YMMV / Piero Scaruffi

• Common Knowledge: Despite the infamous opening to his essay and the memes, Scaruffi did not hate The Beatles, he just found them overrated. While he very much dislikes their early, teenybopper era and dismisses it as disposable pop, he recognizes their later work as fairly good in their own right, even giving Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band good reviews.
• Critical Dissonance: The engine that his music writing runs on. To his credit, he does not believe that quality has anything to do with popularity, although it has been argued that he takes this to absurd lengths — he will fall back on the No True Scotsman argument in an attempt to prove that any popular music that he likes wasn't all that popular in the first place.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: A large part of the reason why many people dislike him, though his perceived condescending attitude towards people who don't share his opinions is also part of it.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: Could be considered Rule of Scaruffi. He so greatly dislikes the idea that good music is popular music that, when he likes a musician who happens to be also popular, he will claim that they aren't popular.^note For example, he claimed that jazz critics were agreed that the greatest jazz musicians were Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, and went on to say that neither of them was very popular at the time — in spite of the fact that Coltrane's A Love Supreme album sold in the hundreds of thousands, and that Ellington was one of only four jazz musicians to get onto the cover of Time magazine, itself a guarantee of worldwide fame, and was awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honour. Significantly, he didn't list Louis Armstrong as one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, even though most jazz critics consider Armstrong to be very much up there with Ellington and Coltrane — perhaps because of the way that Armstrong more or less abandoned jazz music for pop music. That, or he simply found Armstrong's jazz to be too simplistic.
• Memetic Mutation: It's a given that someone will drop the opening quote of his Beatles career overview and parody it in any discussion related to him.
  The fact that so many books still name the Beatles "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art.
  • "Piero Scaruffi gave Limp Bizkit a 7.5/10" ^note  Used to parody that his musical tastes are not nearly as sophisticated as he credits himself as having.
  • "Not A Big Lose for Music" ^note  The infamous conclusion of his XXXTentacion page which was written only a few days after XXX Tentacion died from gun wounds, often edited onto other musicians.
• Never Live It Down: The guy's an accomplished neuroscientist and has written reviews for thousands of bands, but most people just know his essay about The Beatles, despite the fact that if you actually look at his reviews, he doesn't hate them.