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Originally Posted by truehappiness
To be honest, you're not really making yourself clear with this answer, so I don't really know what to tell you. Overcomplicating overrated/underrated songs, much? -whistle-
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I'll needlessly explain myself just cause. ^_^; Here's an example, suppose song X was rated #1 by the entire population.
Now collectively speaking, it does not make sense to say that song X is "overrated" because it's rated what it is as a whole. It's just rated as the best. However, individual people, having their own opinions, can point out that X is overrated because that's based on a personal level as oppose to a collective level.
Now let's take the song Boys & Girls, which I believe is rated just right. However, other people can say it's overrated because it became overused or for whatever reason. Likewise, other individuals can say it's underrated because they believe it should be the best. Thus, there's no such thing as "overrated" or "underrated" on a collective level because it can go both ways (ex. either "deserves more attention" or "nothing special"). That's unlike talking about this personally.
And yes, I love overcomplicating things! ... even though I don't find this complicated nor did I think I made it complicated enough. O_o But I'm very aware that you could be right. There might be some songs out there that are truly underrated maybe because the mainstream media made it look terrible and it influenced its viewers by bias (or other reasons). Though in this case, I don't think anything like that happened and the ratings was fair.