Contestants whose fandom made you enjoy them less?

[QueenCami]

It's funny when people criticize others for doing the exact same thing they do lmao - not to say I don't do the same but some people are quite oblivious about it. 

 

1 hour ago, Bk1234 said:

Lol at this point I don’t even care. Put me on your ignore list if you’re sick of it. 

Also, on a different note, I won't speak for anyone else but I don't find your excitement or optimism about artists annoying at all. Your optimism is wholesome or at the very least humorous, so I get a kick from it either way. I still find it impressive that your tireless optimism over Taryn's 4-way KO win actually came to be, despite everyone else on IDF telling you you were wrong.

 

 

[disney1024]

23 minutes ago, QueenCami said:

Also, on a different note, I won't speak for anyone else but I don't find your excitement or optimism about artists annoying at all. Your optimism is wholesome or at the very least humorous, so I get a kick from it either way. I still find it impressive that your tireless optimism over Taryn's 4-way KO win actually came to be, despite everyone else on IDF telling you you were wrong.

Edited April 6, 2021 by disney1024

[Jordan Smith Fan]

5 hours ago, VintageVoice said:

Literally the fastest way to get IDF to eat you alive on this section of the forum would be to bash Maelyn - thankfully, since the server apocalypse of 2019, nobody's been bold enough to try (though I think it helps that her season ended before then).

 

There’s only a few other artists on here with that level of post-show bananas fandom, but for the sake of not derailing this thread I won’t be naming names (though given that context, it may be relatively easy to guess who one of them is).

There is one person who did that(on voice madness thread). They said "I don't know what IDF sees in her. She is nothing special. Tessanne slayed her". They also said that about Addison and Amber. (Gotta give points to them on having the GUTS to pick IDF favs).

 

Btw They said tessanne slayed her because the match-up was Hallelujah VS Redemption Song.

[Hamza Tufail]

Just now, Jordan Smith Fan said:

There is one person who did that(on voice madness thread). They said "I don't know what IDF sees in her. She is nothing special. Tessanne slayed her". They also said that about Addison and Amber. (Gotta give points to them on having the GUTS to pick IDF favs).

 

Btw They said tessanne slayed her because the match-up was Hallelujah VS Redemption Song.

I was the one who said that.

 

But that was because IDF overhyped Maelyn soooo much. So when I signed in I decided to pick IDF favs. Majority of my early posts were Anti-Maelyn. I removed them tho(But after quite a while, way after the voice madness ended) because I realized that some of them were a bit harsh and also I realized that I do the same type of hyping when it comes to my favorites.

 

Also, LOL I didn't pick up on Addison and Amber. I just wanted Dream On(Amanda) and Simple Man(Sawyer) to win over A Case of you and Stay. So I was pissed on that particular round. I supported Addison and Amber on almost all the other rounds. I didn't bash them.

[Jordan Smith Fan]

27 minutes ago, Jordan Smith Fan said:

There is one person who did that(on voice madness thread). They said "I don't know what IDF sees in her. She is nothing special. Tessanne slayed her". They also said that about Addison and Amber. (Gotta give points to them on having the GUTS to pick IDF favs).

 

Btw They said tessanne slayed her because the match-up was Hallelujah VS Redemption Song.

Also I forgot but there was another user on the live discussion thread who said, "Maelyn bores me to tears".

[Harmat]

On 4/5/2021 at 10:59 PM, Misirlou said:

Praise towards a contestant can be considered deserving to some and others might not get it. I have a problem with people coming at others for the slightest criticism for their snowflake though.

Exactly. Here’s what I think: IDF throws around the word generic a lot.
 

Generic means lacking imagination or individuality. It means that someone is predictable and unoriginal. 

I don’t have a problem with this word being used because depending on your 1) current music taste 2) what music you grew up with/were exposed to 3) what genre the artist sings in (on the show) 4) their level of “hype” , you’re going to think that specific contestants are generic. 
What I do get annoyed with is when someone says that ___ can’t be considered generic by anyone because a, b, and c. While those reasons may be true for you, they’re not universally applicable. 

I think that the word generic is inherently subjective and you can’t objectively measure how generic someone is. Someone may have a tone that’s really common, but the way they emotionally express themselves may be unique. Or someone may have a unique tone, but sing with little to no conviction. Or someone may not be technical imperfect, but you have heard their story and connect with them on that account. There’s just such variability and that’s what makes artists so great.

TL; DR: generic is a veryyy subjective term and I don’t like when people are appalled at someone calling an artist generic. Anyone is allowed to consider any artist generic.
 

(I definitely rambled a bit, but I’m just sorting through my own thoughts as well. I understand that people may disagree with me and think that certain artists are indubitably generic or not generic, but that’s your own opinion. Here’s mine. )

 

[disney1024]

1 hour ago, Harmat said:

Anyone is allowed to consider any artist generic.

New IDF user who reads this be like: "Well then, Maelin Jarmin is generic because there are thousands of singers just like her. That's my opinion. " 

 

IDF be like:

[Gustavo527]

I was not on IDF at the time, but i remember Ali's fans being really rude to Wé on the YouTube comments. If i'm being honest, i wanted to stan her, but these nasty comments made it really hard for me, to the point i didn't really cared when she lost to Josh in the Instant Save. (I also remember being really happy that Wé managed to got PV. Also, the meltdowns on YouTube were really funny ) 

 

Which lead me to the next point: why people insist to put females against each other?? Especially black females. I mean, instead of supporting them two, (which would have been great, considering they were obviously at disadvantage being the only two black females in a Top 8 with six white males) people decided to make a competition between both of them, which is dumb and non-sense, if you ask me. 

[QueenKalie]

any contestant that was against my favorite that season. /endthread 

[Bunny391848]

A group  of girls my age (now early 20s, then teenagers ) from   Chris Mann's fanbase  I used to be buddies with  hate me and I'm not sure why. I'm not sure if they even care much about him anymore anyway as it looks like they haven't been to one of his shows since right around the time they dumped me(When he's done several shows near them over the past few years pre covid )  .  Anyway , Chris calls me awesome and his walking Wikapedia so I don't care much on them anymore except the group of girls were oddly hanging out in NYC recently I think they were probably just jealous .   For a while , I was down on all of that but hardly think of them anymore as it seems like they are no longer active in the fanbase . 

 

 

I'd say the worst fans are Jordan Smith 's and Ryan Gallagher's. Most are conservative loonies . I haven't cared for half the music Jordan's put out post show even though he was my favorite with Jeffrey while Ryan Gallagher turned out to be a supposed nutcase anyway and I keep wondering what exactly he did wrong ...

 

Matt McAndrew has a nice group of fans . So does Sarah Potenza who's fans have been very dedicated . (her fb fan group is huge !) 

[VoiceFan!]

Don’t hate me for this but I feel like Corey was very overhyped in S20. His only good performance was his BA & KO, and in the lives he didn’t do so great yet everyone kept bashing Jordan Matthew Young for winning that IS spot over Pia, Corey, Gihanna, and Dana. And I still listen to Corey’s performances, but like I remember his fans having a lot to say that night. In addition his SF-IS performance was shaky-ish, and no one seemed to have been paying attention to that

HM: Thunderstorm Artis fans…literally everyone was like he was so robbed in the comments of the S18 winner video. Didn’t matter as much to me tho cuz i was rooting for CammWess or Megan.

[FloorWax]

2 hours ago, VoiceFan! said:

Don’t hate me for this but I feel like Corey was very overhyped in S20. His only good performance was his BA & KO, and in the lives he didn’t do so great yet everyone kept bashing Jordan Matthew Young for winning that IS spot over Pia, Corey, Gihanna, and Dana. And I still listen to Corey’s performances, but like I remember his fans having a lot to say that night. In addition his SF-IS performance was shaky-ish, and no one seemed to have been paying attention to that

 

1. I recall you were one of the people that had something to say, lol.

2. People paid attention to those performances being shaky, he was ranked last or almost last in every list in the ranking thread.

3. I do agree that saying he deserved it over Jordan is a bit of a stretch, even as a big fan of Corey.

[TheVoiceFan2]

2 hours ago, VoiceFan! said:

Don’t hate me for this but I feel like Corey was very overhyped in S20. His only good performance was his BA & KO, and in the lives he didn’t do so great yet everyone kept bashing Jordan Matthew Young for winning that IS spot over Pia, Corey, Gihanna, and Dana. And I still listen to Corey’s performances, but like I remember his fans having a lot to say that night. In addition his SF-IS performance was shaky-ish, and no one seemed to have been paying attention to that

HM: Thunderstorm Artis fans…literally everyone was like he was so robbed in the comments of the S18 winner video. Didn’t matter as much to me tho cuz i was rooting for CammWess or Megan.

I enjoyed Corey in S20, but probably not as much as the rest of IDF (him competing every single round against my favorites did not help lol: Savanna, Ryleigh and Gihanna). I thought his pre live performances were great, but lives came and he was shaky iirc. I do remember thinking his POs performances were miles better than his semis, but I don't remember people (except maybe 1 or 2) saying Corey deserved to move on over Jordan. I think the general consensus here is that even though Jordan beat out many IDF favorites for the finale, based on the IS performances he was one of or the most deserving to move on (not saying it's my opinion, but I think that's what most of IDF thinks about it, so I wouldn't say Corey's fanbase was delusional in that moment lol, but that's just what I remember. I could be wrong lol). 

[VintageVoice]

2 hours ago, VoiceFan! said:

Don’t hate me for this but I feel like Corey was very overhyped in S20. His only good performance was his BA & KO, and in the lives he didn’t do so great yet everyone kept bashing Jordan Matthew Young for winning that IS spot over Pia, Corey, Gihanna, and Dana. And I still listen to Corey’s performances, but like I remember his fans having a lot to say that night. In addition his SF-IS performance was shaky-ish, and no one seemed to have been paying attention to that

HM: Thunderstorm Artis fans…literally everyone was like he was so robbed in the comments of the S18 winner video. Didn’t matter as much to me tho cuz i was rooting for CammWess or Megan.

Corey fan here, I definitely didn’t have the best initial gut reaction to Jordan winning the IS and was not as polite as I could have been (heat of the moment reactions rarely paint online posters in a good light), but after reflection and rewatching…yeah, I understand how Corey lost that. Corey was also had a pretty nasty cold during Semis week, which didn’t help his cause. I think a lot of Corey fans were under the impression that because he’d won the previous Instant Save he could pull off a second win, so the reality check stung, but it is what it is.

[VoiceFan!]

Also it's been mentioned already but the whole Chris vs Lauren fiasco in S12 got real old real fast.

[VoiceFan!]

I also remember A LOT of Cami Clune stans and while she is a good singer, she got a lot more attention then vocalists that were better than her (John Holiday).

[Gustavo527]

2 hours ago, VoiceFan! said:

I also remember A LOT of Cami Clune stans and while she is a good singer, she got a lot more attention then vocalists that were better than her (John Holiday).

Sorry, what is the problem with a contestant getting a lot of attention?if i stan someone i'm gonna stan whoever i want, i don't care if there are better vocalists, vocals are not everything. And also, i'm gonna hype them as much as i want, sorry. And if that make you enjoy an artist less, that's on you, not on the contestant or their fandom 

 

EDIT: Ok, i kinda get your point, extreme fanatism is irritating sometimes, i think that was what you were referring about.

 

 

Edited July 20, 2021 by Gustavo527

[ThrowawayCrayon]

2 hours ago, VoiceFan! said:

I also remember A LOT of Cami Clune stans and while she is a good singer, she got a lot more attention then vocalists that were better than her (John Holiday).

Personally, I believe people can hype up whoever they want. (Everyone has their own tastes and preferences) Just because they stan or are fans of someone doesn't necessarily mean they do not see or appreciate someone else's vocal prowess