Bands Popularity, bands popularity Options

[tarutaru]

i was wondering if you like it when your bands become too popular??

to me its a pester because alot of the wannabes act like they know the band and stuff after one song...such as my chemical romance and their song "im not okay"...you wont believe how many wannabes talk about my chemical romance now because of their one song "im not okay" even tho they been around for like 3 years!? first album came out like in 2002 or something...so what do you think about the question ^...just wondering if im the only one with this opinion hahah

[comeupon]

My Chemical Romance has actually been around for about 4 or 5 years if not more actually, I don't listen to manstream so I could really care less, most people havnt heard the band I listen to so they think im weird. I guess not following the crowd isnt cool anymore.

[heyyfrankie]

wait, what?

[sammi rules you]

I HATE IT OMG

like i listened to maroon 5 like almost 2 years ago..and now EVERYONE is all "omg maroon 5!!" OMG IT PISSES ME OFF! and they're like "oh have you heard them? they're so good, they're my favorite band!" and i'm like "loser, i was listening to them sooo long ago" uuugh.

[iheartsimba]

yah i agree. it sort of ruins it =/

the huge popularity only lasts for a week or something till their "old".
then its like your a loser for lsitening to them or something?

i agree with sammi too >.<

[*tweeak*]

no, i hate it when the music i listen to becomes mainstream. modest mouse is not new. theyve been around for a long time, but they were only played on the radio after float on, so now lots of people like them, and it pissed me off, because i listened to them for a long time. and now theyre playing the shins on the radio. what the hell?? no! stop it! i swear, if they start playing the postal service...

[yupimchuck]

no, i hate it when the music i listen to becomes mainstream. modest mouse is not new. theyve been around for a long time, but they were only played on the radio after float on, so now lots of people like them, and it pissed me off, because i listened to them for a long time. and now theyre playing the shins on the radio. what the hell?? no! stop it! i swear, if they start playing the postal service...

they already play the postal service here.

it kinda bothers me... but whatever.. i could strangle the people... because theyre stupid....
i try not to let it get to me

[*tweeak*]

damn

[comeupon]

Haha hasnt modest mouse been around since the early 90s? I remember reading somewhere that they won "Best New Alternative Band" I started cracking up at people who actually thought they were a new band.

[*tweeak*]

seriously. stupid people. they have a ton of cds out. i only own 2 of them, but they definitely existed before 2004

[comeupon]

Looked through a couple of my vinyls and found this.

Modest Mouse - Do you Connect? EP 7" - 1994

Wow what a great new band

[*tweeak*]

yes, most definitely

why are people so stupid? pay attention! not that i want everyone to listen to good music, its not fun anymore once every idiot does, but do they have to act quite so ignorant??

[miszkristinexox]

i hate it.

oh yeah especially my chemical romance. ive been listening to them for a long time now and everybody is just like "OH MAH GOSHZ MCR!!!<3333 IM NOOTTT OH EFFING KAY!!!" I HATE IT! drives me nuts.

yeah so whenever im listening to my cd player i dont let any of my friends listen to it. cause they will start going " OH MAH GOSHERZ!!!!!......"

they already play the postal service here.

your kidding me!!

if they start playing postal service here im going to go crazy.

[LeSLiE]

Yea I hate it. I've listened to Blink 182 since Buddha came out. Now since their new album.. and Feeling This came out, all of my friends are obsessed with Blink. It gets on my nerves..

[Heathasm]

haha wow it pisses me off when people think they are cooler and know more because theyve listened to a band longer than you

[comeupon]

Ehh I dont listen to the radio so I dont have to listen to crappy bands like the postal service. Ok well maybe theyre ok but im just not into them. The Postal Service is actually pretty mainstream in big cities because of constant TV play and Fuse.

[JlIaTMK]

i despise this

i hate how people all of a sudden rushed toward evanescence after my immortal and their sudden mainstreamness. I hate how people are like, OmGzROs I tOTrALiLy LoVeS <3 thEirS MUSIC!!!!! <333
when they dont understand what its about at all.
That's what happens when music turns mainstream. :/

[jr0h]

yeah it annoys me with green day. i mean its been A FREAKING LOOOOOOOONg time that green day has been around but now that american idiot is getting so many attention everyone is like saying oh i love green day that new band that just got popular. ughh...

[DisneyPrincessKa...]

I think that if a good band works hard they deserve to become famous. Who cares how many people just like one song or like them because it's cool. If their music changes and you don't like it just listen to their old cds. They deserve it.

[CloudUnionX]

yeah it annoys me with green day. i mean its been A FREAKING LOOOOOOOONg time that green day has been around but now that american idiot is getting so many attention everyone is like saying oh i love green day that new band that just got popular. ughh...

Actually, green day has been popular for awhile, this isnt their first time to be on the radio or to be popular. Whoever said that their a new band is an idiot.

But anyways, I dont really pay attention to any mainstream, unless a friend plays the radio in the car or something, but ya, I hate mainstream very much. I listen to a large variety of underground music.

[D1SMANTLED]

i first began with good charlotte. their first cd was totally AWESOME. then teeny boppers came into the scene and ruined it. They brain-washed GC, and now they're total sell outs. then i moved on...

...to fall out boy. sure enough, they're on the road to total stardom and popularity. along with stardom and popularity, attracts teeny-boppers who are only into them because they think the guitarist/vocalist/drummer/bassist etc is hot, and swooning over them just because of one song they like.



so i really hope that any good bands dont go mainstream, cause once they hit the mainstream, thats just like the kiss of death.

[miszkristinexox]

dude these people are just now listening to green day and blink 182 ? weirdos..


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D1SMANTLED- your sig and layout is lovely.<3333333 senses fail [my favorite band] you should think about submitting it when your done

[D1SMANTLED]

dude these people are just now listening to green day and blink 182 ? weirdos..


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D1SMANTLED- your sig and layout is lovely.<3333333 senses fail [my favorite band] you should think about submitting it when your done 

OMG. THANKS!!

and nuh-uh! I AM NOT SUBMITTING NOTHING.

JOCKERS!! JOCKERS!!!

yeah.... it increases my chances of getting jockers. i hate them.

but i LOVE senses fail too!!

[*tweeak*]

um, actually, your chances of getting jocked increase if you dont submit, because then theyll just steal it becuase they want it

[banddorko]

i know what you mean... i started listening to my chemical romance and modest mouse about last novemberish, and now everyone is like "OMFG I SAW THEM ON FUSE <3!" same thing happened to coheed and cambria, and is currentally happening to senses fail and the early november....

[D1SMANTLED]

OH NO!!! NOT SENSES FAIL!! OH NO!!! NOT EARLY NOVEMBER!!!

[weirdness]

I HATE IT OMG

like i listened to maroon 5 like almost 2 years ago..and now EVERYONE is all "omg maroon 5!!" OMG IT PISSES ME OFF! and they're like "oh have you heard them? they're so good, they're my favorite band!" and i'm like "loser, i was listening to them sooo long ago" uuugh.

Cha. It happened to green day too >______<;; and Bowling For Soup. When 1985 came out everyones like its their fave band even though they've only heard one song -___-;; Sorry to the people who actually really do like bands before they get popular and then TV and teh radio makes them popular and stuff.


They're like 'OMGOMGOMG DEYRE LIKE SOOOO COOL JUZ CUZ DEYRE LIKE SOOOO POPULAR AND IM LIKE SUUUCHHH A WANNABEEEE CUZ I ONLY LIKE GREEN DAY CUZ LIIKEKE THEY MADE IT ON MTVVV OMGOSH'

Well I'm exagerating but whatever.

[comeupon]

OH NO!!! NOT SENSES FAIL!! OH NO!!! NOT EARLY NOVEMBER!!!

Senses Fail is already mainstream, just not cross country as bands like GC and Green Day and such. I bet if you go to a big city such as Chicago or New York and visit a large high school about 70-80% of the students will say they like, have heard, or hate Senses Fail. Unless its one of them ghetto schools, I dont think they listen to Senses Fail

[miszkristinexox]

Unless its one of them ghetto schools, I dont think they listen to Senses Fail 

they play the early november on fuse now? NOOOOOO!

[xxruinedsoulxx]

i hate it. i get really pissed off. some even say, "like you own them" and i'm like, "i listened to them before you did"

[D1SMANTLED]

i hate it. i get really pissed off. some even say, "like you own them" and i'm like, "i listened to them before you did"

but what if they really did?

[RandomHero]

haha wow it pisses me off when people think they are cooler and know more because theyve listened to a band longer than you

I agree with you.. *points to quote* and secondly Green Day has been Green Day for 15 years. Just thought I would point that out to you newbies.

[KissMe2408]

yah def kinda ruins it for me. Like I used to listen to Switchfoot years ago, and now their "dare you to move" song became popular and then everyone started liking them. Same with the band Chevelle...

[*Kathleen*]

I agree with you.. *points to quote* and secondly Green Day has been Green Day for 15 years. Just thought I would point that out to you newbies.

I knew that! And I think I'm one of the few people that actually know Dookie was not their first album. But yeah, as for the topic...it irks me when one of my favorite bands goes mainstream. Call me selfish or whatever you want - I hate it when thirteen year-old girls walk around my school saying, "OH MY GOD I LOVE BILLY TALENT!" *Cough* Well, not Billy Talent [yet], but with My Chemical Romance...

[jackofcak]

oh ya everybodys always like "Oh, Em Gee Coheed and Cambria sucks why are you so obsessed with them." 99.9% of the time they've only heard A Favor House Atlantic, their worst song. And I've been listening to Weezer, a band thats been around almost 15 years, for 4 years, and everybodys like "Ya BEVERLY HILLS THATS WHERE I WANT TO BE!" and they act obsessed with them when they've only even heard one song...

[b0st0ngrl]

Yah, I HATE it. Like there was a concert and the opener was one of my favorite singers (Bonnie McKee) and no one had ever heard of her, then the next day at school, everyone was like OMG SHE WAS SO GOOD I LOVE HER!!!!1!1!!!

[sadolakced acid]

i don't care.

it just means people won't go 'huh" when i say my favorite bands.

then again, my favorite bands are mainstream.
but oh well.

sucess is kind of the goal of every band- so it's kind of given that if a band you like is good, they'll probably want to be mainstream.

[nopattern]

^Yeah. I've learned to get over it. It's not the biggest deal in the world. Sure, it can be annoying, but at least bands you like are making it big. And when you think about it, most bands don't stay popular forever.

[vehvih]

You people can't do anything on how the audience react to the popular/mainstream bands just leave it alone. And I'm not one of those audience who is like "OMFG!!! I sooo love blahblahblah" just because they're popular and shit.

I don't really care if any of my favourite musicians become popular or are popular. I care about the music they fcking make.

Best thing to do is support your music/band.

Music is freedom.

[angelrevelation]

i agree it does ruin it, since lots of ppl just like certain bands because they're popular. but it doesnt mean i hate the band just because they become popular, unless that becoming popular makes them change their sound to more mainstream style... i guess...

[banthisaccountno...]

Yeah, it's pretty damn annoying.
Although the only band I can come up with that I like that a bunch of kids ruined is Green Day.

[distortedMIND]

I knew that! And I think I'm one of the few people that actually know Dookie was not their first album.

I don't think Dookie was their first album. Try "1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours". (I may be wrong. hah. oh well.) and I also think that Kerplunk was earlier than Dookie. T_T

I don't really care. I've been listening to My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and Relient K LONG before they got on MTV. They gained new fans because of their popularity? So be it. The band should be proud...and the true fans should be proud too.

[Unfold]

yea that really pisses me off too

like howie day for instance. his song collide. people now are like "OMFG I SWEAR I LOVE THAT SONG" and his was around since like 2002 when his first album came out "australia"...i went to a howie day concert not too long ago and i swear i was the only person there who knew all the words to his songs...

[do0kie]

i hate when really good bands go popular. it's happened to lots of bands i like. a really good example is good charlotte...their first cd was amazingly good..the young and the hopeless (which got them popular is alright), and their newest cd just plain sucked. i hate how they have all these teenybopper fans now,and how their music has changed for the worse. my chemical romance is going down the same path....they have a debut album which was awesome, that hardly any of their new "fans" even know about..they have a good 2nd album, are #1 on trl, and now tons of teenyboppers are obsessed with them just because of helena and i'm not ok. i love mcr though, and i really hope their 3rd cd doesn't suck like good charlotte's did. fall out boy is also getting way too popular too fast. sugar we're going down is super overplayed, and now people that never liked them before are obsessed. it's a shame about green day..they've been around for 15 years..and most people have no appreciation for their older(better) stuff. i mean i guess bands deserve to get all the success,but it usually(not always), has a negative effect on their music.
other bands i see this happening to(sadly): relient k, senses fail, and hawthorne heights

[sadolakced acid]

^ the young and the hopeless is targeted at teenyboppers.

mayhaps why people think these bands are ruined by popularity is they grow older, and find they like the music less. However, the older music they used to like, and will still like out of nostalgia. when presented with music targeted at the same age group- the one that they have grown out of- they will find it worse than the songs they already knew.

[vehvih]

^true when I was young .. I memorized many songs of Spice Girls and I would lip synch [sp?] to Backstreet Boys

I stopped listening to those [duh]. And right now, I listen to a variety [fav. ones are indie,alterna,electro] of rock music.

[Unfold]

i agree to what happend to good charlotte, i loved there first cd but when the young and the hopeless came out...ick. I went to a concert of theirs 2 years ago and they were filled with 12 years running around..sheesh

[hiromi]

Yes. It's been happening to Dir en grey... now their music is nothing like their indies music, not to mention that the quality of their recent songs just lacks something....

[R-Mac]

This has been happening to me for a while.. The earliest I can remember is Saves the Day and New Found Glory, but yeah, I've gotten to the point where I don't care, I will just drop the band and get a new one. I am NOT LOYAL to the bands I listen to at all. I'm trying to change this about myself, but meh, why try to go to a FOB show when you know a thousand of screaming girls will ruin it for you?

[PinkTrash]

agreed; i hate it too. I was listening to the latest green day albulm like last october to november; and only in 2005 did it get all mainstream and popular. Now, everybodys obsessed with the albulm and suddenly worship these guys..

[yummy_delight]

Sometimes. I don't like when people say that they "love" a band only because they're popular. However, if someone truly happens to enjoy the band's music regardless of popularity, I'm cool with that.

If an indie band I love hits mainstream, I'm not going to stop listening to them. I'm actually glad that they're getting the attention they deserve by being signed by a major label.

[ParanoidAndroid]

Same here. I got so offended when these preps were singing I'm Not Okay in a mocking way (but they tried to act as if they're worshipping them). They don't know the REAL work of My Chemical Romance so they should just shut the f*** up..

But if I were a REAL fan and REALLY loyal for the former Underground bands, I would still support them. Just because they went mainstream, it doesn't mean I'd betray my loyalty and leave. That's really not something a true fan would do... Unless you're much more loyal to the underground world than the band itself...

[swe3txprincesz]

I hate when bands go mainstream. I have to admint, i usually stop listening to them, when they do hit it. or usually i'll just play over their old songs. rock is getting pretty big now. i guess some mainstream bands would have to be...
-fall out boy
-taking back sunday
-greenday
-my chemical romance
-senses fail
-the used
-the starting line
-the all american rejects
-relient k

...and a few others.

[gotahemmi55]

i guess I kind of like it when a band I like becomes mainstream, because then at least I can talk about them with other people. I don't have to just listen to them alone, or try to force them on my friends. Like this band called "Ra".

They came out about 2000, with a great cd entitled "From One". I bought it, and couldn't stop listening to it, it was a really solid debut cd.

This year they just released their second cd, called "Duality". And with hit singles "Fallen Angels" and the Police cover "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" it's the 3rd best selling rock cd right now.

My friends actually want to hear these guys and I can talk about them too, and they want to know more about them, so I think it's cool that Ra went mainstream, hopefully you guys hear them soon as well!

[WhiteLotus*]

Mainstream bands start to suck after they've been overplayed on KIIS FM and MTV. I don't like it, so I start listening to their older stuff more, like I did with Green Day.