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Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit don't take themselves as seriously as people believe. Songs about pissing in people's yards, breaking stuff, and other hooligan behavior is obviously overblown in Limp Bizkit's lyrics to make a sort of comedic atmosphere, which people can't enjoy for some reason. The musicians of Limp Bizkit (Wes Borland, Sam Rivers, John Otto), make for one of the tightest rhythm sections in rock/metal music. Wes Borland is one of the most talented guitarists of modern music through his creative usage of 7 string guitars, custom tunings, and harmonics. Sam Rivers and John Otto are also very talented at bass and drums respectively. The only reasons people seem to hate them are for the purposefully dumb lyrical content and the Woodstock 99 fiasco, where Limp Bizkit, in my opinion, were not the cause of the rioting and rapes. Limp Bizkit is just a group of people making fun music and trying to get their negative energies and turn it into positive, albeit dumb, energy.

Might as well defend the obvious, but I don't think Nickelback is all that bad, and my dad agrees with me. Though I can say there are some songs I don't care for, like their most infamous song Photograph, there are still a good amount of their songs I can get behind because they just sound good. Chad's voice doesn't bother me because it just sounds like a typical Post-Grunge voice to me. Also if we're talking lyrics, the one song that has the most thought provoking lyrics to me is Never Again, which is one of their more heavier songs. It basically comes from the point of view of a child witnessing domestic violence in his house, and how he's completely scared of how much it escalated this one night. My personal favorite song of theirs would be Rockstar, which Rolling Stone actually acknowledged as one of the best songs of 2007 (at #100 though). It has a catchy Country Rock sound, basically talking about the lifestyle of a stereotypical rock star (most likely parody), and even got ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons to do the speaking parts in between the lines of the verses. So yeah, I don't think they're that bad, though since there most recent work hasn't been getting any airplay on the stations I listen to, so I don't know what they are like now, though I do like it that Chad has since cut his hair, he looks better that way.

The Insane Clown Posse might be shit, but some of their most maligned songs have redeeming qualities. Miracles, for all its anti-science nonsense, is a song about appreciating everything life has to offer, an inspirational message considering much of ICP's fanbase are impoverished and socially maligned. Halls of Illusions is another good example. Stupid, but ultimately a song encouraging people to not beat their spouses and children. Those are some of their least bad songs. If you want the really bad stuff, check out Bugz on My Nuts or Night of the Chainsaw. Also, any musical group that can make millions without any MTV or radio play demonstrates impressive promotional skills.

Nickelback. They aren't genuinely bad, just mediocre, but someone has to make the "filler music" for other music to compare to. They are a middle point, you only start being actually bad if you are worse than Nickelback. The unique sounds of better bands have to compare themselves with generic ones like these. They are kinda like the vanilla flavor: Basic, but still acceptable.

Kanye West is a fucking dickhead, but I bet half of his haters has never listened any of the music he's made, like the College Dropout, or My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Kanye West has the Power to make Fergie and Rihanna sound amazing, to sample King Crimson's “21st Century Schizoid Man”, and make a hip-hop masterpiece like "Runaway". Stop dissing on his music because he's a gay fish please.

Linkin Park is rather infamous for being the emo stereotype and having their music used in AMVs, but their early music really isn't that bad. I can't speak for albums past Meteora since that's when I stopped listening to them, but it isn't terrible before that. I also really liked the Reanimation album, especially the songs "H! Vltg3" and "My<Dsmbr"

You could honestly defend any music you like on a basis of differing taste and just what lyrically, vocally, and instrumentally engage you. There's also the case of liking something ironically, then actually develop a genuine liking for it. I hate to admit it, but this is me with Bad Blood. I admit it's a pretty bad song, but it's so much fun to belt it out obnoxiously with friends and family.
(I'm saying this because I can't think of any music artists/groups that are considered "bad" that I like since I generally don't share my music taste online because of how vitriolic some people act to some music artists. Yay cop-outs!)

I find that Avenged sevenfold catches shit for being too "mainstream". Like, why does it matter if their famous, and a lot of people know about them. If the shit sounds good then its good. But metal fans have always been like that. Scratch that, a lot of music fans in general are like that.

real talk, he may be a prick. But who can honestly say this sucks.

That song kicks ass.

I'm starting to get pissed off seeing people bash Evanescence because of the fucking emetic use of Bring me to Life.

Regardless of over-exposure , Bring me to Life is a very good song from an amazing band. It's pissing Metallica off because of Enter Sandman or Megadeth for Symphony of Destruction.

Blood on the Dance Floor is probably the one group still keeping "scene" alive, and they're often mocked for being a "MySpace band" that keeps to their roots even in a post-MySpace age. However to be honest I find their songs amusing. First you've got the songs where they're too silly to find bad, or at the very least they're "so good they're bad," such as "Yo Ho," a song using pirate metaphors for sex, but also amusingly the lead singer calls himself a "ninja" at one part of the song kinda out of nowhere, apparently forgetting the pirates vs ninjas debate.

Other songs like "Call me Master," "Cruel Pornography," "Death to Your Heart," etc, along with the music from Dahvie's solo "Master of Death" album are actually rather catchy to me with their electropop sounds.

Basically BOTDF is a major guilty pleasure for me.

Gotta go with Bring Me The Horizon. It seems people are upset that they went from a metalcore sound to a pop sound with their latest album.