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What's your least favorite music?

Postby Tesseracts » Sun Apr 27, 2014 5:56 am

I'm at a convention. I went to a rave tonight, out of curiosity, because I've never been to one. I left after 5 minutes because I wasn't feeling the music and my mind was melting. My ears are still ringing, and it's an hour later.

I have a habit of listening to every station on the radio when I'm in the car. Sometimes I listen to the dance music station. Sometimes I actually enjoy it. But this was different. It was less... music, and more like continuous thumping. I'm fairly certain I was the only person over 18 in the rave room, but I wouldn't have liked this when I was a stupid teenager either. All they do is buy a bunch of glowing objects, bounce up and down to terrible music, crowd around some guy wearing a horse mask jerking his arms randomly, and cheer as if that guy is entertaining. I don't know how anyone can enjoy this without the assistance of many drugs. I feel like whatever I am, rave music is the opposite of it.
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby Marcuse » Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:49 am

Tesseracts wrote: All they do is buy a bunch of glowing objects, bounce up and down to terrible music, crowd around some guy wearing a horse mask jerking his arms randomly, and cheer as if that guy is entertaining


Are you sure you weren't just playing Hotline Miami?

As for my least favourite music, I'm going to say, and hear me out, mainstream manufactured pop. I say hear me out because I'm not saying it because of the people that make music like that, I'm less happy with the way it is managed, how the actual talent is treated, and how restrictive it feels. I can listen to a pop song as much as anyone else, but what I dislike is the way the artists are handled by the management structure surrounding the industry.

Put it this way, if you want to get started in pretty much any other genre of music, you just need to grab a few people, make a few demos and fling them out there and see what happens. In order to be a successful pop star, you NEED a large financial backing, some kind of corporate money behind you and even then you KNOW that unless you're absurdly successful you'll be off the radar in about 3-5 years time.

Taking as an example, the horrific TV talent shows that exist all over the place, frequently the winners are forgotten about in favour of the photogenic runner up, the one that didn't win but had a nice sob story to back them up, the weird one who has a nice voice despite it. This industry uses people more often and much harder than any other music industry. People like Susan Boyle ended up having panic attacks as a result of fame that, while it was maybe invited, wasn't under the artist's control, and ended up causing that person health problems as a result.

I don't mind light music, and I don't mind happy songs about nice things. I do mind those selfsame people being tossed aside when they are of no more use like they're not people. It lends the entire genre a nasty tinge that I always think about when I'm hearing that kind of music.
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby OhJohnNo » Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:42 am

Power metal, I guess. It's fun for a bit but the way so much of the internet seems to worship it as a super-serious art form baffles me. This stuff is the musical equivalent of Transformers 2.

Whatever subgenre of hip-hop Hopsin belongs to also deserves a mention. He might just be my least favourite artist.
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby Bye Bye Denver Diva » Sun Apr 27, 2014 12:50 pm

Erm, I'm not exactly sure what "rave" music is. It could be any number of things; trance, EDM, trap. Who knows? And I like all of those. Maybe it was just a bad environment you were in. I can't say, I don't go to raves.

As for me? Pretty much what OJN said. Really not into power metal or Hopsin's brand of "conscious" hip hop. Which isn't to say power metal and conscious hip hop are bad genres. Au contraire! Conscious hip hop has given us El-P, Lil B, Killer Mike. For power metal, well, I'm not sure that it's fanbase are as serious as Orange Juice lets on, which may, in fact, be worse. Missing the point is an honest mistake, settling for complacent spectacle is just depressing. I might just add that there's probably a reason eurodance will never be taken seriously as a genre.
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby Dr. Ambiguous » Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:22 pm

Hmm, least favorite music. Probably going to have to go with pop. Or at least radio pop, bleegghhh. To poppy (yes I realize what I just said, I hate it for what it is), annoying, and too goddamn happy. Granted, I don't think too highly of modern radio rock either. Overproduced boring garbage. I do have quite the hatred for Nu Metal as well. In addition to the god awful (and inaccurate) name, you get shitty riffs and a poor attempt at aggressive music.

Edit: Changed a sentence a bit so that it made more sense.
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby Andropov4 » Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:31 pm

I have to agree with the good Doctor on Nu Metal (Typing that name annoys me. "Nu"? Really?) Aside from that, basically any kind of bubblegum pop. And country. I just don't like the vast majority of country acts, both new and old.
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby AboveGL » Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:26 am

Probably dance music. I really love some dance songs but I don't care for most of it and my brain won't process it anyway.
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby Typical Michael » Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:28 am

Can't do reggaeton. Nope. Don't like jazz either. Probably because I'm dumb.
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby Matthew Notch » Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:37 am

When I think "rave music" my mind generally goes to House, which I strongly dislike. So many other flavors of electronic music really demonstrate the artistry and passion of the person who created it. Look, guys, I even like Skrillex, so what I'm getting at is that I can tolerate a lot. House music is, to my mind, practically useless if you aren't at a rave. Even then, you could probably replace the songs with five hours of nothing but "oontz oontz oontz" and none of those jokers would notice. It is, to me, a great injustice that drum and bass gets such a bad rap while every DJ and his dog sit around "creating" House music.

Also ur dumb Mick, jazz is awsum
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby Bye Bye Denver Diva » Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:35 am

JugularNotch wrote:Also ur dumb Mick, jazz is awsum


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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby Matthew Notch » Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:51 am

Touche, Denvy.

While I'm at it, I should mention that I'm not ENTIRELY against country either, but most of the stuff that's out now is utter garbage. Cowboys actually used to be cool back in the day (they really did) but the culture, which of course was all about celebrating independence and individuality, is now so homogenized and very reliant on the approval of onlookers that when I hear a song like "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" I want to do something that demonstrates my great anger and lack of imagination for describing such a thing.

Anyhow, that's not really my complaint. I think my most loathed genre is ranchera. I like cumbia, I DO in fact enjoy the sounds of reggaeton, bossa nova, other Latin genres, etc. etc. but ranchera is the country of Mexican music. It sounds like polka because basically that's what it is, and let's face it: like 5% of the world's population enjoys polka. (If for some reason you're reading this and do, in fact, enjoy polka, don't be mad, be glad! You're an individual and the opposite of a country music fan.) Nope, it's just not my thing, sorry Mexico.

Hmm, this is a lot more music that's my least favorite than I thought I had
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby Edgar Cabrera » Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:29 pm

Typical Michael wrote:Can't do reggaeton. Nope.

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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby OhJohnNo » Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:55 pm

What is reggaeton?
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby Edgar Cabrera » Mon Apr 28, 2014 4:30 pm

OhJohnNo wrote:What is reggaeton?

Is a music genre that as its name says is derived from reggae, with vocals that include rapping and singing, typically in Spanish. Lyrics tend to be derived from hip hop. I bet that my fellow TCSers can give a more funny rundown about it. We discussed it before.
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Re: What's your least favorite music?

Postby OhJohnNo » Mon Apr 28, 2014 4:43 pm

I listened to some on youtube. Sounds pretty inoffensive to me, not the kind of stuff I'd seek out or care about hearing again but not awful either. Maybe I just haven't been overexposed to it, or maybe I just don't care about the whole sex part.
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