this isn't worse than most pop music. if anything, it's a bit more creative in it's use of genre splicing - a bit of a folktronica vibe. the backlash seems to be partly hierarchical and partly a response to the low budget.

see, it's a strange era to live through, because music barely really even exists at all anymore. popular culture is entirely manufactured by giant corporations and there is really no way into that. it's not driven by and doesn't demonstrate any kind of level of talent, it's all about upholding various concepts of style that conform to the capitalist value system. you get some space to play with the exact sound, but the moment you deviate from this value system you're deemed a heretic and attacked for not conforming.

there's not much you can do about this, ricky. you're using an alternative media vector to try to break into an industry that's controlled from the top. your best hopes are infamous joke or novelty act. use that ad revenue wisely....