Day 8: One band/singer whose popularity you will never understand.
Well, there's the obvious answer: Justin Bieber
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I mean, seriously. What?? And then there was that year where Conor Oberst was everywhere and I was like SHUT UP EMO MCGREASYHAIR. I mean, fine, whatever, his music isn't particularly objectionable all things considered, but the journalistic hard-on for this guy was just out of hand.
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Also, for a while hipsters were all about the Kinks, and I just...I don't get it.
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And then I WANTED to post something by Jason Mraz and his STUPID hat, but he's apparently turned off the embedding on all his YouTube videos, which, GUH YOU SUCK MRAZ. So instead I'll post something by John Mayer, who boggles me in a similar way and who was also featured on the Apple store playlist for far far far too long. Plus he goes around boning hot chicks and then Twittering awful things about them, and yeah, he's just gross. This song is about Jennifer Love Hewitt's "bubblegum tongue" and I DON'T NEED TO KNOW THAT.
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I'm sure I'm forgetting like a hundred other performing artists who bug the crap out of me, but I think I'll stop here.