Most Pretentious/Phoniest Musical Act

[UdoKier]

Poll question: Most Pretentious/Phoniest Musical Act

Most Pretentious/Phoniest Musical Act

(taking submissions)

[JimmyJazz]

1. U2

:P

[WindRavenX]

9. INFIDEL!

:grr: :nuke:

[LSdemocrat]

25. No, they're the most overhyped band in the world

[Ann Arbor Dem]

26. I'm with you.

And Sting (post Police) is tied with them.

:puke:

[tk2kewl]

2. Doesn't Millie Vanilli get the honors here?

:shrug:

[UdoKier]

4. They were actors portraying a musical act.

The musicians who made the records were not pretentious, just invisible.

[name not needed]

3. Celine Dion

[Allenberg]

12. Oh no you didn't

[Lauri16]

5. Milli Vanilli

Vanilla Ice, and any Boy Band.

[arwalden]

6. Up With People

[pnb]

7. 99.9% of pop music today

Of course, I may just be getting old.

[Lauri16]

11. I'll go along with that

but then I think i'm getting old, too.

[tk2kewl]

8. I think any dissolved band that makes a comeback for cash.

[Gato Moteado]

10. ashely simpson?

nt

[AllegroRondo]

13. Brittany Spears

gag

[UdoKier]

14. Does she pretend to be anything but a vacuous pop tart?

not very good, true, but not really phony or pretentious, IMO.

[AllegroRondo]

22. She pretends to be a musician

cant sing AT ALL

[KinkyDem]

15. Cyprus HIll

Argh! Fuckers.

Worste. Show. Ever.

Bunch of fake as posers.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. U2, hands down.

[The Great Escape]

17. It Has To Be a Country Western Act....

everything about modern country/western is phony and pretentious. Montgomery Gentry is a perfect example. What a couple of posers.

[Allenberg]

18. Kind of like

Toby "Whooboy I'm Making Millions Off of 3,000 Tragic Deaths" Keith?

[wyldwolf]

19. based on the definition of "pretentious"

I wouldn't vote for any of them.

But FANS of Creed and U2 and other bands like that. THEY'RE pretentious!

pre·ten·tious ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-tnshs)
adj.
Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified.

[chickenscratching]

20. David Cassidy

[AntiCoup2K4]

21. Steely Dan

2 idiots does not equal a band, and their music is among the most boring pathetic bullshit ever recorded.

Oasis is a close second.

[Patiod]

23. Disagree: Steely Dan is wonderful, together or apart

In addition to the usual stuff (My Old School, Kid Charlemagne) I love Fagin's solo stuff (The Goodbye Look, New Frontier)

And how many musicians that you loved 20 years ago don't sound dated when you listen later? Still great stuff.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

24. bob dylan-post 70s

a total sell-out who plays corporate merger parties and now tries to act like politics were never a part of his music-and he hasn't made a remotely interesting cd in even longer

yet people still blindly worship his phony ass

funny how i remeber song like 'masters of war" and "the time are a changin" a bit differently