![]() Obviously, Maroon 5 has their fans, but realistically they’re just normal people who go about their lives and don’t watch Todd In The Shadows videos all day.īut there’s also this sentiment that Maroon 5 wasn’t always like this. The very definition of the generic pop act that everyone thinks of when they think of bad pop music. Once again, this idea that a Maroon 5 song is underperforming, especially when in the same comment they claim that Maroon 5 “insulted modern bands” because of an out of context statement everyone made fun of last year, is clearly projecting against a band that for a decade now has become a pop critic’s favorite punching bag. Hell, since their most recent album, JORDI, came out, it’s probably going to end up in the Top 10 within the next week. Of course, it was always going to do disgustingly well on radio, but streaming has always been fairly strong, and its sales have been consistently good since its release. Aside from the implication that any song that hits the Top 20 would be underperforming being absurd, “Beautiful Mistakes” has been very successful across the board. ![]() Which if you’ve actually been watching the song’s chart performance, is complete bullshit. I saw this comment a while ago that tried to claim that despite Maroon 5’s best efforts to make their current single, “Beautiful Mistakes” with Megan Thee Stallion, a big, massive, world-defining hit, the song ended up underperforming. Because at the end of the day, the point isn’t that you genuinely want to see Billboard be fair in their ruling and give the “organic” song the honor of being the biggest song in the country, it’s that you want to see your fav win and be written in the history books as an important moment of this year. ![]() I mean you can accuse Olivia Rodrigo of being an industry plant and only becoming famous thanks to her Disney connections, or you can blame the success of “Butter” on the fanbase abusing and gaming Billboard’s system to inflate the song’s stats, I just think it’s pointless bickering. Both are huge success stories, but because one has to be in competition with the other, both sides of the battle are flinging shit at each other trying to claim that one is cheating their way to the top and ruining the other’s “organic” rise. I’ve seen a lot of this recently as Olivia Rodrigo and BTS both battle for the #1 spot on Billboard. Either way, our views on music popularity are always tinged by our own biases, no matter how much we try to deny it. Or worse, we start stretching ourselves by claiming any success they do get is artificial, propped up by businessmen in shadows and products of the industry trying to dictate our tastes. To see them try and achieve something so big and successful only to get what we interpret as “diminishing returns”. ![]() At the same time, we also like seeing our more hated artists fail. It makes us feel like we’re a part of something bigger, and our tastes are being validated by seeing that artist get to #1 or have a big hit single that goes viral on Tik Tok. We like seeing our favorite artists thrive and achieve landmark goals. Controversial take, but I feel like music discourse would be a lot more tolerable if we admitted to ourselves how often we project onto certain artists and their success.
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