Usually people who love music want to like to write about music they love (for me that would be bands like The Velvet Underground, Oasis, & The Flaming Lips.) But sometimes it’s fun to talk about bad music. In fact in some ways it’s more fun. And it’s certainly much easier to find. Just check out MySpace music to see what I mean. The worst thing to me is that some of the absolute most horrible music I’ve heard on MySpace is also the most popular.

Hollywood Undead has to be the greatest example of this. They are incredibly bad and even more incredibly popular. I know it’s nothing new for “the kids” to love crap music, but I think Hollywood Undead just takes that concept too far? At least most of the awful music of the past had at least some redeeming value. Sure Milli Vanilli was cheesy but their songs were catchy and had some good production values.

But they certainly are not all alone in the big world of awful music.

How about country pop singer Dierks Bentley? Have you heard this fluff? He’s incredibly awful. I had heard his name before but had never checked out his music before as I have no interest in country pop but one day I came across his latest single “Feel That Fire” and I was just floored because it was so much worse than I thought it would be. And that’s saying quite a bit because I assumed it was be flat out terrible. But no, it’s much worse than that.

It’s no big deal that guys are recording awful music. There’s nothing new about bad music. The big deal to me is that so many people actually think this is good music. Why is that? Why are people just so incredibly clueless about what constitutes quality?

The easy thing to blame would be American Idol. And I’m sure that does have a part to play. It’s taught people that the only thing that matters in music is having a pretty voice.

But I’m sure it must go much deeper than that. After all, it’s not like people liking bad music is an entirely new thing. The masses are always attracted to the easy to swallow garbage that usually fills the top forty every week. And it’s the real music that real music lovers listen to and that lasts for years.

Obviously no one will be listening to anyone from American Idol or Dierks Bentley in 50 years (except out of pure nostalgia or as a joke) while people will still be listening the music of true musical artists like Ween & The Rolling Stones.

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