Maybe Michael Jackson for being pedo.

I've met so many people who hate Meatloaf. I think Bat out of Hell is a top 10 album.

Probably Nickelback. I'm no fan, but they seem to get the most hate of anyone just for being mediocre.

I think I only really know two Meatloaf songs, and I'm not particularly fond of either of them.

Oh, well because you know two songs I guess I'm just wrong.

Ghost comes to mind. I’ve never had a problem with them and a lot of their songs I think are pretty good. Seems like they get shit on a lot though.

Have anything to read about them? Never even heard of them

Gotcha. Ghost is a metal pop concept band, where the front man is an ongoing chain of satanic antipopes (while still being the same dude in face paint). Only they are all really bad at converting the world to Satan worship on account of doing the actual work is no fun, and what's the point of being the satanic antipope if you aren't gonna have fun.

Sounds great! Only...
Metalheads are like "this isn't metal" and they're kinda right. Its pop music, but metal and satanic.

Also, the front man may have fucked over his bandmates, or maybe not, depends really. I'm inclined to say his behavior may have been shitty, but that's something you should work out beforehand.

your wrong, because I know more then 2 of his songs and Bat out of Hell is lame. Even by 1970s standards.

The songs are good. The person was a POS that I'm glad is gone. Sadly. So many musicians of that era are maga turds.

I love ghost. Great songwriting and their mixes are fuckin solid (Andy Wallace of course)

Yeah, but I'm talking about the music. If we only listened to music from good people we wouldn't have much to choose from.

So lame that it went 14 times platinum.

I can’t listen to Ghost because someone said they sounded like Scooby-Doo chase music.

boomers and bad taste, the winning combo

Seconded. They make good music and seem to have fun doing it.

Exactly.

Calling Michael Jackson "not that bad" is a bit of an understatement, though.

I really like their cover of Avalanche, originally by Leonard Cohen.

At least in the thrash scene, Anthrax gets shit on a lot for being part of the Big 4, however I fucking love them, even though they had a period where every release was dogshit. Their early stuff is peak thrash, which is good because nowadays they mainly stick to playing their early stuff. Still deserving of their position. Though sometimes I wonder if it should be a Big 5, including Exodus, who were one of the first.

Yeah, because only boomers have bad taste. 🙄

Eh, everyone does that to some degree. Not enough time in the day to keep up with everything. I've gone years without knowing an artist I liked did something bad. Even longer if it's an artist I don't like!

Hating them is a meme I guess. I don't mind them.

Imagine Dragons. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is:

They picked up hate for being marketed like they're some kind of super hard rock, even though they're not. But their music is good for the genre it is. The lead singer was raised Mormon, but is now an activist for LGBT youth.

I mean people like Chris Brown and Kanye both make themselves hated for things outside their music. Then there are people like Prince who would act like they were all high and mighty and have his staff tell everyone to not look him in the eye or even look at him. Was his music good, sure... But if someone told me not to look at him I'd mark it as a red flag and not buy his shit.

I think the whole hating on Nickelback started with people who thought Nickelback was the best band in the world. They're like the most average band in the world. They're not bad, but they aren't particularly good either.

I agree. They have some solid songs, especially the ones with lyrics dealing with more serious subject matter. But they're just not amazing either.

I don't like them because there's no singer, just a guy screaming in an auto tune cranked to 10.

I don't mind their one song. But that's the thing, they only have one song (they all sound the same).

Lana Del Rey?

I think her music is OK but she got a lot of hate for pretending she was raised poor when in reality she is a trust fund nepo baby (I think?)

I think it's clear now that, at least in America, everybody pretends to hate pedophiles when in reality they could not give less of a fuck

Comedy Central destroyed Nickleback. There was a comedy special or show, I don't remember. Anyway, they promoted the show with a clip from a stand-up bit that was at Nickleback's expense. I you watched The Daily Show, or South Park, you would have seen that ad a hundred times. After that, liking Nickleback was an embarrassment.

What follows is my bad recollection of the joke.

People say that music can incite violence and I think that's true because every time I listen to Nickleback I want to hurt.... Nickleback.

For me it's "Photograph." Such an aggressively sappy and mediocre song. Every time I hear it, it reminds me of an essay I would have written on the bus on the way to school in 6th grade.

I kind of like "Never Again", it's a bit heavy-handed but it's got crunchy guitar and the message is good, don't put up with abusive shit.

Taylor Swift, the modern version. She used to be a genuinely talented singer songwriter but has gone way too far into the popstar life. I remember her playing solo songs on an acoustic guitar, and she was good.

Rick Astley

What? Rick is beloved.

I'm sure "most hated" has already been covered, so I'll go farther down the list and pick one that's a little hated and IMHO more than "not bad": Crash Test Dummies.

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm gets clowned on by people who remember it, but (1) it's pretty good, and (2) CTD's first three albums are full of super catchy folk-pop-rock with decent lyrics. Some of the third album, and then subsequent stuff gets deeper and deeper into Brad Roberts' then-current interests and generally doesn't grab me, but more power to him.

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm itself was undoubtedly picked to be sonically polarizing and grab more attention than some of the slightly less "Crash Test Dummyish" tracks.

The "Don't look them in the eye" rule is as misunderstood as Van Halen's removal of brown M&Ms.

When famous people have to navigate through hallways, etc., they have to pass others, and many people try to get their attention, so they can say Hi, tell them how much they love the artist, etc. Perhaps they just want to catch their attention and smile.

That artist is a person, like anyone else. They have a lot on their mind, and they are probably trying to get somewhere, to do something, and they are concentrating on that. They don't want to have to stop for every person, smile, say Hi, hear about how important they are, yadda yadda. They just want to get on with their thing.

Think about how you would feel if you had something important on your mind, with other people counting on you, and waiting for you, and you have to stop and act polite with every random stranger who wants to interact with you, so they can go home and tell everybody. Is it any wonder why celebrities are late to everything?

So they tell their staff to keep people from bothering them, and the easiest way to do that is to simply prohibit anyone from trying to look them in the eye. Obviously, if the VIP approaches you, asks you questions, looks you in the eye, that rule is off.

The M&M thing was because VanHalen had the biggest stage rig ever at the time, and they needed specific electric, lighting, etc. qualifications. They would arrive, and find venues inadequate because the venue didn't bother to read the contract. So they started adding the M&M thing so they knew as soon as they walked in the door if the venue had read the contract. If there were brown M&Ms, then it meant that the venue either hadn't read the contract, or had decided to ignore whatever clauses they felt like. Either way was a broken contract problem.

They're basically Dark ABBA

Dudes staff would message everyone who would would be in his vacinity at award shows to tell them not to look him in the eye. He's not performing, he's sitting in the stands. Sounds more like he was on the spectrum and couldn't cope with people well.

Ignore this human they are clearly suffering from a psychotic episode.

the acclaimed actor?

Varg Virkenes / Burzum.

Litteral neonazi makes decent black metal.

Well, I don't know about acclaimed, but he did some acting. I liked him in Black Dog, but I think he wasn't really acting in that one.

Suno probably though technically it's neither.

I read somewhere once that their agent would book them at any festival that would accept them. That lead to them getting booed a lot where they didn't match the rest of the lineup. People began to anticipate them and became a heel type character to avid concert goers.

That sounds like something people would say about their dogs

Anthrax has some really great stuff. But as you said, you have too tread carefully through their catalog. When they are good, they are amazing... When they are bad, they are really bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlLn0UicWrM

Totally agree.

Top comment on the vid hits the nail on the head.:
"Big 4 summary
Slayer: Fastest and Heaviest
Megadeth: Most technical
Metallica: Largest impact
Anthrax: Thrash that makes you want to grab a beer and have a party."