Most Overrated Musicians

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The Top Ten

1Justin Bieber
I HATE JUSTIN BIEBER. I am a 14 year old girl and most of my friends are obsessed with him, but I don't get it AT ALL. This guy has absolutely NO TALENT, he just qualifies as a singer because a bunch of crazy 10-year-old fan girls wish they had hair like him. I can't even believe he isn't at #1. The JONAS BROTHERS? Really? I haven't even heard of them since 2006. All I can say is, Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby NO!
I don't know why he is not at the top in the list? Maybe because he is new and bands like linkin park, evanescence, breaking benjamin are not at their prime. His real fan base are silly girls who don't know anything about the music but just like his childish face. He is just a four day wonder and soon will be at the top of the list
Fundamentally Jonas Brothers 2.0, or Backstreet boys 3.0. At least he'll go away soon just like they did.
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2Lady Gaga
She's the biggest copycat in the world! She's has money and sucess just because she has copied the Queen of Pop!
Yet another blistering melanoma on the sunbed tanned plastic skin that is Popular Music. Idiocracy is here this list is full of proof.

3Beyonce
Here whole career is based on her ass and looks. All her vocals sound the same and married Jay- Z (the most overrated rapper of all time ) to stay famous. She is talented but is famous for the wrong reasons.
No noteworthy contribution to the arts. Crazy in love? A sample from The Chi-Lites' 1970 song "Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)", used as the song's horn hook. Bootylicious? Seriously? Halo written by One Republic's Ryan Tedder. Total aesthetic appeal compensating for any true artistic value.

4Lil Wayne

I almost doesn't get worse than lil wayne. Dumb thoughtless unlyrical hip-pop. Not to mention the fact that lollipop is one of the worst songs ever made

Chris-1

Definitely the worst popular hip-hop artist of all time. Makes me wanna kill myself.

eminem and 2pac are better than this lame rapper

ronluna

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5The Jonas Brothers

Yeah, you people hate Kurt Cobain and Eminem and Metallica and all of those great people? Tell me, what's so great about the Jonas Brothers? Beep, nothing. They have been making mediocre music for WAY too long, I'm fed up, all the straight guys are fed up, they're only going on because Disney-addict girls love them and gay people love their skinny jeans. Period. They SUCK. Please disappear, guys.

Who the hell put Eminem on this list? Eminem is the ' king of rap.

Eminem is okay, 50 Cent was a soldier, Led Zepplin was alright, Metallica is awesome, and The Jonaas Brother suck. Not as bad as Justin Bieber or Miley 'Cryus' but just bad enough my ears bleed.

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6Taylor Swift
This girl cannot stay on key to save her life. She should be a song-writer with co-writers (b/c without them all her songs sound the same) but NOT "sing". However, she is a brilliant business woman as was writing young women on facebook to be friends when she was just getting started. She knows how to sell her brand and get many people overlook her horrid voice. She is talented but not vocally. VERY overrated.
Nothing important. Just another whiny female country-pop singer who sings about nothing but love.
I've always thought that she was either a psychopath or a lyrical genius. After stats showed that her relationships last less 9 months, and she writes about half an album about each guy, even the ones who don't last that long. She's stalkerish and her once genuine lyrics now sound overprocessed

SearchingForSunsets

7Mariah Carey

All I can say is go and listen to vision of love and try to sing it you would do good at first but after maybe two or three minutes into the song and a couple of 3 or 4 or 5 octaves your voice will start to get tired and run out of breath and gasping for air Mariah Carey vision of love song is a hard song to sing can't nobody sing the song the difficulty of the song is just way to powerful especially the studio version it was enhanced and the live version is hard and difficult to sing as well Mariah Carey vision of love song, nobody will never master that song while singing it it's way to hard to sing along to.

Not a singer, but merely a practitioner of vocal histrionics. Unable to carry a tune under any circumstances.

Way overrated and just not that good. You want good, try P.J. harvey or Chrissie Hynde.

8U2
Only guitarist famous for not really doing much, hopeless
They are just boring, the only thing they are good at is: Make that money! Gaga is so much better

9Coldplay
Okay, ColdPlay is one of the best current musical groups. Just because thieir songs actually have MEANING doesn't mean they're sappy. It means they're worth listening to. Just because "Paradise" has a moral and "Boyfriend" doesn't doesn't make them bad musicians, and they will always have a loyal fanbase who won't desert them for the newest "pop craze".
They misc piano, guitar, violin, drums and more... Every music has a diferent way to rock Calcarium Rock , /
Most of the songs sound VERY similar! Not much variance and lyrics are a bit sappy. I figure most all fans are women and the men who like them may bat for the other team.

10Kanye West

The Contenders

11Chris Brown

12Rihanna
worst pop singer. she sings very annoying
Her songs are annoying. Not even a fly or an ant would.

1330 Seconds to Mars

I don't like anything they do. It sounds so generic. Who ever thinks these people are the greatest has no musical taste. Besides, Jared Leto is an Actor, not a Musician.

d3rrick95

They're almost amusing, the music I mean. Leto should have just stuck to being a semi good actor.

Don't like them because they have no talent and they are controlling people somehow with an unknown device, which is why some people are stupid enough to like them.

lukestheman4

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14Kiss

152pac
2pac's overrated because of his fans. I'm not hating, again, at him. Like what these guys said, he didn't do anything fancy on his songs, and his fans are nothing but lowlife moralists. HE'S ONLY GOOD BECAUSE OF THE MESSAGE HE BROUGHT IN. But he still sucks. Dear Mama, Changes, Brenda's Got A Baby are all mediocre songs, despite the crap message he brought. He says he loves LA, but he's born in New York and he barely lived in LA. Even Snoop Dogg used different styles and he's more overrated than tupac? Even Dr. Dre is better than this fakeass. I only like the songs "Hit Em' Up", "Ambitionz Az A Ridah", or "California Love", and Snoop Dogg had better songs than that.
Tupac never did anything fancy in his songs, he used the same crap in his 4 years. He's not even a thug.

2pac is definitely overrated. Period. But hey, at least Biggie copied his style.

nolvorite

He used one flow his entire career yet is usually credited as the greatest rapper of all time. In his dreams he was jealus that real hip-hop fans liked nas and biggy way better than him. pac simpley sucks eminem has skills and actually uses similies, punchlines, and metaphors which increases the difficulty of your rhymes. Pac never did that he is overrated he was good but he can't be compared to the great nas or rakim or even ice cube. None lyrical with limited range and no flow, these days little kids think he was god but the true hip-hop heads know the truth and its that 2pac was and is overrated. He knew he wasn't that good himself but his brainless fans think he was the best witch he never was. If you think 2pac was the best you do not know anything about real hip-hop ohh, he rapped about politics he's the greatest, not immortal technique would have ripped this guy in a battle know doubt. Pac sells t-shirts but the real hip-hop heads know what's up.
Tupac was a smart guy, but he had no significant musical skill. He just wrote slightly (just slightly)above average rap lyrics and that's about the extent of his involvement in his albums. The rest was just his persona and producers in the studio. His music is practically indistinguishable from the glut of other gangsta rap from that period, and the lyrics are all crap.

He's taken on mythic status, but the majority of his output is awful, and even his best songs are just mediocre. Easily the most overrated entertainer in my generation. I can barely name one song and I am a into useless trivia, that's how irrelevant he truly is.
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16Skrillex

17Michael Jackson
most jackson fans couldn't name 5 jackson songs they just go by the hype, didn't write most of his songs, didn't make an original dance move or routine, above average singer but certainly not the best

I actually like him but lets be real, his fans went from record low to record high the day he died
First off this pathetic little man just had other people write his crap then he just rode the gravy train while he did whatever he wanted off stage I mean I know that's what other rockers, actors, etc. Do but what he did was just wrong.
It's another case if someone where's flashy clothes, dances and has some catchy songs he's considered a talented musician.

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18Kurt Cobain
All the time, I see him on lists of great guitarists and being one of the best guitarists ever. He was never even that good of a guitarist. He knew it too! He would say all the time that he wasn't that great of a player. His solos were sloppy and not that unique, his riffs were repetitive, his clean and acoustic stuff was just too simple, and not to mention that he screwed up about every show!
I'm sorry but this guy in the top 25 of Rolling stones top 100 guitarists and Slash not in top 100, somethings messed up, I respect him, but the hype around how good he is is way too big, there best song is not the crowning achievement in rock, all they did was make Grunge popular, which isn't even that good of music
Kurt wrote honest lyrics, hard to listen to his singing and he was an ok guitar player at best. He just happen to hit it when there was a desire for something other than glam rock. There were a lot of other bands that came out at the same time that have better lyrics and musical talent.
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19Nicki Minaj

Sure it takes talent to rap like that but it doesn't change the fact that her lyrics make no sense AT ALL. I'm a junior in high school and literraly everyone is obsessed with nicki minaj. Nicki's music it WAY too overrated and she should be nearer to the top of this list.

20Radiohead

21Tokio Hotel

22Bob Dylan
You are so right he is a Bruce Springsteen of the past. Like Springsteen he can't sing. Unlike Springsteen his songs have a little more meaning not filled with cliches. Like Springsteen SO OVERRATED!
Number 1 most overrated. His lyrics are garbage and he cannot play the guitar or the harmonica.

23Garth Brooks

2450 Cent

people who commented and vote for a7x, 30seconds to mars, slipknot and linkin park you SUCK...! don't vote them becase they are popular.. they will never get overrated to us.. True music lovers... 50 cent, solja guy or whatevr they are music eaters... dnt call them mussians... justin kid, miley cyrus, rihanna, michel jaka... etc... can they sing...

skt

I don't get it. And that's a good thing.

FearlessFreep

Led Zeppelin Is over this clown?
what this guy sing is all about gangsta and some nonsense stuff
I wouldn't consider he rap because It's like he was just talking the lyric
nothin special
Those guy who said Led aren't good must not know what rock is voting Led Zeppelin instead of others
I'm not even born around 60's 70's or 80, s
but I love Led Zeppelin
Better than sellout marketing artist these day
and Eminem is the man dude
He really raps somethin meaning full
not just making fun of someone else
those who vote eminem must listen just 2 songs of him
never listen to Like Toy Soldier? Hailey's song? Mockingbird? My Daddy's gone crazy? Lose Yourself? Beautiful? and so on
He's not making fun at all
actually he really rap

These should be voted
The Jonas Brothers
Daughtry
Soulja Boy
Miley Cyrus
Pete Wentz
Lil Wayne
Justin Timberlake
Fall Out Boy
Avril Lavigne

robertlead37

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25Journey

With the most overrated song of all time, Don't Stop Believing.

InsertNameHere

26One Direction
One direction sucks and to this day I don't understand all the hype! The only reason that these whiney voiced pathetic excuse for talent idiots are popular are because of their looks. They actually are not talented at all and are not very attractive! I would rather go to a website full of beheading videos then listen to their music. Every single directioner on earth are stupid and should get their brain checked considering the fact they think this pop garbage bubble gum hacky mediocore band is talent! Go back to England you phony moronic hacks!
So overrated. They don't really have good talent but of course they had to win the X Factor because all the girls had to vote him from their boyish looks. Even worse, they went to North America which then got really annoying. How is One Direction even 96 on this list? They should be in the top 10!
What is so great about 5 annoying people singing? Give it up every one
All the stupid fan girls annoy me
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27Jay-Z

28Rolling Stones

29Bono
Can't argue with this nom. He seems to be convinced that HE is U2. He's not that great a singer either, more of a shouter and groaner.

30Snoop Dogg

Excuse me, but why is everyone hatin' on Eminem! Just cause ya'll don't like rap and don't understand what real rap is doesn't mean you can just hate on Eminem. He's beast. But Snoop dogg sucks, he doesn't even rap, he just talks without any beat or rythem.

thelegacy

Snoopy is lousy rapper. More interested in young girls than music

31Soulja Boy

no talent at all he is the stupidest person I have ever heard, how many songs does he have anyway? 2? 3?

Hylologic

32Heart
Hell yeah they are overrated. It is clear the same person keeps voting for Heart and Ann Wilson mutiple times and want to pretend that they are number one. Have you seen most music critic lists they are never on them. Just check out their 80's and 90's work for why.
Hate this. Barracuda this, Barracuda that, Barracuda c@&*!

MetalGod

If you see most of the music list on top tens they are number 1 - extremely overrated. They had like 3 good songs in 30 years.
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33The Black Eyed Peas
If you like talent you will hate this band

34Ludacris

35Rebecca Black

36Velvet Underground
I can't stand their music. I understand they sang about heroin and influenced a bunch of punk bands, but their music I find extremely grating and lou reed can't sing his way out of a douchebag.
How to become a rock legend: Write 45-second songs and repeat them for three to seventeen minutes while Lou Reed speaks the lyrics out of key.

37My Chemical Romance

This band is not artistic, they suck. How can you people say that zeppelin, hendrix, and avenged are overrated they're great? The beatles are great, but I can see where you're coming from since everyone always says they're the best. As for Metallica, Lars Ulrich needed pro tools to keep him on time.

shallowcal

Especially bad... Avenged Sevenfold suck too, but there are absolutely no words in modern language to describe how awful they are.

QuarantineGames

38P. Diddy

39Günther

40Tech N9ne

His fans are so stupid. They always talk about the mainstream and crap. I bet they could name a total of 5 underground rappers bunch of posers. His fans only listen to him to look cool and underground. I like tech he is okay but not top 100 good.

Chris-1

41Miley Cyrus

some people doesn't know what music is, they listen to her commercial stupid music!

by the way, THE BEATLES here? since Oasis to SOAD, many bands like them, only a retarded would vote for that in this list. LED ZEPPELIN? I bet the people who voted there likes to listen Justin Bieber. METALLICA and KURT COBAIN ahead Justin Bieber? that's stupid!

rock2metal

Anybody who likes her must be mentaly insane. I am so glad Tokio Hotel is not so baddly rated. Miley is stupid, not to mention she sings like a pile of poop.

shocking to believe she isn't higher and should be in the top 10 along with daughtry

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42AC/DC
Actually, they're overrated. I think they wrote only 2-3 good songs, they are a great band to know rock, but after that there are many others musicians better than them, with greater riffs and melodic lines (not only the "aa" of Thunderstruck).
singer is not that good guitar player is average nothing really special.

43Janis Joplin
Only famous 'cause she's white.

44Big Time Rush

45K.S. Chithra
Really overrated on this site, but I don't know why, she is not that good, lata ji is better than her, even singers of today like shreya and sunidhi are better than her
I saw her on this site, listened to her, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY overrated.

cheesemaster

46Jimi Hendrix
Well done he was good but there has been and will be better than that stupid stoner with an afro

47Backstreet Boys

48Usher

49Daughtry
Chris daughtry sucks! I can't see why he is so popular? They need to focus on the top 3 - taylor, katharine and elliott as they were the most talented contestants and have great music plus charisma and attitude unlike chris also I like them all. I think it would be nice if they did focus on these contestants instead of chris daughtry!

idolangelx13

50Britney Spears

51The Pixies

52Miranda Lambert

53Justin Timberlake

he can't rock because he came from a pop band. all he do is to dance,dance and dance.

ronluna

What's wrong with people these days. Celine Dion, Elvis and many other above justin timberlake. Please don't kid me. I am an ultimate fan of Celine. She has a beautiful voice. I don't know why people don't respect her that much. And this good for nothing Justin Timberlake is less overrated as compared to her. Please for God's sake. Well, the only good thing about this list is that Madonna is second cause I hated whenever she was called the greatest female singer the world has ever had. Well, no offense for her fans but seeing Celine in this list really freaks me out.

Sorry but he got the most whiniest voice ever and he thought people would think of him as the new Al Green. He thinks he got soul.

54Christina Aguilera

55Styx

56Frank Sinatra

57Selena Gomez

58X Japan
Of course they are not the best, they're good but not the best in japan and in the world, very overrated because of their Art Of Life

ronluna

It's like no. 1 on almost every single list, cumon they can't be that good!

HenP

In my opinon X Japan should be under the top 5, because they were just "new and hip" so everybody loved them. If Hide hadnÂ't killed himself, this band would be a lot less popular now
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59Avenged Sevenfold
One of the most overrated, mediocre bands I've ever had the displeasure of hearing. The only one who even had anything even remotely resembling talent was their drummer, yet even so, he was quite mediocre himself.

ybothermatt

One of the most overrated, mediocre bands I've ever had the displeasure of hearing. The only one who even had anything even remotely resembling talent was their drummer, yet even so, he was quite mediocre himself... Annoying metalcore generic sound, extremely overrated guitarist, bassist, drummer and singer as well. They are like the pop of metal, annoying as hell.
Annoying metalcore generic sound, extremely overrated guitarist, bassist, drummer and singer as well. They are like the pop of metal, annoying as hell.
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60Pete Wentz
That's not how you play a bass!

61Charice Pempengco

62System Of A Down

63John Mayer
Is a no talent hack! Damn, when I was 12, I listened to bad music too. John mayer belongs in a high school dance, not on the radio

64Slash
He really isn't that great, he's completely overrated because he has a total of three good songs and they are popular

Bigre

65Akon

really, really despise this guy and all he stands for. todays pop. him and the likes, neyo, flo rida, jay z or whatever they are called, they normally just crop up in the middle of a half decent song that they 'feature' in, and ruin it.

daftdavy

I change the channel when I see this one in tv. rap is crap. same beats, same style only lyrics is different

ronluna

Akon is all right and all, but come on...he sings like he's drunk and suckin' helium...all of his beats are the same, I cant tell the difference between song other than the words and his songs are played TOO MUCH!

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66Linkin Park

Voted over classics like the Pixies and the Grateful Dead on my list. Why?

InsertNameHere

Commercialized music!
LP is overrated!

chirkoman

67L'arc~en~ciel
Laruku USED to be... that's all.
Good band, spirit dreams inside
They used to be musicians... Now they're only aging sellers...

alexa

68Joey Jordison
Not really that talented a drummer to be honest, and his double bass isn't even that impressive. His signature snare drum was also a disappointment.

69the GazettE

I can't believe they achieved mainstream success with such plain vocals. The bass alone cannot create the band

70Slipknot
The first time I saw a band photo of Slipknot I thought they were some Gwar style comedy metal band who were making fun of wannabe-tough guy nu-metal. With the masks and the 9 bands members I thought their was no way this band was serious, it had to be a joke.
But no, they were actually a real band.
In my opinion, Slipknot is not a good band. But somehow, everybody is talking about them. I don't know why- They are very over-rated.

71Elvis
Karaoke elevated to the mainstream stage. He was the end of rock & roll and started nothing.

72Nickelback

Definitely top 3 worst ever. Although not bad compared to other Cannucks.

But I have to admit, Side of a Bullet is a pretty good song.

InsertNameHere

73Pink Floyd

74Gackt

Look at the lists here. He is at the top on many. This just can't be right. Very overrated

actually very overrated in every list there is gackt. l'arc, d'erlanger and b'z are better than him

ronluna

It must be Gackt according to the top ten lists here.

75Bon Jovi

76Dir en Grey
The fact that it is the most known Japanese band in America doesn't mean they're the best.

77Nirvana
Their music is really dry and tasteless not much feeling to it. I find it depressing when I listen to their music, in my opinion they are seriously overrated as a band and as musicians. Kurt Cobain is not that great of a guitarist (junkie, tried to commit suicide 5 times by intencional overdose, finally doing it by a shotgun to the head and many other things that caused me a terrible impression), Krist Novoselic is an average bassist (but has a very boring style, doing everything that the guitar does), and then there's Dave Grohl. Out of those three Dave is the only one that has my respect he is an amazing drummer. Nirvana and the rest of the grunge movement killed thrash metal just when it had become popular and had taken down the travesti glam metal movement (this is not intended in an offensive way, I am only supporting my opinion)

78Fall Out Boy

79Blink 182
Many like this band but this band annoys me a lot

ronluna

80Sid Vicious

A yob with no talent for music, met a sad sticky end not a moment too soon.

81Avril Lavigne
Why the hell Green Day is there? Avril Lavigne is so overrated. Also she's a poser and she sings, she sounds like a dying goat. I don't know why do people like her life she sings pop, not punk.
Why is this bitch so bottom of this list she needs to be in the top 20

And the jonas sisters should be no.2 be because number 1 has been reserved for justin idiot
Why is she in this list? She is one of the most underrated not overrated musicians of all time. She has an amazing voice when she sings live and she is no poser.

82Angus Young

83Kylie Minogue

84Dragonforce

85Kelly Clarkson

86Keane

87Panic! At The Disco
I had listen to it and it kills my ears

ronluna

Very annoying, not appealing, one of the worst band

ronluna

88Disturbed

Disturbed needs to be in the top 10 of this list.
They're the definition of overrated.
They're sellouts, not that they were ever good.
Everyone thinks they're good when they're actually crap.
The vocalist has no range, and the musicians (especially the guitarist, and drummer) have no creativity and those are the reasons why a lot of their songs sound a like.
Little 10 - 13 year old kids think they're "heavy", no they're not. They're not even metal, nu-metal is not metal.
Disturbed just sucks, and they need to go away!

Chris113

89T-Pain

Anyone who uses auto tune deserves to die a horrible death. Remember when you had to have talent to make music?

90Rod Stewart

awful voice - why is he so popular?

idolangelx13

I will give him Maggie May and Reason to Believe are great songs but the rest of stuff is white trash.

91Megadeth

92Greenday

93Eric Clapton
Inarguably one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time. Cream is absolutely amazing. So, why is he making weepy ballads? He should stick to doing what he's best at: rocking.

TheAI

Even Though He Was A Great Guitarist, His Style Is Oh...
Too Repetitive...

94Nas

95Sarah Brightman

96Slayer

97Pantera

98Sarah Geronimo

The most Overrated musician I know.

hatcher234

She does not have original style of singing. All she does is copy other pop singers like celine dion, or regine velasquues and I hate it that she is being promoted as the next shron cuneta in the philippines... So OVERRATED.. HATE THIS GIRL.


99Westlife

100Sting

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