Most Overrated Music Star?

[thesshhh]

Who do you think is the most overrated music star ever? For me it has to be Elton John

[nailit]

//McCartney is definitely overrated. Since the Beatles split up it's difficult to see anything that was particularly good//

As I said earlier, I thought he was much better with Wings. All very subjective O-G

[-Talbot-]

Band on the Run
London town
Wings at the Speed of Sound


All good albums.

[Old_Geezer]

"I hate the colour pink"
so opted for the default pink icon ;-)

[nailit]

Not to mention The Frog Chorus Talbot :-)

[-Talbot-]

Yeah, let's not mention that :0/

[CrapAtCryptics]

Adele - the same droney voice on everything she sings.

[melv16]

Jayne MacDonald can't even sing.

[naomi24]

I wouldn't mind being able to sing like her.

[Kathyan]

Has to be Rod Stewart for me.

[1ozzy]

The music "stars" I think are most overrated are those that have more ego than talent.

Kanye West running for potus 2020.
Well, after Ronald Reagan, a couple of Bush's, then Trump, who knows.

[snags]

Chris Martin/Coldplay for me too.

Talbot: ''I have 4 or 5 of their albums''

It took you 4 or 5 albums to realise? Well done for persevering.


For me: all the musical stars/bands I don't like are overrated.

[kvalidir]

Kanye West talantless irritating oaf.

[1ozzy]

Kvalidir, couldn't agree more, but, some people buy his " music ".

Poor ***.

[1ozzy]

*** me...

"S. odds" is a really bad swear word on AB?

Well, I'll be ***

[237SJ]

Lilly Allen (that's if anyone does actually rate her)

[andy-hughes]

As usual, people are offering their personal taste, as against answering the question.


In essence, it is possible for a musician or band to be very highly rated, as in critically acclaimed, rather than commercially successful, but not actually be worthy of that acclaim.

So using those parameters, I would have to cite Frank Sinatra, because I believe his famous 'phrasing', and very few people actually know what that means, is not really all that, and I find a singer like Matt Munro to be technically more skilled as a vocalist.

I have no personal axe to grind, I am not a fan of either singer or the genre, so I can be objective about acclaim based against actual ability, and in that, I find Sinatra seriously wanting.

[gulliver1]

Boris Johnson.

[kvalidir]

No I think Kanye West is technically and artistically sh 1 te Andy, otherwise I'd have agreed with Paul McCartney who sets my teeth on edge, Taylor Swift who I intensely dislike and Coldplay who are smarmy schmaltzy pop ( but very good at it).
I think Kaye West thrives on the 'cred' he's built up and is seriously wanting in his genre.

[gulliver1]

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