Ok. So I know what you’re thinking. You’ve read the title, and you already wanna bash me and say how I should love them the way the are, a take it or leave it sort of deal. Well let a girl dream. Jeez. Thre are a few artists out there I feel have insane potential but waste on lame projects that play down how talented they really are.
Tim Pagnotta- I wish I wish I wish he would mature just a little bit. He's an unbelievably talented guy, but from yet another pop/punk cliché guilty pleasure band. I LOVE Tim’s voice, and I just wish he’d ditch the entertaining-seventh-grade-posers scene and come join Dustin Kensrue on the converted-to-folk-artists scene. He's 32 years old for God's sake, yet producing music far below his age and his potential. I think his voice is just amazing in a slower and more subdued format, like in “Sign Off’ from their second album, Palm Trees and Power Lines, where we are teased with only a minute long morsel of the amazing potential this guy has.
Tim Pagnotta- I wish I wish I wish he would mature just a little bit. He's an unbelievably talented guy, but from yet another pop/punk cliché guilty pleasure band. I LOVE Tim’s voice, and I just wish he’d ditch the entertaining-seventh-grade-posers scene and come join Dustin Kensrue on the converted-to-folk-artists scene. He's 32 years old for God's sake, yet producing music far below his age and his potential. I think his voice is just amazing in a slower and more subdued format, like in “Sign Off’ from their second album, Palm Trees and Power Lines, where we are teased with only a minute long morsel of the amazing potential this guy has.
Travis McCoy- the once underground, innovative Gym Class Heroes is now cheesy and over-exposed, and I really can’t stand it. McCoy knows how to rhyme, he’s witty and has great delivery, a sense of humor, and HUGE hair. What he really needs is a real hip-hop album. I’m talking real rhymes over real beats..angry...rather than watching an eight year old dressed as cupid getting crunk in a park. More POS than Aaron Carter, if ya know what I mean. C'mon "Travvy", show us whatcha got.
Dave Melillo- I really have nothing groundbreaking to say, I'm gonna be honest and say this is more of a rant. I’d just REALLY like for Dave to PLEASE go back to the good ol’ days of folksy acoustics ala "Knights of the Island Counter" that make me love him, and ditch this whole Cute is What We Aim For bass-playing thing. Because he’s honestly more talented than that whole piece of crap foursome put together. COME BACK TO ME!
Taking Back Sunday- Once again, this one for me is more about moving backwards than about moving forward. This is only my humble opinion, but for me, with each album, Taking Back Sunday gets less amazing. Note the choice of words. It’s not that “Louder Now” is BAD, necessarily; it’s just not the amazing stuff that they put out earlier in their careers. Much of this change, I thought initially, was due to the fact that John Nolan and Shaun Cooper were no longer in the picture as far as TBS was concerned. For me, they took ALL of the slower more gentle aspects of the old TBS and brought it to Straylight. Straylight to me is almost too mellow, but TBS lost all of that soft touch. The farther they get from Nolan and Cooper, the farther they get from their initial fans and their great music, and the closer they get the mass-produced emo/screamo/pop/punk crap that I could write a chemical formula for right now. They’ve lost that more clean sound that they had back in the day; their sound is now muddled and one big BLAH in your face. Brand New and TBS came out with similarly hyped albums around the same time, and I feel that Brand New was much more successful. They’ve gotten darker and more abstract, with a different and more distinctive, more mature sound. However, TBS, in their attempt to make “epic rock” with “Louder Now”, have become less distinctive and less mature...more like everyone else. Once again…COME BACK! 
