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I had to create a disposable Spotify account to listen to the AJR record so it wouldn’t fuck with my recommended algorithm And by god what a fucking joke you were definitely right, one of the worst albums of the year let’s hope we can leave them in this decade
I know I'm late to the party here, but I must say, I don't have a problem with those words rhyming, I have a problem with the fact that in rhyming them, she intentionally pronounced them BOTH WRONG!! What?!
@Whosur Caddy Imagine Dragons were least good when they started. All the copycats just do it when their careers are struggling or if they're American Authors
@boom plush rolplays Head Above Water isn’t the worst thing ever it’s just really boring and poorly produced but please for the love of god do not listen to the Iggy album
@@ronstoppable5659 I know I have no interest in listening to Iggy Azalea ever, like the only song I heard and liked fully from her was "Trouble", and that was mainly because of Jennifer Hudson, not for her
List Of things that happened the last time that Avril released a good album: Spider Man 2, the first Spongebob movie and The Incredibles weren’t released yet Fall Out Boy was still fairly unknown Usher and Good Charlotte were some of the biggest names in music Danny Phantom and Avatar haven’t premiered yet Kim Possible and Lizzie McGuire frequently had all day marathons on Disney Channel MTV was still a popular destination for music The PS2 was the hottest console on the market Tom Delonge was still with Blink 182 My Chemical Romance was just starting their mainstream breakthrough Eminem hasn’t ruined his career with Encore yet
@izzy startin It still doesn’t help the fact that song’s lyrical content sounds like an overly dramatic ballad about a bad relationship from a B-list mid 2000s faux emo pop rock band, It just feels unintentionally hilarious to me but it’s also very boring and lacking musically and lacks the bombast and emotion that made songs in that lane like It Ends Tonight and Fall For You work
@@madizzle90 Define "taken seriously". If you just mean it was a parody, yeah, it is a parody just a shockingly bad one. If it was just a joke then why go to the trouble of bringing in a decent musician and re-arranging all the songs. Let's face it, he wanted to rip into the album yet also act like he respected it and it backfired.
Miss the days when Avril was capable of making pop bangers like Sk8er Boi and Losing Grip while creating heartbreaking songs like Together, Nobody's Home, and When You're Gone without the need of watering down the sound and chasing the trends of modern day. She made herself unique and didn't want to be put in the same image as Britney Spears. I know that she had a Lyme disease scare and wanted to make the album surrounding around it, but besides Head Above Water and a few others, it came off as nonlinear and disappointing. The people working with her didn't do her justice.
@Quentin Childs Agreed, just hearing the mixing and production while I was listening to the album just made me say where are Don Gilmore and Butch Walker when you need them? Because the production just sucks and sounds borderline amateurish
Every time I go to the movie theater I hear an AJR song. Hey movie theater, just because the album is called Neotheater doesn’t mean you have to play a song from it every goddamn time I go there.
I love Avril and I can't say I don't enjoy Head Above Water at all as an album, but can't help feeling like if other singers-songwriters had gone through Lyme Disease they would've written brilliant music about it. She was a trailblazer for a lot of female artists, like Taylor Swift, Hayley Williams, Billie Eilish. We could also argue (you guys are free to disagree) that, if it weren't for Avril first, we wouldn't have Adele or Lorde. The thing is those women became better Avrils than Avril herself. They became better at writing and singing about their lives, at being vulnerable behind the microphone - while Avril lost that skill over time, became shallow and clichéd. And if she wasn't able to write meaningful, truly powerful and moving songs after the worst years of her life, she probably never will again. It's sad.
@Sofia I agree with you on Avril influencing artists like Hayley and Billie but I honestly think that the main artists that set the stage for Adele was Amy Whinehouse
Sofia I don’t agree at all because Avril has stuck to good values of promoting her music instead of her body, something nearly every other artist in her genre can’t.
The worst albums in my opinion is: AJR - Neotheather Machine Gun Kelly - Hotel Diablo The Head and The Heart - Living Mirage X Ambassadors - Orion Mac DeMarco - Here Come The Cowboy There is too much mediocre stuff that I have listened so yeah
Spectrum Pulse: You know, Neotheatre is awful, but I'm not feeling the need for a thrashing today. It doesn't deserve it. ARTV: Don't worry pal I got you.
It wasn’t that great. I know *I* was disappointed. I still really like “Show and Tell” and “Strawberry Shortcake”, but I don’t come back to any of the other songs on the album. Also, the storyline is too weird to follow; it just doesn’t make half as much sense as Crybaby did. The album just kind of exists for the most part 🤷🏽♀️ it’s okay, but it was kind of disappointing for me
Avril’s album wasn’t horrible, wasn’t good though. It was one of the most disappointing albums of the year. The only song I liked and that I actually remember is the title track. Dumb Blonde is especially grating.
I don't understand how he keeps on working after that controversy, I'm glad I haven't heard it, and never will, and that I stopped watching his videos, they were pretty dumb looking back on them now
@@artvjongood fucking call. I listened to it all after the fantano review and its just disrespectful to pink floyd, and its disrespectful to my ears. I've never actually hated an album like I do with it. Stay far away.
@@artvjon same! I thought it was unlistenable at first but I came back to the black album once I got a physical copy (for completeness' sake) and it's really grown on me since then
Ok so, as much as I admittedly loved Neotheater (it's my guilty pleasure I'm afraid), when you said 'YUP, YUP, YUP, YUP' when talking about if it was your least favourite of the year I legit spit out my coffee onto my monitor laughing. Thank you Jonathan, very cool.
*My least faves:* • we - gnash • Cry - Cigarettes After Sex • Chip Tooth Smile - Rob Thomas • Rattlesnake - The Strumbellas • MCID - Highly Suspect • Neotheater - AJRU Kidding Me • In My Defense - Iggy Bo Biggy • Harverd Dropout - Lil Plump *And don’t even get me started on EPs.*
Totally agree! In my opinion, the worst record of the year was Puddle Of Mudd to be honest. It's such an awful record! And don't forget that shitty 'Indigo' by Chris Brown. It's about quality not quantity!
1. Jesus is King by Kanye West 2. The Wall Review by The Nostalgia Critic 3. Neotheatre by AJR 4. Father of Asad by “DJ” Khalid 5. Harvard Dropout by Lil Pump 6. Hotel Diablo by Machine Gun Kelly 7. Amo by Bring me the Horizon 8. No 6. Collaborations by Ed Sheeran 9. Who Do You Trust? by Papa Roach 10. Victorious by Skillet
Let's start off this comment by saying I'm by no means an Avril fan, but I acknowledge that she made some of the best pop rock of the last decade. IMHO, it all went downhill from The best damn thing on
Even though I genuinely enjoyed "Victorious", I can understand where you are coming from with your criticisms and why you put it on the list, if anything I learned this year is that it's okay not to like everything, and that's fine by me; about Ed Sheeran, yep, that's disappointing, once I saw the collaborations it was going to have (Justin Bieber and Cardi B, like why) I asked myself how did it happen
@@aidanstafford741 Its very fine, it is some pretty awesome stuff I won't deny, its just that I became a fan probably to late in the game, which is why I enjoyed their latest albums, but then again, its fine if no one likes them
Manuel David Rendon Acevedo Same for me. In fact, I just discovered any music at all that I liked a few months ago. Most of them are by bands that don’t even make music anymore like, Linkin Park, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, and Soundgarden. That’s probs why I appreciate the older stuff more. Each to their own, though
I honestly thought Victorious was their best album since Comatose. I highly doubt they'll ever top Comatose again and Awake was good but a lot of the songs were overplayed to me. That's just my opinion on it.
I totally agree with you about Fever Dream. I was so excited when I found out they were releasing new stuff. Then I heard Alligator and got even more hyped because I thought the entire album was gonna have a similar sound. Then I actually listened to it and it felt like they started off being more pop and electric, but they didn’t really commit to that idea and it wasn’t pop or electric enough to be high energy or positive, but it wasn’t enough like their old styles to please older fans.
Disappointments: K12 by Melanie Martinez Amo by Bring me the Horizon Head above Water by Avril Lavigne Nine by Blink 182 The underrated youth Ep by Yungblud
Oh and definitely an album I absolutely can’t stand is the new Panic at the Disco album. It’s just mainstream pop and it’s not even written by Brendon Urie. Nothing of it seems somehow personal to him.
@@jasonlovesmusicreacting882 I never listened to Blink 182 in my life, nor I knew about their existence until this year, so I gave the album a shot, and while its not a bad album, it didn't hooked me at all, maybe I'm just not into the teenage angsty vibes of rock music anymore
@@jasonlovesmusicreacting882 Hahaha, what exactly makes you lmao yourself?, anyways, I think I was contradicting myself, I've never listened fully to a band that had a teenage angst vibe, I never did, I just heard at least three songs from My Chemical Romance and that was it as much as I got from that, going back to that Nine album, yes, it didn't hooked me Btw, I'm 19
@@jasonlovesmusicreacting882 Ikr?, haha, I think I'm sort of getting started in a way, lol, I live in Latin America, many of these artists aren't well-known or don't have an international recognition, so I didn't knew anything about them, that is why; I only got into rock when I was 14
In My Defense didn’t really live up to the expectations suggested by the name, it’s very one dimensional and her new EP is almost literally the same. But I cannot not listen to the good songs from it. Also I think she doesn’t like making songs about personal things, because ppl don’t listen to those, for example Savior still has 25m views after 2 years, and her next single a year later ‘Kream’ has 200+million views and it’s just about ass. She knows what her audience wants, and that is pretty much ass at this point
But my question how do you go from Welcome Home to The Owl? Zac Brown made some of the most classic country songs ever, and I'm just depressed to see how Zac is nowadays.
richard f well i consider myself pretty good at respecting others opinions, but other fans may have their heads a little shoved up their asses a bit too much
richard f: Yeah, just because some of their fans don’t respect other people’s opinions doesn’t mean the rest of us do. I’m willing to respect other’s opinions but it doesn’t mean I’m not aloud to have mine either.
I was so disapointed with the highly suspect album. I had so much hope from upperdrugs, 16 and canals (which are decent songs) then when it dropped and i first listened to it i was like, "ohh, oh no". The first two albums were so fucking good then that came out, WTAF
My worst albums of the year: - Neotheater by AJR - The Controversy by Zac Brown ("Swayze" is the WORST song released this year) - The Owl by Zac Brown - LP1 by Liam Payne - Supermarket by Logic Disappointments - Head Above Water by Avril Lavigne
And I just realized I left the band part off Zac Brown Band...oops...oh well..."The Owl" sounded more like a Zac Brown vanity project than an actual Zac Brown band album so I ain't going to edit it.
@@ronstoppable5659 "Phantoms" by Marianas Trench "Sucker Punch" by Sigrid "Lover" by Taylor Swift "The Great Expanse" by Hilltop Hoods "Blood Moon" by Cold Chisel "My Criminal Record" by Jimmy Barnes "Travelling Mercies" by Emily Scott Robinson "Desert Dove" by Michaela Anne "When We all fall asleep, where do we Go" by Billie Eilish "Future Dust" by The Amazons "Don't Let Go" by Dear Seattle "Jade Bird" by Jade Bird
I don’t care about her “Head Above Water” album, but I do appreciate it that Avril Lavigne is back to music again. Especially after what happened to her after she had Lyme Disease .
I used to really like Chase Atlantic, a lot. I really liked the Don't Try this EP. The music before sounded good, put-together, enjoyable. I had such high-hopes for Phases. Boy, was I disappointed. It sounds completely different, and it sounds like a mess. I tried to like it because I liked the group but I just couldn't. I don't like any of the songs on that stupid album. They're awful. I hope they go back to how the music was before, instead of trying to change their sound to get more clout.
I thought maybe you'll put Father Of The Bride by Vampire Weekend and Everyday Life by Coldplay in the "dissapointments" category. The thing is that they weren't neither good nor bad. I feel is because they were too long. These had AMAZING songs but also ones that felt extra, ones that could've been cut out. Am I the only one who feels this way? For this, and as I have lots of free time, I made what could've been (at least for me) ones of their best on these band's discography: Everyday Life: 1- Church 2- Trouble In Town 3- Daddy 4- WOTW/POTP 5- Arabesque 6- Guns 7- Orphans 8- the one in Arabic 9- Champion Of The World 10- Everyday Life Father Of The Bride: 1- Harmony Hall 2- This Life 3- Big Blue 4- How Long? 5- Unbearably White 6- Married In A Gold Rush (feat. Danielle Haim) 7- My Mistake 8- Sympathy 9- Sunflower (feat. Steve Lacy) 10- 2021 The best part of the Coldplay album it's from Church to Arabesque. All songs collide so well together. That including WOTW/POTP, which feels weird without it despite being one of the worst, but cutting out BrokEn. This is because I realised Trouble In Town and Daddy go SO well together! Why do they had to put BrokEn in the middle???!!! Then there's Guns and Orphans that are great too but they are just there. Then finally at the end of the album we get a moment like this from the one in Arabic to Everyday Life. What's on the middle nah, skippable. And the 1st half without the start and the finish, and BrokEn ruinning the vibe! What was hard on the Vampire Weekend one was to know which songs to include. The 1st 5 were easy and the last one too. I've always felt they could've finish the album on 2021. For that I didn't put Spring Snow which is great taking out the auto-tune. What's more, I wanted to include at least 1 of each collaboration so I picked the ones that felt more of a collaboration or were simply better (this applies most on the Danielle one). The rest was just selecting what I felt was best for the album. For example, Bambina is good but it feels extra as it is too short.
Jon. Thanks again for saving me from this music hell over the past year. As a footnote, I did actually purchase Ed Sheeran No. 6 in order to avoid a potential personal relationship meltdown...
An incomplete list of my least favorites this year in no particular order: AJR - Neotheater(uhhhh I guess it's better than The Click but that's a pretty low bar) Chance the Rapper - The Big Day (My disappointment is immeasurable with this one) Logic - Supermarket DJ Khaled - Father of Asahd Lil Pump - Harverd Dropout Ed Sheeran - No. 6 Collaborations Project(it's kinda sad that this clearly talented musician chooses to spew out painfully mediocre and pandering fluff when he seems to be capable of more)
Skillet used to be my fav band of all time After Unleashed, i barely listen to them now But their old stuff are awesome Check out Collide, Comatose, Awake All amazing
@@simbawbway lol nope. Literally every second of that album is full of cringe inducing lyrics and bad, cliche pop trends. There's nothing original or genuine about it. They try to touch on actual issues but they do it from an insanely privileged perspective as if they've never had any actual problems. It's like a hallmark movie made into an album.
I’m a huge Melanie Martinez fan but k-12 was not that good especially comparing to cry baby. Cry baby is such a good album and doesn’t rely on the visuals to make it better unlike k-12. I hope her 3rd album is more like cry baby.
I'd give K-12 (from your dishonorable mentions) a few more listens. I was initially disappointed as well, but now- while I still don't think it's quite as good as Cry Baby- I really love the album. It was one of my favorite albums of the year. The songs are not as immediately as catchy or mind-blowing as Cry Baby, however, they have a certain quality to them that makes them grow on you over time with repeated listens. The Principal, Show & Tell, Strawberry Shortcake, Teacher's Pet, and High School Sweethearts are my favorites and are all really well done- especially in combination with the choreography (though the choreography isn't completely necessary to enjoy the tracks, in my opinion).
Fever dream actually grew on me a lot! It’s definitely a listen for a specific mindset, but I’d give it another chance! Ahay, Vulture Vulture, Sleepwalker and Soothsayer are all great deep cuts, and Wars stands on its own well with the other singles.
I actually started listening to Highly Suspect this week, and holy shit MCID was terrible. They were at their peak with The Boy Who Died Wolf, and then they fell so hard from grace. What a shame.
Low key, Phases was one of my favorite albums of the year and I personally enjoy the contrast between being an ‘asshole’ but also kind of realizing that you’re young and stupid and need people in your life. As reprehensible as some of the lyrics/songs may be they are necessary because they paint a picture of modern adolescence which is why I think ‘i don’t like darkness’ is the perfect song to end with, but With all that said I get what you’re saying
With Simple Plan, we knew that their music wasn't deep but with AJR we were tricked into thinking it was deep so that way the brothers and their ad executives could actually market this stuff and get money out of people. It's a not as much as shame as it is a felony that Neotheater is what they tried to market.
@@DashieNegan41 Yeah Tate really hit rock bottom after Queensyrche but still the new guy still have the power in his voice plus their latest record is pretty cool too
Skillet was my favorite band. Rise was their last decent album they made. Some decent songs from Unleashed and Victorious (only 2 from that album) but I hate how they mix a portion of pop in their music. It gets boring so quick. RIP. I’ll stick to their old heavier albums
(it's called being an on camera personality and playing up our feelings for an audience. it's actually how I feel, but often layered up for comedic effect)
i agree with a lot of this list but i feel that the jo bros did a great job with happiness begins so that’s where we’ll have to disagree, i do wish they went more of a pop rock route but there are several cuts on there i enjoy like “used to be” and “don’t throw it away for example” that show their improved vocals over the years. anyways i love your videos jon i’m a huge fan keep up the great work :)
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Yeah, AJR's new album was a complete abomination. I thought The Click was at least tolerable, but Neotheater was just terrible.
your rant on AJR deserves a grammy
ARTV Surprised that Lil Pump didn’t pump his way into the Top 3
I had to create a disposable Spotify account to listen to the AJR record so it wouldn’t fuck with my recommended algorithm
And by god what a fucking joke you were definitely right, one of the worst albums of the year let’s hope we can leave them in this decade
ARTV don’t throw out my Lego that’s a song I can relate to because it means leaving home but never forgetting where you came from
I'm still not over the fact Avril tried to rhyme pajamas and bananas together.
Dallas Winston I like that rhyme it’s funny and it sounds good
Well, that's not really a stretch tbh. You should hear some of Dylan's rhyming.
I know I'm late to the party here, but I must say, I don't have a problem with those words rhyming, I have a problem with the fact that in rhyming them, she intentionally pronounced them BOTH WRONG!! What?!
AJR: **exists**
Jon: *no*
Everyone: *no*
@@syd_barrett_lmfao me: *maybe*
AJR is overhated.
@@alexanderliu9376 nop
@@alexanderliu9376 I dont know. If you listen too songs like birthday party, you understand why they're hated.
Imagine Dragons is pretty much a genre now
Fr
The genre of the genreless lmao
It is though
Maroon 5 should be in it
@Whosur Caddy Imagine Dragons were least good when they started. All the copycats just do it when their careers are struggling or if they're American Authors
Avril was easily the most disappointing but Iggy was the worst
now i'm really scared to listen to those albums
@boom plush rolplays Head Above Water isn’t the worst thing ever it’s just really boring and poorly produced but please for the love of god do not listen to the Iggy album
@@ronstoppable5659 I know I have no interest in listening to Iggy Azalea ever, like the only song I heard and liked fully from her was "Trouble", and that was mainly because of Jennifer Hudson, not for her
Avril lavigne has become a poor mans version of P!nk.
@@charlottexroyalty7819 You mean poor woman's version, lol
List Of things that happened the last time that Avril released a good album:
Spider Man 2, the first Spongebob movie and The Incredibles weren’t released yet
Fall Out Boy was still fairly unknown
Usher and Good Charlotte were some of the biggest names in music
Danny Phantom and Avatar haven’t premiered yet
Kim Possible and Lizzie McGuire frequently had all day marathons on Disney Channel
MTV was still a popular destination for music
The PS2 was the hottest console on the market
Tom Delonge was still with Blink 182
My Chemical Romance was just starting their mainstream breakthrough
Eminem hasn’t ruined his career with Encore yet
Basically, 2004.
Whoa, deja vu.
@Quentin Childs Yep 2004 was an absolute killer year, not just for Avril, not just for music, but for pop culture in general
@@ronstoppable5659 Definitely.
@@jasonlovesmusicreacting882 Copy from Notes, paste in comment section.
Avril was actually on the soundtrack of the Spongebob movie.
Head above water straight up sounds like Contemporary Christian
It actually did chart on a couple of Christian charts, funny enough.
@@brennancampbell3917 Well ring ding mcging bing, I guess I was right
I just remembered how she got bashed by Christians for her song "I fell in love with the devil" lol
@izzy startin It still doesn’t help the fact that song’s lyrical content sounds like an overly dramatic ballad about a bad relationship from a B-list mid 2000s faux emo pop rock band, It just feels unintentionally hilarious to me but it’s also very boring and lacking musically and lacks the bombast and emotion that made songs in that lane like It Ends Tonight and Fall For You work
Head above water was the only good track on avrils recent Album
You saved yourself not listening to the wall . Your life is going to last longer than mine . Lucky bastard.
As someone who is "neutral" when it comes to NC, I see that that album wasn't meant to be taken seriously. *shrugs*
@@madizzle90 Define "taken seriously". If you just mean it was a parody, yeah, it is a parody just a shockingly bad one. If it was just a joke then why go to the trouble of bringing in a decent musician and re-arranging all the songs. Let's face it, he wanted to rip into the album yet also act like he respected it and it backfired.
Miss the days when Avril was capable of making pop bangers like Sk8er Boi and Losing Grip while creating heartbreaking songs like Together, Nobody's Home, and When You're Gone without the need of watering down the sound and chasing the trends of modern day. She made herself unique and didn't want to be put in the same image as Britney Spears. I know that she had a Lyme disease scare and wanted to make the album surrounding around it, but besides Head Above Water and a few others, it came off as nonlinear and disappointing. The people working with her didn't do her justice.
@Whosur Caddy Yeah. Also, pop punk.
@Whosur Caddy I’d consider it more alt pop rock, like Alanis Morrissette, but there were definitely some post grunge elements as well
@Quentin Childs Agreed, just hearing the mixing and production while I was listening to the album just made me say where are Don Gilmore and Butch Walker when you need them? Because the production just sucks and sounds borderline amateurish
Quentin Childs it was such a good album I love adult Avril she’s great
My uncle is Zac’s personal assistant, I should ask him WHY HE EVER CHOSE TO RELEASE THE ALBUM 💀💀💀💀
that lil pump sample assaulted my ears
- jenna. Imagine not liking lil pump
Only heard one album on the list and that was Who Do You Trust. And that was not actively, so I guess I treated myself decently
ajr is like grownup kidzbop kids trying to make their own music
TRUEST WORDS EVER TYPED
AJR is like grownup, born-again Christian kidzbop kids trying to make their own music
FTFY
Pete: cambiò nome, ma rimane lui I wouldn’t say “Christian” but yeah
cerulean
This is the most accurate thing I’ve ever heard
They probably are
Every time I go to the movie theater I hear an AJR song. Hey movie theater, just because the album is called Neotheater doesn’t mean you have to play a song from it every goddamn time I go there.
If I walked into a movie theater and AJR was playing over the loudspeaker, I would bolt out faster than the speed of light.
I would burn the theater down! (get it cause there is an ajr song called "burn the house down")
@boom plush rolplays That’s more clever than their entire discography
When everyone you know in real life loves AJR, it's really refreshing to hear of all the music critics shit on them
I love Avril and I can't say I don't enjoy Head Above Water at all as an album, but can't help feeling like if other singers-songwriters had gone through Lyme Disease they would've written brilliant music about it.
She was a trailblazer for a lot of female artists, like Taylor Swift, Hayley Williams, Billie Eilish. We could also argue (you guys are free to disagree) that, if it weren't for Avril first, we wouldn't have Adele or Lorde. The thing is those women became better Avrils than Avril herself. They became better at writing and singing about their lives, at being vulnerable behind the microphone - while Avril lost that skill over time, became shallow and clichéd. And if she wasn't able to write meaningful, truly powerful and moving songs after the worst years of her life, she probably never will again.
It's sad.
Well said. 😞
@Sofia I agree with you on Avril influencing artists like Hayley and Billie but I honestly think that the main artists that set the stage for Adele was Amy Whinehouse
Sofia I don’t agree at all because Avril has stuck to good values of promoting her music instead of her body, something nearly every other artist in her genre can’t.
@@presto569 That has nothing to do with what I wrote.
Sofia but it has to do with what I have to say
The worst albums in my opinion is:
AJR - Neotheather
Machine Gun Kelly - Hotel Diablo
The Head and The Heart - Living Mirage
X Ambassadors - Orion
Mac DeMarco - Here Come The Cowboy
There is too much mediocre stuff that I have listened so yeah
boom plush rolplays forgot that Head and the Heart album even came out
boom plush rolplays I liked the X ambassadors album tbh
Hotel Diablo is fu***ing fire 🔥 for the most part
Hotel Diablo is dope
Hotel Diablo was actually pretty good, and I don't even like MGK usually
It had some bad songs but it was pretty good
The Owl is only number 3!? What could possibly worse than The Owl?! How?
(Sees the top 2) Oof. Never mind.
Spectrum Pulse: You know, Neotheatre is awful, but I'm not feeling the need for a thrashing today. It doesn't deserve it.
ARTV: Don't worry pal I got you.
When I saw K-12 here I had to keep blinking.
I-
It wasn’t that great. I know *I* was disappointed. I still really like “Show and Tell” and “Strawberry Shortcake”, but I don’t come back to any of the other songs on the album. Also, the storyline is too weird to follow; it just doesn’t make half as much sense as Crybaby did. The album just kind of exists for the most part 🤷🏽♀️ it’s okay, but it was kind of disappointing for me
Blanco Brown made Country trap rap? So he essentially made trap crap.
Trailer trap is what he calls it lol
Avril’s album wasn’t horrible, wasn’t good though. It was one of the most disappointing albums of the year. The only song I liked and that I actually remember is the title track. Dumb Blonde is especially grating.
Jessica Marshall dumb blonde is my least favorite off the album but the rest of the album was a masterpiece
Remo Drive had so much potential. Hope they can bounce back. They could've been the next Pup.
Quentin Childs idk about that. Pup is one of the only reasons I have hope for music still.
Nostalgia Critic's The Wall is worse than all of these!
I don't understand how he keeps on working after that controversy, I'm glad I haven't heard it, and never will, and that I stopped watching his videos, they were pretty dumb looking back on them now
The truest comment in this section
Will never listen to it I refuse
@@artvjon Good call
@@artvjongood fucking call. I listened to it all after the fantano review and its just disrespectful to pink floyd, and its disrespectful to my ears. I've never actually hated an album like I do with it. Stay far away.
ajr are one of my ex’s favorite bands and watching you tear into them is poetic justice
For some reason, zombie bastards grew on literally every Weezer fan I know, myself included.
Right? Like wtf I hated it at first but...now I really like it
@@artvjon same! I thought it was unlistenable at first but I came back to the black album once I got a physical copy (for completeness' sake) and it's really grown on me since then
I'm a huge Weezer fan, but The Black Album was just mediocre at best. Also I agree w/ Skillet & Puddle Of Mudd.
Me too! I agree as well.
Wait...wait wait WAIT. 'Uh-Oh' by Puddle of Mudd was a HIT on rock radio?
Damn. Radio is desperate.
Sigh. Yep.
@lena7623 At least it didn’t cross over to the top 40, unlike their early singles which were also huge on TRL (back when it was popular)
uh oh, radio fucked up again
Ok so, as much as I admittedly loved Neotheater (it's my guilty pleasure I'm afraid), when you said 'YUP, YUP, YUP, YUP' when talking about if it was your least favourite of the year I legit spit out my coffee onto my monitor laughing. Thank you Jonathan, very cool.
*My least faves:*
• we - gnash
• Cry - Cigarettes After Sex
• Chip Tooth Smile - Rob Thomas
• Rattlesnake - The Strumbellas
• MCID - Highly Suspect
• Neotheater - AJRU Kidding Me
• In My Defense - Iggy Bo Biggy
• Harverd Dropout - Lil Plump
*And don’t even get me started on EPs.*
Smile Empty Soul - Sheep EP is actually decent.
Totally agree! In my opinion, the worst record of the year was Puddle Of Mudd to be honest. It's such an awful record! And don't forget that shitty 'Indigo' by Chris Brown. It's about quality not quantity!
@Ddhfacetyy no, there is nothing redeemable about that absolute trash-heap, or chris brown in general
1. Jesus is King by Kanye West
2. The Wall Review by The Nostalgia Critic
3. Neotheatre by AJR
4. Father of Asad by “DJ” Khalid
5. Harvard Dropout by Lil Pump
6. Hotel Diablo by Machine Gun Kelly
7. Amo by Bring me the Horizon
8. No 6. Collaborations by Ed Sheeran
9. Who Do You Trust? by Papa Roach
10. Victorious by Skillet
Come on Amo has no place in a list with DJ Khaled and Papa Roach
Amo is really good
Amo wasn’t bad, it was just disappointing
JiK was kinda ass but cmon no way it's no.1
@Nolan Vogel JIK was pretty bad by Kanye standards but I’ll still take it over anything on Christian radio right now
I can watch John talk about AJR for a whole day honestly
It’s sad because I love Avril Lavigne but her new album is so disappointing
Let's start off this comment by saying I'm by no means an Avril fan, but I acknowledge that she made some of the best pop rock of the last decade.
IMHO, it all went downhill from The best damn thing on
Pete: cambiò nome, ma rimane lui her early years are my favorite but her later stuff isn’t that bad I like it
IFall Out Boy Lover 124 I thought I was her 3rd best album
Even though I genuinely enjoyed "Victorious", I can understand where you are coming from with your criticisms and why you put it on the list, if anything I learned this year is that it's okay not to like everything, and that's fine by me; about Ed Sheeran, yep, that's disappointing, once I saw the collaborations it was going to have (Justin Bieber and Cardi B, like why) I asked myself how did it happen
Yeah, I like skillet, but their older stuff, from Comatose to rise. Most of the modern stuff is a little too cheesy for me and has been done.
@@aidanstafford741 Its very fine, it is some pretty awesome stuff I won't deny, its just that I became a fan probably to late in the game, which is why I enjoyed their latest albums, but then again, its fine if no one likes them
Manuel David Rendon Acevedo Same for me. In fact, I just discovered any music at all that I liked a few months ago. Most of them are by bands that don’t even make music anymore like, Linkin Park, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, and Soundgarden. That’s probs why I appreciate the older stuff more. Each to their own, though
@@aidanstafford741 Oh no, definitely, respect to the old stuff indeed, I'm right there with you
I honestly thought Victorious was their best album since Comatose. I highly doubt they'll ever top Comatose again and Awake was good but a lot of the songs were overplayed to me. That's just my opinion on it.
Avril's album was such a huge disappointment for me because I was SO excited for it and it turned out to be the most boring album she's released
Actual Pancake it’s not boring it’s deep.
it's deep if you're a teenager I guess
Actual Pancake yeah I am a teenager and it can be deep to adults as well Avril is for everyone
Holy moly, that takedown of AJR was INTENSE Haha! Good list Jon!
I totally agree with you about Fever Dream. I was so excited when I found out they were releasing new stuff. Then I heard Alligator and got even more hyped because I thought the entire album was gonna have a similar sound. Then I actually listened to it and it felt like they started off being more pop and electric, but they didn’t really commit to that idea and it wasn’t pop or electric enough to be high energy or positive, but it wasn’t enough like their old styles to please older fans.
Disappointments:
K12 by Melanie Martinez
Amo by Bring me the Horizon
Head above Water by Avril Lavigne
Nine by Blink 182
The underrated youth Ep by Yungblud
Oh and definitely an album I absolutely can’t stand is the new Panic at the Disco album. It’s just mainstream pop and it’s not even written by Brendon Urie. Nothing of it seems somehow personal to him.
@@jasonlovesmusicreacting882 I never listened to Blink 182 in my life, nor I knew about their existence until this year, so I gave the album a shot, and while its not a bad album, it didn't hooked me at all, maybe I'm just not into the teenage angsty vibes of rock music anymore
@@jasonlovesmusicreacting882 Hahaha, what exactly makes you lmao yourself?, anyways, I think I was contradicting myself, I've never listened fully to a band that had a teenage angst vibe, I never did, I just heard at least three songs from My Chemical Romance and that was it as much as I got from that, going back to that Nine album, yes, it didn't hooked me
Btw, I'm 19
@@jasonlovesmusicreacting882 Ikr?, haha, I think I'm sort of getting started in a way, lol, I live in Latin America, many of these artists aren't well-known or don't have an international recognition, so I didn't knew anything about them, that is why; I only got into rock when I was 14
Manuel David Rendon Acevedo Listen to “Summertime” by MCR and try to tell me that’s too angsty for you.
In My Defense didn’t really live up to the expectations suggested by the name, it’s very one dimensional and her new EP is almost literally the same. But I cannot not listen to the good songs from it. Also I think she doesn’t like making songs about personal things, because ppl don’t listen to those, for example Savior still has 25m views after 2 years, and her next single a year later ‘Kream’ has 200+million views and it’s just about ass. She knows what her audience wants, and that is pretty much ass at this point
Yeah I don't know why she released that
Good T-shirt choice
Awesome video, Jon. Seeing you rant is always the best 😂
Jason LovesABR lol
Jason LovesABR Because I didn’t like it 😂
*Sigh* I Found You LMAO
Chemical Prisoner 😂 nice
But my question how do you go from Welcome Home to The Owl? Zac Brown made some of the most classic country songs ever, and I'm just depressed to see how Zac is nowadays.
I can't remember what "witty" comment I made on the first upload, so I'll have to stick with this
I said something about New Years Day having a horrible album, but I’m not gonna type it all out again 😂
to all my fellow ajr fans, i wouldn’t recommend watching this video
Yeah good, because they cant handle opinions
richard f well i consider myself pretty good at respecting others opinions, but other fans may have their heads a little shoved up their asses a bit too much
richard f: Yeah, just because some of their fans don’t respect other people’s opinions doesn’t mean the rest of us do. I’m willing to respect other’s opinions but it doesn’t mean I’m not aloud to have mine either.
Love the “Trailer Park Boys” reference.
Neotheatre: *exists*
ARTV, Spectrum Pulse, theneedledrop and every other music critic in RUclips: NO
I was so disapointed with the highly suspect album. I had so much hope from upperdrugs, 16 and canals (which are decent songs) then when it dropped and i first listened to it i was like, "ohh, oh no". The first two albums were so fucking good then that came out, WTAF
Two words: Imagine Dragons.
Thank you for shining a light on how terrible The Owl is outside the country bubble.
My worst albums of the year:
- Neotheater by AJR
- The Controversy by Zac Brown ("Swayze" is the WORST song released this year)
- The Owl by Zac Brown
- LP1 by Liam Payne
- Supermarket by Logic
Disappointments
- Head Above Water by Avril Lavigne
The Owl was horrendous.
LP1 was so god awful
And I just realized I left the band part off Zac Brown Band...oops...oh well..."The Owl" sounded more like a Zac Brown vanity project than an actual Zac Brown band album so I ain't going to edit it.
@Julie Keast Favorite albums of the year?
@@ronstoppable5659 "Phantoms" by Marianas Trench
"Sucker Punch" by Sigrid
"Lover" by Taylor Swift
"The Great Expanse" by Hilltop Hoods
"Blood Moon" by Cold Chisel
"My Criminal Record" by Jimmy Barnes
"Travelling Mercies" by Emily Scott Robinson
"Desert Dove" by Michaela Anne
"When We all fall asleep, where do we Go" by Billie Eilish
"Future Dust" by The Amazons
"Don't Let Go" by Dear Seattle
"Jade Bird" by Jade Bird
I don’t care about her “Head Above Water” album, but I do appreciate it that Avril Lavigne is back to music again. Especially after what happened to her after she had Lyme Disease .
Oh man, Skillet's album was worse than Harverd Dropout?
Tbh i loved it
I used to really like Chase Atlantic, a lot. I really liked the Don't Try this EP. The music before sounded good, put-together, enjoyable. I had such high-hopes for Phases. Boy, was I disappointed. It sounds completely different, and it sounds like a mess. I tried to like it because I liked the group but I just couldn't. I don't like any of the songs on that stupid album. They're awful. I hope they go back to how the music was before, instead of trying to change their sound to get more clout.
I thought maybe you'll put Father Of The Bride by Vampire Weekend and Everyday Life by Coldplay in the "dissapointments" category. The thing is that they weren't neither good nor bad. I feel is because they were too long.
These had AMAZING songs but also ones that felt extra, ones that could've been cut out.
Am I the only one who feels this way?
For this, and as I have lots of free time, I made what could've been (at least for me) ones of their best on these band's discography:
Everyday Life:
1- Church
2- Trouble In Town
3- Daddy
4- WOTW/POTP
5- Arabesque
6- Guns
7- Orphans
8- the one in Arabic
9- Champion Of The World
10- Everyday Life
Father Of The Bride:
1- Harmony Hall
2- This Life
3- Big Blue
4- How Long?
5- Unbearably White
6- Married In A Gold Rush (feat. Danielle Haim)
7- My Mistake
8- Sympathy
9- Sunflower (feat. Steve Lacy)
10- 2021
The best part of the Coldplay album it's from Church to Arabesque. All songs collide so well together. That including WOTW/POTP, which feels weird without it despite being one of the worst, but cutting out BrokEn. This is because I realised Trouble In Town and Daddy go SO well together! Why do they had to put BrokEn in the middle???!!!
Then there's Guns and Orphans that are great too but they are just there. Then finally at the end of the album we get a moment like this from the one in Arabic to Everyday Life. What's on the middle nah, skippable. And the 1st half without the start and the finish, and BrokEn ruinning the vibe!
What was hard on the Vampire Weekend one was to know which songs to include. The 1st 5 were easy and the last one too. I've always felt they could've finish the album on 2021. For that I didn't put Spring Snow which is great taking out the auto-tune. What's more, I wanted to include at least 1 of each collaboration so I picked the ones that felt more of a collaboration or were simply better (this applies most on the Danielle one). The rest was just selecting what I felt was best for the album. For example, Bambina is good but it feels extra as it is too short.
I was going to say Pray for the Wicked, but then I realized that I already came out in 2018...
Jon. Thanks again for saving me from this music hell over the past year.
As a footnote, I did actually purchase Ed Sheeran No. 6 in order to avoid a potential personal relationship meltdown...
An incomplete list of my least favorites this year in no particular order:
AJR - Neotheater(uhhhh I guess it's better than The Click but that's a pretty low bar)
Chance the Rapper - The Big Day (My disappointment is immeasurable with this one)
Logic - Supermarket
DJ Khaled - Father of Asahd
Lil Pump - Harverd Dropout
Ed Sheeran - No. 6 Collaborations Project(it's kinda sad that this clearly talented musician chooses to spew out painfully mediocre and pandering fluff when he seems to be capable of more)
but i loved Neotheatere damn
Lmao how?
Thanks Jon for taking time out of your road trip to fix the error. Here’s to hoping AJR disappear for 2020
Thanks for seeing the work that goes in behind the scenes. You a real one! On the road now, Merry Christmas!
ARTV merry Christmas to you too, enjoy your trip!
Loving both AJR's music and ARTV's videos should really be considered a form of flagellation. But here I am anyway :D
Skillet used to be my fav band of all time
After Unleashed, i barely listen to them now
But their old stuff are awesome
Check out Collide, Comatose, Awake
All amazing
Ajr wants to be Jon Bellion but they’ll never be close
Shed Eeran
Rapa Poach
Ate Chaslantic
Muddle Of Pudd
Pil Lump
Killets
Branco Blown
Zanc Bow Brand
Iglea Gyaza
JAR
Killets triggers me as a Killers fan
I Like Trains KILLETS KILLETS KILLETS
JAR
Honestly I don’t think Avrils album was that bad. It has a few good songs.
Dumb Blonde is fucking garbage. And it wasn’t awful, no. Why do you think it wasn’t on the actual worst list? 😂
@@artvjon Alrighty then, each to their own
ARTV I agree Dumb Blonde was an awful song.
The album was pretty mediocre that’s just my personal opinion
I'll just leave you alone Rachel
Yeah I have to agree, that ajr record is so bad it's hard to believe it actually left the studio.
I respect your opinion, but it’s wrong.
@@simbawbway lol nope. Literally every second of that album is full of cringe inducing lyrics and bad, cliche pop trends. There's nothing original or genuine about it. They try to touch on actual issues but they do it from an insanely privileged perspective as if they've never had any actual problems. It's like a hallmark movie made into an album.
Ah, sorry. It was meant to be a joke but in hindsight it wasn’t really conveyed :/
Tbh I love k-12 but I was so confused when mel said it was a lot darker, it definitely wasn’t. Still good though
Crybaby and K-12 are both pretty atleast the meaning of the songs are
I’m a huge Melanie Martinez fan but k-12 was not that good especially comparing to cry baby. Cry baby is such a good album and doesn’t rely on the visuals to make it better unlike k-12. I hope her 3rd album is more like cry baby.
guys i think jon likes ajr
It’s obviously his favorite band
I'm curious, do you think the new Green Day album will be on this list next year? 😬
I think that the new Green Day stuff is pretty good.
revity rad I think the new album shows a lot of promise so far
well, it wasn't on the actual list, but it was a dishonorable mention
I'd give K-12 (from your dishonorable mentions) a few more listens. I was initially disappointed as well, but now- while I still don't think it's quite as good as Cry Baby- I really love the album. It was one of my favorite albums of the year.
The songs are not as immediately as catchy or mind-blowing as Cry Baby, however, they have a certain quality to them that makes them grow on you over time with repeated listens. The Principal, Show & Tell, Strawberry Shortcake, Teacher's Pet, and High School Sweethearts are my favorites and are all really well done- especially in combination with the choreography (though the choreography isn't completely necessary to enjoy the tracks, in my opinion).
Welp, I really enjoyed K-12.
So did I, in my opinion k-12 is much better than crybaby but everyone has their own taste i guess
@@isaroeters4614 Yeah I think so as well.
Fever dream actually grew on me a lot! It’s definitely a listen for a specific mindset, but I’d give it another chance! Ahay, Vulture Vulture, Sleepwalker and Soothsayer are all great deep cuts, and Wars stands on its own well with the other singles.
You don’t think I revisted everything on this list before I made a video on it? I wouldn’t put it on here if I wasn’t sure that’s how I felt :)
ARTV fair enough.
Vulture Vulture is, indeed, a great song. Album overall was still disappointing considering how great their first two were.
Could you do an album review for "10 Hours" by First Of October?
Yes please
Honestly, I forgot Lil Pump released an album this year. xD
AJR is easily the worst music I've heard on the last couple of years.
@Anson Hartzler Some good ones, lots of generic ones and also terrible rappers.
got #1 right spot on well done👌🏾
What happened to the original premiere?
A problem with the graphic on the first mention for 'Disappointing Albums'
I was thinking it had something to do with RUclips.
My friends bought tickets for an AJR concert...
Think I need new friends 🤔
My friend recently saw them in concert 🤮🤮
How did ZBB go from goodbye in her eyes to this... geez
all the dislikes are the bands and their members
I actually started listening to Highly Suspect this week, and holy shit MCID was terrible. They were at their peak with The Boy Who Died Wolf, and then they fell so hard from grace. What a shame.
Low key, Phases was one of my favorite albums of the year and I personally enjoy the contrast between being an ‘asshole’ but also kind of realizing that you’re young and stupid and need people in your life. As reprehensible as some of the lyrics/songs may be they are necessary because they paint a picture of modern adolescence which is why I think ‘i don’t like darkness’ is the perfect song to end with, but With all that said I get what you’re saying
I get head above water wasn’t everyone’s vibe but avril said she wants to go back to her rock roots and make another album like the best damn thing
That Zac Brown sample made me spit out my beer, what the fuck! They really put that out for sale!
Also listening to you drag for Skillet was glorious
After seeing all the hate you have for AJR, I need to listen to it. Now. And laugh.
Lmao I did the same thing but after listening to one song I regret listening to it
It's such a fucking mess.
Lil Pump - Hardvard Dropout - Trap for kids.
With Simple Plan, we knew that their music wasn't deep but with AJR we were tricked into thinking it was deep so that way the brothers and their ad executives could actually market this stuff and get money out of people. It's a not as much as shame as it is a felony that Neotheater is what they tried to market.
top worst albums of the decade?
Yes
Oh yes i know what mines is Queensryche - FU
@@DashieNegan41 Wait what I like Queensyrche but that album isn't from Queensyrche
@@kotanovakota it stands for Frequency Unknown and it was the last album with Geoff Tate and that album went down the ship.
@@DashieNegan41 Yeah Tate really hit rock bottom after Queensyrche but still the new guy still have the power in his voice plus their latest record is pretty cool too
I know it's an EP not an album but Simple Creature's Strange Love was a big disappointment for me as I'm a fan of Mark and Alex.
Do I love this list?
*YEP YEP YEP YEP*
I love your description of who do you trust.
my grandma loves Zac, and she called my mom the day The OWL came out, complaining about how much it sucked.
Skillet was my favorite band. Rise was their last decent album they made. Some decent songs from Unleashed and Victorious (only 2 from that album) but I hate how they mix a portion of pop in their music. It gets boring so quick. RIP. I’ll stick to their old heavier albums
Is Jon ok cause he seems to get upset / frustrated about things way too easily.. noticed this in A LOT of his videos
(it's called being an on camera personality and playing up our feelings for an audience. it's actually how I feel, but often layered up for comedic effect)
ARTV fair enough 😂😂
I couldn't get disappointed by Avril if I didn't have expectations in the first place
Suicide King by King 810 was the worst album for me.
I love these videos to the point where I actually get sad when I see he’s on number 3 and it’s almost over
Wait?! Skillet put out a record this year?!?!?!
Fuck man, Skillet, Papa Roach, Disturbed, boy do the wrong 00’s bands keep being able to make music
huh i forgot harvard dropout came out this year, it feels older
i agree with a lot of this list but i feel that the jo bros did a great job with happiness begins so that’s where we’ll have to disagree, i do wish they went more of a pop rock route but there are several cuts on there i enjoy like “used to be” and “don’t throw it away for example” that show their improved vocals over the years. anyways i love your videos jon i’m a huge fan keep up the great work :)