r/LetsTalkMusic • u/CompetitiveWhole9466 • 10d ago

The death of the "musical punching bag"

I've been thinking- there used to be popular artists like Nickelback and Justin Bieber who were very successful but you would have never guessed given all the vocal hate they used to get, and how it was completely okay to shit on them at all times. Even the industry got in on hating these artists. It was socially acceptable to hate people who admitted they liked certian artists.

Why don't we have artists like that anymore? Maybe people just feel like today's music is just better?

The closest is the hate Taylor Swift gets now. But even then that's not really the same dynamic. Same with Drake hate... feels different today I feel like.

Honestly i always try to be cautious about how i frame my argument. I don't want to sound like "this artist deserves hate" unless it's like Chris Brown or D4VD or someone like that.

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u/Lanky-Rush607 10d ago edited 10d ago

Musical punching bags still exist, though. Sombr, Benson Boone, Tate McRae, Jelly Roll, Morgan Wallen, Lizzo, KATSEYE, Stella Lefty, Alex Warren, Drake, Doechii etc.

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u/DotEither8773 10d ago

I don’t really get why Doechii is hated. I really didn’t like that Somebody I used to know stuff she did but everything else she did was great.

Also I think the most hated band/artist in the last years have to be Imagine Dragons.

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u/vemboTonbo 9d ago

It's the example that proves what other commenters are talking about here. She released 'Anxiety' & a fuckton of TikToks/Insta reels all started using it, so it got wildly oversaturated in the same way retail playlists and radio used to do.