The internet is a bandwagon. Once an opinion or joke goes viral, people latch onto and repeat it ad nauseam until it stops making sense. “Chuck Norris is strong and cool.” “There was enough room on that raft for both Jack and Rose inThis is especially true of music takes, where a widely held opinion can become the indisputable truth of the hive mind. If internet snarkers think your music sucks, your music will objectively suck now. No amount of good faith analysis can change that perception.
Like most things that spread on the internet, these takes aren’t always well-informed, and many of these “worst artists of all time” aren’t really that bad at all. Here are some acts we think people are being a little too hard on.It’s time to accept the fact that The Chainsmokers were a defining musical act of the mid-2010s. The preening, douchey, Brooklyn, Ken-doll-looking motherfuckers were the voices of their generation whether we like it or not.