks” song face down in a bathtub
I’ve heard Katy Perry’s menulog ad more than any of her actual songs, so it’s all I associate her with now.
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Bad Bunny, as a Hispanic man, I can't imagine why this 2 bit regaetonero is famous.
Me when my mom is watching me perform... 😩
Drake
MGK
Halsey, her voice is so over-produced
I don’t love Halsey, her songs are just ok. But
Have you ever listened to a live session? I know her songs that end up on the radio come off that way. She has a great natural voice and fantastic breath control. Most vocalists today use some sort of pitch correction or other tools. I've seen her live and she sang with no backing track on one song for sure because there were no instrumentals for a good bit of it, just her voice.
Sam Smith's voice.
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Machine gun kelly
Kerry King of Slayer is overrated. Imo. The guy has a terrible solo style and any good slayer solo was played by Jeff Hanneman.
Bono. Can’t stand the guy and U2 is just meh
Cardi B 🤮. Shitty person with shitty music.
JLo
Don’t come for me but Beyoncé
You're safe. Her fans are on Twitter.
Not a musician, but rather musicians. I would say BTS. Nothing against them tho, just not fond of their music and vocal skills.
I really don't think they became popular because of their music
Ted Nugent. And it has nothing to do with him having become a raving lunatic, either.