I am aware that at some point when I wasn’t paying attention Imagine Dragons slipped past that social tipping point of popularity that transforms things into ‘cringe-inducingly mockable’
which is a phenomenon I do not seem wired to understand
just in general
but also from like – a music theory standpoint I also don’t get it and I wish someone would explain what critiques are even being leveled in this case?
like I do not have coherent musical tastes or whatever, i don’t understand music well enough to assess anything much beyond ‘like it’ and ‘don’t like it’ and maybe ‘liked it until I heard it 10 trillion times a day for 1 year’
and I am just really curious? I have literally never managed to come across a specific critique for this group, just taken-for-granted ‘this is bad’ and I just
?
As a weird additional datapoint:
the FIRST time a remember noticing the popularity==>cringe phenomenon sticks with me vividly to this day
I was 12 and Titanic, and by extension Leonardo DiCaprio, were EPICALLY popular. And then suddenly Titanic, and to a much larger extension Leonardo DiCaprio, were EPICALLY unpopular.
And I was SO confused by both ends of things and just went on watching Leonardo DiCaprio movies when they seemed good and here we are a few decades later and people are like ‘wait, nevermind, he actually is a good actor after all.’
And then I kept seeing this pattern repeating forever with Too Popular things and I still don’t get it
…….ohhhh.
Imagine Dragons had a weird longevity imo because the young boys who liked it, as a group, got enough of their own clannish momentum going to remain oblivious to how many young girls also liked it.
just moving along like everyone else 