It's chill, even people with the best taste in the world tend to like a shitty band or two.
Well seeing as calling a band "shitty" is giving your opinion and not a fact, your thesis doesnt hold up. Taste is subjective. You might think ES and MZ or Polyphonic Spree are shitty, but that doesnt mean they are shitty. I have (I think) decent taste in music, and love both those bands. I dont get the hate for either. So PS are happy as shit and wear matching robes, of course a metal head would probably hate them. And Edward Sharpe has catchy as hell poppy songs, so of course someone who listens to only noise or hates reverb might think they are shitty. Still doesnt make it a fact. Everyone has different tastes, thank goodness, cause if we didnt it would be extremely boring.
I honestly don't know what you're talking about here. I didn't claim any sorta objectivity. All I was saying was that someone else liking a band or two I don't like (i.e. think are pretty shitty) doesn't mean I think they have bad taste -- and it's pretty likely I'd think that you've got decent taste. So we're really on the same page; de gustibus non disputandum est or whatever (and for the record, PS made some fine records).
And I like a lot of real poppy tunes and I'm definitely not exclusively into metal/noise/whathaveyou. I mean, fuck, I was in the front row at a Belle & Sebastian show last week (and holy Christ was it good).
If you've got any curiosity about what I find grating about Edward Sharpe, it's mostly not the songs themselves. It's the faux-Laurel Canyon pseudo-hippy trappings they cover it all in that I find a little contrived. Maybe it's just my cynicism, but there's something almost calculated about the whole project. I have trouble trusting the would-be earnestness of a song like "Home" -- in short, I have the nagging feeling I'm being pandered to. And I'm not alone in this. In my experience, opinions are pretty split on these guys.