who sucks more?

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Why concentrate on negativity?

I hate these topics.

Why concentrate on negativity?

Badabec wrote: sbrushfan wrote: Green Day...excellent POP music; "American Idiot" was, IMO, a great record. Mariah Carey, on the other hand, was great when she started...but in the mid-90's, her music started to suck ass when she fell down into the morass that I like to call "hip-hop". Nowadays, she's getting her voice back...thank God! Britney Spears...I can't speak badly of her music.  Some of it IS, IMO, catchy.  Remember, she's not a songwriter...at least she wasn't ambitious to write her own stuff until later on. Never heard Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance, though some of my friends swear by them. My vote: SLIPKNOT and KORN!!!!!!  OMFG!!!!! One of Slipknot's guitarists actually had the BALLS to compare his "band" to Rush! I was like..."Are you kidding me????"   There is no excellent pop today! American idiot sucks! Mariah Carey is horribly, Britney Spears is sooooo bad By the way you're not a good musician when singing what other people wrote for you. Good musicians write their own songs, so in that case even Green Day would be better than Britney Spears! Ok Slipknot isn't good, but it's a thousand times better than the other bands/people from the poll. Today Korn sucks, but in the past they made one really good album: Issues. I can't understand how you can like some of that stuff from the poll...

First off, whoever you are, I am a songwriter. I tend to take influence from almost everything I hear. This leads me to a broad spectrum of music, from rock to pop and a bit of R&B. Modern pop might seem crass and commerical to some people (how 'bout that Britney?) but, like it or not, and unless prog makes a MAJOR commerical case for itself(much to the chagrin of elitists like you) it's here to stay. So what if it's pablum?  It sells, and just because YOU don't like it does NOT mean other people don't. By the way...I never said Britney was a musician. She IS, however, a songwriter...she started co-writing some of her stuff in 2000 (...OOPS; I DID IT AGAIN).

Slipknot might be good too; I don't know about that, simply because when I heard them, I heard painfully detuned guitars (B Fsharp B E Gsharp Csharp; A E A D Fsharp B) and screaming "vocals". It sounded like a worse version of Nirvana (which I detested).

Korn is another band I take umbrage with. So what if they ARE talented? All they do is tune down (sigh) and play power chords all along the neck of their 7-strings. Whoopee-frickin-do. I could do that, and I don't even play guitar. I dread to think what you might think of people who actually PLAY their instruments, like, say, Hanson (another band I happen to like).

In short, if you don't like the bands listed, don't listen to them. That's your right. I have mine as well.