i’m of the opinion that “bad” music is really quite rare, there are just some bands and types of music that are made with different goals in mind and are meant for different people who aren’t me. For example, i may personallt dislike radiohead greatly, but I appreciate that it’s woken up a lot of people to how cool a lot of prog and avant-garde is.
that said, twenty one pilots is truly Bad. every single part of it, from the energy drink label philosophy to the hardcore pop punk sound beaten to death by everyone since 1998, is absolutely rotten to the core.
like seriously, have y’all ever listened to them? there really is something evil about it. they’re not like, worshipping satan or anything, there’s just a deep layer of well-concealed dishonesty to the whole thing that’s framed as a motivational, inspirational message. they never make any real clear, distinct statements, you’re just supposed to read into it what you want and then bawl over it online saying THIS MUSIC SAVED ME
i know what a man sounds like when he pours his heart out into his music, and That Ain’t It
it took me a bit to figure out why tøp rubbed me the wrong way and this post finally opened up my third eye of why they suck so hard.
tøp feels like it was created to capitalize off of depressed teens. it’s the music industry taking advantage of the culture that 2000’s emo bands created and synthesizing the most insincere, weirdly emotionally intense “savior band” our generation will probably ever see. they’re just like “this band saved my life” culture on steroids.
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