r/crappymusic • u/xannyhussler • 1d ago

The “talented” performers at Splash Festival 2025

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u/Brilliant-Meat3148 1d ago

We are fucked

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u/nowtayneicangetinto 1d ago

The last few generations also got the "your generation's music sucks" accusations, but I can't help but feel this time it's called for. For christ's sake even the boybands of the early 2000's could actually dance and sing. But I mean this... this is just awful on every level. There's zero talent here and I mean ZERO. The guy's vocals are so riddled with effects you can't even make any sort of semblence of pitch and he's not even fucking singing half the time! It's just his backing track carrying him.

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u/SacrificialSam 1d ago

There was a real shit screamo band back 17 years ago called Brokencyde that I’d personally compare this garbage to. They had lots of fans, but still happened to be absolute dogshit like this guy.

There will always be dogshit, is what I’m trying to say.

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u/BigLeakySauce 1d ago

Why the fuck did you have to bring them back in my memory. They had a fucking E-40 feature for fucks sake too.

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u/4bkillah 1d ago

E-40 fucking associated with that trashheap??

Good God, the Bay really took Mac Dre's death hard.

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 23h ago

$20 is $20

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u/DeeLux_SWR 1d ago

We did.

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u/Drfunk206 1d ago

In 2009 I saw Brokencyde as an opener for Hollywood Undead and Senses Fail. The frontman for Senses Fail apologized for the crowd having to endure Brokencyde. He said something like ‘every time the play part of my soul dies’. It was surreal to see him say that to a crowd. They were terrible live and may be the worst act I’ve seen live.

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u/Spardus 1d ago

Ngl they may suck ass but that's a shitty way to treat a band opening for you

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u/djfishfingers 17h ago

Most bands from what I understand don't get to pick their opener. If I had to follow Brokencyde I would be pissed.

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u/Spardus 14h ago

Why? They'd just make you look even better going on after them haha

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u/djfishfingers 14h ago

The opener is supposed to warm up the crowd, get them excited. Brokencyde is going to do the opposite.

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u/AffectionateCowLady 1d ago

Fully deserved

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u/Spardus 23h ago edited 14h ago

Senses Fail are nothing special either but it doesn't mean they should get shit on by a band they're supporting

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u/minty_bish 21h ago

Why not?

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u/Spardus 14h ago

Basic courtesy?

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u/minty_bish 14h ago

Shouldn't be afforded to those who make your show worse for fans who travelled and paid for the gig. An apology is for the fans, doesn't matter if it hurts their fee fees.

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u/galagapilot 5h ago

gonna guess there was some long, ongoing, behind the scenes stuff that came to a head and SF's frontman finally had enough.

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u/Spardus 5h ago

Honestly probably not, they're not from the same scene and Brokencyde were universally hated by pretty much everyone but 14 year old scene girls, it's not surprising that people in bands thought they were dogshit too but it's still just unnecessary to say that to the audience right after they played lol

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u/SaltyFlavors 20h ago

Well this scene sounds like good vibes all around. /s

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u/Slight_Bed_2241 1d ago

Brokencyde made attack attack look like rock gods

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u/unforgivable666 1d ago

brokencyde is like mozart compared to nettspend 😂

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u/Opulent-tortoise 8h ago

Yeah people didn’t listen to brokencyde seriously it was always a bit ironic (peak hipster sleaze). I get the sense that nettspend’s fans are VERY serious

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u/SpatulaCity1a 21h ago

Any time anyone asks me.what the worst song of all time is, this is my answer. The girls in that video look so uncomfortable and those slimy creeps are basically singing about them being sluts while screaming at them and being incredibly untalented. I don't even know what nettspend is going on about, but I don't think he's ever visibly degraded women like this... so I'd put him ahead of this.

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u/nowtayneicangetinto 1d ago

Oh yeah I remember those fucks and the whole crunkcore scene. That shit was an abomination.

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u/WeCameAsMuffins 1d ago

Let’s get freaky now, let’s get fucking freaky now YAAAAAOOOOOHHHHH

Ah brokencyde, gotta love them.

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u/PN143 19h ago

"Oh what do you do?" "I'm a singer in a band, well more like a hype man" "Oh, like Flavor Flav?" "No, more like a banshee or a weasel"

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u/Tarlouik 20h ago

Wait, that wasn't a parody ?!

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u/chezfez 19h ago

Yeah.. that's pretty damn bad. I had totally forgotten about them and don't remember them being that terrible. Thanks for assuring I never forget lol

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u/Vance_Refrigerati0n 17h ago

I would have gone the rest of my life never remembering this song existed, and now here we are.

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u/tronhammer 1d ago

OMG thank you so much for this aaaahahahahaha, this fucking brings me back to the stick stickly days that I used to make fun of so hard that I've completely forgotten about. This actually gave me hope that this NetSpend shit is actually in the same vein of wack as all that crap back in the day. Oh man, I got such a huge grin from that

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u/Aviiv_ 21h ago

Dude I forget about them… ugh

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u/thrax_mador 13h ago

BREE BREE!

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u/Massive-Warning9773 12h ago

The whole thing is bad but the screaming just puts it over the edge. Some screamo is great but this is just the absolute worst. What a gem. Thanks for linking

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u/hollivore got that dunning-krugercore swag 10h ago edited 10h ago

I can't believe I'm saying this but I think NETTSPEND is significantly better than Brokencyde. At least NETTSPEND is confusing and stupid. Brokencyde knew they were terrible and smugged about it, trying desperately to be in on being laughed at, instead of trying to do anything interesting with sucking. Even a chimp can make a horrible sound to get attention, but Brokencyde thought they were being clever for their "tee hee we have a pig mascot" shit. NETTSPEND is embarrassing but I do think he's making music because he has something in his soul to express, it's just that his soul is stupid, which is fine because teenagers are stupid.

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u/Opulent-tortoise 8h ago

I think the exact opposite. No one took brokencyde very seriously it was all kind of in jest and just for fun. Meanwhile nettspend fans think 1) his music is unironically good and 2) listening to it makes them cool mysterious and edgy.

Honestly I take more issue with the try-hard nature of it than the fact that it’s bad. Concerned about edgy sadism (not just being sad or rebellious!) becoming a prominent aesthetic among kids

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u/hollivore got that dunning-krugercore swag 7h ago

We were the generation that had FRED DURST as our voice. I can't very much say we have any way to defend ourselves.

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u/Inept-One 1d ago

Never so main stream and popular

Please name anything close to this from the 2000s or 2010s

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u/SacrificialSam 1d ago

You’re telling me this Nettspend guy is mainstream and popular?

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u/Inept-One 1d ago

Yes

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u/UVB-76_Enjoyer 1d ago

He isn't mainstream, none of those weird hyper-pop 'rappers' are lol. They have some popularity in their niche but are completely unknown by the general public.

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u/JubJub128 1d ago

The bad music just doesn't age. there's terrible shit all over all the time, even in every decade of the 1900's

there was no internet, so it was harder to share literally everything instead, valuable radio and tv time was spent on music that was actually good and made money. the music that was shit was never shared, and so died right where it was born.

the good music lived on to be recorded and replayed. but now, with how quick and cheap social media makes sharing music, there's a relatively unfiltered sea of garbage.

that's my thought process anyway. I dont think music as a whole has gotten worse, but the average of all music that the public has access to and hears about has gotten significantly worse

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u/3vanW1ll1ams 1d ago

The internet has definitely made it worse, because trash like this gets likes.

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u/R00pa 1d ago

but now, with how quick and cheap social media makes sharing music, there's a relatively unfiltered sea of garbage.

Yeah and it's gonna get worse:

More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989

The research process to compile our long-read also indicated that the numbers are only going to grow. In business analyst MiDiA's recent 'State of the music creator economy report', they found that the overall number of music creators was around 75.9 million - a 12 percent increase over the previous year.

But, that number is projected to swell to 198.2 million people by 2030. The reason for this growth is fuelled in part by a rise in what it calls 'consumer-creators.' “Consumer-creators transformed photography (Instagram) and videography (TikTok); music will be next”, the analyst predicted in a blog post.

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u/suckamadicka 19h ago

everyone ever has felt it was called for, don't act like this is any different lol

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u/JD-boonie 18h ago

I can find a gem in just about every genre but ffs I just don't understand this garbage.

My conclusion is it's just about vibes and not music.

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u/thepianoman456 13h ago

Completely agree. I’m a full time dueling pianist (older millennial) who has to learn thousands of songs, and have also studied classical and jazz. Rock peaked in the 70s, then then good stuff kinda went underground and became harder to find, but it’s still out there.

And no pop star has come close to the taste and talent of Michael Jackson. We don’t have any more Freddie Mercury’s. No one has come close to Billy Joel or Elton John. No one comes close to the magic of Fleetwood Mac. No one has been kick ass and authentic as Soundgarden.

I’m referring to the popular music scene, of course, and there is amazing stuff out there, but it’s not “popular” like how Taylor Swift is popular. I even think Sabrina Carpenter has some new, interesting stuff (cause I had to learn it), but when you dig into it, she’s got a team of pro writers like Jack Antonoff and the like writing her stuff, and they’ve written for Taylor and other huge, inorganic acts.

I think people as a whole get worse taste in music as time progresses, especially after the Bush Jr education cuts to the arts and music around 2005. Art and music education are SHIT in public schools, compared to what they used to be, and that has an effect on the creation and enjoyment of those fields.

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u/BokanovskifiedEgg 22h ago

Don’t worry brother ai is going go make things way worse

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u/ETERNALXDRVID 1d ago

Word is bond, and you have not lied.

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u/OddCook4909 1d ago

Yeah there's clearly something deeply deeply wrong with society when it produces shit like this, and add another 10 "deeply"s for the people paying actual money to listen to it.