To be a truly creative artist, you have to be prepared to fail. For musicians who dedicate their lives to dreaming up something new and astounding, pushing the envelope and trying to move the art form beyond its accepted limits goes with the territory. It’s in the nature of experiments that not all of them will prove successful. Music, after all, is like all art – inherently subjective. The same song that moves one listener to tears of joy might send another scrambling for the nearest exit.
That’s why it shouldn’t be a surprise that even musical geniuses sometimes end up releasing utterly unlistenable garbage. In some ways, we should salute these noble failures: without the risk-taking spirit that inspired these awful songs, we’d never have had all the groundbreaking music that turned these musicians into legends. Still, all that said, we’d prefer not to be trapped in an enclosed space with the following wretched playlist stuck on repeat.
