Twangy country. It’s embarrassing
For me there’s a difference between an honest accent and laying it on thick. Someone like Dolly Parton has an actual southern accent. But most of what’s played on modern country radio is just an annoying act.
Psytrance. I had a bad experience at a psytrance club night as a student where I’d uh consumed my entertainment from the evening at halls of residence, but then my mate gave me another for free at the night. Wasn’t feeling too intoxicated before that so thought, “ah fuck it.” This, dear reader, was a mistake.
I made it about 2.5 hours before begging my gf (now wife) to leave because I thought the whooshing effects they use on the tracks was repeatedly saying my name.
After leaving the nightclub I instantly felt better and the rest of the evening was ok. Just psytrance has never sounded the same.
As an aside, weird crowd there, like lots of millenials like myself who seemed to be neurodiverse or emotionally troubled in some way - including the scantily clad young women. But then there were also older men there who were a mixture of drug dealers and losers who appeared to be out for drugged up teen genitalia of some one kind or the other. This was 13-14 years ago and I noticed a similar phenomenon at house music clubs jn the intervening years (don’t go clubbing much these days lol).
Corporate country music. Bo Burnham specifically wrote a song about it (lyrics link, since the song is technically a podcast episode w/ no accessibility).
Americana/folk, like Dolly Parton and Woody Guthrie are a far cry from the fox-news-to-a-melody garbage that gets put on country stations.
It’s the musical equivalent of John Wayne vs John Brown.
PS: Fun fact - Woody Guthrie wrote a scathing song about Fred Trump, so the war between the working class and that cursed name goes back at least a century.
Christmas music, because I worked in retail and had to listen to it 8 hours a day for months.
Fuck you Mariah Carey
I’m agnostic but I fuck with the black church specifically for the music.
Country. I associate with my upbringing in Klan country where I went to Robert E. Lee High School and got to experience federally mandated desegregation busing, which doesn’t do shit to decrease racial divisions in housing but does drive white people into religious schools in droves to avoid letting their children ever mingle with minorities. They fucking love that country music, though. I will never listen to it voluntarily if I can avoid it.
Anything ‘AI’ generated, because fuck that uncreative nonsense.
I’ve been noticing a ton of thosebon YouTube. Especially for goth music. I don’t mind if they use AI for images as not all independent bands have money to produce a video. However, using it to make the song is pretty vile. Especially because the lyrics are trite to the point of screaming.
Honestly, I don’t have a problem with trite lyrics. Some of my most favourite songs are pretty trite. I’ve long desired to be a songwriter, but the reason I haven’t is because I don’t think I could accept putting out anything trite. The difference is, that no matter how trite the actual words or meaning are, lyrics produced by actual human artists have a rhythm and flow that can’t be matched by machinery, or even cynical human music industry producers.
Agreed. The triteness of a song is what gives it away for me. For example, if a goth song keeps hammering out about vampires and cemeteries I skip right over it and assume it’s AI. Real lyrics are a lot more nuanced.
“Patriotic” rap.
Hillsong, Elevation and especially Bethel music - basically “Christian Worship” music mass produced for money and has loads of dodgy theology
This is gonna sound like a pretty weird train of thought, but I cannot listen to that Pharrell Williams song “Happy” because I’m my brain has forever connected it to the time I had some bad pea salad from a local place, which completely ruined both of them for me. Every time I hear it, even in my own head, my stomach starts churning a little and I eventually start to feel like I wanna throw up. Thankfully that song has died and I hope to god nobody ever revives it.
I remember hanging out with a friend who was telling me about his decaying relationship with this song playing in the background.
shudders
I guess you probably hate Weird Al’ Tacky too, don’t you??
I haven’t heard that one, or if I have it’s been long enough that I don’t remember it.
I believe every genre is filled with good and bad music. I used to think I didn’t like country or reggae but it was really just the mainstream music of those genres I disliked. Mainstream country has a lot of stereotypical lyrics and mainstream reggae has a lot of slow single chord riffs. But after a bit of digging I found artists and songs that explore those genres in more unique ways.
Metal - basically I don’t enjoy loud music.
Welp, there’s the jacket for the next single.
You don’t have to listen to it loud…
It just doesn’t resonate with me. I’ve heard people say it’s an outlet for certain feelings, but I guess I just don’t feel those feelings very strongly.
Rap, I don’t like it.
Best reason, and a legitimate reason to not listen to anything. What exactly is the point of consuming art you don’t enjoy?
Lost Prophets. I’m usually one for separating art from artist but fuck that baby raping piece of shit and if a member of your band rapes babies there’s no way you’re oblivious to the whole thing.
Fuck Ian Watkins, fuck those that ignored and/or enabled his despicably evil behaviour because he was your pay day.
I can’t listen to Tim Minchin’s “White Wine in the Sun” because I’ll bawl like a baby
I genuinely get headaches from techno. A colleague was recently on a techno festival and that just sounds like the seventh circle of hell for me…
I physically can’t stand it.
