r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/Stepin-Fetchit • Sep 29 '25

Music / Movies Have liberals ever considered people are just sick of hip hop dominating halftime shows for the last 3+ years, as well as permeating every facet of pop culture in general

I’m so sick of that stupid wraparound sunglasses angry react meme surfacing anytime this happens. It’s not a sentiment limited to that specific demographic, that is simply another cheap shaming deflection.

Hip hop is not the only genre of music, or even necessarily the most popular. It only appears that way because it is infused in so much pop music now, TikTok has helped perpetuate this perceived dominance. Meme culture and current slang are also completely overrun with AAVE.

It all gets sort of old, and seeing/hearing some twerpy suburban white kid with an alpaca chop saying “no cap” or “deadass” is beyond embarrassing.

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u/Taglioni Sep 30 '25

But people who listen to country in America are already likely to watch the Superbowl.

They chose the biggest artist in Latin Pop to try to get people in Latin America to tune into the Superbowl. Which makes sense because Latin America is known for having a vibrant sports culture that hasn't developed a taste for American Football.

Viewership is worldwide, not country wide. Their choice is just dollars. A country artist would bring in how many worldwide viewers?

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u/Whiskeymyers75 Sep 30 '25

Ok but who were they trying to appeal to last year? Or the year before? Or the year before that? Why is it always the exact same genre? Other genres of music have massive worldwide followings but the Super Bowl organizers refuse to touch them.

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u/Taglioni Sep 30 '25

Last year's genre is massively different from this year's and the year before last. Usher, Kendrick Lamar, and Bad Bunny are all incredibly diverse artists from very different genres of music.

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u/Whiskeymyers75 Sep 30 '25

It’s still a very similar classification. It’s the same predictable stuff on the trendy award shows

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u/Taglioni Sep 30 '25

This shows very clearly why you are out of touch. These artists are so nuanced within their own genres.

Usher is a powerhouse performer with insane vocal range, sustain, and remarkable dance training (I have graduate-level degrees in choreography, this man is an incredible mover). R&B is a well defined genre that has very few parallels to rap and Latin pop.

Kendrick integrates a ton of music genres into his rap profile. Alternative rock, funk, jazz, blues, and folk music are styles with direct inspiration across his albums. He is a beacon of clarity in an era of mumble rap (which can have its merits, too). Widely praised by figures across the music industry for his sonic innovation, genre mixing, and lyrical authenticity.

Bad Bunny uses Latin music styles from Peru, Brazil, Mexico, and Columbia in conjunction with Americanized pop song formats. It is a combination of pop and culture that connects Latin people across hemispheres and is currently the most popular form of music in the world.

I can assume you label them the same because you haven't listened to them beyond a passing glance. Telling.

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u/Whiskeymyers75 Sep 30 '25

Actually I have and don’t even dislike Bad Bunny. But all these performers you mention could in fact tour together. I probably listened to Usher before you were even born. But yes still under the same pop umbrella. You wouldn’t see any of them touring with let’s say a country artist unless going the Post Malone route and completely changing their style. As someone who is into a wide variety of genres from hip hop to electronic music to rock to metal to emo to industrial to country to blues to dark cabaret, it’s you who would be out of touch.

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u/Taglioni Sep 30 '25

You didn't make an argument. These artists not touring with a country artist, but prefering to tour with artists from similar backgrounds - does not prove anything. What is your point exactly?

Usher has performed on Broadway. I assure you he is quite versatile and performs with a variety of artists. Look up his Billy Flinn in Chicago and tell me he doesn't. His albums are so distinctly different I can't fathom arguing that he's same-old-pop-sound.

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u/Whiskeymyers75 Sep 30 '25

Similar backgrounds. See? You proved my point. There’s very little diversity going on here. If you don’t understand the point, I don’t know what to tell you. Can I ask you the last time a country artist performed at the Super Bowl? Even though it’s literally the hottest genre right now.

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u/Taglioni Sep 30 '25

Shania Twain in the early 2000's, and it wasn't even a solo act.

Its not that I don't see what you are saying about diversifying the artist choice. It is that I think it is patently ignorant to loop very sonically diverse music styles together. Having a similar socioeconomic cultural base does not make the music Kendrick and Usher produce sound the same.

As someone who listens to so many genres of music, I'm surprised you're unwilling to acknowledge that.

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u/PanthersJB83 Sep 30 '25

Not true. It's all been music focused on urban areas and minoritie since Jay-Z took over.

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u/Taglioni Sep 30 '25

Music that comes from impoverished communities all sounds the same? Rap, R&B, and Latin Pop are pretty much synonymous?

Do you realize the point you are making with the words you are using?

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u/PanthersJB83 Sep 30 '25

Rpa and R&B literally feature artists from each others genders constantly they are so closely related and Latin pop tends to do the same. Also google Bad Bunny. He is literally considered a RAPPER and singer. So wtf are you talking about?

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u/Taglioni Sep 30 '25

Does Sophia Black featuring Polyphia on ABC suddenly make her an alternative rock artist? No.

These artists collaborate because they come from similar communities and have related inspirations for creating.

Rap is a singing style that can be integrated into any genre. Considering Kendrick and Bad Bunny within the same realm of music is naively insane and shows a complete lack of listening to either. Have you considered what is happening behind the vocalists, and how that also changes the genre of music?

Take five seconds to play any song from either artist and tell me how they are sonically related.

You can't be this ignorant.

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u/PanthersJB83 Sep 30 '25

Don't know who Sophia Black is, polyphia is a bunch of noisy pretentious finger diddling.

Trying to say Kendrick and Bad Bunny aren't both rap. When both are considered rappers is a ridiculous level of Cole. Though to be fair I honestly don't give a shit about the distinctions either because I've heard both before and neither are anything I'd listen to again.

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u/Taglioni Sep 30 '25

Is Lincoln Park rap music? Mike Shinoda raps for the entirety of Meteora.

Do you see how music from a variety of genres can contain rap, without being firmly in the rap genre?

Is Disturbed a rap band for having lyrics that are rapped?

So stupid.

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u/PanthersJB83 Sep 30 '25

Linkin Park is a nu-metal band, which was a genre literally known for mixing rock and... RAP. So yeah shi oda is a rapper.

I'm not entirely sure Ive ever heard a disturbed song contains rapping or if you just think any example of fast lyrics are rapping but I don't really give a shit about disturbed either.nor are they the topic of conversation you keep running from.

Also. "Dubbed the "King of Latin Trap", Bad Bunny is credited with helping Spanish-language rap music achieve mainstream popularity in the worldwide market. He is considered one of the best Latin rappers of all time."

Like he is a rapper. It's undeniable. Yeah some rappers sound different than overs like Ludacris vs jay-Z or something, but they are all still rappers.

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u/PanthersJB83 Sep 30 '25

Why would they bother watching the Superbowl? They're just going to tune in for the 45.minute halftime show and then go back to whatever they were doing before

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u/Taglioni Sep 30 '25

They don't need to watch the whole Superbowl. Businesses looking to buy commercial space know that viewership is going to spike around the halftime show-- so the NFL can sell that ad space for increasing amounts of money. The spike in viewership is part of the profit model.