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Hot Take: I think Bright Eyes sucks
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:08 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman I've never been able to take Conor Oberst or his fans seriously. What is this garbage people call music? Fact: this guy has an awful voice and can't sing in tune. His fans things his atrocious singing somehow makes it more deep or powerful. It doesn't. It's literally just bad singing.
Secondly, nothing he has ever written approaches anything resembling concrete songwriting. There are never any cohesive melodies or riffs. There isn't really anything going on in his songs besides his bad singing and some basic chords.
Conclusion: since Bright Eyes is atonal garbage that cannot be called music in any way, I believe that the people who like him are the types who read all the lyrics and form a bond with the poetry, but don't actually have any type of ear for songwriting or melody or timbre, because Bright Eyes literally sucks and you have to print out all the lyrics and read along because you can't actually listen to this shit.
To be fair, the lyrics are also trash and none of it is deep or meaningful in any way. It's just garbage. |
Date: January 29th, 2023 1:09 AM Author: naked hunting ground dragon I consider myself a scholar of rock music and I like Bright Eyes. Not so much for the content of the lyrics but more for the overall feeling. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856849) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:10 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman Explain it like I'm 5 I clicked on 20 songs and couldn't get through any of them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856854) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:11 AM Author: naked hunting ground dragon I don't know, if you hated it I probably won't convince you, but IWAIM, Lifted, and Digital Urn are all great albums. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856859) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:14 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman Don't take it personal. I think I hate every conceivably aspect of this music. I can't change. The problem is me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856871) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:15 AM Author: naked hunting ground dragon It's cool, man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856875) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:22 AM Author: Racy Immigrant Address You had to listen to it before 2008 man. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856906) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:26 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman This is a dumb take. What other music do you have to listen to at the time but gets worse over the years. Afaik The Beatles and Miles Davis haven't depreciated. Who from the past only sounded good at the time? Great music is eternal bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856917) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:43 AM Author: honey-headed doctorate school there is some truth to it. music exists in cultural contexts and evoke imagery or aesthetics of an era. for bright eyes specifically if you were a fan of it it back then it just brings up imagery that paints a picture of the era it came out in and your own life, personality and aesthetic during that era that may have been similar to that of the artist or song. it doesn't get worse over the years for that person. if anything it gets better because of nostalgia.
whereas for someone who didn't hear it during the era it came out it might not have the same emotional impact. that's why if you show a modern person a Beatles track they often will say it's corny or boring. they weren't taking road trips while high to festivals to watch the Beatles. or listening to them on records after school in their bedrooms. |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:45 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman I love almost every song the Beatles ever wrote. I heard Bright Eyes when they came out and thought it was trash then too.
Odds you have developed an emotional attachment to something that simply sucks? |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:56 AM Author: honey-headed doctorate school most of what I said above is about the emotional attachment people have to music that came out at a certain time and cultural contexts that they experienced along with the music. so yeah a lot of people have emotional attachments to music most people agree is horrible like women in their 20s-30s now with Bieber and emos with emo/screamo bands.
the point is that emotional attachment is an actual factor in how people perceive music, which is why lots of people don't' like the beatles despite them having objectively good melodies or miles Davis because the lack of emotional impact outweighs the music being technically sound
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Date: January 29th, 2023 2:05 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman You sound like a huge faggot. 'The important thing in the music isn't the music itself but what outfits they're wearing.' Oh, the cultural context! It was what other people cared about at the time. It was like, the vibe. Fuckall whether the music was good (it's not), it's my enduring emotional attachment to a time and place! You're a fucking follower dude. Go vote for Obama or something because it's the 'zeitgeist' thing to do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45857012) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 2:06 AM Author: honey-headed doctorate school no but fr the vibes were hitting in I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, perhaps Bright Eyes' best work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45857018) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 2:08 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman Wide Awake by Katy Perry definitely a better song than that crap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45857024) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 2:15 AM Author: honey-headed doctorate school Wide Awake is one of her last good songs, with the exception of the recent Cry About It Later. But her true calling was in bubblegum pop of the late 2000s in her Teenage Dream album.
I think I can see why you brought up Wide Awake though, because it's a perfect put-down response to the obviously pretentious, contrarian and hipster Bright Eyes, as it's by a pop star who is usually derided for her music, yet has a reflective backing track and a sad emotional depth to it as a self-aware examination of her then already fading pop music career. |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:09 AM Author: cyan rigor lodge didn't read (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856850) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 8:31 AM Author: Sooty Church Building Ladyboy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45857416) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:09 AM Author: white cerebral round eye Never heard of them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856851) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:11 AM Author: Racy Immigrant Address Conor Oeberst, Lead singer of New Found Glory’s side project (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856860) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:17 AM Author: white cerebral round eye Ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856882) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:13 AM Author: honey-headed doctorate school this was an extremely popular opinion when his music was still relevant in 2000s to early 2010s. I also shared it at one point but would still listen to a few of his songs. The prevalent opinion was that he was a pussy, girls liked him for his hair and sensitive indie looks and demeanor, and that he tried to seem fake deep with his excessively wordy lyrics. I think I remember reading something about him trying to kill himself many times as well and that adding to the pussy narrative.
Now in retrospect I like him more, even though I haven't listened to him in ages. Probably because of nostalgia. His music reminds me of an early 2000s indie movie like eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:13 AM Author: naked hunting ground dragon last stand of white identity and all that... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856868) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:15 AM Author: Racy Immigrant Address (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856876) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:17 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman One cool thing he did was get falsely accused of rape by a mentally ill woman who was lying and he had to go to court to exonerate and counter sue. He helped move the Overton window on believe all women, although men being falsely accused and having their lives ruined by lying women got exponentially worse, he was the bellwether. The sad part of this story is he donated his lawsuit winnings to victims of sexual abuse. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856884) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:15 AM Author: up-to-no-good rambunctious theater stage potus Agreed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856879) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:19 AM Author: naked hunting ground dragon I find their music and that whole time period and scene very poignant as a "path not taken" for our country. Kind of the last gasp of white alt indie rock music. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856891) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:22 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman What about Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, or The Shins?
I'm not a fan of this entire mopey genre, come to find, but I think they're all more listenable than Bright Eyes. I really can't get past the strained singing out of tune and the total lack of melodic structure. |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:25 AM Author: up-to-no-good rambunctious theater stage potus Bon Iver’s first album is legitimately very good, but everything else is mopey garbage, CR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856912) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:28 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman Fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856924) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:25 AM Author: naked hunting ground dragon Bright Eyes is very memorable and distinctive. I can't remember one song from the other 3. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856913) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:30 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman Jackson Pollack is memorable it doesn't make him as good as Picasso (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856929) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:32 AM Author: naked hunting ground dragon Ok but I don't think Bon Iver, etc are exactly Picassos here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856937) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:33 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman 180 I agree. They are very 155. Bright Eyes is 120. Being memorable and 120 makes you I guess George Floyd or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856942) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:25 AM Author: honey-headed doctorate school Bon Iver is mainstream popular even to this day, but his new experimental music is trying to keep up with hip hop and doesn't compare to his early music
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:27 AM Author: honey-headed doctorate school That last gasp ended in 2012 in my opinion. By 2013 it was all over (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856919) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:29 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman (Guy listening to An Awesome Wave and Lonerism going, 'this is it... this is the end of the line.') (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856928) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:38 AM Author: Beady-eyed Charcoal Gay Wizard 2000s indie was the last stand of non-are country american white culture so it will make it in the history books. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856957) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:39 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman Sup Wayne Coyne (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856961) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:42 AM Author: Beady-eyed Charcoal Gay Wizard thoughts on bright eyes slaughtering the bpd jewess menace avant le box?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_jLuHq_Kcg
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:43 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman ESL?
This song blows and hurts my ears |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:45 AM Author: Beady-eyed Charcoal Gay Wizard give it another try reading the lyrics knowing it's winona ryder (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856968) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:47 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman I don't read the lyrics unless the music is already good. Took me 10 years of listening to High and Dry before I read it was about a motorcycle accident. Lyrics = overrated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856974) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:51 AM Author: Beady-eyed Charcoal Gay Wizard ok? im not trying to convince someone to be a bright eyes fan 18 years ago.
now the kids just listen to soundcloud rappers or whatever |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:57 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman What's that. Never heard of it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856987) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:55 AM Author: Electric Cream Laser Beams Psychic I never liked Bright Eyes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856984) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 1:57 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman Thank God (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856988) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 2:00 AM Author: Electric Cream Laser Beams Psychic At The Drive-In won that scene. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856996) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 2:03 AM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman Eh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45857003) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 2:00 AM Author: adulterous turdskin cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45856997) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 8:35 AM Author: milky frozen nursing home preventive strike Lol at posting this screed in 2023 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45857420) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 4:39 PM Author: Turquoise Corn Cake Karate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45859371) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 4:39 PM Author: Appetizing fishy national sound barrier i read this thread, dropped iwaim on my turntable, videotaped the spinning record to poast for u faggots
THEN
listened to a few tracks
realized i am very GAY
took a massive bong rip and put on led zepp ii and felt better |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 7:23 PM Author: Opaque school cafeteria black woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45859901) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 10:36 PM Author: Beady-eyed Charcoal Gay Wizard ok boomer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45860749) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 4:58 PM Author: Turquoise Corn Cake Karate hes a great songwriter. CO and mystic valley band >> bright eyes old stuff >> bright eyes new stuff (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45859446) |
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Date: January 29th, 2023 5:03 PM Author: exhilarant lilac voyeur Never heard of this guy. Only clicked cause I thought OP was talking about Total Eclipse of the Heart. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5279931&forum_id=2#45859458) |