One had a Lover and the other got a Dogg.

I'm sorry whiny loser baby. You don't know shit. You're flat out wrong. You make me laugh. It's a good thing literally nobody agrees with your shit take. So long, sucka!

Lmao cool, you're a dipshit looking for a fight. Good luck with that, loser. Buhbye. What a waste of oxygen.

Yeah, OP managed to pull off looking pretentious and stupid at the same time. Really difficult pull, really, credit where it's due and all.

Lmao you really suck too, at trying to get anyone to agree with your shit position.

I'm a musician. Daresay I'm probably better at it than you, since I'm much better read. And you're flat out wrong, and making an ass of yourself besides. Shut up already, put down the crack pipe.

Grow up, what are you twelve? The music business has been that way since the fifties or so, likely earlier but I didn't get into anything older when I was getting into music. You're complaining about industry standard practice, and it's really a bad and foolish look.

It's like you posted this just so you could then disagree in the comments and act like an ass toward everyone telling you that you're wrong, which is pretty much everybody.

And it's SWEDES. Ffs try to know some shit when you come to complain, moron.

Cool, you took a couple kinda sorta references and a couple articles and decided there was this massive hatred for a well beloved song, let alone the even more loved artist... You do you, but you're hilariously wrong. Half a dozen references and you want to turn that into a giant, monolithic hatred of the guy. It just doesn't track with actual reality, sorry.

Just blocking your contrarian idiocy. Have a great life. It's a wonderful world, after all.

That's gotta be about... Christmas cookies?

A lot of what people exactly? I've definitely never heard of this hatred for What a Wonderful World before.

And it doesn't seem that there's any reference to it that google can find either.

Maybe give us some examples, some proof. Otherwise you're pretty much just talking out your butt.

Edit - cool, you're just making shit up in a failed attempt to add weight to an opinion you hold, which is not in fact shared by others. Pretty lame yo. "it's not my personal take", but it seems it actually is your personal take, and one not shared by anyone who ever bothered to say anything to that end in any major media.

Star Wars Imperial March... Performed on kazoo.

Other folks had already picked Yakety Sax.

If this was written by anything other than AI, and not a very well developed AI, at that....

It's the most marketable of their music, perhaps. It's a pretty good tune, dynamic and interesting. Best of all time? Eh, that kind of thing is endlessly debatable, taste being subjective, but I'd fall closer to your end of the debate I think.

https://youtu.be/GRxofEmo3HA

Vivaldi's Four Seasons

https://youtu.be/xoBE69wdSkQ

Rossini's William Tell Overture

https://youtu.be/-sR6s3jM3rg

Ravel's Bolero

No, in this one he plays a very arrogant millennial who is also a bit nerdy.

It's called satire, folks, maybe read the article.

The Roots, Din Da Da?

https://youtu.be/2jw5ejG_bDA

You should check out Frank Sinatra - It Was A Very Good Year

I think in a lot of cases when it comes to bands, it really depends on how the group came into being. Were they a bunch of friends who decided to pick up instruments and make music, get popular, etc? Or was it a person putting together a group of musicians to back their work? Does the sound fall apart when you change one or more members? There's a lot of different little things that go toward making that determination.

As to single artists creating and releasing music under a 'band name' I think most of them should probably be considered solo acts.

Lol actually he's one I would have a difficult time placing because "The E Street Band" has seemed to have varying levels of importance throughout his career, instead of an either/or proposition. So yeah, sometimes I'd say he's a solo act and others very much the lead singer of a band.

You're the one who came in to the post threads to deliberately poop all over what others were saying.

How lovely of you to presume.

I'm coming at this from the perspective of a multigenerational musician, who grew up with recording artists of various levels of popularity around the house, and who has both been the lead singer, the solo artist, and the writer who wasn't even on stage.

And I still disagree.

And songwriting is not the same as performance. Never has been. Never will be.

Just off the names given you've said yourself that "+ The Machine" and also 'the Night Sweats" make 'Florence' and 'Nathaniel Rateliff' both members of bands instead of solo acts.

The White Stripes was a band (albeit with only two members) while Jack White as a solo artist is a different concept. He also made music with The Dead Weather and The Raconteurs, both bands in which he was a member.

Micheal Jackson was a member of the Jackson Five before becoming a solo artist. Nobody ever thought he wrote and performed all the music, but there really aren't many people (outside of those in this post fighting against gravity) who would say he wasn't a solo act.

If Nick Cave releases a song with The Bad Seeds it's a group effort, if it's released under his name alone it's as a solo artist.

There's thousands of examples.

Edit- and I really don't know much about Bon Iver, but I probably ought to.

Lmao okay, so now another person wants to conflate 'solo act' with 'solely responsible'. That's fine, because just like with the other person, it doesn't change the definition for the rest of us, which is that a solo act is one that performs as the main interest, the reason the rest of the performers are even there.

Please, tell me about the Elton John concert you saw or heard about where Elton wasn't there lol.

Edit - or about any time an Elton John concert was postponed because Bernie Taupin had a head cold and couldn't sing.

Cool, it's okay to have a bad take you won't drop, since it doesn't affect anyone else.

Who cares if Bernie Taupin co-wrote the songs with Elton John? He isn't a performing musician. You keep trying to say things that make no sense while presuming that others will agree. I don't. Others don't. The meaning of the words you're using don't agree with the intent you have given them.

Lmao you're weird.

I'm sorry but if Elton John (one of the solo acts you think is actually a band) goes out on tour with a different drummer, a different guitarist, a different set of backing vocalists, what have you, but is still the person singing lead and playing keyboards, it's still Elton John. That's because the backing band, while important, is entirely replaceable. That's because Elton John is a solo act.

That's not an opinion, man. That's a standard which you want to not be standard, but it is.