What are some of your "warning sign" bands? - When you hear someone says they like X band then it's time to ask for the check.

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Have you ever met a person who was slightly off, off putting, maybe even upsetting but still tolerable for one or two engagements until you found out what they actually listened to and then you automatically knew this person would do nothing but donkey-kong your life up? I have. Here's some examples.

1.) Girl: "Tool is my favorite band." This chick hates her father, has had sex with thirty year-olds while in high-school, and goes by a nickname, or "babe" even in her thirties. She does whip-its like it's the mid-nineteen nineties and most likely has dimple piercings, saves used condoms, and fucks her just-friend's friend out of boredom.

2.) Dude: "Sublime is my jam." Has never held down a job above minimum wage beyond two weeks, mostly likely has a 3-13 year old son he's only seen once a year, and doesn't have a driver's license. Has couch-surfed more years than he's actually has owned his own bed. Has an unfinished sleeves of copy-paste trailer tats... oh, and he always has a back-pack.

3.) Dude: "White Chapel is fukken brutal!' FAAAAT dude who lived with his parents until his thirties. Took shopclass in high-school because math is hard. Really fat. Has a lot of money for tattooes because parents don't charge him rent. Basically Eric Cartman but METAL!

4.) Chick: "I'm so much like lady GaGa, it's unreal." Has only ever lived with parents or boyfriend(s). Only lived on her own when her thirties crept up on her. Has one or two tattoos that "mean something." Was a lesbian once. Anisa flap-jack titties. Possibly Crash Bandicoot orange from spray tanning.

5.) Dude: "Anti-music is where things should go, bands like Black Leather Jesus..." and then the conversion devolves into pseudo-intellectualism beyond the grasp of their vocabulary. They have a daddy beer-gut at 25. Has fucked a minor. You'll probably see them at church after they complete 3 weeks of Court Ordered AA or NA.

6.) Dude: "A Day to Remember is the best to see live..." most likely date raped a chick between 2006-2009. Has two kids from two different ex-scene girls. Failed "musician." Most likely works on cars now or something. Named Brandon or Adain.

7.) Dude/chick: "what you don't understand about the Grateful Dead (or Insane Clown Posse, they are EXACTLY the fucking same just one is folk-farm-house-horseshit and the other is traphouse-rap-rock-horseshit with faygo)..." lives in car or "on the road." Shitty tats. Says "nigger" in private but gets offended when others say it in "a different context." Only wears clothes made by or promoting said "musical act." Stinks (and covers it up by patchouli).

I know this is a rant, but we've all come across these scumbags and the minute they start talking about music you know exactly who they are.
 
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I try not to mingle or even get acquinted with people who listen to the music which is cosidered "popular", not in the sense that this music is being popular, but a certain collection of characteristics. I find it hard to nail it down exatcly, but I think you might know what I mean.
It's always a rather primitimve music itself, and the lyrics are as primitive as the music.
It's more of a feeling than actual characteristics. Mass produced cheap crap, spitted out by the so-called "stars" who are working as music facroties and mills of mainstream. The kind which producers have dozens.
I don't care about them enough to know much, but some names pop up in the head- "Riahna", "something (Lana? Lena?) Del Ray", plastic surgery freak "Madonna", borderline PD "Cyrus", that goblin who pretends to be black- "Ariana Grande", etc., etc.
These people discuss me. They are disgusting. They have inhumanly inflated egos and in drugs, rapes and other illegal activities, including, but not limited to, pedophilia.
Tbh this also includes people from less mainsteam scene. But at least their music it tolerable or enljoyable.
So this is why "popular scene" is a red flag for me.
 
100 gecs- A tranny or a zoomer. Either way, avoid at all costs.

Lil Dicky- 20-something man. "Funny". Thinks he's interesting. Will try to fuck your sister.

Lizzo/meganthestallion/icespice/any astro turfed ugly negress- Female, white, fat, hates herself as much as she hates her father (if she knows him). Incredibly basic. Shops at Target. If male, subject him to harsh physical violence and verbal abuse the second he admits to listening to this.

Nightcore- Pedo. Possibly also a tranny. Plays too much League of Legends/Overwatch/Guily Gear Strive. Hosts many discord servers, is a member of hundreds more. Severly deppressed, addicted to porn. Autistic, but not the fun kind.

Pachniko/Weezer/Carseat Headrest/Fantano Core/muCore- Incredibly boring soycuck. Thinks they're unique just like everyone else. Will talk at you for hours uninterrupted without checking to see if you're still listening or even still in the room with them. Their opinion is sourced straight from Fantano. Cried the first time they listened to To Pimp a Butterfly.

Fallout Boy/My Chemical Romance/Mayday Parade- Stuck in the "good old days". Incredibly histrionic and unstable. Pussy game insane, though. Will send you into another dimension.

KISS- A cryptid. KISS has sold billions of dollars in records and merch, but I have yet to meet a single person who listens to them. Even boomers I know with classic rock collections don't have a single KISS album. Possibly a fake band. Met one guy that claimed to listen to KISS, asked him about it. He stuttered furtively, gave half-answers. After that I never saw him again. Got a strange headache. Saw some men in a van outside my house. My headache disappeared the moment they left.
 
Nine Inch Nails - thirty something guy who still has an emo fringe cut. Thinks angst whining about drug abuse makes you deep and worldly. Unironically compares Trent Reznor to Jim Morrison

Metallica- you’re either a “le born in wrong generation” teenager just now discovering Baby’s First Metal Band, or you’re in your 40s living in a trailer park with a bunch of rusty car parts you’re “planning to fix up for show one day”

Voltaire- Weeb goth guy who is probably on the spectrum, or girl who tries way too hard to emulate the Manic Pixie Dream Girl stereotype. Also probably on the spectrum

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Without fail will get into an autistic screaming match over whether the band should be considered punk or goth. For extra spergery tell them that goth is just an offshoot of punk so the argument is moot either way. They WILL have the last word no matter what.

The Ramones - Favored by recently divorced men going through a midlife crisis trying to go back to their cool kid days.
 
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KISS- A cryptid. KISS has sold billions of dollars in records and merch, but I have yet to meet a single person who listens to them. Even boomers I know with classic rock collections don't have a single KISS album. Possibly a fake band. Met one guy that claimed to listen to KISS, asked him about it. He stuttered furtively, gave half-answers. After that I never saw him again. Got a strange headache. Saw some men in a van outside my house. My headache disappeared the moment they left.
My old guitar teacher was really into KISS. He loved Journey and Tesla too. Excellent musician.
 
there's a whole pop-adjacent genre that's all just damaged BPD girls making sad/angry songs about how super difficult it is to have their problems, or how they're totally over That One Relationship even though they've made like eight songs about it, or how they're so psychologically dominated by needing love that it makes them unstable, etc, like a whole genre made by and for ex-girlfriends. like Halsey, Banks, Billie Eilish, the new Demi Lovato (after her Disney Channel years), I'm unfortunately familiar with these artists cause I was with a girl who was into them and man. if you ever meet a girl that listens to that shit on the reg, turn the other way and run for your fucking life

I don't have any specific bands for this one, but dudes who are into that viking war chant music, or like viking gothic metal, are devastatingly cringe posers who need to cling to somebody else's of image of toughness so they can adopt it as a facade. a lot of internet white nationalist fags are like this. IT'S MUH ANCESTRY!!! no dude you're literally listening to gangster rap for white people. also your ancestors are probably british swamp people. calm down.
 
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This isn't specific to one band or type of band, but anyone who considers their personality as "someone who likes music." I'm not talking about someone who's a musician or does music-related things for a living (although some "musicians" are indeed completely insufferable), I mean someone who when asked about their hobbies, etc. says that they enjoy or listen to music. Usually they have the most basic white bitch taste in music too, which makes it even funnier. I've met people like this and it blows my mind how they think that they're somehow unique for this or that it even merits mentioning.

Most people enjoy music. Even if you don't listen to music all the time, most people at least willingly listen to it at least occasionally in the car or at work or something. And yes, before I get comments like "no I never listen to music," fine, not  everyone, but most people do.
 
  • RATM or any other bands that feature unironic political sperging in their lyrics or member lineup, both left and right wing
  • Most post-2010 radio pop because that shit is the music equivalent of pink slime mystery meat goyslop, and if you find that tolerable at all, that's rather alarming
  • John Lennon
  • people who outright say they don't like music
  • Nirvana - try and name 1 song other than Smells Like Teen Spirit you zoomie nigger
  • When every time you see the person they're blasting some generic zoomer rap with a dark and edgy lit af bussin beat fam
 
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Any mid 00 - 2010s mainstream “indie” band. The xx, 1975, Catfish and the Bottleman, Pale Waves plus all those bands with girls that appeal to faux lesbians and creepy men who date girls much younger than them… they just scream I have no personality.

Men who are obsessed with Lights. Her music is quite fun, but nothing special. But weirdo alt guys get a huge boner over her. It was a shocked when I first heard her cos the people who recommended her music were the type of guys who only listened to punk and metal and insult “pop music” to the max… So for me it is a massive red flag when alt guys talk about how musically gifted she is when they’d heavily critique the music she releases if it didn’t come from her.

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Pachniko/Weezer/Carseat Headrest/Fantano Core/muCore- Incredibly boring soycuck. Thinks they're unique just like everyone else. Will talk at you for hours uninterrupted without checking to see if you're still listening or even still in the room with them. Their opinion is sourced straight from Fantano. Cried the first time they listened to To Pimp a Butterfly.
Came here to complain about Car Seat Headrest specifically, glad someone else already has. Kind of tangential, but I knew one person who obsessed over the band, he was "bunnygender" and literally wanted to fuck monkeys. One time he, completely unprovoked, posted a picture of Shantae as a monkey (not even a furry just as a regular fucking monkey) and talked about how much he wanted to fuck it, and called me "furphobic" for going "what the fuck is wrong with you". Everyone else I ever spoke to who liked it was also a gay furry, but not quite as memorable.
 
Phish - balding, sloppy, paunchy guy in his 30s to 40s who you desperately try to avoid talking to at a party. Smokes weed in his garage. Would sacrifice his first-born child to get to spend even one more day as a college stoner.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - cosmetologist chick who drives a Mustang or a Jeep and has physically assaulted every one of her boyfriends.

They Might Be Giants - baby Yoda t-shirts and SSRIs
 
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