Unpopular views about music

The new version of Where is the Love by Black Eyed Peas is shit. Original was better.
 
* I like most genres associated with country, but never really could get into bluegrass. Hypocritically, I can also play the mandolin.

* I also don't like most alternative country. Most of it seems way too intellectual (Sturgill Simpson), too hipster-y, or too focused on navel gazing.

* It may have been the song that ruined country music, but I liked "Cruise" by Florida Georgia Line.

* Miranda Lambert's "Automatic" absolutely infuriates me.

* I don't like Daft Punk at all. All of their songs sound like they came up with 3 seconds of music and just looped it a billion times. And their robot voices fit the retro groove of "Get Lucky" about as well as death metal screams fit a Raffi song.

* Speaking of metal, even supposedly "softer" metal generally feels like someone has shoved a jackhammer directly into my ear. Even if they aren't playing THAT hard and are still using clean vocals. Maybe I still haven't heard the right metal, though.

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Zeorus said:
This is more an unpopular view about music making rather than personal preferences as a listener, but I've found that I really enjoy playing for funerals in a way that I hadn't expected to before I became an organist. Even if I'm doing it for somebody I didn't know, there's something really nice about being able to assist in paying tribute to this person, even in a small way. A lot of funeral hymns and other music about death (requiem masses and the like) have come to hold a certain fascination for me as well.
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I'm also an organist, and this really hit the feels for me.
 
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Also, Journey is everything that's wrong with 1980s music.
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Everything after 1981 is saccharine, but guilty pleasure, pop music.

Their first three albums were really good jazz fusion records (picture Santana without the congas, timbales, and, well, Carlos) Even the first three albums with Steve Perry could best be summed up as "American Queen" Once original keyboardist and co-lead vocalist Gregg Rolie quit and Jonathan Cain came in, they became a typical '80s pop band.
 
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I don't hate Journey, but I hated "Don't Stop Believin'" for a long time. I mean, it uses girl/world, the most overused rhyme in the history of ever, in the FIRST FREAKING LINE. Also, there's no such thing as "South Detroit"; the southern suburbs of Detroit are called "Downriver". Thirdly, there are not one, but TWO spots where they just repeat a line instead of coming up with something that rhymes with it. Lazy lazy songwriting.
 
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This album that Yes did without Jon Anderson is better than a lot of the albums they did with Anderson after Relayer.
 
Lin Manuel Miranda is very average as a musician, and I think his Hamilton shit only got popular because it panders to current identity politics ("omg they're retelling american history WITH POCs!!! Yay historically inaccuracy and racebending!!!").

And frankly it bothers me how every white SJW (because it's not a white issue; even blacks, inmigrants and chicanos get into this crap) who's never left the USA or know anything important of other countries tells latinos things like "omg you should like him he's such an example of your people such representation!"

As if latinos have never had artists, talented musicians or the like before golden boy Miranda came in! Besides I think he just appeals mostly to the folks up in the States, since the peeps down in their countries prefer to listen to a paisano that really gets their culture over an "americanada" like Hamilton is.

Most latino musicians have much better stuff than he does, anyway. Soda Stereo > Miranda.
 
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friedshrimp said:
And frankly it bothers me how every white SJW (because it's not a white issue; even blacks, inmigrants and chicanos get into this crap) who's never left the USA or know anything important of other countries tells latinos things like "omg you should like him he's such an example of your people such representation!"
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As a Latino, I've yet to hear anyone tell me that.

Besides, as much as I like Linn, I can also agree that there are other Latino artists better than him (Carlos Santana and The Mars Volta comes to my mind)
 
Luscinia Hafez said:
Any music you just plain hate but everyone else likes?

I, for one, hate Kelly Clarkson, Carly Rae Jepsen, Jessica Simpson (SHE FUCKING CAN'T SING WORTH SHIT!), Avril Lavigne, Justine Bieber (Who DOESN'T hate him?), One Direction, Beyonce, Ke$ha, and any rap music made after 2003 that isn't by Eminem, and Red Hot Chili Peppers' stuff from Californication on (The older stuff is good). There's a bunch of other music I'm currently too lazy to list.

GLORIA AUGUSTA!
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emo music is probably one of my favorite genres. Now, listen to me, i'm not saying it's all gems. Infact, the more "tumblrcore" side of Emo is what i fucking despise and the main reason emo is a bad word (for good reason, i admit)
 
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