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If Taylor Swift goes ska that’s just pulling an inverse Gwen Stefani and I’m here for it

Honestly I feel all the hate for Taylor Swift is more because of the fan base (Swifties) rather than her as an artist

the napster thing is funny cuz for YEARS you'd hear people say "if you want to support the band, go to the show! buy the merch!" and now they're all "wHy ArE sHoWs sO eXpEnSiVe"

Hot Take -- Metalheads who press you or roast you at shows for being a poser are actually the posers.

I feel like Taylor Swift could make a euro dance album and her fans would eat it right up. They seem insanely loyal.

The Finn reaction to bad vocals where he makes the face and takes the headphones off is what I live for 😂

Pop will outlive every genre of music. Because it takes influences from anything (disco, rock, rap, electronic... )

Takes like "rap is more creative than rock" are hard to qualify and nebulous. Weird take, needs more elaboration, but, I think I understand.

Worry not, Finn! The greater world may not love you, but I do and i genuinely look forward to your videos on a daily basis. Dont let em get ya down. Youre doing great work!

We gotta bring back huge dance songs that are just a few bass notes synth stabs catchy verses and a big hook

Best Music Video ✅ Very understandable ✅ Very epic music ✅ No bad words ✅ No inappropriate images ✅

Someone should mesh rap with rock, that would be rad and completely original 😂

Finn your only allowed to talk about the same bands that millenals have listened to since 2000 👿👿👿👿

Correction Rap use too be creative it's very one note and dumb down since Trap & Drill became the main styles that's why record labels said their supporting Afro beats & Latin music look rock lost what made rock great in the '50s '60s '70s '80s it use to be fun & exciting it lost that somewhere in the '90s

I wish you talk more about electronic music. To me pop music, hip hop music, electronic music go hand in hand. Rap music & a lot of pop music are already very electronic based (it's not analog instruments more like samples, drum machine, digital, DAW, midi, heavy effect like autotune, sound design)

I LOVE Illud Dividum Insanus - album by Morbid Angel. I think it’s full of great bangers and helps getting people to heavier type of metal. I can easily imagine someone going from Ministry to Illud, then listening to other Morbid Angel albums and get into straight death metal. Because that’s kind of me. Not completely, there was some other stuff, but it played big role.z Also, I love The Path of Totality album by Korn, especially the Skrillex songs. I think metal and dubstep make great combination. Jiluka is also great example of dubstep+metal fusion.

To be fair to the music industry/napster stuff, I remember buying some CDs in 2001 or so for like $18/album. Sometimes maybe even more than that, I definitely remember some albums that were like $21 or $22. That's the equivalent of $30-$40 today.

“I don’t know what sparkle dogs are, but we’re about to find out” I don’t either and this seems like a risky move to do while streaming

I'm okay with basically any Finn take because he doesn't pretend to be a critic like so many KZfaqrs

"I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter." Finn, this video 😅😂

20:15 This is why we will never have a good gauge on what was actually popular during the 2000's, because the metric has always been album sales or now streams but in the 2000's we had neither. This is especially true for ANYTHING remotely "Warped Tour" music/genre related, because I think those kids more than anyone else just ripped off the music for free.

Hot take: we need more unpopular opinions! Makes people think outside their comfy little box… 😅

You, Lars, and I are a lot alike. We say things that we hear in our head that are absolutely on point and correct. But it rubs people the wrong way. I love it. I love being right. Lol

It's official guys, Lil Pump is grindcore

Rappers is trendy af, which is why 82% of them are flash in the pan artists.

This reminds me of another music critic’s segment… a pretty popular music critic actually. Can’t quite recall their name though.. Must be the result of a Mandela Effect or something I guess. Great video idea Finn!! No one does it like you! 🎉

While you may say things that tick people off, I stand by you because you've exposed me to artists I never thought I would've liked.

I love your academic take on pop culture. It doesn't talk down to us and I like the funny snarky comments. I write a weekly pop culture column for my local paper and I told my husband, who is the editor, that I want to do deeper dives on music for example Britney Spears, the media and mental health. Your channel is a must watch on KZfaq!

Taylor Swift is actually decently a fan of some alternative rock and Emo stuff, so her coming out with an album that sounds like early Paramore would be dope as hell.

In these current times, the Punk Rock MBA and the mighty Finn who reeks of awesomeness is a great escape! ❤😊

Hell I have Suicide Silence and Death Cab For Cutie on the same playlist, also have Blink-182, Metallica, Death Leppard, Sugar Ray, 311, Peeling Flesh, Powerwolf and so on.

"Im tired of people hating me" thats not very punk rock.

That SOAD take is possibly the hottest take I've heard this week

That Scott Travis part killed me 😂

I would call 100 Gecs Hyperrock these days...

That last part hugging Lars killed me 😂 - But yes, he was right. Let's just say filesharing music was one of those 'early widespread internet use' hickup phases....🤔

havent watched it yet but i know its awesome

I just love the mgs sounds

In my opinion rap has sounded the same since 2016. But I will say Roddy Rich’s “Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial” was a strong album.

Oliver Anthony is part of an obvious op. There's no way his sudden rise in popularity was organic lol

Napster was amazing. If you had cable connection and a cd burner you were good to go

Ignore the haters Finn, especially the reddit ones! I been listening to you for a few years now, there's a lot of folks who agree with you that don't comment or support on patreon, myself included. Let et the views be the real barometer. Keep up the good work, I don't watch every upload but I know that any of the ones I do watch will have a high level of quality to them.

Blink, Sum 41 and Good Charlotte set the tone for screamo and the whole myspace scene, withouth them I dont think it would have happened

Thanks for the answer! 😁 I almost felt sad when you said furries were bottom of the subculture food chain....but the more I think about it I agree with you. 😅

Finn looking up Sparkledog is not what I expected when clicking on this video

I missed this stream unfortunately I had to work but my hot take was I wish I was a little bit taller by skee-lo was the first mainstream emo rap song

Oliver Anthony blew up without trying and hes going to continue to not try and yes no one will care by the end of the year. Maybe he'll make it to get a guest spot at Stagecoach like the Hank Williams kid.

Edm is more creative than both of them.

i am a high schooler, im slightly alt (a nerd, i mean why am i here) and no, every slightly alt kid listens / have listened to nirvana, metallica, pierce the veil, my chem, ghost, system of a down, green day, arctic monkeys deftones and slipknot, the smashing pumpkins are coming back currently, tbh i think all those bands but green day are mid or parcially mid in their heydeys, its kinda sad that my generations alt people hasnt discovered old fall out boy blink new found glory the used and all the other 2000s pop punk and emo bands, hardcore in general, anthrax, the most exotic shirt ive seen was bauhaus of all bands

The problem with saying that Lars was right was that he was only right for the fools that were getting exploited by record labels. Those of us who were using it to get our music out there as independent artists got screwed. Hard. Furthermore, maybe if the music industry had embraced the transition to digital audio instead of trying to prevent it because they couldn't figure out how to make more money off of it, even though they were presented multiple solutions to that problem at multiple opportunities by multiple parties, even before Apple stepped in with iTunes, they wouldn't have had to go after grandmothers and children. We could have had something like Spotify literally a decade earlier, if it weren't for their greed.

I feel my opinion on napster has changed since I was a teen. At first I hated the way musicians weren't being paid and Napster devalued the music, however now I can't help feeling had Metallica and Dr Dre not fought so hard against Napster with the Industry; would we have had Spotify? The micro payments that Spotify gives out are awful, but an alternative opinion I feel is what if the music industry had negotiated with Napster in a better way, then we might not have ended up with such low payouts from Spotify. I think we'll be seeing a similar thing with AI, and I'm interested to see how aggressively the industry reacts, or if it finds a way to work with it so people still have jobs. (Also wild how Sean Parker who was behind Napster is now a board member for Spotify, you never usually hear where the main people in these organisations end up)

Surprised Finn did not agree rap more creative than rock, you never know

Lars does need a hug.

Even though Lars is not the best drummer techniquewise, i think he is a really smart and forward thinking person and probably the smartest person in metallica.

Taylor Swift ska is actually genius even though i don’t like ska, other than for No Doubt.

Hip hop rap about money, ego and flexing. Metal we sing about struggles, society and everyday problems. We sing with passion, they rap for fame.

Hating the file sharing scene in the early 2000s is a bad take. There are probably 50 to 100 bands that i went to see live that i never would have even heard of if i had to pay for their music... i never would have paid for a scary kids scaring kids album... but ive seen them live 3 times because i got into them being able to listen to their songs

If there's one genre that completely lost its creativity it is rap, the mumble trap shit is all same

One of the main thing that interests me about music is the subject matter. Modern rap is all about the same thing: sex, money, drugs and clout. Gets super played out. Sure, it might have some good beats or be good for dancing. But overall the subject matter of rock is way more diverse.

If you read a lot of rap takes online majority of people seem to be bored with the current state of it

Best music video

You should discuss yabujin

Literally wearing my lil Uzi jersey right now. His new album is super creative besides cs. Let's never play that one again lol!!

The other day I went from listening to Abruptum to Hootie and the Blowfish

Finn needs to listen to "A Great Chaos" by Ken Carson, it just came out last night

We need a Taylor Swift NSBM album😂

I will go on record and say everyone Rick Rubine has produced are the best bands/artists of the past 30+ years. Yes all of them.

Yes sir, by the time rap was born, rock already had spit half of its best ideas arguably. Plus rap has deep ties with electronic music, music that can bend and modulate in ways analog instruments cant quite achieve, aaand also rap music as a whole also involves singing in adittion to the spoken style of rap itself. it just has more room to do things and it's younger. it even does a great fusion with rock/metal.

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What’s TRL?

You seriously are asking for a miracle.

I would not disagree with you boss. However, hip-hop is in that stagnant place where Rock was 15 years ago where everything is the same and the structure of the beats and style of Flows are starting to sound the same no matter what part of the country you're in. Back in the day hip-hop had so many different styles from so many different regions that it was hard to even call it one genre. Kind of like hot rock radio got when bands like Nickelback and 3 doors downwere in their heyday. Somebody in the comments section said pop music will outlive both of them. That is a fact because pop music by Nature it's always changing and growing.

when they came for our napster we got grokster when they came for our grokster we got limewire when they came for our limewire we got nothing because we had all crashed multiple hard drives using it so then we got cautious and used streaming serivces.

Even Charlie XCX and 100 Gecs moved away from Hyperpop with their newest albums.

PLEASE talk about ALKALINE TRIO

Furries aré definitively a millenial thing, I mean Sonic, TMNT, Dinosaucers, Street Sharks, Biker Mice, Battletoads, Exteeme Dinosaurs, Primal Rage, Bloody Roar and Crash Bandicoot all came out during the Time we all were kids...

Finn let me help you out. When you say that rap is more creative than rock and someone gets salty about it you respond with "... because rock is such a complete genre it is impossible to improve it". Yes this actually worked for me twice but I talked about metal not rock. You are welcome!

Liking brutal technical death metal and technical brutal death metal is like saying you're a crip and a blood and a cop, LAPD Rampart Division excepted. My favorite thing about furries. There's a pro baseball player named Andrew McCutchen who just tweets "Furries" whenever he sees them and in the games directly following those tweets his stats are significantly better than his career averages. Oliver Anthony's politics remind me of any time an Uber Driver brings up politics when I'm in the car. Always some weird hodgepodge of contradictory views that don't map neatly onto either political party's platform.

🔊 ▪︎ Hip-hop = Kicks + bass 🎸 + Cymbals + synths. ▪︎ Rock = Drums + bass 🎸 + Cymbals + synths. The only thing that is different is the using of guitars, and I recognize, y using more instruments rock is more creative. 🔊

I personally like the sound of Drill

We are furrys because of Lola bunny. I know she was my first crush. And don’t even get me started on that look Nala gives Simba in the lion king.

People would take your opinion more seriously if you prefaced them with "My name's Mckenty and I'm here to say..."

That little pimp song is not on Tidal 👿👿

As much hate people give Taylor go take time out of your day and look up all the things she has been through and what are songs really mean because that’s why she’s so famous is she gets attention form people that have been through the same things

Thank you for acknowledging furries as the bottom of the bottom of the popularity chain of the internet.

Lil trap be like: Myhunnahumma, sipping on lean sipping on lean! Myhmmmm aaah mm, if you know what I mean, if you know what I mean! x2

I think you get to have more creative noises in Rap before it's considered getting weird. Both with instruments & (even though I hate it) dumb random noises. I just laughed at work today about "AY" being the Spanish "SCURR". I kinda want to implement electronic stuff into my punkMetal band but I'm an old bitch trying to start a tech career & have to focus on drums. Lots of unorthodox instruments might also be another idea, but Rap wins on this too because you just need a sample instead of a person playing. Indeed, a band can easily sample, but unless you have an electronic musician, everyone looks weird with the sample playing like it's lip syncing. Stupid drummer pads.

I would disagree that Lars was right with Napster and would actually go the other direction on that. That clip from the VMAs being a pretty good example of how I still think he was wrong in many ways. He makes the file copying is equivalent to stealing or destroying physical possessions argument that has always been junk. Loss of profit isn’t the same as theft. Don’t get me wrong he was completely justified in bringing the lawsuits and fighting piracy. It was absolutely illegal and needed to stop. It is just a bad argument that was being made and continues to get made. I think he was wrong in his tactic to deliver the information of hundreds of thousands of people to the lawyers in order for them to go after every individual and bankrupt them for sharing a file online. Going after a grandma who had her grandson connect to the internet from her house and demanding damages in six figures from her is wrong. Even if it is legally justified it is an absolutely shit thing to do. He was on record "This wasn't about the future of music, this wasn't about the music business, this had absolutely nothing to do with money. This was a back-alley street fight." He wanted to hurt the people that he saw as wronging him. Was he right that it was illegal and needed to stop how Napster was going about things? Yeah absolutely. Was he right about how he went about that? No, that is where I’m gonna disagree.

subgenres are just a clever way to get people to actually listen to your music if your not selling it

Being a oldschool raver, i cant get offended either way. but i would say my ears tend to prefer a rock sound more so than rap. Although most modern rap i hear is always about money and hoes so i'd prefer some de'la soul type stuff. The majority of new mainstream rock sounds kinda assy too though (especially the emo shit).

I unironically like Alestorm and I'm not even European. Is there any hope for me?

I love trying to make my reddit post/comments as negative as possible...if the incels hate I love it

Sparklepups are moar punk rawk than black flag XD

Well, you can claim that Rap is more creative than Rock. But just remember that the more creative you are in a Genre, the more you risk going so much outside of the genre, it can become something completely different. Then it is not that a "genre" is more creative, but the artists within the genre are more open to do "Other Stuff".

Rap is the laziest and most overdone genre of music, despite only being mainstream for 30 years.

Ghostemane is amazing love could be a metal band love it

Rap in 2023 is one of the least creative scenes is music ever

As much as I hate Lil Uzi Vert's cover of "Chop Suey", at least "Chop Suey" is better than most SOAD songs, which mostly suck ass to begin with in my personal opinion.

The only issue I have is that when I sing along to YGs song I get funny looks from black people. I don’t think my voice is that bad.