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Recording artists everyone made fun of at their peak of popularity

Started by bandit957, July 10, 2022, 07:50:08 PM

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jp the roadgeek

Pearl Ja
Hootie & the Blowfish
Men at Work

And people still make fun of Nickelback
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Quote from: jp the roadgeek on July 11, 2022, 10:27:07 AM
Pearl Ja
Hootie & the Blowfish
Men at Work

And people still make fun of Nickelback

I don't remember anyone really making fun of Pearl Jam other than the kind of unintelligible mumbling of Eddie Vedder, but still people liked them. Nirvana was given more trouble for the mumbling, i.e. Weird Al's "Smells Like Nirvana".

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Dire Straits famously made fun of Boy George.

I was a fan of Mr. Big, although "To Be With You" was cheesy. Billy Sheehan is one of the best rock bassists ever. His work with Talas was epic, as were his performances on David Lee Roth's first two solo albums. I would defy anyone to find a better team than Sheehan on bass and Steve Vai on guitar.

Yeah, I made fun of disco artists when disco was popular. I was a rock/metal fan and I hated disco.


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bandit957

There were certain songs everyone made fun of, such as that ridiculous "Are You Jimmy Ray." That was the equivalent of "I Do You" by the Jets of several years earlier that everyone made fun of.

Other than "I Do You", people didn't make fun of the Jets that much. And I don't even remember who made "Are You Jimmy Ray", so I don't know if anyone made fun of them.
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JayhawkCO

Quote from: bandit957 on July 11, 2022, 12:07:01 PM
There were certain songs everyone made fun of, such as that ridiculous "Are You Jimmy Ray." That was the equivalent of "I Do You" by the Jets of several years earlier that everyone made fun of.

Other than "I Do You", people didn't make fun of the Jets that much. And I don't even remember who made "Are You Jimmy Ray", so I don't know if anyone made fun of them.

His stage name at least was, you guessed it, Jimmy Ray.

Rothman

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on July 11, 2022, 10:27:07 AM
Pearl Ja
Hootie & the Blowfish
Men at Work

And people still make fun of Nickelback
Nickelback, yes.  Hootie, somewhat.  The others...wut?
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Quote from: Henry on July 11, 2022, 01:14:17 PM
Billy Joel, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen

To quote Rothman, wut?

ethanhopkin14

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on July 11, 2022, 10:27:07 AM
And people still make fun of Nickelback

I was never into the grunge phase or the alt rock (or alternative) that came after it, so I am not taking up for Nickelback.  I thought they sucked when they were popular, but the Nickelback hate seems to have been an internet thing.  You know, the internet collectively decides this person, act or show is stupid and everyone piles on?  Everyone forgets that in the early 2000s, all those same people were blasting Nickelback as loud as they could out of their Fireos.  I don't remember any distain toward Nickelback during the height of their success, which put me off because I hated them. 

JayhawkCO

Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on July 11, 2022, 01:37:51 PM
I don't remember any distain toward Nickelback during the height of their success, which put me off because I hated them.

100% people made fun of them when "This Is How You Remind Me" came out.

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No mention of Justin Bieber? That's the first one that comes to my mind.

JayhawkCO

I think for some in this thread, we need a little bit of definition. The artists listed by the majority here aren't just ones who were popular and also had a subsection of haters, which would happen to almost any celebrity. This is for artists that were almost universally derided after a week or two of their song being popular while a very small sub-section of the populace never got the hint.

TheHighwayMan3561

Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 11, 2022, 01:47:50 PM
I think for some in this thread, we need a little bit of definition. The artists listed by the majority here aren't just ones who were popular and also had a subsection of haters, which would happen to almost any celebrity. This is for artists that were almost universally derided after a week or two of their song being popular while a very small sub-section of the populace never got the hint.

That describes Rebecca Black's "Friday" from some years ago.
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ethanhopkin14

Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 11, 2022, 01:42:00 PM
Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on July 11, 2022, 01:37:51 PM
I don't remember any distain toward Nickelback during the height of their success, which put me off because I hated them.

100% people made fun of them when "This Is How You Remind Me" came out.

Okay, I personally didn't see it.  I worked with a lot of people at the time that not only never made fun of them, but that exact song they would sing, even when it wasn't on the radio.  Back in the early 2000s, I had exactly 0.0% internet existence (meaning, I used the internet to look up baseball schedules and stats and that was it, no chat rooms or no forums) so if the Nickelback hate was an online thing, I had no clue. 

bandit957

Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on July 11, 2022, 01:50:25 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 11, 2022, 01:47:50 PM
I think for some in this thread, we need a little bit of definition. The artists listed by the majority here aren't just ones who were popular and also had a subsection of haters, which would happen to almost any celebrity. This is for artists that were almost universally derided after a week or two of their song being popular while a very small sub-section of the populace never got the hint.

That describes Rebecca Black's "Friday" from some years ago.

I forgot all about that ridiculous song.
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JayhawkCO

Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on July 11, 2022, 01:57:03 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 11, 2022, 01:42:00 PM
Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on July 11, 2022, 01:37:51 PM
I don't remember any distain toward Nickelback during the height of their success, which put me off because I hated them.

100% people made fun of them when "This Is How You Remind Me" came out.

Okay, I personally didn't see it.  I worked with a lot of people at the time that not only never made fun of them, but that exact song they would sing, even when it wasn't on the radio.  Back in the early 2000s, I had exactly 0.0% internet existence (meaning, I used the internet to look up baseball schedules and stats and that was it, no chat rooms or no forums) so if the Nickelback hate was an online thing, I had no clue.

It was just a thing among most people I knew in college.

skluth

Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 11, 2022, 01:24:26 PM
Quote from: Henry on July 11, 2022, 01:14:17 PM
Billy Joel, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen

To quote Rothman, wut?

I prefer the old fashioned WTF. Whitney did have people making fun of her drug use her last couple years, but that was post-peak popularity. But Springsteen? Billy Joel? Wow!

Scott5114

Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on July 11, 2022, 01:37:51 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on July 11, 2022, 10:27:07 AM
And people still make fun of Nickelback

I was never into the grunge phase or the alt rock (or alternative) that came after it, so I am not taking up for Nickelback.  I thought they sucked when they were popular, but the Nickelback hate seems to have been an internet thing.  You know, the internet collectively decides this person, act or show is stupid and everyone piles on?  Everyone forgets that in the early 2000s, all those same people were blasting Nickelback as loud as they could out of their Fireos.  I don't remember any distain toward Nickelback during the height of their success, which put me off because I hated them. 

For me, what took the Nickelback criticism from just fun and games to actually legitimate criticism was that video where someone played two or three of their songs at the same time and the timing of the verses/choruses and even most of the chord changes lined up more or less perfectly.
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