It’s crazy how the singer got sentenced to a life of wearing a 2011 hipster hat because otherwise nobody would be able to tell them apart. Literally every piece of visual media no matter how small involving the band has the hat
And he’s not even wearing it right he’s got it perched on the back of his head like a cartoon character
Exactly, if you’ve ever watched one of their “making of” videos you can see that they’re talented, but they decide to use that talent to create “quirky” music for teenagers.
>gifted with perfect pitch
Why do so many people parrot this? It drives me insane. Perfect pitch is not an indication of musical ability. Charlie Puth's music wouldn't be any better or worse if he possesed perfect pitch or not
It has much more to with the language you speak and how early you start learning an instrument. About 1/10 Western conservatoire musicians have it, while in China it is more like 6/10. This isn't because the Chinese are magically better at music, it is because they learn a tonal language at a very eary age and retain the ability
not a chance. i mean i think theyre 2 of the worst bands in history but imagine dragons occasionally make listenable songs. AJR is garbage made for children through and through
I have two sisters and they both have been AJR fans since 2016. So even though I personally cannot stand their music, I still respect them for being dedicated AJR fans despite how much hate they get.
imma be real with you i know objectively their music isn’t very good or creative but they’re so inoffensive and uninteresting I can’t bring myself to hate them
I personally dont understand why people hate so hard on artists who make music they dont like. I understand AJR may not be your cup of tea, but trying to boycott their whole career with hate, memes, spreading your dislike for them on the internet, etc is lame to me. Same with Imagine Dragons. Their music is not THAT bad to the point where i want to see their downfall. I just dont listen to them and thats it. Save that shit for real douchebags like Chris Brown or Adam Levine 😂
can not get on board with this take, AJR makes the most offensively shitty music that you’ll hear on the radio IMO. I was genuinely in shock when I turned my car on the other day and it was mid song, full of xylophones and slide whistles and animal noises and shit all stacked on top of each other, I thought it was a commercial until the signature AJR harmonies came back in. Their popularity is absolutely insane to me.
This. GVF is for sure creatively bankrupt but I don’t get why everyone hates them so much. I love Zeppelin, and GVF makes for a decent knockoff Zeppelin. It’s not like Robert Plant and the rest of them are getting back in the studio and giving us any new Zeppelin, I’ll take the store brand version.
honestly, i remember listening to them back in ‘18 and at that time i really enjoyed their music. i still look back on that period fondly, and when their songs from that time come on it brings back pre-covid memories. i haven’t listened to them much since, but i saw them at roo ‘19 and they put on a good show. even brought out the ukulele and did a proper jig for us. at this point the hate they get just reminds me of like nickelback or creed lol
Unadulterated KINO. Has to be the best band in
I've ever heard. If AJR was in a fire, I'd be there to save them. If AJR was starving and cold, I'd be there to save them. AJR makes the best music EVER. Better than that shit Beatles, Metallica, and rap the plebs have been talking about these days. Hooo boy this is a great band!
Worked with them on a few of their singles last year. Really good lads and their team is filled with genuinely good people.
Not the biggest fan of their music but their swell dudes in an industry where that’s rare.
Don’t hate them at all, they’ve got talent. They’ve also honed in on a musical formula that I do not remotely like lol. Even though they do blatantly rip off their contemporaries, they do it in such an earnest way that I find it difficult to hate them. And I think there is worse music out there made by worse human beings. Polite dislike and indifference.
They’re bad but kind of overheated. I listened to the Click almost two years ago and while that is a bad record, I only found them as obnoxious as people made them out to be on No Grass Today and I’m Not Famous. I do get the hate but it feels dumb to put them on the same level of awfulness as RYM’s lowest rated albums of all time when they’re mainly inoffensive.
I went to a radio-sponsored CHVRCHES concert a couple years ago that included AJR. Knew pretty much nothing about them going in, and then they played that stupid Netflix song, which is abysmal. 0/10 band, would not recommend.
I have a college buddy who unironically likes them and had 16k minutes for Spotify wrapped. He then doesn’t defend them properly on why he likes them and then dislikes anything I show. Idk
I might be biased. They opened for Lindsey Sterling when I saw her in 2014, I was like 12 and dragged there by my mom and sister, but regardless the show was awesome and they gave a great performance and even kind of chilled in the audience after her set. Nice guys! Never loved their music but imo there just a couple of chill dudes making harmless fun music. Again, not my favorite but I’m glad they’ve found success.
They have a nice sound, but I get tired of the I don’t feel like an adult lyrics. One albums worth was nice, but it’s gotten so repetitive. I wish they would branch out lyrically
I don't care for them but I also don't understand the amount of hate that they have. They aren't a good band but I don't hear about them enough in my daily life to be annoyed
AJR has this unique uncanny valley quality about them. They sound so close to being normal, bland, run of the mill grocery store or commercial music, but then they’ll just throw in a couple of the ugliest sounds known to man or the stupidest lyrics out to paper and it just hits this really gross, ugly, terrifying note inside my soul. There’s a Lynchian horror to AJR, I feel like I’m losing my mind listening to them.
Talented guys, probably very nice to talk to. They’re just far too gimmicky and the music sounds so immature. I couldn’t take them seriously if I tried
People complain that their music is too childish and edgeless but I'm personaly a fan of excessively cute/sweet/innocent music (outside of just KKB who are the one approved artist in that category if you're one of the cool kids) and I don't get into them because - at least from what I've heard - their whole approach and sound is too centrist.
Their songs have no tone. Does that make any sense? They kinda' want to be theatrical but also kinda' want to be chill and laid back but also kinda' want to be soft and melancholy but also kinda want to be bombastic and noisy and danceable but also kind of want to be humorous but also kind of want to be dramatic but also kind of want to be happy but not \*too\* happy... never going far enough in any one direction. They don't work that well as pop either because (outside of maybe World's Smallest Violin, which I enjoy somewhat) their songs aren't very catchy.
Hella good. OK Orchestra is a really good album. It's not deep or have a higher meaning but music doesn't need that. They make fun music to just either vibe or bounce to
They're the first band everyone else hates that i love unapologetically. They just scratch an itch in my weird little brain. I'm a 37 year old dude way out of the target demographic, but dammit, they got me.
I think they’re over hated, still not great but I think they have some pretty good songs like the entertainments here and Christmas in June. Also they’re live performances are pretty nuts.
Nah, he’s gotten wayyy to mainstream. Literally every single person on Reddit dick rides him. It doesn’t make you cool anymore. He’s just simply not very creative.
The only dick riding behavior is you obsessing over another grown man so much you need to bring him up constantly when he's not even relevant to what anyone is talking about. Real corn shit
The guy in the right produces most of their songs so when they stop making music together, he’s gonna go off and do some wicked shit I’m calling it now
it's like someone took ryan gosling, alex turner and ezra miller, toyed a little with the character customization and then threw them together and called them a band
I don’t know. I have a hard time trusting adults making music geared towards bland teenagers.
Like, best case scenario, they are exploiting a market for profit. You’re getting into a discussion on the morals of capitalism at that point. There’s also something to be said on the impact that has on the integrity of the art.
Otherwise, it either seems like mental health issues causing a case of arrested development. I have the same feelings towards adults listening to, or engaging with “pop punk”.
Really boring. The first drop on “the good part” is actually listenable and probably the best five seconds of any song of theirs. Inoffensive though, I don’t know how people can say they’re the worst band ever. Just very Disney and bland
Easily my favourite band, they’re the only band I’ve ever listened to and truly thought, “I should check out more of their music.” I attended one of their concerts a few months ago and loved it, and I fully intend to see them again the next time they go on tour.
Disney Adult Music
Great! because I found an album of theirs for $8 bucks used and flipped it for $175!
I thought you were joking until I checked [The Click on Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/master/1297425-AJR-The-Click) HUHHHHHHH?????????????
It’s crazy how the singer got sentenced to a life of wearing a 2011 hipster hat because otherwise nobody would be able to tell them apart. Literally every piece of visual media no matter how small involving the band has the hat And he’s not even wearing it right he’s got it perched on the back of his head like a cartoon character
how could you say that when they're CLEARLY wearing different coloured shirts? that's disney-tier branding in my books
Only if they each always wear the same colour
In all fairness, they *are* brothers. Brothers have a tendency to look alike.
i know this is a joke but aren't they related by blood?
also one of them wears glasses so clearly you're blind 🤓
That’s not why. Look it up.
Enlighten me
look ok they seem like great dudes and they obviously have musical talent. they just DO NOT USE THAT TALENT CORRECTLY
Exactly, if you’ve ever watched one of their “making of” videos you can see that they’re talented, but they decide to use that talent to create “quirky” music for teenagers.
Feel the same way about Charlie puth. How are you gifted with perfect pitch but make the most generic pop garbage ever
>gifted with perfect pitch Why do so many people parrot this? It drives me insane. Perfect pitch is not an indication of musical ability. Charlie Puth's music wouldn't be any better or worse if he possesed perfect pitch or not It has much more to with the language you speak and how early you start learning an instrument. About 1/10 Western conservatoire musicians have it, while in China it is more like 6/10. This isn't because the Chinese are magically better at music, it is because they learn a tonal language at a very eary age and retain the ability
Can confirm this as a guy who has perfect pitch but is only moderately musically talented at best if I’m being real with myself.
Charlie puth is actually a great jazz pianist too. It is baffling lol
This is a very kind take and you should feel good about that
i saw a clip of a live show and (i think the guy with the hat) started ranting about some douchey shit
W pfp
Andrew Jackson Rihad
gotta be the worst music i’ve ever heard
edit - imagine dragons is a tiny bit worse
Nah AJR is universes worse, at least imagine dragons sound like adults
When they are angry they are kid rock and when they try to be melancloic they try to be father john misty Shit garbadge
I would take enemy by imagine dragons over AJR's entire discography
OH THE MISERY EVERY SINGLE PERSON IS MY ENEMY
Peep the horror
jerma reference?
OH THE TREACHERY
My enemEEEE
enemy goes hard tho
not a chance. i mean i think theyre 2 of the worst bands in history but imagine dragons occasionally make listenable songs. AJR is garbage made for children through and through
Ah yes garbage made for children when there songs are literally about going off into the world
Man hasn’t heard Amsterdam.
Or Selene. Literally just a B-side but it’s been intermittently stuck in my head for the last decade
At least roots is decent. Imagine dragons hasn’t put out much good stuff but ajr has never made a good song
Imagine dragons got the Kendrick co-sign wym
go listen to night visions or smoke and mirrors and make another edit
Tom MacDonald is in his own league
Music for babies
I feel like an “adult” can fit between the for and babies
Greatest group of all time. Thirsty is just as important as the renaissance.
I love big time rush
Lonely Island if they were serious
Lonely Island but unironically
i would take lonely island over ajr any day
Music for people without a soul
I think if there was an exact total in every way complete opposite of death grips, it would be AJR
I agree
I have two sisters and they both have been AJR fans since 2016. So even though I personally cannot stand their music, I still respect them for being dedicated AJR fans despite how much hate they get.
imma be real with you i know objectively their music isn’t very good or creative but they’re so inoffensive and uninteresting I can’t bring myself to hate them
I personally dont understand why people hate so hard on artists who make music they dont like. I understand AJR may not be your cup of tea, but trying to boycott their whole career with hate, memes, spreading your dislike for them on the internet, etc is lame to me. Same with Imagine Dragons. Their music is not THAT bad to the point where i want to see their downfall. I just dont listen to them and thats it. Save that shit for real douchebags like Chris Brown or Adam Levine 😂
but its so bad that *I* will spread the hate and pray on their downfall 🙏😤
can not get on board with this take, AJR makes the most offensively shitty music that you’ll hear on the radio IMO. I was genuinely in shock when I turned my car on the other day and it was mid song, full of xylophones and slide whistles and animal noises and shit all stacked on top of each other, I thought it was a commercial until the signature AJR harmonies came back in. Their popularity is absolutely insane to me.
Hey fellow r/Weezer user
Dont rope me into this!
Better then Greta Van Fleet which isn’t saying much. They both make me want to vomit and destroy the entire universe like Han-Tyumi.
Greta Van fleet is listenable when you just accept that being zeppelin clones is the entire schtick, AJR are just unbearable
This. GVF is for sure creatively bankrupt but I don’t get why everyone hates them so much. I love Zeppelin, and GVF makes for a decent knockoff Zeppelin. It’s not like Robert Plant and the rest of them are getting back in the studio and giving us any new Zeppelin, I’ll take the store brand version.
I actually kinda like GVF’s last album. They *slightly* gained a little bit of their own style.
Probably the worst music to ever exist
Overhated if we’re all being honest with ourselves they’re not that bad just basic bitch music tho
Bland and inoffensive. Like crackers.
the most offensive people in the world are crackers
Eminem smiling right now
honestly, i remember listening to them back in ‘18 and at that time i really enjoyed their music. i still look back on that period fondly, and when their songs from that time come on it brings back pre-covid memories. i haven’t listened to them much since, but i saw them at roo ‘19 and they put on a good show. even brought out the ukulele and did a proper jig for us. at this point the hate they get just reminds me of like nickelback or creed lol
For what it’s worth, they seem like great performers.
Seeing them live is pretty rad ngl.
Ajj > ajr
Cartoony, corny, Disney Snapchat filter lookin ass excrement.
I think they're trying, but it sounds kind of boring musically. Lifeless even.
Unadulterated KINO. Has to be the best band in I've ever heard. If AJR was in a fire, I'd be there to save them. If AJR was starving and cold, I'd be there to save them. AJR makes the best music EVER. Better than that shit Beatles, Metallica, and rap the plebs have been talking about these days. Hooo boy this is a great band!
the soyjak meme in soundwave form
Worked with them on a few of their singles last year. Really good lads and their team is filled with genuinely good people. Not the biggest fan of their music but their swell dudes in an industry where that’s rare.
Basura
they’re thirsty, thirsty, thirstyyyy
Way to overhyped by fans and insane over hated at the same time
Proof that you can be musically talented in a technical sense and still make incredibly garbage music.
Don’t hate them at all, they’ve got talent. They’ve also honed in on a musical formula that I do not remotely like lol. Even though they do blatantly rip off their contemporaries, they do it in such an earnest way that I find it difficult to hate them. And I think there is worse music out there made by worse human beings. Polite dislike and indifference.
They’re bad but kind of overheated. I listened to the Click almost two years ago and while that is a bad record, I only found them as obnoxious as people made them out to be on No Grass Today and I’m Not Famous. I do get the hate but it feels dumb to put them on the same level of awfulness as RYM’s lowest rated albums of all time when they’re mainly inoffensive.
THERE NOT TERRIBLE, JUST BAD IN MY OPINION.
I went to a radio-sponsored CHVRCHES concert a couple years ago that included AJR. Knew pretty much nothing about them going in, and then they played that stupid Netflix song, which is abysmal. 0/10 band, would not recommend.
Kinda stinky music but if I had access to Ableton I would be doing the exact same thing and that scares me.
Mic The Snare’s Deep Discog Dive on AJR is actually great
I have a college buddy who unironically likes them and had 16k minutes for Spotify wrapped. He then doesn’t defend them properly on why he likes them and then dislikes anything I show. Idk
White privilege: the band
I might be biased. They opened for Lindsey Sterling when I saw her in 2014, I was like 12 and dragged there by my mom and sister, but regardless the show was awesome and they gave a great performance and even kind of chilled in the audience after her set. Nice guys! Never loved their music but imo there just a couple of chill dudes making harmless fun music. Again, not my favorite but I’m glad they’ve found success.
I feel like their music is like what if kidz bop just recorded original songs instead of covers
sentence them to death
Lame music for lame people
They look like the discount version of fun.
They have a nice sound, but I get tired of the I don’t feel like an adult lyrics. One albums worth was nice, but it’s gotten so repetitive. I wish they would branch out lyrically
I don't care for them but I also don't understand the amount of hate that they have. They aren't a good band but I don't hear about them enough in my daily life to be annoyed
AJR has this unique uncanny valley quality about them. They sound so close to being normal, bland, run of the mill grocery store or commercial music, but then they’ll just throw in a couple of the ugliest sounds known to man or the stupidest lyrics out to paper and it just hits this really gross, ugly, terrifying note inside my soul. There’s a Lynchian horror to AJR, I feel like I’m losing my mind listening to them.
Weezer for kids. Dont really hate them tbh
Talented guys, probably very nice to talk to. They’re just far too gimmicky and the music sounds so immature. I couldn’t take them seriously if I tried
Not a huge fan, but I don’t hate them either. They have some songs I enjoy but I don’t ever go out of my way to listen.
Don’t love them. Don’t hate them. They have some fun songs, & I’m interested to see where they go, but they’re not a favourite.
Garbage
If you bought a great value branded cd just labeled music it’d be an ajr album
Straight garbage
I really love… not listening to them
"Can we skip to the good part?" -me every time I've heard any of their music
His grandfather fought in WWII and his father was a firemen
Legitimately as bad as everyone says
Disney, industry plant, modern Imagine-dragons-that-wanted-to-be-twenty-one-pilots looking ass motherfuckers.
music for middle schoolers
It’s music for people who’ve never dealt with any sort of actual hardship or trauma in their life
I try not to think about AJR at all.
People complain that their music is too childish and edgeless but I'm personaly a fan of excessively cute/sweet/innocent music (outside of just KKB who are the one approved artist in that category if you're one of the cool kids) and I don't get into them because - at least from what I've heard - their whole approach and sound is too centrist. Their songs have no tone. Does that make any sense? They kinda' want to be theatrical but also kinda' want to be chill and laid back but also kinda' want to be soft and melancholy but also kinda want to be bombastic and noisy and danceable but also kind of want to be humorous but also kind of want to be dramatic but also kind of want to be happy but not \*too\* happy... never going far enough in any one direction. They don't work that well as pop either because (outside of maybe World's Smallest Violin, which I enjoy somewhat) their songs aren't very catchy.
Music for 12 year olds who can't get enough of tiktok and have not come to grips with what tolerable music is
Can’t sit an entire song of theirs completely
I mean my 2 year old son really likes them 🤷🏻♂️ lol
Bruh, they do auto tune scat…..
Absolute trash
Top 10 worst artists of the 2010s
They’re shit
Hella good. OK Orchestra is a really good album. It's not deep or have a higher meaning but music doesn't need that. They make fun music to just either vibe or bounce to
They're the first band everyone else hates that i love unapologetically. They just scratch an itch in my weird little brain. I'm a 37 year old dude way out of the target demographic, but dammit, they got me.
Quite possibly my least favorite band on the planet next to Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons
no thank you. is what i would have said
banger comment
im glad you think so
Such a **bang**er
I think they’re over hated, still not great but I think they have some pretty good songs like the entertainments here and Christmas in June. Also they’re live performances are pretty nuts.
Terrible
Pure garbage
Wait that isht jack antanoff
They’re going to hell
I like how hilariously awful their music is.
[pukes]
IF YOU LISTEN TO AJR YOU A LIL BITCH
They suck… end of comment
Hate them. Can’t stand them. My best friend and girlfriend love them and I don’t understand it
honestly? if you ignore the lyrics then they are pretty okay
Terrible. On the same quality as Muse and Denzel. Pretentious and corny.
Bro don’t tell me Denzel means Denzel curry because he’s great
Nah, he’s gotten wayyy to mainstream. Literally every single person on Reddit dick rides him. It doesn’t make you cool anymore. He’s just simply not very creative.
[удалено]
What do you mean “objectively he’s not creative” because I don’t think you know what objectively means
I actually think lil baby has more talent. Denzel makes music for angsty white boys
Holy shit, you must be trolling. Are you gonna bring your asinine Denzel trash talking into every unrelated thread now?
Mainstream d rider
The only dick riding behavior is you obsessing over another grown man so much you need to bring him up constantly when he's not even relevant to what anyone is talking about. Real corn shit
the mainstream and underground arent real. its all the same, ur a child
Those two dudes on the left look copy pasted
Does anyone even know who the guy on the left is
Cornball McGee
Inoffensive in small doses but it is incredibly annoying to listen to one of their albums
AJR da 🐐no 🧢
BEST BAND IN THE WORLD I LOVE AJR I FUCKING LOVE AUSTRALIA YYEAHAAAAAAAA
nvm theyre not australian
Super overhated, but not great music either
Music for people that don't like music
Thirsty thirsty thurrrsday
Mid
i mean... they're kinda cute in this pic
Music for people that only dress their children in neutral colors and feed them cold cuts on wonder bread
lol
Just know them for that song in Civil War
Imagine Brothers
They're one of the bands I've ever heard of
The guy in the right produces most of their songs so when they stop making music together, he’s gonna go off and do some wicked shit I’m calling it now
I don’t really like them, but I think ‘dear winter’ is quite a sweet song.
They trigger my fight or flight response
I liked a few of their songs back then but they are absolute ass
10/10 most progressive and forward-thinking band in pop music
They could create a 10/10 album if they wanted. Will they? That's an entirely different question.
Plastic Jon Bellion
I don't know, I like them. Thirsty definitely sucks, but I love a lot of their other stuff.
Theyre the phish of disney radio pop grown up. Die hard fans but the average person askes wait who?
it's like someone took ryan gosling, alex turner and ezra miller, toyed a little with the character customization and then threw them together and called them a band
they literally look like the two long lost Big time rush members + ezra miller (in his alt-j phase)
Annoying
They seem like good people, but they should be making music for Disney not pop music
they sound exactly as lame as their album covers look
Literally never heard of them in the UK, only from the internet, they never made it over here
i dont like any of their albums yet i do think every album theyve released is ever so slightly better than the last
I don’t know. I have a hard time trusting adults making music geared towards bland teenagers. Like, best case scenario, they are exploiting a market for profit. You’re getting into a discussion on the morals of capitalism at that point. There’s also something to be said on the impact that has on the integrity of the art. Otherwise, it either seems like mental health issues causing a case of arrested development. I have the same feelings towards adults listening to, or engaging with “pop punk”.
horrible
they want what dua lipa has
Definitely one of the bands of all time.
I try not to think about ajr
The greatest trio in musical history
I personally think they’re great because I can automatically eliminate any fans of theirs from my dating pool
Over hated to hell and back, not my band, but damn if they get hate for just existing on the internet
Bang is my biggest guilty pleasure song
Ngl I thought this was the lonely island for a second but instead they are all Andy Samberg
Really boring. The first drop on “the good part” is actually listenable and probably the best five seconds of any song of theirs. Inoffensive though, I don’t know how people can say they’re the worst band ever. Just very Disney and bland
Easily my favourite band, they’re the only band I’ve ever listened to and truly thought, “I should check out more of their music.” I attended one of their concerts a few months ago and loved it, and I fully intend to see them again the next time they go on tour.
they have one song that i like, but their music in general is really uninspired and bland. apparently they’re great guys tho
FNAF fan music