Usually people who love music tend to like to write about music they love (for me that would be musical legends like The Beatles, The Band, & The Flaming Lips.) But sometimes it’s fun to talk about bad music. In fact in some ways it’s more fun. And it’s certainly much easier to find. Just check out MySpace music to see what I mean. The worst thing to me is that most of the absolute worst music I’ve heard on MySpace is also the most popular.

Hollywood Undead has to be the best example of this. They are incredibly bad and even more incredibly popular. I know it’s nothing new for “the kids” to love crap music, but I think Hollywood Undead just takes that concept too far? At least most of the awful music of the past had at least some redeeming value. Sure Milli Vanilli was cheesy but their songs were catchy and had some good production values. But with Hollywood Undead there is not even a hint of quality to be found.

But they are just one of many awful “artists” in the world of bad music

How about country singer Dierks Bentley? Have you heard this fluff? He’s unbelievably awful. I had heard his name for quite some time but had never listened to his music before as I have no interest in country pop but one day I came across his latest single “Feel That Fire” and I was just floored because it was so much worse than I thought it would be. And that’s saying quite a bit because I assumed it was be flat out terrible. But no, it’s far worse than that.

It’s no big deal that guys are creating horrendous music. There is nothing new about that. The big deal to me is that so many people actually think this is good music. Why is that? How can people be so amazingly clueless about music?

The easy thing to blame would be American Idol. And I’m sure that does have a part to play. Now millions of people think that having a pretty voice is the only thing that matters.

But I’m sure it must go much deeper than that. After all, it’s not like people liking bad music is an entirely new thing. The masses are always attracted to the easy to swallow garbage that usually fills the top forty every week. And it’s the real music that real music lovers listen to and that lasts for years.

Obviously no one will be listening to anyone from American Idol or Hollywood Undead in 20 years (except out of pure nostalgia or as a joke) while people will still be listening the music of true musical artists like The Beatles & Radiohead.