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https://insights.spotify.com/us/2015/04/02/loyalest-music-fans-by-genre/
Phil Collins is a seriously great drummer. He's also written some very good songs - and a lot of utter tosh. Sadly the tosh was generally more successful, so possibly that qualifies me for being snobby...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I have to say I quite like nickelback, not enough to buy an album etc, but enough that I will enjoy listening to a track if it's on TV, the radio. It's pretty generic hard/dad rock kinda stuff, but it's well crafted, well played and so on. It represents the shallow end of music to me, but is not inherantly bad.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I don't think anyone should be the absolute arbiter as to what is cool musically and what is not. A lot of music that is considered cool now takes its influences from a lot of bands and genres that were (until the modern influenced band came along) not considered cool at all. I think Wild Beasts are superb and they are steeped in unfashionable 80s influences. Vampire Weekend mixed African guitar music, Fleetwood Mac, and early Pink Floyd. Fleet Foxes channelled CSNY. Beirut used old brass band music from the Balkans! This is what music should be: inventive, interesting, wearing their love of music on their sleeve, regardless of how "cool" it's considered to be, and heartfelt.
On the other hand, you get a lot bands who are scene-chasers, trying to sound like the latest thing: as an older example, The Libertines (who I think only had one-and-a-half good albums) have a lot to answer for, with all the crap bands who tried to sound like them. A lot of this is driven by lazy A&R/record companies, though. That way, you get needless music "scenes", and it all gets a bit 'Nathan Barley' Shoreditch beard-twitch-hipster-twatty.
There is no objective standard of "cool" in music, it's what sounds good or not to you. I don't hate Coldplay, Supertramp, Starship or whoever because they're not cool, it's because I think they make terrible music.
A lot of what I listen to might be considered cool by some people, but that's irrelevant. I will happily have 'Maggie May', 'Jump' (Van Halen) and 'The Impossible Dream' on the same playlist as Ringo Deathstarr, Twilight Sad, Donny Hathaway and Public Service Broadcasting, because it all sounds fantastic, irrespective of any bullshit "cool" factor.
Fuck music snobbery. Fuck it in the ear.
My confessional: I'm a snob too, despite knocking snobs earlier.
I have never liked Prince. I will readily admit he was probably a genius in terms of songwriting, bits of his guitar playing are astonishing, I probably even own a few songs he wrote without knowing it. But I just can never own records by someone who wears heels like that. (It's his whole image really.)
Though I would never shun anyone who's a fan of his. That's what the OP is complaining about (I hope).
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Being derivative is an accusation that can be made of just about any band. And if it's derived from or a cliché of something good (presumably you consider Nickleback to be an evolution of Bon Jovi/Aerosmith style rock) then it's not the music itself that's the problem, just that it came after other bands that did a similar thing.
I dunno about the lyrics criticism - I only know a couple of songs (the "This is how you remind me..." one and Rockstar) and they seem to have fairly well-considered, narrative lyrics to me. A lot less barmy than the Killers (who I also like).
Their music is uncomplicated, maybe, but "shit" seems like unfair criticism.
Now that's seriously uncool!
Thanks for today's ear worm. I know what I'll be listening to in the next 10 mins!