https://xcancel.com/TPUSA/status/1976301627662340207#m
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/turning-point-usa-super-bowl-halftime-show-bad-bunny-1236544746/
There's a chud meta right now of getting outraged about Bad Bunny
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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They never deserved the level of heat they got
Seriously, the absolute rage at a band for just being mediocre is baffling. They're not even offensively bad! Just not good!
From what I know (most of which is from a todd in the shadows video) the main problem a lot of ppl had wasn’t that they were uniquely bad, but that they were completely omnipresent, like the benson boone of 00s rock (though I know even less abt him, pretty sure his success is just from the two music radio stations ppl still listen to and thousands of walmart playlists, neither of which I care abt lol)
The fact that they were in between AOR-derived rock for 40yo gnr fans and alt-rock for 20yo slipknot fans also meant that they got played on rock stations for both of them and got mercilessly derided by two notoriously easy-to-anger demographics at once for being on whatever their station was instead of the other’s
Two decades on if you make 5/10 music that can reasonably be classified under like 5 subgenres but not fully belong to any of them either it takes at least 4 yrs until a critical mass of ppl start getting openly tired of it (yes this is abt taylor swift)