Countdown 100: Bands that got megahyped that failed spectacularly...

there seems to be a great deal of confusion about what the words "megahyped" and "failed spectacularly" mean

Or MIKA who I mentioned above. Life in Cartoom Motion was number 1 in several countries charts, he was a bit pf a celebrity, remember seeing him in magazine covers and being harrassed by paparazzi... but every subsequent single and album ever since failed to hit as hard and I don’t think I’ve seen anything about him in almost a decade.

I don't think anyone that actually ever got a number 1 hit can be considered to have "failed spectacularly"

Mika was on UK X Factor as recent as two months ago.

But yes, Shakey OTM.

there seems to be a great deal of confusion about what the words "megahyped" and "failed spectacularly" mean

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 3:31 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah so many of the bands mentioned in the initial 2010 posts don't fit those criteria at all. Tapes N Tapes is a good example of a band that had a HUGE p4k push and went nowhere. they didn't fail spectacularly & weren't megahyped by anyone else in the media, but they absolutely sit alongside Voxtrot

I guess the fact that a lot of Pitchfork hyped American indie from the '00s was fucking terrible is neither here nor there.

no it definitely is, if you look at most of the bands posted itt they're all either average or fucking awful.

Terris still remain the best example - endless hype in the UK music press from 1999 to 2001, even landing an NME cover without having released all that much. Their singer, if I recall, was giving it the big licks onstage a lot and totally thought his band were the mutts nutts. They didn't have a Top 10 single, the album performed dreadfully and they got dropped. The NME suddenly were like "meh, fuck 'em" and moved onto The Strokes.

yeah that's a perfect example

idk Sheer Mag seemed to be getting a push from p4k and Rolling Stone in 2015 and 2016 and they dropped a debut album this year that I'm not seeing on any EOY lists

To this day, I've still never heard a Terris track. Gay Dad were similarily hyped, and utterly shit, but I still managed to hear the singles from the first LP without even trying.

I was going to say--hippie alert--Blind Faith, but I didn't realize their debut hit #1 in both the States and the UK. They didn't get a second album out, though.

How about Rita Ora's US career? (I know she's actually had success elsewhere but I don't think "hook singer on the Iggy Azalea single people barely remember" qualifies in the US as spectacular success.)

Well the NME had just came from helping these guys take over the world:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yksb7SyiQWQ/UHf4digZMxI/AAAAAAAAL64/nsUwk2Pf7xE/s1600/tiny2.jpg

I don't think the NME were banking on them putting out overblown, progged out double CD debut album, which they promptly gave a middling review to.

They certainly crashed and burned quite spectacularly. Split up about a year after that cover - which may have contributed to their demise.

I'd say the fact that they didn't get on too well with each other was the main reason they split.

I want to say JJ72, but they managed to make it to a second album. God, the late '90s/very early '00s were a fucking strange time.

Then how about Kelly Clarkson?

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, December 5, 2017 3:27 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is this trolling

Sheer Mag = jury is still out, but yes I could definitely see them becoming one of these bands. Another contemporary that absolutely fits the bill is Downtown Boys.

oh!! and METZ. huge p4k push circa 2012, nice festival slots, solid tours, each album has essentially been ignored. when I was in Toronto recently (their hometown), I saw a poster for their new record and realized I hadn't thought about them in years.

Sheer Mag not capitalising on large rock publications writing about them probably has something to do with their having zero interest in the perceived benefits of that

or their profound stupidity

yeah those idiots probably think they're actually enjoying being in their band

FISCHERSPOONER

^otm

yeah moka imho yr thing is interesting and might yield some good groans and lols, but different enough to have its own thread. equivalent or overlapping with bands that got megahyped and it was enough to give them a moment of success but the public didn't really buy it and they disappeared back whence they came - your duncan sheiks and jimmy rays, and their indie equivalents (where mgmt miiiiiight qualify but idk then we're just doing one-album wonders... they have fans and still put out music).

kelly clarkson is ludicrous though.

Not trolling on Kelly Clarkson it’s been years since I heard about her didn’t know she was still huge in the US.

Color me underwhelmed...from Justin to this!??

But yeah my examples are on the wrong thread was thinking of diminishing returns rather than undelivered promises.

Kinda happens with most artists

I've not listened to it in donkeys years but I remember quite liking the Terris debut EP. Live they were very good too, in an intense way. The debut album was fucking awful, though.

I've literally never heard of Voxtrot before today.

I've literally never heard of Voxtrot before today.

me neither.
i am going to have to try and find that terris album this weekend aren't i.
pretty sure i found a skinny promo cd-r in the bins around the time they were being hyped, but not sure i ever actually listened to it.

I'd say the fact that they didn't get on too well with each other was the main reason they split.

― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican)

maybe. they got back together some years back. they do pretty well as a cult prog band appealing to the cardiacs set - they were just never going to be the Monsters of Britpop the NME thought they were after hearing "Kurt Russell".

Jimmie Ray..... my god, flashbacks

What was that guy all about

who wants to know

Metz seems kind of unfair to list here. They have a niche and they fill it.

I'm guessing the new freebie NME doesn't have the space to hype obvious chancers any more, I kind of miss that now it's gone.

I'd always assumed The Vines were an answer to this question but fuck me their debut sold 1.5m copies. How big do you need to be to do that these days?

ha, the Vines were my first thought when I saw this thread title, too.

Would someone like Jay Electronica count? He got a ton of hype and co-signs back in 2007 but then has released 2 solo songs and about a dozen guest verses since then.

Jay Electronica is a great pick for the niche level of hype he got

Jimmy Ray was hyped? Moreso than those other 90s one-hit-wonder acts like Marcy Playground or the “This is the story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world” band?

Obie Trice
Lupe Fiasco

Did anyone care about Obie once?