Why are there so many people who dislike One Direction?

Personally I just dislike manufactured pop, especially when it is put together by a reality TV show. I don't doubt they have talent, but they just ain't my cup of tea

 

no real reason apart from their Crap :eek: hides

 

Personally, I can't stand their voices, and their backing music is just as grating to me. Musically, they're just not my thing, I guess. Plus that "What Makes You Beautiful" song comes off as way too condescending and pandering for me to enjoy it.

 

I dislike their attitude, the fact that they have no talent, and the media makes a lot of unnecessary fuss on a select two. Apparently Harry Styles can't even go in a bookshop without making the front page.

Where it not for the fact that they were popularized by many teenage girls, Justin Beiber style, they would have zero success, many far more talented singers got less media attention because they don't have the looks. With all due respect 1D is like 5 Justin Beibers rolled into a Beiber Bun. They can sing, but they can't sing that well.


Just my 2 cents

 

They have talent, but I don't the sound of their music. I like bubblegum pop, and yes, I did like some of their 'older' music, from early to mid 2012, but now they're just singing about sex. :/

 

I really don't like their songs or their voices. Literally every single Korean pop boy band I've listened to (even the ones I don't like) sounds better to me than One Direction. I'm just not a fan of western pop music in general, so that may be a factor.

 

I like them. They're not my favorite, but I certainly don't mind the music. I'm a big fan of "to each his own." I'll listen to whatever catches my ear, and they've done it a couple times with their songs. However, some obscure musicians and everyone in between have done this to me as well.

As for people getting crazy about One Direction being over-sensationalized for profit... Yeah. They are. Its been that way for a while for a lot of acts. Fame is fleeting. The buzz about them will die down, and the industry will move on to the next big thing for everyone to either love or complain about.

Point is, people are going to love or dislike whatever they want and so should you.

 

I like some of their stuff , but I dislike some of it also. People always say they "hate" someone for no real reason. I don't know they do it , but they do.

 

I hate over manufactured boy bands. And their music sucks in my opinion. I just do not like them at all!

 

Well i like their songs What Makes You Beautiful and One Thing but i never really love them. I Love Cher Lloyd and i think she should have won The X Factor

 

They may be cute, but they talk about girls and love, which annoys me. BUT if I see the true side of them like meeting them in person and they have a great personality, I will change my opinion.

 

And long before we were born the Beatles were real popular so a TV show was created with some guys they found and they called them the Monkeys, to make money off the boy band long hair fad. It was one of the many that were fake, but they may have had talent, and girls payed to see them.

Disney has done this for individuals, groom them to be pop stars from childhood. Mickey Mouse Club in 1950s had some who became pop idols as teens and young adults. And this continued with icons like Britney Spears didn't it?

Most music we know of historically had been altered to be cool and sell better. Bing Crosby, Elvis Prestly...many many others you have heard about had their own voice style, and were redone and made extremely stylized to gain money for their managers.

It is a good rarity I think today to find a band or singer who write their most of their own songs and got together on their own and have not been makeover much...and are good.

 

I just don't like their music. I think the lyrics have no thought put into them, it's pretty much just the same love crap rephrased over and over to appeal to brainless teenage girls. The music itself is usually pretty bad. They have alright voices, but their voices aren't really my sort of taste.

All the best.

 

Are you sure?

 

Generic pop, which deserves indifference at the very least, and scorn because people miss out on truly great music while listening to this instead. Same for Bieber, same for Green Day, Lady Gaga, Nickelback, Ke$ha, basically anybody the play on the radio that isn't pre-1990* No reason they should get undue hate though. I do think they sound better than most commercial groups, and I've got a small thing for Louis too, so there's that lol.

*If you wish to contest my generalization of old music being 100% better, I'm open to it. It just makes things easy.

 

Talent, they ain't got it

 

I tend to be neutral on most all of these types of bands/artists. Their stuff isn't really for me, but I find people who make a personal hobby out of hating them to be flatly annoying at the same time.

 

I'm not quite sure what your point is - just because something has, of course, been in the past doesn't make it any better or worse.

EVERY band is 'stylised' in some way, no matter how obscure or famous they are. Most of the time, it's to make themselves more appealing, and that may or may not involve money (the majority of bands/artists make a sort of music that really can turn a profit). It's about how see-through/meaningless/bland/whatever that image is and that is where some pop music fails. I wouldn't say One Direction fall into that category - their music is simply shit and like the music of so many other artists, isn't made to be pushing the boundaries or being at all interesting.

And I'd certainly disagree with that last point.