Unpopular Opinions.

A little while ago, I made a post on Tumblr that displayed some of my "unpopular opinion". Here is where I am going to expand upon them and explain why they are my opinions.

First on the list was: The Beatles are irrelevant.
 I personally feel like this is true. Musicians who claim to be inspired by the Beatles nowadays... aren't. There is nothing Beatle-esque about their music and there is nothing that seems to be taken from them. Just because you listened to the Beatles as a kid or your parents have every record they ever came out with doesn't mean that your music has anything to do with theirs. Furthermore, music nowadays has nothing to do with the Beatles. They're irrelevant to music now. Some people like to pretend that they'll always be relevant, but they're like the Revolutionary War. Sure, it was important, but no one cares anymore.

Next was: The Doors are overrated.
I'm surprised I wasn't gutted for this, haha. I mean, Tumblr is only the world's biggest collection of Hipsters in history aside from Woodstock '69 and to mock one of their precious icons. Oh my; escaping with my life was a miracle. ANYWAY. The Doors had like, two good songs unless you were around back in the 60's. Their music is no longer relevant, yet it is held up to a standard that supercedes music that is in fact still relevant. Why? Who knows. I can merely comment on the  affair and suggest that it has something to do with the fact that Jim Morrison overdosed and he called himself the Lizard King.

Going along with that, I continue with: Jim Morrison is arguably the most overrated musician.
It's true. You know it's true. He was completely unremarkable. The only thing he offered was a deep voice and decent looks. His songs weren't spectacularly written and they didn't touch society on a deeper level... unless high on several different drugs at once. He;s held high as a great musician... and it's possible that he could have become one, but he never got the chance. What he died with was not good enough by any means to stand the test of time and it's odd that it did. More than likely his death gave him life and he's only minorly relevant now because he died so young. No one would have cared about him otherwise.

Next, my unpopular opinion is that: JFK wasn't a good president.
As stated, this is my opinion. I think that JFK did more harm than good. This doesn;'t mean that I'm glad he was assassinated, no. However, I don't think he was leading the country in a good direction. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a disaster, as was Operation Mongoose. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the best thing to ever happen to him. I also disagree with Affirmative Action, a policy which is which is flat out ridiculous. Overall, I just feel like he had more cons than pros and objectively, that makes him a "not-good" president. Sure, he was "good looking", young, and "fresh minded". Those aren't what makes a president a good leader.

After this, I jump to: Lady Gaga isn't unique.
This one is my favorite. It's cute how people think that Lady Gag is so outrageous... but it's like, ok. Bjork never existed, I guess. Bjork was doing things that Lady Gaga wouldn't dare do 10 years ago. Her "crazy clothing style" is not that crazy. It's avant garde, sure, but she's not the first person to do that. She isn't the first person to do anything she's done. Her music is unremarkable. Her voice is unremarkable. Her lyrics and beats are unremarkable. The lyrics... are... uhm. Syllables. Ok. Good job, Gaga. Rah rah ah ah ah. Poetry. Genius! SOME ONE GIVE THAT GIRL A RECORD DEAL! Like, no. The only genius that she has is managing to trick everyone into believing that she's any more than a lunatic who should get shocks to attempt to realign her mind.

I go on to say that: Claude Monet is overrated.
This, is another opinion that I see fit. Claude Monet didn't paint anything interesting. He painted the same thing over and over and over again. His colors look like they came straight out of a tube, like he didn't bother mixing them at all. The entire Impressionist movement is lost on me. I don't like any of it. Every artist's work looks like every other artist's work. It's just pretentious then when someone who "loves it" (I don't know how) says something along the lines of "it's genius because he wasn't painting the building! He was painting the light on the building!" No. You just sounds like a pretentious prat.

Finally: Landscape photography is useless.
The entire genre of landscape art is pointless, as a matter of fact. Seeing a landscape is not like seeing a painting of a landscape. All of the wonder comes from experiencing it... and you don't get that from a painting or a photograph or whatever. You just don't. I find it to be  one of the dullest genres of art. I hear people talking up Ansel Adams all the time, but then I look at his work and I'm bored to death by it.

Once more, I'd to reiterate that these are merely my opinions with some fact tossed in to bolster them.

-Peter