Unpopular views about music

[Dean Pentel]

I do not like most rap music and especially despise any rap songs recorded after 2005. Why the fuck is this nigger bullshit everywhere? Damn near every gym, every fucking commercial, most of the social media memes, etc.

 

[McMitch]

I do not like most rap music and especially despise any rap songs recorded after 2005. Why the fuck is this nigger bullshit everywhere? Damn near every gym, every fucking commercial, most of the social media memes, etc.

It’s chick music. It’s what happened to rock in the eighties and country in the nineties: the industry found a sound that women purchase en masse because it lacks any variation between songs. The idea is that women want media to be instantly recognizable (which is why your girlfriend wants you to explain the plot of a movie before it happens), and largely make purchases based on what the other women in their lives purchase (as opposed to men who make purchases more arbitrarily). As women earn more, and as millenial-and-younger women are out earning their male counterparts, they become a more and more lucrative market to cater towards, because men will also purchase such media for the women in their own lives. This applies to all media.

Now, whether this is an accurate assumption of women’s spending habits or simply a cruel assumption by advertisers, I will not say.

 

[Dysnomia]

I prefer Slave To The Grind to Skid Row's self titled debut. Slave To The Grind allegedly tanked their female fanbase but I was still way more impressed with it. Skid Row's best songs are Quicksand Jesus and In a Darkened Room. I wish they could have kept up that momentum and Bas had kept his prima donna spergatism in check. Think what could have been.

 

[Señora Airi]

I prefer Slave To The Grind to Skid Row's self titled debut. Slave To The Grind allegedly tanked their female fanbase but I was still way more impressed with it. Skid Row's best songs are Quicksand Jesus and In a Darkened Room. I wish they could have kept up that momentum and Bas had kept his prima donna spergatism in check. Think what could have been.

I've heard that the debut album was just to appease the record company and SttG was the album they wanted to make

 

[Raging Capybara]

I do not like most rap music and especially despise any rap songs recorded after 2005. Why the fuck is this nigger bullshit everywhere? Damn near every gym, every fucking commercial, most of the social media memes, etc.

Americans worship niggers.

 

[ssaneenah]

To anyone who thinks hip-hop is lame - check out early Ninja Tune releases. I’m also convinced that only the Brits and the Japs are genetically capable of producing true musical masterpieces, regardless of genre or complexity of the sound.

 

[ssaneenah]

While I was waiting for someone to write something so I don’t have to double post, I came to an unexpected realization that every single music scene fucking sucks:

Rockers and metalheads have generally very narrow grasp on variation of music, prog stans care more about the complexity of the composition rather than the music itself, stoners are hippies, punks are grimy, hip-hop culture is sickening with its emphasis on status and bragging, shoegaze and dream pop scene is full of manchildren going through an existential crisis who won’t shut the fuck up about their feelings and socio-political views, downtempo scene is way too commercialized and pretty much dead, IDM guys are mentally unhinged, socially underdeveloped weidos, the entire rave scene is crawling with trannies and furries and teenagers who just want to party and slap smileys everywhere, gear dudes are pedantic oldfarts with little to no knowledge of communications theory, but a huge ego due to their insecurity of not having any redeeming quality besides owning an overpriced guitar or a drum machine.

 

[Calandrino]

While I was waiting for someone to write something so I don’t have to double post, I came to an unexpected realization that every single music scene fucking sucks:

Rockers and metalheads have generally very narrow grasp on variation of music, prog stans care more about the complexity of the composition rather than the music itself, stoners are hippies, punks are grimy, hip-hop culture is sickening with its emphasis on status and bragging, shoegaze and dream pop scene is full of manchildren going through an existential crisis who won’t shut the fuck up about their feelings and socio-political views, downtempo scene is way too commercialized and pretty much dead, IDM guys are mentally unhinged, socially underdeveloped weidos, the entire rave scene is crawling with trannies and furries and teenagers who just want to party and slap smileys everywhere, gear dudes are pedantic oldfarts with little to no knowledge of communications theory, but a huge ego due to their insecurity of not having any redeeming quality besides owning an overpriced guitar or a drum machine.

You should keep your mind focused on the positive because it's very easy to dump on anything

 

[Jace on ice]

Modern Country is so standardized and homogeneous that I genuinely think auotuned music had more diversity.

 

[ParasiteSteve]

I hate all this digital amp shit. These glorified emulators. It's lead to bands all sounding the fucking same,

I am sure plenty of those bands are using tubes and solid states as well as digital modeling. The issue isnt digital amps, its thats every single mainstream band, artists, outfit, whatever has almost identical production concepts. It never changes, its always super clear, full bass with plenty of space and everything slammed up to the front and top. In metal, my genre, it could be a real kit, tama, pearl, or some digital one like SupD or Battery, yet it will sound like fucking Sneap produced clicky bullshit.

You can even watch producer diaries, and its all fucking lies. They say shit like "yeah man, I am doing something different, using this rare EG rack that has 3 tubes and a splitter on the outline, it really gives it a rustic phase feel" and its just the fucking same as every fucking EQ in the game. They pretend they are doing something different and perhaps on some scientific level you can actually point out the difference, but the sound profile is functionally the same for the listener.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Hootie and the Blowfish used to get treated as a joke on late night comedy shows, but they honestly deserve more love since their songs are very pleasing to listen to.

Also, Dave Matthews Band has music that literally sounds like something you’d hear in an Applebees or an Outback Steakhouse.

This song is actual proof of this, and I refuse to believe otherwise:

 

[cactus]

Hootie and the Blowfish used to get treated as a joke on late night comedy shows, but they honestly deserve more love since their songs are very pleasing to listen to.

Also, Dave Matthews Band has music that literally sounds like something you’d hear in an Applebees or an Outback Steakhouse.

Huh, all the jokes I heard about Hootie and the Blowfish was that the lead singer's name wasn't Hootie and that Darius Rucker would get pissed off if you called him Hootie.

I don't care, I'll always like "Crash" and "the Space Between."

 

[Franz Joseph]

Also, Dave Matthews Band has music that literally sounds like something you’d hear in an Applebees or an Outback Steakhouse.

This song is actual proof of this, and I refuse to believe otherwise:

DMB is a mediocre college rock band with a obnoxious fanbase that thinks the band is better than they actually are.

 

[Otterly]

I dislike the bland autotune that’s everywhere. I have tinnitus and hearing autotuned voices gives me some kind of what I can only describe as aural feedback, it kind of buzzes, and I hate it. I don’t really mind music that’s interesting but not my taste, I just hate the blandness and written by numbers stuff. Which is most of it these days. There’s no depth of sound or complexity to it, and there’s no beautiful simplicity either. It’s the aural equivalent of being hit over the head with a stick while someone screeches at you in a monotone

To anyone who thinks hip-hop is lame

80-90s hiphop some of it was good. It’s not a genre I follow at all so I can’t slag it off now. But I did like some back then in an offhand kind of way.
I dislike the mumble rap and the drill rubbish that’s all over the uk now but not as much as I hate that ‘lad with Estuary English accent over a really crap guitar line and auto tune’ stuff that all the discount ed Sheerans sound like. Myles whoever he is. Urgh. I’m sure sheerans a nice bloke but I can’t bear listening to him, never mind the copies of him that are all over the radio.
(End old lady yells at cloud rant.)

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

My unpopular view is that the Johnny Cash version of Hurt is so overrated. The original is still the best version.

 

[Lovely Kin]

BLACKPINK and BTS only succeeded in the west because they were at the right place at the right time with the peak of the Korean Wave, not talent.

 

[cactus]

BLACKPINK and BTS only succeeded in the west because they were at the right place at the right time with the peak of the Korean Wave, not talent.

The last Western boy band was One Direction from like a decade ago, so they did kinda fill that void, but I don't remember their fans willing to kill over them like BTS and Blackpink fans.

 

[Lovely Kin]

The last Western boy band was One Direction from like a decade ago, so they did kinda fill that void, but I don't remember their fans willing to kill over them like BTS and Blackpink fans.

Kpop fans have always been psychotic, the funny thing is the modern ones are tame compared to generation one fans who were actually violent. One of the poor members of Baby V.O.X got vinegar and soy sauce shot in her eye because of dating rumors.

 

[trent]

I grew up listening to grunge/alternative/metal and my favourite band of all time is probably either Mastodon or Clutch.

That said, i fucking love Lady Gaga and Sia. I had The Fame/The Fame Monster on repeat for like 6 months when they came out and i even liked Gagas less popular stuff in between her getting to her current stuff which is as just brilliant in my opinion, Abracadabra is legit one of my favourite songs ever. Gaga in my opinion is one of the most creative musicians ever. Completely unique.

Sia might be a clueless SJW but her music is as heartfelt as it gets and she is an amazing singer. Sure, she has the club bangers with David Guetta but if you actually listen to the lyrics they are as twinged with sadness as her solo stuff and it's all about trying your best to overcome the negatives in your life but not necessarily succeeding because there isn't always a happy ending.

Even the songs she has written for other people have that bitter-sweet feeling. "Diamonds" was sung as a love song by Rihanna but Sia did a live version on Stern (there's a terrible version of it on Youtube) that showed it's actually a song about people pretending everything is ok when they are actually in a shit situation. All this is done simply by Sia's tone when she sings the song. There's points when it sounds like she's pleading with reality for things to get better.

I'm a grown ass man and her music is one of the few things that brings me close to tears.

 

[Golden Face]

"you can't listen to that musician, they raped/murdered/did something bad!" good thing i illegally downloaded all of their music, lol

but in all seriousness, i am beginning to suspect that the less morals someone has, the better music they make.