I really hate this guy. No, really-- I HATE him. I've never met him nor have I ever seen him in any interviews, but he really sticks in my craw. I just don't understand him or his appeal. I have been wondering for years now how this guy became famous. His voice is not particularly good, but for some reason people (usually grandmothers and the dreaded cat ladies) swoon with every note he sings. To me, he sounds like those guys who sang in the school choir at Kiwanis Music Festivals. He also looks like he could use a good and thorough bath-- preferably with a good 'ole bar of Irish Spring and a bottle of Dettol-- and a nice haircut.All image issues aside, Josh Groban's music totally sucks. His sappy, pseudo-operatic ballads make me want to grit my teeth and incite violence. I am hoping that Mr. Groban retires from the music business and puts clear thinking human beings and dogs out their misery. For the love of God and all things lovely he must hang up his mic. Because if I hear You Raise Me Up one more time, I'm slitting my wrists!
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REALLY????? To know him is to love him. He's actually really cool and VERY funny in addition to having an awesome set of pipes! Check out friendsofjoshgroban.com.
I so agree, take ANY Broadway cast member and they could sing just as good if not better. It's all hype.
BOO!...
overrated?!? i don't think he is, he's actually IS still pretty underrated. well, not as underrated as some great artist, but when you compare him to cyrus, or bieber, or Gaga, etc. then yes, hes rather underrated. It's funny how I've never seen a single article talking about those aforementioned artists being labeled as "overrated" instead. Geez. my own opinion anyway. hey, different strokes for different folks! And itstams2u,you and i think alike.
P.S. i know, my comment was kind of late, but whatever... :p lol
How can anybody hate this guy...?
I suppose I fit the poster's category of "dreaded cat lady," yet I can't stand Groban's voice. It's colorless, weak, and mediocre. At best he'd make an accomplished wedding band singer, so I also don't understand the fawning over him. Perhaps Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman were correct when they wrote in their script for Annie Hall, "Our standards have been systematically lowered by television." PBS, which sadly has become home to schlock performers from around the world, likely is where most of Groban's fans first learned of him. "Oh, he's on t.v. He must be good." Sure , and all the news is accurate, and clever commercials are art!
Well, he has quite the large talented singing range. His voice probably isn't to your liking because he's a baritone voice, which is hardly ever heard on radio since everybody would rather hear a tenor. He was able to sing with a true opera singer Domingo Placido and able to hit a full voice opera D5. No singer without training can hit that note. Josh Groban is not famous by any stretch, even Justin Bieber of today is more famous than the Groban. Expecting him to be famous is like expecting the mainstream to like Mozart, it's not happening.
I feel that his songs are very depressing.
I usually share your opinions but I disagreed with every word in this article. To hate someone you don't know is a little much in the first place, but Josh Groban is certainly very talented and actually very underrated. (And I'm neither a grandmother or a cat lady saying this) I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to call foul on everything you said. And in response to a previous poster, his voice is the very antithesis of "colorless, weak, and mediocre." Sorry, but it's the truth.
I've never heard of him but someone posted "You Raise Me Up." The lyrics are AWFUL. We'll all get pellagra feasting on a diet of such utter corn. Here! Read it. You simply cannot write worse lyrics and if you have such a TIN EAR you don't recognize this, you need help. Song lyrics are always a little trite but the music saves them. But no music can rescue this twaddle:
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains; BEYOND TRITE!
You raise me up to walk on stormy seas; YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING. WALK ON STORMY SEAS??? HE IS KIDDING, ISN'T HE?PLEASE TELL ME HE'S KIDDING. EVEN JESUS HAD GOOD WEATHER WHEN HE WALKED ON WATER
I am strong when I am on your shoulders; OH MY GOD.
You raise me up to more than I can be. FRACTURED PROSODY. GAD
he didn't write the lyrics to you raise me up. he only covered it.
his voice aint that good I woke up to him singing on tv yeah.. did not like it. Probably a cool guy, though. Im happy for his success. I NEVER want to hear ONE more goddamn note.
It is all in the arrangement of his songs. He can sing, but it is the cheesy orchestral choices and the timbre and style of his voice, not his ability to reach the notes. There is no edge, dissonance nor stretch to something new that makes one sit up and listen. He could be a computer for all the personality and reality there is in his songs.
Did i mention that I Hate josh grobin
Thank God, I finally found someone else with this opinion.
Cannot stand this guy's music.
I'm with you - I thought he was just mediocre, until I heard his rendition of "Have yourself a merry little Christmas", and he just SWALLOWS the notes. Awful.
Easy... If you can discern real soul vs faux soul.
I just wanted to throw my comment on this. I sing better than Josh Groban, I just don't like the stage. He is well overrated. He ruined the duet singing angel with Sarah McLaughlin. He also can't hit the high note in O' Holy Night. Yes, he can sing in Latin. His only good quality. Michael Bublé, made him look like a chump on stage. Michael, challenged him by singing a few lines like him and nailed them. Josh refused and practically walked off stage to even attempt a song from the Bublé bible. I know I can mimic Michael Bublé with little to no issues. Josh Groban is a pretty face with a decent voice. I would also like to note, he doesn't sing anything original. Glorified karaoke singer!
Its the shittiest sappiest garbage available. I would sing it in a heart beat too for 50million. His music sucks exponentially but he's rich. Smart guy.
Aot of kvetching in these comments... You were spot on btw
this guy sux
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