What music genre you hate the most and why?

[MisterBlueStar4 1,004]

We all have a music genre we hate so bad so tell us why in this forum.

[Fantozzi 4,068]

I don't know the name of the genre - but it goes 'boom, pff-tssss, boom-boom' and comes from cars in the middle of the night. Why? Because it disturbs my sleep.

[Yarahi 1,823]

Have had a serious hatred for Dubstep ever since that began to break through

[Tyberius06 12,234]

Hi! 

I don't like dubstep either, well there is one or two dubstep musician who made some kind of nice content, but in general I don't like the genre. What I really hate is the folkish-gipsy-techno-wedding hybrid mixture which is so popular in Hungary at weddings. It could chase me out of the world, because there is no that kind of amount of alchohol which could even help me to deal with this music...

But more or less I'm a huge fan of the music in general, so I like almost everything from goa/psytrance-techno-trance-electro-d'n'b through rock-numetal etc to classical and jazz too...

- Tyberius

[Turjan 1,048]

That kind of metal where the "singers" just scream non-stop.

[TekindusT 3,809]

Reggaeton.

If you want to know why, listen to it.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

I guess there's horrible stuff out there that I'm not even aware of. There's also some good stuff to find in most genres unless it's really, really, really, against your grain. For example, I generally don't like Rap, but still... ever so rarely there's something that even I like at least somewhat.

A broad range of music that I'm afraid I just can't stand is all that Latin/Salsa/Merengue stuff. I don't have anything against the music per se, I hold no grudge against their creators or their fans, I don't deny that there are probably some really skilled musicians in that scene who produce actual quality, and I don't associate the music with idiotic fans... no. It's not that.

It's just that I cannot stand listening to it for the life of me. It just makes me run to the Hi-Fi equipment screaming after a minute tops. It's almost physical discomfort.

@TekindusT: In light of what I just wrote and of what I heard, I guess without listening that Reggaeton is probably not for me?

[MisterBlueStar4 1,004]

Pop

It's just so bad and cringeworthy. Try listening to a few songs and you'll see what I'm talking about.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

I hate it when people say everything you hear on the radio sounds the same these days but... everything you hear on the radio sounds the same these days. 

[Terring 6,476]

Do be honest, I also have problems with dubstep and modern pop and rap music. Most of the dubstep songs are nothing more than the sounds of metallic pieces putting in a mixer and being as loud as the launch of a space shuttle. Pop is mostly a collection of mediocre songs that repeats the same patterns of music and lyrics, with as less creativity as possible. As about rap, oh boy. Most of the rap songs are all about money, drugs, women, cars, golden jewelry, violence, fame and egos bigger than the Earth itself. Surprisingly, it's still possible to find dubstep, pop and rap songs that are not only decent, but actually enjoyable. Fortunately, there is still good music today, but you have to do some search to find it.

However, there is one genre that I can't stand it. That's the so called "skiladiko", a branch of urban folk music which is very popular here in Greece. The music is an annoying mess of bouzouki and other instruments, the lyrics are so lazy that even a baby can write better and more creative ones, and the voices of their "artists" are worse than dog barks. Maybe this is the reason why this genre of music is named skiladiko, which can be translated as "doggish" or "doghouse" music. Yeah, no kidding.

The worst thing about skiladiko is that, unlike the previous music genres, this one has no good exceptions. There is absolutely no skiladiko song that I can hear, let alone enjoy. Even worse, this overestimated kind of music, as well as its "artists" like Kelly Kelekidou and Vassilis Karras, is much more popular and beloved than actual good music and brilliant artists, like Vangelis and Mikis Theodorakis.

[matias93 7,535]

I was heavily thinking on a complex argument to write here, but then I found a fitting meme casually:

[T Wrecks 10,210]

4 hours ago, MisterBlueStar4 said:

Pop

It's just so bad and cringeworthy. Try listening to a few songs and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Well, isn't "pop" too big a genre to generalise that, though? I guess what you mean might be that "we take one boring, infinitely repeating, simplistic drum loop, add a handful of samples and a voice (with vocoder, of course, because the singer can't actually sing) for three uninspired verses and four choruses, turn it into a run-of-the-mill piece of gym background crap, and call it a day" kind of pop. At least that's the kind of pop music that I hate. However, I guess I could dig up some songs from my CD shelf that could be filed under "pop" and that I don't think are half bad.

[MisterBlueStar4 1,004]

5 minutes ago, T Wrecks said:

Well, isn't "pop" too big a genre to generalise that, though? I guess what you mean might be that "we take one boring, infinitely repeating, simplistic drum loop, add a handful of samples and a voice (with vocoder, of course, because the singer can't actually sing) for three uninspired verses and four choruses, turn it into a run-of-the-mill piece of gym background crap, and call it a day" kind of pop. At least that's the kind of pop music that I hate. However, I guess I could dig up some songs from my CD shelf that could be filed under "pop" and that I don't think are half bad.

Ok I can agree with the other half of pop not being so bad.

[MisterBlueStar4 1,004]

14 hours ago, Fantozzi said:

I don't know the name of the genre - but it goes 'boom, pff-tssss, boom-boom' and comes from cars in the middle of the night. Why? Because it disturbs my sleep.

I think's it's hip hop.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Also that one song called Despacito.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I won't say I hate any particular genre of music, but there are a few I find difficult to listen to.  Country music I find deeply dissatisfying.  Pop music isn't my thing, either (although "Sorry" has become a great guilty pleasure).  Enka (a melodramatic Japanese take on Western music) makes me cringe.  Polka, except for the chicken dance.  Almost anything using a zither *shudders*.  I am bored by many kinds of classical piano music.  I don't enjoy listening to hip hop.  I also would avoid Broadway style show tunes.

[matias93 7,535]

That's where I was going with the meme: it is really hard to decree a complete genre of music as bad, but one can try to find regularities on bad songs through different styles. 

For example, Juan Luis Guerra y los 440 is very good music for a familiar party and is bachata, but Prince Royce is too, and listening him can give you an stroke; as that, there are very fine catchy pop tunes you can actually enjoy getting earwormed with, while others are simply unbearable.

Even with supposedly sophisticated and carefully designed music as prog rock, there are songs that one ends listening by compromise with the genre or the artist, not because the song itself is good, as is the case with most of Atom Heart Mother, that the very members of Pink Floyd dismissed as trash years after composing it.

I think that good music is generally the one done with a certain acceptance of its inherent cheesiness: all those people that takes their composition to much seriously usually end heightening the ridicule of their pretensions, regardless of the genre or theme: a too much serious love ballad, or an ostentatious hip hop rhyme; a chauvinistic folk song or a dumb snob prog suite, all of them end becoming stupid and undesirable, and even interesting shows of technical prowess on it's music can become vane and self congratulatory.

Art, more in general, needs to be able to laugh at itself and at its creator, to assess its own downsides and be humble about it. I guess that's one of the causes that old bands tend to make worse music with the years: they begin to believe what their fans and the recording executives say of them, and trust that everything they'll do will be perfect and everybody will love it irreflexively.

(Oh, I did a text wall again Well, take the meme as a good TL;DR)

[Toby Ferrian 875]

i don't know what genre i hate the most but one genre i really can't stand is trap

it's just all bass and no melody, how can people stand listening to it??

[Fantozzi 4,068]

 

7 hours ago, NMUSpidey said:

Country music I find deeply dissatisfying.

There's a similar genre in germany called 'Schlager' - a mixture of  traditional beer tent music and pop. But then, there are artists on their instruments that made even this genre something enjoyable.

But well, I know a complete genre that I never could stand, no matter how nicely it's done. It's called 'waiting loop music'.

[TekindusT 3,809]

8 hours ago, Thin White Duke said:

Also that one song called Despacito.

Now you mentioned it, I'll have it stuck in my head for the entire morning.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

@Jolteon: This takes us to the topic of the intention/purpose of music. I sympathise with your statement about rap because I have become used to listening to somewhat more complex music. The advantage of this is that it opens up new doors: music that would have been unlistenable for my 20 years younger self has now become enjoyable. On the other hand, I have a much harder time than back then when it comes to ignoring simplistic structures or badly played instruments.

Therefore, I sometimes have the feeling that there is actually not enough music in a song. It feels insubstantial, hollow, boring. You have listened to it for 30 seconds and you have already grasped it all. This would probably happen to me with many rap songs.

Then again, I guess that's not what rap was for originally. It can be used for voicing your feelings, it is accessible (you don't need an expensive instrument, an expensive rehearsal room, musical education), it can be powerful, and some rappers are, hands down, impressive word acrobats.

Likewise, some music is good for dancing, and if this is what you're going for, it will be great. The enjoyment then comes from the feeling of rhythm and movement and not so much from the music itself.

Some music is simplistic, but it has drive and power. For example, the famous Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones is dead simple. When I listen to it at home, well... not much happens. But listen to it live in a full club, and things look different.

 

15 hours ago, matias93 said:

Art, more in general, needs to be able to laugh at itself and at its creator, to assess its own downsides and be humble about it. I guess that's one of the causes that old bands tend to make worse music with the years: they begin to believe what their fans and the recording executives say of them, and trust that everything they'll do will be perfect and everybody will love it irreflexively.

I agree with much of what you say, but I think this paragraph considers only one out of many aspects.

First of all, "worse music with the years" lies in the ears of the listeners, not in the hands of the makers. You may appreciate a debut album for its raw energy and dislike later albums for the lack thereof, leading you to state that the music has become worse. The band, on the other hand, may think that their first album was pretty unprofessional and sloppy, and think that they have matured and improved their music a lot.

For bands that pretty much stick to their style, at some point they have written their Fear of the Dark or Back in Black. There won't be a second one, ever. Had their later albums been released first, who knows what might have happened? Fans may have fallen in love with some of those songs, which may have come to be classics. And had the actual hit album been released 20 years later, what would people have said then? "Their best album!"? Or rather "Lukewarm repetition of band standards"?

Nostalgia also comes into play very often. It was that time when you discovered something new and exciting, or at least when you were blown away and really got into the band. That time cannot be repeated. Who knows which would be my favourite Rush albums if I had listened to them in a different order? Who knows of which I'd say "This album is underappreciated IMO" and of which I'd think that "yes, they are the classics, but not that much better than others, either"?

Lastly, I guess there are things that cannot be kept up all the time. Musicians get older, too. They either become walking stereotypes, sticking to the same stuff, or they evolve. In the former case, there may be a moment when everything has been said, written, and done - repetition is the only way to go on, and that doesn't make things better. In the latter case, they may move away from what their earlier fans preferred. In both cases, the fans' verdict is likely to be: "Dude, their music really got worse with the years".

I like a T-shirt that is surprisingly accurate in its simple one-sentence print: "I ONLY LIKE THEIR FIRST ALBUM". Especially in the Metal scene, where I saw this shirt first, it really nails what you get to hear so often.

[Dazzyls 576]

The music from recent Disney movies like Moana and Frozen... And pretty much any Rihanna song.

I would say I'm not a big fan of most hardcore subgenres and most music used in musicals. I also can't stand country music or Dutch hip hop, although I really like good rap music like Eminem or rap with rock like Linkin Park, but my most hated genres would probably be K-pop and that Shawn Mendes kind of crap my sister listens to 24/7

 

Btw, @T Wrecks, Jolteon was talking about trap, which is a fusion genre between hip hop and electronic music (name probably is a short form of Techno Rap or something). While I do agree that trap usually isn't the deepest kind of music emotionally and lyrically wise (it rarely contains lyrics at all), I think it can be very nice to listen to at times.

And @Jolteon, your statement about trap not containing any kind of melody is false. If you don't like a melody, it doesn't mean there is none. Even if a melody consists only of a single note used over and over again, it's still a melody.

Also, as an example, here is one of my favourite trap songs, although I would agree that it's not really standard trap and more original than most trap nowadays:

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[Toby Ferrian 875]

21 minutes ago, Dazzyls said:

And @Jolteon, your statement about trap not containing any kind of melody is false. If you don't like a melody, it doesn't mean there is none. Even if a melody consists only of a single note used over and over again, it's still a melody.

that's just what it sounds like to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

also your first example sounds more like future bass to me but hey i'm not claiming to be a music expert here so i might be wrong
yes i know that's a subgenre of trap

[Dazzyls 576]

25 minutes ago, Jolteon said:

also your first example sounds more like future bass to me but hey i'm not claiming to be a music expert here so i might be wrong
yes i know that's a subgenre of trap

Yeah I think Electronic subgenres atm are kinda vague. There are way too much of them. Like Bass house: a genre based around one specific bass synth that is used in every bass house song. And in general I feel like a lot of them are kinda dying, like big room house, but that might be a good thing for orignality.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

3 hours ago, Dazzyls said:

Btw, @T Wrecks, Jolteon was talking about trap, which is a fusion genre between hip hop and electronic music (name probably is a short form of Techno Rap or something). While I do agree that trap usually isn't the deepest kind of music emotionally and lyrically wise (it rarely contains lyrics at all), I think it can be very nice to listen to at times.

Hahaha, look at me writing a wall of text, and it turns out I overlooked a letter! Well, fortunately most of my post still stands, but that was stupid nonetheless. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

[metasmurf 705]

95% of all music on mainstream radio after the 90's

However , some non-mainstream music today is better than ever, but because there's so little money in music compared to before very few get media exposure and thus remain relatively unknown. It's a shame really.

 

[MisterBlueStar4 1,004]

Just now, metasmurf said:

95% of all music on mainstream radio after the 90's

However , some non-mainstream music today is better than ever, but because there's so little money in music compared to before very few get media exposure and thus remain relatively unknown. It's a shame really.

 

I know.Modern day rap feels lame compared to the 2000s,at least it has decent songs worth listening to.

[Jasoncw 11,940]

I don't like country music because of how formulaic and commercial it is. The hits are mostly written by a small number of professional songwriters. The songs don't have anything in particular about them that is distinctive, so the bands themselves are selected based on how appealing they are to middle aged suburban women rather than being unique or original musicians. The music itself has no relation to old country music, it's just generic pop music with some twang added in. Almost all of the songs deal with the same handful of bits mixed together just slightly differently, there's trucks, bars, women, alcohol, god, family. A huge number of the songs are about domestic abuse and substance abuse, and they glorify them as being part of the ideal wholesome family friendly part of american culture, but supposedly rap is immoral cultural poison. 

The difference though is that that kind of rap has no pretensions about being wholesome. Classic rock is about sex drugs and rock and roll and its creators are dropping dead from drug overdoses, but those songs are the ideal choice for wholesome tween dance parties. But the classic rock doesn't have any pretensions about what it is either (they proudly pose with their drugs and money and women). And the other difference is that there's tons of rap being made and so much of it is very thoughtful and deals with a wide range of topics in insightful and creative ways. If someone wanted to listen to music but was tired of all of the same old love songs about girls, hip hop is one of the best genres to go for. And if someone is looking for interesting developments musically, hip hop is also a good genre for that, for its emphasis on interesting rhythms over catchy melodies, and for its emphasis on vocal phrasing and texture over generic "good" singing. (as a disclaimer I don't listen to rap myself because it doesn't do the things that I like in music, but I still recognize it as a genre that has good things going on)

As far as I know, country doesn't have any kind of underground or indie scenes like rap does. You go to Nashville and either you're a top 40 country act, or you're a failed top 40 country act. Everyone in the genre aspires to that same goal of making that same kind of music.

Radio music as a format tends to elevate certain things to the top, and once you're a music fan and you want something more interesting or more tailored to your specific tastes, radio music isn't satisfactory anymore. Most genres have produced good stuff once you get past what's on the radio, but like I said, as far as I know country music doesn't have a space outside of the radio. 

 

But that leads me to the other genre of music that I don't like, which is death metal. Death metal doesn't have the "look past the stuff on the radio" argument because it's exclusively a niche genre. Or should I say massive web of subsubsubsubsubgenres? Because even though most death metal is identical, death metal fans will argue to the grave that the absolute slightest differences justify new sub-genres, and they'll lecture each other endlessly about it. They also have a superiority complex, and try to make their music out to be better than other genres because of supposed links to classical concert music and music theory, even though they're just guitar pop bands. The saving grace of death metal fans is that many of them are aware of the ridiculousness of their genre and enjoy being campy sometimes. Musically, it's hard for me to put myself in the shoes of someone listening to death metal all afternoon and enjoying it. It doesn't have any of the qualities that I enjoy in music. (I also have to admit that the links between some death metal and neo-nazism is a turn off. The number of fashionably antisemitic death metal fans in highschool was troublesome and I can't see how anyone could think Nazis were cool)

 

I mostly listen to indie music from the 80s and early 90s, but even for that I don't think I could listen to a current indie radio station or playlist. During any time period and any genre there are going to be trends that many mediocre bands follow, but I feel like during most time periods there are always bands that rise above that and make interesting good new music with originality. The mediocre bands are forgotten and the gems are what we remember which is why every generation thinks that music from the past is so much better. Indie music has spent a very long time in revivalistic pastiche and as far as I can tell shows no signs of changing. 

Showtunes are obnoxious, electronic music is boring and tedious, prog rock is pretentious... how many more genres are there?? 

[Fantozzi 4,068]

 

1 hour ago, Jasoncw said:

I don't like country music because of how formulaic and commercial it is

That's exactly why I can't stand most of lovesongs - always using the same metaphors and extremely poor in poetry - just taking established religious patches and applying them on sexuality: "lay your hands on me and heal me' 'you are the light guiding me through the dark' 'you lift me up to higher grounds' etc. - basically they use all the words written in the bible about Jesus and repeat them on their sex drive. So turning sex drive into something holy. And always the same and formulaic.

That's why I think italians did some of the best love songs. Practically they do the same glorification of eroticism but with a grain of irony. As Lucio Dalla f.e. sang "I have a mattress of words, all written for you, so lay down on them and I show you there's a heaven. (Canzone)" As if they know all those lovesongs metaphors are transformations of religious believe to make sex a much bigger thing than it is.    

[cifer00 12]

most pop songs.

im not sure what to catogrize them under but the stuff u hear on the top 40 radio stations.