Songs that start off strong but underwhelm later

Nice thread idea!



Many people regard this as one of the best songs Korn ever released, but to be honest, it has never done anything for me. I think it's starts off really promising, however it just becomes too repetitive for it's own good. I'm also not particularly a fan of Johnathon Davis' vocals in this either.



Whoever decided that it would be a good idea to include male vocals in "Under The Water" needs to be frowned upon. They completely ruin what is otherwise an absolute pop gem. Don't listen to 2:04 onwards.

Yeah, I do as well. I think "Mouth" is really overrated. It's not a terrible song at all, however it's definitely not as good as people make it out as being.

I have to say, that's a solid example

Love the first two verses of this song, but it loses me with "Spelling is fun!!"

I don't particularly like "Me!" either, but to be honest, I actually like the addition of Brendon Urie's vocals in the song. Hearing Brendon's vocals sort of feels homely to me in a way, because it reminds me of the Mid-Late 2000s and makes me feel really nostalgic for my childhood. The lyrics are ridiculously cheesy though. 

Yeah, nostalgia is a funny thing really. It can definitely change your outlook on things. I've got to be honest, I used to actually loathe his vocals (as well as the vocalists of most of the other prominent Emo bands) and Panic at the Disco!'s music back when they were popular during the Mid-Late 2000s. It was nothing against him personally; it was just simply because he was such a prominent figure in the whole Emo scene and I didn't want to associate myself with it in any way. 

My overall opinion of Emo has changed over the past 6-12 months though. If "Me!" had of been released back in say, 2012 or 2013, I probably still would have 
passed off his vocals as not being any good. Now that 10+ years have passed, and Emo has been out of the spotlight for quite a long time now, my whole viewpoint has entirely changed. As much as I might not like to admit it, the Emo scene was one of the biggest defining trends of my childhood and hearing Brendon Urie's vocals in a current pop song in 2019 does feel quite homely for me personally, regardless of my feelings towards his music. 

That's fair enough. In all honesty, I still don't particularly like Panic at the Disco! or Fall Out Boy ("This Ain't a Scene" is the only song of theirs which I think is half-decent). I've just never been able to get into them, for some reason. My Chemical Romance were personally the band that I disliked the least at the time and now I think they were genuinely a good band. "Famous Last Words" would actually have to be one of my favourite songs from 2007.