Top Ten Reasons Metal Is Better Than Modern Pop

You are either 1 of these people: 1. Loves Pop and hates Metal OR 2. Loves Metal and hates Pop

What's even worse are the OPM (Original Pilipino Music) here in the Philippines. And I'm sure you're number 2.
The Top Ten
1 Metal is fast, complex, a masterpiece. Pop is just the same slow tempo and nice vocals but boring singing

Songs like Screen Scenarios by Ever Forthright takes you on a 10 minute adventure of crushing progressive djent sounds on the guitar with deep growling, to a 3 minute long soft jazz section with saxophone provided by the vocalist Chris Baretto, to nice clean singing with crushing guitars, with time and key changes. The song is so cohesive as a whole and takes so much talent. Lost In Our Escape is a second example of this, with incredibly impressive guitar work with Djent beats, with brutal breakdowns and synth parts included.

How many pop epics are there? In metal longer (10 + minutes) songs and concept albums are everywhere. Plus, metal bands know how to vary the style a bit: on albums you get faster songs, slower songs, epic songs, etc... In fact just look at the name "pop" for populist - pop is a genre of music that is defined by mass appeal, it caters exclusively by definition of the lowest common denominator

The truth is here. It's pretty easy to understand how this is number one I feel that metal/rock/punk rock and what not are the only genres of music that actually care about what music really is anymore.

Hip-hop has no emotion at all, that's why it's boring. In metal you can actually feel lots of anger/frustration and sometimes sadness coming not only from vocalist, but from other band members too.

2 Metal has complex instrumentals and needs a lot of effort and time to write and talks about important subjects

Modern Pop is nothing but waste; all it is is getting money and getting your girlfriend pregnant. Metal and other Rock bands take on performance and team-ship. Metal unites people together and is more powerful than some Justin Berber song. It takes hard-work, time, and a lot of effort in order to create a song with meaning and rhythm.

Pop music is simplistic, manufactured, uninspired, and feel good. Metal is complex, technical, fast, inspired, and intelligent. Heavy metal has lasted for over 3 decades. How many genres of music last that long while managing to keep and recruit die-hard fans?

Only Classical, Jazz, Hard Rock and Progressive Rock rival Metal in complexity and technicality. All 5 genres require a lot of talent, a lot of passion and a damn good taste in music.

Pop is passionless, talentless and tasteless music which appeals to the lowest common demominator. Pop music is basically the music equivalent of corporate fast food.

Brother will kill brother spilling blood across the land killing for religion is something I don't understand.
Politicians hide themselves away they only started the war why should they go out to fight they leave that role to the poor

3 Metal lyrics are far more intelligent and educated sounding than pop lyrics.

I find that metal music is more relatable to me, and how I feel. Even though to some people it sounds like death, but I hear words that have lots of meaning. Just like the quote I found online "You call it demonic because you hear screaming, I call it life saving because I hear the meaning,"

Metal has lyrics that range from politics, to society, to life and death, to religion, to resilience, to loss of love, to hope in a failing relationship, and has positive lyrics too. Pop is all about sex, drugs, money, cheap relationships, and is directed at naïve teenagers. It takes more strength to stand apart than fit in. "I'll break this flesh bound cage And stand apart" ~Dead Letter Circus

Let's face it. If you listen to country music or pop music, you'll hear the same clicher lyrics every song (honkie tonk, baby, put your hands up) and stuff. But Metal : Peering through the veil of time and space
Emerging from the void I am reborn
I see the world for what it really is
Distorted visions of heaven
I have discovered there's hope in my heart - Worldeater Northlane

Pop is either about sex, partying or cheap teenage romances. Where as metal you can find plenty of song that talk about almost every topic you can think of.

4 Most metal songs are realistic and deep

I find metal music so much more relatable to me, even if they sing about suicide, to someone going through the same thing can realize they're not alone, and that these people know about it.

Metal songs deal with real issues in the world, whereas pop music never gets deeper or more realistic than crappy teenage melodramatics.

Master of Puppets talking about the control drugs have over people, yeah.

Listen to holy wars

5 No auto-tune, somehow better vocals

I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but if you're calling yourself a singer I don't think it's too much to expect you to be able to actual sing. I really prefer to call a lot of these pop singers "performers" rather than "singers"... No, I'm not saying they don't have talent, a lot of them have really catchy songs and are great dancers, but if you just judge their vocal abilities, a lot of them NEED that autotune. It's really too bad, because what I love most about music is that you can hear the emotions and intensity behind the vocalist's voice, and those things are easily lost in autotune. Whenever I come across a pop singer's live concert, they're either lip sycning or attempting to sing live (which I can never enjoy because I can literally feel their voices about to give way any second and I get so nervous for them). For metal concerts though, it's totally different. I know for a solid fact that they can nail every single notes and the experience is just amazing. I mostly listen to ...more

I love Harsh Vocals, and cleans in metal but in pop its terrible, they rip out every single piece of there voice to make it "better".
If you listen to a metal singer in a studio then its exactly the same as the finished version.
Pop singers are disgusting they need to realize the treu potential of their voice but they don't!
Listen to some of The Agonist with the singer Vicky you will soon realize she absolutely does not use autotune!

If the best singers in metal (such as Dickinson or Turunen) don't need autotune, than why should the "best" singers in pop need it? In fact, why should any singer need it?

Haha this is so true there are dozens of pop singers who use autotune to make money but metal singers can ACTUALLY SING

6 Metal pumps you up, energizes you even though you're not doing any exercise

Basically you don't need 5-hour energy to pump you up. All you need is aggressive and fast metal songs. Here is a list of songs that energizes you.

Sudden Death:Megadeth
Ravenous:atreyu
Dyers Eve:Metallica

That's why I love and feed on metal. The energy coming out just makes you wanna smash and destroy everything in your path. Pop? Just don't get me started.

This is true! For me it's Man of War, To Hell and Back by Sabaton, The night by Disturbed and Haunted, also by Disturbed.

"NanaNAnAnANnANnANnANnaN" said the guitar. Air guitar-ing? Air drumming? Lip syncing? HEADBANGING? Won't that pump you up?

7 Good Metal never gets old, whereas modern Pop songs get forgotten about after a month or so.

Apsolutely statistically speaking even pop fans have a better chance of recognizing good old thrash now of course it would be cliche such as enter sandman or raining blood anyway these chart topping hits have even permeated the clogged ears of these pop fanatics this only scrapes the surface but even gold ol' boys such as anthrax had more talent in I'm the man than I have ever heard come from any pop rap artist

Iron Maiden is now 41 years old. Still my favourite band and will be forever. And other teens are like "you're listening to THAT song? It's like 3 months old! " And something like this.

My sister says that pop songs that are more than a year old are "old songs." REALLY?! You want an old song, listen to "come on Feel The Noize" or "Rocka Roller"!

This is true I still listen to kill em all witch is like 30 years old or something like that

8 Headbanging is better than any pop dances

Headbanging and moshing are way better than twerking! And twerking teaches you to disrespect yourself and become a sex maniac! Moshing, though violent and agressive, is like beating up but in a good way! The guys who beat up each other in a mosh pit still respect themselves and each other as a person!

You see all these girls learning these complex dances to songs whereas put a metal song on and a metalheads natural instinct is to headbang they don't need to learn it

Rap moves are so annoying!

Moves that make me want to die:

The so called dabe I mean bade I mean dab:
The wipe I mean cool whip I mean the whip

Head banging is awesome

Pop dances are so stupid. While headbanging gives off mass energy.

9 Most metal songs come from the heart, while most uncreative pop songs are written by ghostwriters

I find that my favorite bands (Mushroomhead, Slipknot, Hollywood Undead) write how they are feeling at the time. For example a metal band might have an album that's harsher or sader, then the next album can be less painful, and if while recording the next album they loose someone close or something similar, that next album is influenced by that.

Exactly. One band in particular that I find writes this way is Slipknot. Most of their music has such a strong feeling to it. That just seems to make it leagues better than the poop...I mean...pop that comes out today.

Well, I guess metalcore is still metal, Miss May I has tons of amazing songs... top favorite album: Deathless and my favorite Motionless In White album is Reincarnate.

Yep. Compare a song by Meghan Trainor with a song by Ingested. No contest which one is better.

10 Metal is produced with your own two hands. (i.e. Guitars, Bass, Drums, Raw Vocals, Keyboard) while pop is mostly computerized.

Metal takes talent and hard work to do, while most pop songs is nothing but repeated noises and computerized.

This song is catchy, this song is catchy catchy, this song is catchy, my Girlfriends name is Kathy

I make metal music with compiter because I don't have much money to buy instrument and metal is harder to make than dubstep

Also, there's a slew of one-man bands in metal! Putrid Pile, Burzum, Doom:VS, Funeral Tears, etc.

The Contenders
11 Some pop can influence bad behavior
12 Metal is very hard to play, especially the solos

With a computer it's so easy make a song, but the metal got REAL instruments, and don't think that is easy to learn metal, the legendary bands like Metallica, iron maiden, judas priest, Black Sabbath, megadeth, kreator, blind guardian, dio, exodus, slayer, helloween, dragonforce, deep purple, scorpion, AC/DC, etc, hears so good thanks to the practice

Agree. Just listen to 'The Dance Of Eternity' by Dream Theater. That song is difficult on every instrument and has a lot of time signature changes and tempo changes.

Yep. Try playing the solo from "Painkiller" by Judas Priest. Good luck trying to keep up.

That what makes metal great isn't it? Commenting while hearing Holy Wars.

13 Metal bands have cool logos

When was the last time any hiphop or pop artist had an awesome logo! You guessed it NONE! Most hip hop or pop album art or logos are pictures of themselves.

Disturbed has the best mascot and cover art.

All death metal bands. Logos look awesome.

They also have some badass mascots too.

14 Metal is more creative

Indead I love metallic and nnirvana because it is creative but some people SOME PEOPLE rap about let's say s phone (drake) and I live in a world of metal and a school of rap. WHAT AM I SUPPOSE TO DO IN THAT SITUATION?

15 Almost everybody is accepted as a metalhead

It doesn't matter if you're hispanic,black,Asian,white, mixed etc.

Gay? Who cares!?

Muslim? come on, let's get into the mosh.

There is no group of people where I have been experienced so much tolerance than in the metal scene.

Like everywhere there can be a douche. But there are not a lot of them.

Nobody cares how you look like.
The society thinks your "ugly", we think your an awesome guy because your a good person.

Lots of people in society think we're
little racists who sacrifice goats and eat children (yes, someone said that to me and he was serious about it)

Lots of us look at us down.

We are awesome!

Listen to metal, headbang & have a nice day

If you're a Christian and you like metal, no problem! Come with me to see Nile! Atheist metalhead? No problem!

Look at James hetfield at the beginning he was ugly but he is a legend

Who isn't? Metalhead population is 94793368,1369011 and rap listeners 34676434,24567331

16 Metal is good for exercising

Dyers Eve, Damage Inc, My Apocalypse, Seasons In The Abyss, Painkiller, you name it! Good run songs.

17 It takes more talent being a metal vocalist

I've been saying this for as long as I've been listening to metal. I bet you Rihanna, Lady Gaga or Justin Beaver can't sing, for example, Slipknot Spit It Out (which is less than 3 minutes long), let alone a whole Slipknot concert without their voices giving out. Corey can sing like that for a whole concert night after night, for Slipknot or Stone Sour

Hey, non-metalheads! Try doing a song by Make Them Suffer. Hurts your throats, doesn't it? The members practiced for hours each day perfecting that sound.

Everyone is talking about Corey Taylor and I wouldn't want to do it but I find him annoying thrash and NWOBHM are the places for the best voices

Chester Bennington and Michael Barnes could scream for over 10 seconds! I'm sure that takes a lot of talent.

18 Most pop songs have awful lyrics

Modern pop "music" is the soundtrack of societal and cultural degeneracy. By contrast, there are many metal songs with lyrics promoting individualistic strength and rejection of societal herd conformity.

I'm pretty sure there are some nice pop songs out there, but if only there can be more diverse than just some teen love

Agreed. Every pop song is the same...

This is why I hate pop music

19 Metal has the most passionate and dedicated fans. Pop fans are just crazy

Damn right we are. Now look at the list and notice that no retarded pop fangirl is standing up for pop. So they stupid and we are the best.

And some metal fans don't look at other genres. This is coming from a metal fan.

My sister in one sentence. She bashes me constantly for liking metal.

Although I have to admit
Just because we're metalheads doesn't mean we're better
Sure pop is usually dumb these days, but we should learn how to respect others' in taste

20 Very unique sounding, doesn't sound electronic/robotic

Dude, with all these drums, distorted guitars and vocals, heavy bass, you couldn't get heavier, and higher JUST LIKE A SUPER COLLIDER (if you know what I mean)

Actually, it also sounds great when combined with electronic.

Pops so good it is unique not all pop about sex and drugs
Joking pop is crap I’m a metal head listening to metal can be like a painkiller some times (eh he) or pop is just puppet mastering idoits who think auto tune is talent

21 Rap metal is still better than (rap) pop

Nu Metal sounds GREAT compared to mainstream rap. Especially considering the downtuned to D riffs (nu metal). Lil Wayne can't even play a guitar! D riffs vs Lil Wayne's so called "solo". I'd take Nu Metal.

Oh no doubt. I'd rather listen to rap metal (RATM) than to ordinary rap (Lil Wayne Drake etc)

Why is this even a comment anything with the word metal over any pop/rap

Anything with metal (like Metalstep) is totally awesome! The Enigma TNG is a good example of Metalstep, etc.

22 Metal isn't stupid

Metal has far better lyrics, sound, beats, and combinations of electronics and raw material

Metal makes smart and poop... oops! I mean pop makes you stupid.

23 Metal singers have more masculinity than most men in pop industry

Justin Bieber, Duh? Let him burn in the next church Varg will destroy. And the Big 4, Dave M, James, Tom/Kerry. Scott, they still are vulgar, strong, drinks beer, gets drunk, but probably not drugs.

Yeah and most of the big four haven't done drugs or gone to rehab and these rapstars are rapping about doing heroin

Even the feminine in metal are more manlier than the guys from modern mainstream pop

LOOK AT LEMMY, HE IS A MASCULINE GOD! HE EVEN SWAPPED GIRLFRIENDS WITH HIS SON! That's what I call a Badass

24 Metal is eargasmic

"OhoHoH! " said your ear while listening to Tornado of Souls' solo. Its Marty Friedman, female dogs (You know what that means, just read it that way).

DEFINITELY. The most eargasmic riff I've heard so far is in "Field of the Impaled" by Devourment.

You can listen to metal for hours on end, and still feel pumped!

25 Metal makes you forget your sadness and remember your happiness, and feel epic

Truth! When I first turned to metal when I was depressed, it actually cured it instead of making it worse. People always stereotype metal to cause mental breakdowns and suicide, but it actually pumped me up and made me ready to fight! (In a moshpit of course)

If a metal got a song of love is to try to remember that the actor got a fine feels with his wife or his girlfriend, pop is like a emo crap if the artist broke with his girlfriend or boyfriend

Sometimes I walk down the streets with my iPod on, and then you know that face? That epic face when you look angry, headbanging a bit, while lip syncing? People stared at me.

This has actually made want to hit a dog - it doesn't work. It puts me in a bad mood.

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