Johnt1997 wrote: ↑2 months ago
I have twitter and so called 'indie twitter' loves to shit on them for some reason. Matty Healy does say some fairly controversial things about the band but i don't understand the hate at all
I noticed it on Rateyourmusic too, they underrate the band and just label them commercial. Some mainstream music band are truly as close to shit as can be, don't get me wrong on that. "Look what you made me do" by Taylor Swift comes to mind.
But in the case of The 1975, it's that Cain and Abel pattern that we see at play, people who criticize them have comes to idealize the underground music they usually listen to, so much that the minute a band becomes famous, well they're not special anymore, because those people define themselves as different from those people who would listen to the 1975, they're more edgy, more intelligent, have better tastes in music you see.
And a lot of them are probably musicians who wish they had made it but failed, depiste the fact that they knew all their scales and could play jazz no one had ever heard of at the speed of 150BPM, the fact that those guys who put out seemingly easy pop songs get famous is unfair to them, and they hate that this is even the norm in our universe. So even if they secretly like the band, they'll viciously destroy it.
This is what I meant by a Cain and Abel pattern. I heard stories about how indie music lovers wetting their pants over Jeff Buckley's songs... until they realize who it was and how insanely famous he was. All of a sudden it was complete shit and look at that cover! He looks like the member of a boys band! Lololol:
So yeah, it's just one of the darkest aspects of human nature, it's resentment, envy and jealousy at play.