History FandomRivalry / Music

* Music/TaylorSwift fans vs. Music/{{Adele}} fans — watch as Swifties cite Adele's music as being one-tone and Adele's fans accuse Swift's lyrics of being immature.
** Recently, a rivalry has also developed between Taylor fans and Music/KaceyMusgraves fans. This isn't getting any better when Kacey has stated numerous times that she dislikes how Taylor's success influenced country radio.

** Taylor's fans do ''not'' get along with Music/KanyeWest fans, for obvious reasons. You would have thought this rivalry would have ended in 2015 when they made up, but it is still going on thanks to West's unhealthy, continuing obsession with Swift, especially with the song "Famous" (and the music video), which upset her fans. The rivalry became even more heated following Taylor's criticism of that same song, leading Kim Kardashian to leak a phone conversation Kanye has had with Taylor where she acutally said she didn't mind of the lyrics targeting her. And then we arrive to the present day, with Kanye fans accusing Taylor of purposely releasing her new album, ''Reputation'', on the anniversary of Kanye's mom's death.

** Given that {{Music/BTS}} is one of the only k-pop acts to reach international megastardom, there is a “BTS vs. pretty much everyone else” fandom rivalry going on. A notable fan war is with fans of the girl group Music/BlackPink. When Blackpink started to blow up internationally, some circles hyped them up as the DistaffCounterpart to BTS, which other circles did not appreciate. It doesn’t help that, despite being the most popular GirlGroup in K-pop, Blackpink is perpetually in second place (behind BTS) when it comes to popularity in the industry as a whole.
** Fans of Music/BlackPink, the most popular girl group internationally, vs. fans of {{Music/Twice}}, the second most popular. It boils down to the groups having near-polar opposite styles (Blackpink being generally DarkerAndEdgier; Twice being generally LighterAndSofter) and Twice being one of the only girl groups who can stand a chance competing with Blackpink to become the most popular due to Twice having been dubbed the Nation’s Girl Group relatively early in their career.
** In general, any new group that gets compared to an established A-list group or debuts around the same time that another group from the same company starts to fall apart (Music/RedVelvet vs. {{Music/fx}}; Music/BlackPink vs. Music/TwoNEOne) will be subject to this.

* Music/{{Blur}} fans vs. Music/{{Oasis}} fans. It even caused marriages to break up. Or so the British tabloids would have us believe. Ironically enough, the main players in the rivalry between the two - Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn - are now friends and neither wish to discuss their rivalry.

** Also within black metal, there is Satanic black metal vs Pagan black metal vsChristian n (un)black metal.

** In UsefulNotes/{{Bulgaria}}, there is metalheads vs. 'chalga'[[note]] a local variant of pop-folk, known for romantic, but sometimes '''very''' vulgar snd sexual lyrics.[[/note]] fans. Chalga fans claim metalheads are primitives, while metalheads claim chalga fans are bunch of rapists.

** In UsefulNotes/{{Bulgaria}}, there is metalheads vs. 'chalga'[[note]] a local variant of pop-folk, known for romantic, but sometimes '''very''' vulgar snd sexual lyrics.[[/notes]] fans. Chalga fans claim metalheads are primitives, while metalheads claim chalga fans are bunch of rapists.

** In UsefulNotes/{{Bulgaria}}, there is metalheads vs. 'chalga'[[note]] a local variant of pop-f9lk, known for romantic, but sometimes '''very''' vulgar snd sexual lyrics.[[/notes]] fans. Chalga fans claim metalheads are primitives, while metalheads claim chalga fans are bunch of rapists.

** Also within black metal, there is Satanic black metal vs Pagan black metal vs Chrsyian (un)black metal.

** Given that {{Music/BTS}} is one of the only k-pop acts to reach international megastardom, there is a “BTS vs. pretty much everyone else” fandom rivalry going on. A notable fan war is with fans of the girl group Music/BlackPink. When Blackpink started to blow up internationally, some circles hyped them up as the DistaffCounterpart to BTS, which neither camp appreciated. It doesn’t help that, despite being the most popular GirlGroup in K-pop, Blackpink is perpetually in second place (behind BTS) when it comes to popularity in the industry as a whole.

** Given that {{Music/BTS}} is one of the only k-pop acts to reach international megastardom, there is a “BTS vs. pretty much everyone else” fandom rivalry going on. A notable fan war is with fans of the girl group Music/BlackPink. When Blackpink started to blow up internationally, the media hyped them up as the DistaffCounterpart to BTS, which neither camp appreciated. It doesn’t help that, despite being the most popular GirlGroup in K-pop, Blackpink is perpetually in second place (behind BTS) when it comes to popularity in the industry as a whole.

* An example in K-pop used to be [[{{Music/EXO}} EXO]] vs. BAP. To add fuel to the fire, both groups were candidates for the MAMA 2012 rookie award. Neither group won, which resulted in both fandoms having a rivalry with fans of the indie group Busker Busker, for a few months. The rivalry didn't really last because most of Busker Busker's fans are Korean, while the EXO and BAP fans who are at war are foreign.
** Nowadays it is [[{{Music/BTS}} BTS]] fandom that EXO fandom have a bad relationship with. After BTS started to rise in 2015, the fandoms began a rivalry because the two groups are compared. The fact that the two groups are always [[AwardSnub nominated for the same awards]] doesn't help. In fact, the first time BTS beat Exo for one of these awards, Exo’s fandom made a petition to the Korean government to take the award from BTS and give it to Exo, which received thousands of signatures. Unsurprisingly, the Blue House told them to stop wasting the government’s time with such ridiculous requests. The abuse got to the point where most K-pop fandoms joined up with Exo’s to harass BTS due to their unexpectedly growing popularity, peaking when a K-pop fan got a BTS concert cancelled due to threats of shooting the band during the concert. However, since 2017, with BTS’s meteoric rise to global popularity and the lack of any actual competition between the groups anymore- BTS has swept all their nominations at the previously contentious awards shows for years in a row- the rivalry has gradually begun to fade. Nowadays, it’s mostly one-sided, with K-Pop fans making constant jabs at BTS and putting all their other differences aside to continue to attempt to derail BTS’s career.

* Underground Ravers and Free Partie vs. Clubs and Festivals.

** Eminem fans and Music/KanyeWest fans have had a longstanding rivalry due to them being two of the most popular rappers, with Kanye's fans hating Eminem fans for being unsophisticated and corny while Eminem fans hate Kanye fans for being pretentious and incapable of admitting their idol's faults. The political rupture that emerged between the two fanbases in the Trump years also caused problems, with Kanye alienating his liberal audience by supporting Trump and, later, making white supremacist and homophobic statements, while Eminem shed much of his largely rural-conservative audience by supporting Black Lives Matter, gun control and abortion access, and vowing to stop using homophobic slurs in his songs as well as supporting his child coming out as nonbinary. This resulted in a number of fans switching over to support the rapper who followed their political outlook and turning on the rapper who betrayed them.

** Eminem fans and Music/KanyeWest fans have had a longstanding rivalry due to them being two of the most popular rappers, with Kanye's fans hating Eminem fans for being unsophisticated and corny while Eminem fans hate Kanye fans for being pretentious and incapable of admitting their idol's faults. The political rupture that emerged between the two fanbases in the Trump years also caused problems, with Kanye alienating his largely liberal audience by supporting Trump and, later, making white supremacist statements, while Eminem shed much of his largely white/rural audience by supporting Black Lives Matter and gun control and, later, making a vow to stop using homophobic slurs in his songs and supporting his trans child in their new identity. This resulted in a number of fans switching over to support the rapper who followed their political outlook and turning on the rapper who betrayed them.

** For some reason, Eminem fans seem to like to hate Music/LilWayne (especially on the internet), even though Eminem and Lil Wayne have collaborated on multiple occasions and there's no indication of any bad blood whatsoever between the two.
** Music/AmyWinehouse fans despise Eminem. This is completely one sided on their part however. Eminem attacked Amy for her looks and mental health issues in multiple songs in 2009 when Amy was suffering from anorexia and bulimia both of which would contribute to her death. The fact that Eminem was a bigger star at the time, and that the media was attacking Amy caused many people, including even Eminem's own fans to see it as a nasty case of punching down (which is undoubtedly why there is no hatred from Eminem's fans towards Amy.)

** A particularly strange "rivalry"[[note]]which is admittedly far more common in internet circles than it is in RealLife[[/note]] is "Metalheads vs. Christians." Yes, some metalheads [[FanDumb believe there can be absolutely no overlap between metal fandom and Christian belief]], even though many metal musicians are themselves Christians (check the NotChristianRock page for details - and that's not counting the numerous musicians who are probably Christians in their personal lives but haven't yet declared their faith to the public).

* Music/SexPistols vs. Music/TheRamones. [[TakeAThirdOption or]] Music/TheDamned, Music/TheClash, Crass or Stiff Little Fingers

* Music/TheBeatles fans vs. Music/TheRollingStones fans. More rabid feuders are often surprised to find out that the two bands were actually close friends with one another and would occasionally drop in on the others' recording sessions. At least two tracks, the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" and the Stones' "We Love You", featured members of the other group providing background vocals.

* The fandoms of Music/TheProtomen and Music/TheMegas seem to have a somewhat heated rivalry, despite the two bands getting along fairly well. Most likely due to the fact they share the same [[VideoGame/MegaMan base inspiration]], even if they go in [[DarkerAndEdgier two]] [[RockOpera wildly]] [[CoveredUp different]] [[VillainSong directions.]]

** Oh and, please, '''''please''''' don't put {{Grindcore}} into the equation. Death metal fans say that grindcore is basically metalcore turned UpToEleven, although that isn't really the case; black metal fans instead say that grindcore is sometimes not too serious. Grindcore fans, in turn, say that death metal puts too much emphasis on straightforward overwhelmingness and black metal takes its [[RockMeAsmodeus satanism]] ''very'' seriously.

** And [[BrokenBase within]] the dubstep fandom, [[LighterAndSofter chillstep]] (e.g. Cahb, Benga, Music/{{Burial}}) vs. [[DarkerAndEdgier brostep]] (e.g. Flux Pavilion, Music/{{Excision}}, Music/{{Nero}}).

* Post-2005 Music/{{Nightwish}} or Tarja Turunen's solo career. You aren't allowed to like both.

* Mostly within the Music/{{Genesis}} fandom, Music/PeterGabriel vs. Music/PhilCollins. Quite the case of FanDumb, as both are friends, respect each other greatly as artists and continued to work together for years after Peter Gabriel left Genesis, with Collins contributing spectacular drumwork on many of Gabriel's solo albums (and being stunned by the quality in the process, joking Gabriel had been holding back his best material for his solo career) and Gabriel himself stating that Collins sings Genesis's songs better than he did. (Objectively, Collins does have a better vocal range, though Gabriel is more creative and experimental, so it balances out.)

* Music/TheSmiths vs. Music/TheCure. You could always TakeAThirdOption - Music/TheChameleons or even Music/TheGoBetweens.

* Since his career first took off, Kenny G has been criticized by fans of classic jazz for being (while technically proficient) too vanilla to justify being one of the all-time bestsellers of the genre. In recent years, many ([[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad white]]) fans of jazz have expressed hatred simply because they claim a white artist has no right to perform jazz. Again, it's white fans saying white artists should be banned from jazz.

** Whilst the bands both have considerable shared fans, there is something of a rivalry between Music/FaithNoMore fans and Music/MrBungle fans. Music/MrBungle fans often say Music/MrBungle's progressive structures and [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly genre mixing]] represents the true genius of Mike Patton, and that Music/FaithNoMore are a dumbed down poppy equivalent. Conversely, there are Music/FaithNoMore fans who say that Music/MrBungle's frequent switching of genres in song is a gimmick that hides the fact they can't write complete songs, and feel that Faith No More's songwriting is catchier and more focused in comparison. Fans of both do tend to like the FNM album "King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime", since it features Music/MrBungle's Trey Spruance on guitar and features the most varied selection of genres the band produced.

* Music/MarilynManson and The Spooky Kids fans vs. Marilyn Manson fans vs. fans of certain eras. And you have the ones that just want Manson to make more albums like ''Music/AntichristSuperstar''. Daisy Berkowitz himself, the epicenter for the Spooky Kids vs. Manson fight, is much more relaxed on the subject, since it's 20 years old now. Manson doesn't talk about it at all. The main fan forum before Provider Module, which was The Heriophant, had to be shut down due to Cease and Decist orders because of the multitude of hate and death threats being posted against Manson for his changing style and look. This was the fan forum. Oddly enough, there's not much fighting between Music/NineInchNails fans and Manson fans, although Trent and Manson still bitch about each other occasionally. Dita Von Teese and Evan Rachel-Wood are hated in part of the fandom due to the ex thing. And Motionless in White is the most hated of all by all the fans, as well as by longtime allies, the Rammstein fans.