6 Musicians Who Hate You For Listening To Their Music

1. John Lennon And Paul McCartney

When it comes to inner turmoil, no band had it covered quite like the Beatles. They often despised each other, but knew how to keep it together for the sake of their careers. (For a little while, anyway.) Because of the tensions between certain bandmates, most songs were written solo and then brought to the band to be fleshed out. This songwriting habit essentially formed two different bands: John Lennon's Beatles and Paul McCartney's Beatles. Lennon's Beatles took themselves quite seriously, writing songs with so many layers that it was impossible to sift through the meaning after just one listen, whereas McCartney's Beatles just liked to have fun and write what would later be termed "silly little love songs." And as a fan, you were either a "Strawberry Fields Forever" person or a "Hello, Goodbye" person. After the band eventually broke up and all of the infighting became public record, Lennon and McCartney took jabs at each other's songwriting styles, with Lennon calling John's "attempts" at songwriting "granny music," or "lightweight love songs" or sometimes just flat-out "garbage." Likewise, McCartney considered Lennon's constant politicizing to be pompous and overwrought. By extension, if your favorite Fab Four track is "Come Together," Paul probably considers you a little pretentious. And if your jam was "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," then John would think you're really very childish. Because they had such wildly different tastes in music (and a passion for what good music is not), no Beatles fan would ever be fully embraced by any of the band members. Except Ringo. Ringo loves everybody.
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