Just Wondering...

[thecookieateu]

I literally joined this site one day ago. Now, I was looking at the some of the comments on the Boys Like Girl profile under the news aritcles and whatnot. And I have a simple question:

What changed from the bands start to the present time that caused everyone to start bashing them?

And, I am sincerly, just curious. It just seems with a lot of bands on this site that when they start out new, everyone says, "They're going to be huge," or, "The album is amazing." And that's not necessarly the case. It's just, some of it seems like that.

So,

My question for you is what changed with BLG that now, people can't tolerate them? Is it that they continue to tour while the album gets very old? Is it that now they are attracting twelve year old girls because they are getting mainstream?

I'm just curious. Please don't bash me. I just think it's interesting in a way.

[googirl8907]

Most of the people that hate BLG (or bands like that in general) never liked the band to begin with.

[guitarpickheart]

I liked their song "The Great Escape", but that was only for a little bit, and only because one of my friends recommended it to me.

[chipdip18]

On this site you will learn and find out about so many artists who are better than radio-friendly pop-punk like Boys Like Girls and you will look back and wonder why you even liked them. I don't mean that in a mean way, it's just fact. You find better music.

[absolutecrunk]

Eventually you find out that listening to music altogether is arbitrary. Hang out in the music forum and you'll stop completely.

[chipdip18]

I haven't reached that point yet, but he's right.

[Make-upxStained]

Because when they released The Great Escape, everyone caught on; it had a very catchy chorus.
The radio over-played it until enough people went out and bought the album.
Fans of this newly played band get home, listen to the cd, and realize there is nothing special about them.

Yep, my opinion. =]

[AP_Punk]

we hate music here.

[versus_god]

Music is none of my business.

[Genuma]

Please don't bash me.

[thesafeword]

I'm just throwing it out there that BLG-esque bands were never good to start.

[fadedmemories]

for me, I grew tired of their album, I used to really like them

[Regards]

Music doesn't mend broken hearts, hate and a lot of salt does.

[fadedmemories]

making a song with that girl from nickelodeon doesn't help what's left of their reputation here either

[guitarpickheart]

hahaha yeah.

[kearn1tm]

On this site you will learn and find out about so many artists who are better than radio-friendly pop-punk like Boys Like Girls and you will look back and wonder why you even liked them. I don't mean that in a mean way, it's just fact. You find better music.

Fuck that mentality. This is an absurd line of logic.

I've begun to earn a dubious "elitist" reputation along myself, and I listen to the "vanguard of music" that is heralded on this site, yet I still enjoy shitty Pop Punk and awful Metalcore from time to time.

It's not as though you find a copy of Blonde on Blonde, Hex Enduction Hour or Loveless and immediately forget why you had such an affinity for Take This To Your Grave, Deja Entendu or Tell All Your Friends. You can enjoy the most meaningful, introspective and subversive works of contemporary music and truly "get" them, but that doesn't eliminate the occasional need for something simplistic, fast and fun.

I still gravitate toward Pop Punk, varying from fun to contrived and horrendous, and I recognize that I have a need for something substanceless from time-to-time, as well as still understand why, when I was 14-18, I loved that music to the extent I did. There's absolutely no need to eliminate guilty fun from your diet altogether.

[3mpire]

The Great Escape is a pretty good pop track. The rest is no way as good.

[SanePsychotic]

Eventually you find out that listening to music altogether is arbitrary. Hang out in the music forum and you'll stop completely.

:lol: I hope this doesn't happen to me for quite some time, but it's believeable.

[chipdip18]

Fuck that mentality. This is an absurd line of logic.

I've begun to earn a dubious "elitist" reputation along myself, and I listen to the "vanguard of music" that is heralded on this site, yet I still enjoy shitty Pop Punk and awful Metalcore from time to time.

It's not as though you find a copy of Blonde on Blonde, Hex Enduction Hour or Loveless and immediately forget why you had such an affinity for Take This To Your Grave, Deja Entendu or Tell All Your Friends. You can enjoy the most meaningful, introspective and subversive works of contemporary music and truly "get" them, but that doesn't eliminate the occasional need for something simplistic, fast and fun.

I still gravitate toward Pop Punk, varying from fun to contrived and horrendous, and I recognize that I have a need for something substanceless from time-to-time, as well as still understand why, when I was 14-18, I loved that music to the extent I did. There's absolutely no need to eliminate guilty fun from your diet altogether.


Not exactly what i meant, i should have clarified. Obviously you'll go back to those records that you loved when you first got into Pop-punk then later into other stuff, what i really was hinting at is that you don't continue looking for artists of that same radio-friendly genre because you usually already fill of pop-punk that you want and need. So you could go back to that genre and wonder why you ever really loved it or liked it. I used "them" as a reference to Boys Like Girls.

[Machu505]

Boys Like Girls suck.

[thesafeword]

But your avatar/headline combo doesn't.

[Machu505]

But your avatar/headline combo doesn't.

:highfive: