<rant>I dislike Dave Matthews and his music. I switch the radio station when one of his songs begins to play. People who love Dave annoy me, especially when they try to make me love Dave. I do not love Dave nor will I ever love Dave. I have listened to my fair share of Dave songs and I do feel that I have enough exposure to all that is Dave to form the opinion that he and his music suck.</rant>

The main reason I dislike Dave Matthews: People like him because “it’s cool” and treat you like you’re a crazy person if you don’t like him just as much as they do. I still can’t get over the way people react when I tell them that I don’t like DMB.

“What?! What’s wrong with you? It’s such great music. You obviously know nothing about good music.”

Yet, ask a DMB fan to name one song that has touched them deeply or has deep meaning to them and I bet they’ll be hard pressed to name a song.

The music is bland, lacks passion or integrity, and is intended only as background noise. Each song sounds the same or at least very similar which shows a lack of talent in music writing.

I just don’t get it. Dave has managed to somehow convince good people that like good music that his music is good. I guess I can’t fault him for that, it’s definitely working out well for him. He certainly isn’t hurting for cash.

Let me just finish by saying that I don’t think every song I listen to has some sort of deep meaning or has changed my life in some way. That would be ridiculous. I’m also not saying that you have to not like Dave Matthews. What I am saying is please don’t act like Dave Matthews is the standard by which all other music should be compared. He is not the Jesus of music and will not go down in history as one of the greatest musicians of all time. Enjoy your Dave songs, silently, and allow me to voice my opinion of dislike for him and his music without being made to feel as if I’ve just punched a sweet new born baby in the face and enjoyed it.