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TommySoda@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Five Finger Death Punch is as close as you can possibly get to pop music without leaving the genre of metal completely. I donât judge people if itâs their jam, I just think they are extremely mediocre at best. Itâs no coincidence that the majority of their most popular songs are covers.
But hey, people like what they like.
I tend to like pop metal the same way I like pop punk. Itâs not going to make me feel anything but itâs catchy. Itâs good for working out or working on the motorcycle and similar things where I want a driving background but donât want to get way into it.
That being said, the kind of people who listen to FFDP put me off of their music. Itâs like thatâs the first metal they ever heard then decided to make it their whole personality.
Ghost is in the same boat. Donât get me wrong, they write some great songs, but they are perilously close to pop
Iâve seen Ghost described as âSpooky ABBAâ and somehow it kinda checks out. Not even mad, ABBA is great and so is Ghost
âBon Jovi for Goth Dadsâ is the other one I enjoy. I love Ghost, Tobias writes exactly the music he wants. Not trying to be metal, he was heavily influenced by og heavy metal (Sabbath) and the theatrics of the glam/hair metal era (Kiss). Combine the two and ya, thatâs just Ghost.
Itâs very intentionally campy and fun, like year round Halloween.
To their defense, I think they are really self aware. The campiness and the theatrics are all intentional. It almost has a musical (the broadway kind) aspect to it. 5FDP actually believe they are hard.
Well, thereâs also âpunk goes popâ stuff, like the good old youtube.com/watch?v=gbMbCbEp5cA
A series I personally love listening to while working out. Especially the 80s pop covers.
I always come back to I Prevailâs cover of Blank Space. Sometimes it can even trick me into believing Tswift is a good song writer
Or Ice Nine Kills parodying both the song and the music video and managing to make it less creepy in the process
That is hilarious.
Well, thereâs also âpunk goes popâ stuff
My favorite. Those lyrics were surprisingly unsettling.
Sounds like metal gate keeping
As opposed to wooden gate keeping
Siethron@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I just feel like their songs are specifically targeted to edgy 13 year olds. âwrong side of heaven and righteous side of hellâ I mean, câmon.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Its called suburbia and nothing ever happens
ivanafterall@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Right or wrong? I can hardly tell.
CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
The maturity of a 13 years old, but itâs listened by angry genXers and older millenials.
ziggurat@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I donât get this point of view, maybe I should because it sounds logical. But again sometimes I want to listen to harpsichords in E by Bach. And sometimes I want to listen to hallowed be thy name from iron maiden, sometimes I want to listen to a nightmare to remember by dream theater, and sometimes I want to listen to wrong side of heaven by ffdp.
Itâs like the same logic that I love eatimg healthy home made delicious filipino food every day of the week, by my excellent cook of a wife. And yet occasionally I get a craving for a menu at burger King with a monster energy drink.
It is as if there is redeemable factors in both
nifty@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Tbf, the metal bands you mentioned are all on the operatic side of metal, which is a nice subgenre. Many metal fans would say that there are definitive bands which categorize one subgen vs another. Iâve never heard of Five Finger Death Punch, and thought the name was actually Five Flavored Fruit Punch. Maybe an opportunity for Weird Al here đ
ziggurat@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Weird al ruins songs for me, I just forget the original lyrics, and now weird als lyrics is the only thing I can think of when I hear the song