Even if you don't like them, they're still the most popular artists today
Sebastian Flores
Kinks is so underrated, Arthur is one of my favourite albums
John Lee
Overrated as hell desu. The Beatles suck dick btw.
Tyler Bennett
dont forget lostprophets
Zachary Johnson
>Pick exactly and only the ones that are mainstream today
contrarian edgy teenager spotted
Bentley Hernandez
t.musically retarded
The songs those singers shit out are so fucking bland and talentless it hurts and the majority of them don't even write their own songs.
The other singers the OP listed at least made creative and different things.
Luke Martinez
Being the most popular is not being the best. Worldwide popularity of British music is due to Anglo dominance in the media post ww2, thanks to USA.
If you look for the most important musicians prior to mass media, you'll hardly find any English speaking person, but loads of German, French and Italian people.
Mason Hill
Same story for the older singers, singing about love for pop songs and wild & free theme for rock songs, all the same. Adele and Ed Sheeran can actually sing, no? Also Ed Sheeran doesn't seem like someone who doesn't write his own songs.
Jason Carter
>no Joy Division >no Radiohead >no Pink Floyd >no Stone Roses >no Chameleons >no Bowie >no PJ Harvey >no Deviants >no This Heat >no Killing Joke >no Autechre >no Aphex Twin >no 808 State >no Iron Maiden >no Led Zeppelin >no Kate Bush >no Gang of Four >no LFO shit list tbqh
Isaiah Nelson
The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved. In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.
Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial products like the Beatles. At such a time, rock critics will study their rock history
Dominic Wright
>Prodigy not mentioned
O deary deary me
Brayden Clark
I agree with the themes though I feel like pop music is ALL about love these days whereas there seemed to be a bit more variation with the older singers but musically they were a lot mroe creative, often played instruments and the instrumentation was decent. These days you just need a simple slightly catchy melody for the chorus and the rest is filler, just there to lead up to the chorus, and the lyrics are just some shit like 'baby baby yeah oh come on baby'.
Adele has a very boring voice, she can sing but it's nothing interesting, she's only famous because of her one catchy song she did and now everyone worships the fat bitch. Ed Sheeran does seem like someone who writes his own stuff but still does generic music.
I'm a very musical person, always been gifted with it, play bass guitar and keyboard along with some other instruments and learn new ones really quickly but fucking hell I feel like music is everywhere now to the point where your desensitised to it and it's just background noise, especially how shit modern music especially pop is.
Samuel Baker
>freddie mercury
Kek
Justin Fisher
>ywn take Ian Curtis by the hand
David Clark
>Adele >Ed Sheeran >Sam Smith but those are shit ps: George Harrison is the only good beatle
the list can go on and on OP got lazy i guess
Brody Nguyen
>and Ed Sheeran can actually sing you don't really believe this do you? this has to be a troll
Asher Robinson
>tfw shitpost about their fallen empire and le brexit meme 24/7 while listening to 90% brit music
I love my life so much
Carson Gutierrez
But does the UK have Kayne?
Luis Hill
>Shania Twain >Celine Dion >Drake >Leonard Cohen >Joni Mitchell >Neil Young >Arcade Fire >Alanis Morissette >Justin Bieber >Rush
don't be so modest
William Martinez
Sud america has better singers
See >shakira >maluma >j balvin >luis fonsi
De Spa Thito
Ryder Turner
Future president of the united states
Nolan Rodriguez
France has objectively better singers See >MHD >sofiane >Jul >Booba >damso >Nekfeu >Kaaris >PNL
Andrew Kelly
>not mentioning ac/dc or the ramones
Noah Bailey
normie garbage
brits were good at music until 2007 or so after that its been totally garbage and broken
Jordan Sullivan
Inglorious, darkness and the struts are good
Elijah Brown
The Beatles suck dick lad
The rest is good except Adele. Can't stand that whiny fat bitch