YMMV / Arctic Monkeys

• Awesome Music:
  • WPSIAITWIN: "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor", "Mardy Bum", "When The Sun Goes Down" and "From the Ritz to the Rubble"
  • Favourite Worst Nightmare: "505", "Brianstorm", "Teddy Picker" and "Fluorescent Adolescent"
  • AM: "Do I Wanna Know?", "Arabella", "Why Do You Only Call Me When You're High?", "R U Mine?" and "I Wanna Be Yours"
• Epic Riff: To name a few, "Brianstorm", "R U Mine?", "Still Take You Home", "Teddy Picker", and "Do I Wanna Know?".
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In a video of Over/Under featuring Alex and Matt in 2013, the duo was asked if they found goatees overrated or underrated. Matt quickly called it overrated and even told the audience to "not be the kind of guy who grows a goatee", fast-forward to five years later in 2018 and Alex himself grew one.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: Despite (or because of) AM being critically acclaimed and praised for being accessible enough to break into the American mainstream, the album attracts criticism from the same sort of fans that are seen in every music fandom: those who complain that the album is too mainstream, those who claim that whoever likes it (or who wasn't a fan or didn't know about the band before the album) isn't a "real fan," and those that criticize AM for having "too many love songs" and that the band as a whole has gotten "too goopy." Most of the album is incredibly sexual, but to say that it's chock-full of love songs is the furthest thing from accurate. As for the other points of criticism, the rest of the fandom agrees; how dare someone become a fan of a band after hearing one of their most recently popular, acclaimed albums?
• Memetic Mutation: The lyric "I just wanted to be one of The Strokes" from "Star Treatment" became this among the Arctic Monkeys fans.
  • The band became quite a notorious meme on tumblr around 2014, as the quintessential edgy emo band, and people wanting to base their style off the sound of AM.
• Misattributed Song: No, "Do I Wanna Know?" is not by The Black Keys, despite having a distinctive bass riff and being an angry-sounding love song.
• Signature Song: Formerly "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor", since replaced by "Do I Wanna Know?".
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Older fans tend to hate AM but newer fans adore it. More recently, fans are divided over Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, where some praise the new direction the band has taken, whilst others call it too drastic of a change in style from their previous efforts. Given that the band intentionally sought to deviate from the accessible indie rock of their previous album, it's likely that this reaction was what they had intended.

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