A lot of folks are sharing this post from Vice magazine’s “Noisey” which, from all appearances, was written by a high-schooler who just discovered them. The author claims to understand why people claim that The Beatles are overrated, and then goes ape shit with reasons and excuses about how great they are. I’m guessing people are sharing it for the same reason that the whole, “Who is OutKast?” thing circulated: a sizable number of people take their music seriously. (I’m one of them.)

This article is dumb, though. Let me first say, I like The Beatles. A lot. I have a friend who is beyond super obsessed with them so from time to time I’ll rile him up by claiming they are overrated but there are two reasons for this:

  1. He knows that I like them and understand their significance.
  2. It allows him to get in some shots about Nirvana being overrated. (Nirvana being another band I like a lot.)

This is the problem with writing an article bashing Beatles-bashers. They fall into two types. One of those types, like myself, is the “pot-stirrer” who just loves getting you all annoyed with their words. You can’t get mad and launch a tirade at them because then you’re just going to look like a putz when they give you a shit-eating grin and ask, “You mad, bro?” The other type is the straight-up musical pedestrian. They may be a young person who absolutely loves utter shit like One Direction or the Biebs but they also may just be a normal adult who doesn’t give enough of a shit, is tired of hearing you prate about musical geniuses, and wants to be left in their morass of Pitbull/Ke$ha/Miley Cyrus.

With the former of that group, they’ll either grow up eventually and realize One Direction is audible feces, abandoning them for The Beatles/Joni Mitchell/Neil Young/etc. or they’ll switch over to Hot 100 FM and turn into the latter. In the event they continue down the path of pop music consumers, there’s nothing you can say or do or exhibit to them that will cause them to change their minds. They are content with filler noise like Katy Perry’s, “Roar.”

So, essentially, in either instance you’re wasting your time. Or, since this is the age of social media, you’ve successfully drawn tons of hits to your site. Hmm.