Why is Jack Johnson so popular?

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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,068
    but even as calm, chill out, summer music, Jack Johnson is incredibly boring and redundant from album to album.

    There's plenty of other summer music that is interesting and contains depth such as the Flaming Lips or Yo la Tengo

    Jack Johnson truly all sounds the same from song to song.

    It's obviously not about crazy aggression/ interesting time sigs. But he's just plain dull when it comes to his style of 'summer surf' music. Same beat, same guitar, same kind of lyrics, same rhythm, same vocal inflections, same microphone, same production.

    His music is very predictable and formulatic even for his style, he lacks variety and creativity.
  • pirlo21
    pirlo21 Posts: 534
    Loved Jack since I first heard one of his albums being played in a surf shop where I grew up around 2001.
    Bought all his stuff since then and still love it. But his stuff isn't anytime music. I've got to be in the right mood or place to enjoy it.

    My (now ex-)girlfriend is a big fan too, so I took her to a Jack show last year, or the year before (time flies). And I was a bit worried the show would be a bit dull, cause his music isn't exactly the jump-out-yer-seat type!
    But I really enjoyed the show. Really energetic, yet relaxed & chilled in the right quantities.
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  • dirtyT
    dirtyT Posts: 3,620
    Jammin909 wrote:
    Yes, I 100% agree. Granted different genre, but no more original than Nickelback.
    That is statement is completely riduculous. Seriously, like him or not.
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  • dirtyT
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    there are some of us who liked him, way back in 1999 or whenever his first record came out, way before it became a cliche to like his music.




    I like you post, but didn't know it was a "cliche" to listen to his music.
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  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    It's kinda already been said, but to me Jack Johnson is being with my special lady on the north shore of Oahu. It's love, peace, chill, cool, and hope all rolled up into one mellowed out voice and guitar. I put him in the same camp as folks like Ben Harper, Ben Kweller, ya know, all the Bens. Some people don't get him. That's cool. For you there will always be Manilow. :D
  • harrymanback
    harrymanback Posts: 435
    Just like why is Dane Cook so popular ... too often people like what they think they are supposed to like.
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  • jammerfall
    jammerfall Posts: 908
    harrymanback wrote:
    ... too often people like what they think they are supposed to like.

    Well put.
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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    harrymanback wrote:
    Just like why is Dane Cook so popular ... too often people like what they think they are supposed to like.

    This statement might be true in highschool, but for most of us it's not. And for the record, Dane Cook is annoying, and not all that funny.

    I don't mind Jack Johnson... it's cool to relax to or listen to by the pool. I'd never pay to see him live, but he's ok.
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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    I bought On & On and In Between Times and they were pretty good. Nothing too special though.
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  • dirtyT
    dirtyT Posts: 3,620
    blackredyellow wrote:
    This statement might be true in highschool, but for most of us it's not. And for the record, Dane Cook is annoying, and not all that funny.

    I don't mind Jack Johnson... it's cool to relax to or listen to by the pool. I'd never pay to see him live, but he's ok.
    Good point. Sometimes, people just hear that something is good, and when they hear, they like it. Not because it is Cliche or because they are suppose to, maybe sometimes people don't like shit because they have been told it isn't cool to like it, or it is cliche. I think that is a more true statement.
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  • Schoki
    Schoki Posts: 5,072
    Easy listening popular music with a positive vibe and summer feeling!

    like it at the right moment.
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Cos he's easier to sing along to than the Mars Volta?
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    blackredyellow wrote:
    This statement might be true in highschool, but for most of us it's not. And for the record, Dane Cook is annoying, and not all that funny.

    I don't mind Jack Johnson... it's cool to relax to or listen to by the pool. I'd never pay to see him live, but he's ok.
    I agree with you 100% with your statement.
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  • DaytimeDilemma
    DaytimeDilemma Posts: 2,008
    Jack Johnson is frat boy rock.


    I can go down to the local bar and see shit that sounds just like this.



    The fact that he is headlining major fastivals this year is a bit troubling.
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Cos he's easier to sing along to than the Mars Volta?
    LMAO :D

    Those jerks owe me $12 for one of their shitty albums. :mad:
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  • DaytimeDilemma
    DaytimeDilemma Posts: 2,008
    LongRd. wrote:
    LMAO :D

    Those jerks owe me $12 for one of their shitty albums. :mad:



    This is false. They haven't made a bad album.


    At lease the Mars Volta can play something not in 4/4.
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    DaytimeDilemma wrote:
    This is false. They haven't made a bad album.


    At lease the Mars Volta can play something not in 4/4.

    What good does a 6/8 time signature count for if it's unlistenable?
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • Matty Boy
    Matty Boy Posts: 421
    People have such low expectations for musicians that Foo Fighters and Jack Johnson are popular. Myself, I'm holding out for the biggest asshole in rock history to come back and put out an album. At least he can actually write a classic song. http://youtube.com/watch?v=HY4jHoVSXxg
    This is what good music sounds like kids not that generic Foo Fighter, Jack Johnson, and Nickleback crap you've had crammed down your throats from the modern rock press.
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    He is okay but I think he's overrated in my opinion.
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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Matty Boy wrote:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=HY4jHoVSXxg
    This is what good music sounds like kids...
    One of the most overrated band ever. They made one classic album and they're legends? :rolleyes:
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