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.

[I Love Beef]

Anyone who only ever got their listening of classic rock and 1970s music from Guardians of the Galaxy.

Metal fans who don't have at least one band outside of the USA in their playlist.

Tool superfans.

Rap fans who have never listened to any black music before the year 2000.

 

[ShiftyBoi]

Anyone who only ever got their listening of classic rock and 1970s music from Guardians of the Galaxy.

The only musical touch I liked in those movies was the use of Father and Son at the end of the second one. Cause it had thematic significance. The rest of the god damn soundtrack is such basic sing a long crap, I couldn't stand it.

Not as bad as Suicide Squad's soundtrack though.

 

[TVB]

Rap fans who have never listened to any black music before the year 2012.

ftfy
2000s rap has a lot of good gems, but it started to go downhill by 2012

 

[Pee Cola]

Women who like classical music, especially those whose favourite pieces are associated with ballet or opera, tend to be very high maintenance.

Being in a relationship with one is like owning a Bentley or an Aston Martin. Classy and very enjoyable to be with, but the running costs are astronomical. Best left to doctors and lawyers who like their ladies with classic femininity and don't bat an eyelid at paying $500 for dinner or $2000 for an oil change.

Though they're something every straight dude should try at least once if possible, just to see how the other half live. Maybe just for 1 or 2 dates though. Or maybe just rent a DB11 from an exotic car rental place for a weekend instead.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

Women who like classical music, especially those whose favourite pieces are associated with ballet or opera, tend to be very high maintenance.

Being in a relationship with one is like owning a Bentley or an Aston Martin. Classy and very enjoyable to be with, but the running costs are astronomical. Best left to doctors and lawyers who like their ladies with classic femininity and don't bat an eyelid at paying $500 for dinner or $2000 for an oil change.

Though they're something every straight dude should try at least once if possible, just to see how the other half live. Maybe just for 1 or 2 dates though. Or maybe just rent a DB11 from an exotic car rental place for a weekend instead.

I agree but want to caveat that this means true classical music, not Mannheim Steamroller or the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Those shows are fine for what it is but the time I attended, it was mostly loud wine moms who had fresh tats even though they were in their 50s.

 

[Pee Cola]

I agree but want to caveat that this means true classical music, not Mannheim Steamroller or the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Those shows are fine for what it is but the time I attended, it was mostly loud wine moms who had fresh tats even though they were in their 50s.

Yeah, I mean a proper symphony orchestra. Not Andre Rieu or any of the "pop" classical music performers, and your description of this demographic is spot on. Though the wine moms you've described are often up for it, so it might be worth taking the risk for a pump and dump if MILFs/GILFs are your jam.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

If you don't appreciate Rachmaninoff you will be ghosted. Sorry boys, that's just the way it is.

 

[TVB]

If your only musical preferences are shit like Drake, Chris Brown, Taylor Swift, Lana Del Ray, Katy Perry, Nickelback and songs from modern day Disney movies, then please do not talk to me.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

If you only listen to Top 40 songs or mumble crap, I will make Jack the Ripper look PG.

If your only musical preferences are shit like Drake, Chris Brown, Taylor Swift, Lana Del Ray, Katy Perry, Nickelback and songs from modern day Disney movies, then please do not talk to me.

I actually like Nickelback as a guilty pleasure.

 

[TVB]

I actually like Nickelback as a guilty pleasure.

I'd say Nickelback can be great for le memes. I personally think Nikcelback is average, even if overhated, but it's still not that good, but I heard a lot worse modern rock bands (I'm looking at you 5FDP).

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

I'd say Nickelback can be great for le memes. I personally think Nikcelback is average, even if overhated, but it's still not that good, but I heard a lot worse modern rock bands (I'm looking at you 5FDP).

I used to listen to 5FDP back in high school, now I just see them as a solid "meh".

 

[Linako 2.0]

Any indie folk or folk punk bands like Andrew Jackson Jihad or the Mountain Goats. Run far away

My inner high schooler feels attacked by a personal space invader.

 

[TVB]

I used to listen to 5FDP back in high school, now I just see them as a solid "meh".

I also used to listen to most radio friendly rock music a lot during my high school years. Once I've gotten older, I found a liking for other musical genres.

 

[Pee Cola]

I actually like Nickelback as a guilty pleasure.

Nickelback's own songs suck industrial quantities of ass, but their Metallica covers are fucking fire.

 

[Generic Anime Girl]

- Velvet Undergroud : This shit is pretentious trash and Valerie Solanas should have aimed for Worhol's head
- Any form of breakcore: Troon. Avoid at all costs
- Lana Del Rey or Taylor Swift: Mentally unstable bitches hiding under girlboss brand feminism. But I must admit that the zoomer Kanye fans and taylor swift fans who beef it out on tiktok constantly are fucking funny to watch.
-Any teenager or weeb who likes classic rock: It's probably due to that one certain anime. I hate that I'm a fan of that certain anime.
- Tom Macdonald: rap for people who hate rap, wiggers, and migapede fossils who need to be smothered already.
-Weezer: Male feminists and soyboy rapists
- Tyler the Creator and Kendrick Lamar: Wiggers and cringy bisexuals
-Anthony Fantano fans: Anthony Fantano
-Radiohead Fans who only listen to their 90's stuff before "their music got weird"

To add on:

-Alex G: We get it you're a zoomer who likes tiktok. It's a shame because I like a few of his songs are good.
-Coldplay: Coldplay was good when they were trying to be Radiohead. Viva La Vida is a solid pop song. But steer clear of anyone who is hardcore into Coldplay's later music.
-Rage Against the Machine: you have the political awareness of a 14 year old girl or a certain mario-loving 40 year old twitter user. That is not a good thing.
-Ethel Cain: he's a tranny trying to be the next Lana Del Rey. He attracts the same fans as Lana and Taylor Swift too.
-Pink Floyd or the Beatles: You're an NPC. Do you want a trophy?
-Any "stoner" artist (Snoop Dogg, Willy Nelson, etc): I try to steer clear of stoners in general
- Female pop stars: Flamboyant Gay men
-K pop stans: this should go without saying
-Carti or Kanye: coin flip between chill black dude or the most annoying white kid you've ever met

More green flags
-Joanna Newsom: It's a shame that this woman's music is so underlooked, despite her being related to Andy Samberg and the Governor of California. I guess it's proof that nepo babies aren't everywhere. Have One On Me, one of her albums, was so beautiful that I felt empty for days after my first listen. It seems most of her fans are religious middle aged people or hipsters tho.
-Aphex Twin fans: all of his fans I've met are actually pretty chill and cool.
-Fleet Foxes: same as Aphex Twin

 

[TVB]

-Aphex Twin fans: all of his fans I've met are actually pretty chill and cool.
-Fleet Foxes: same as Aphex Twin

I'd say fans of Mountain Goats, Kero Kero Bonito, Godspeed You Black Emperor or Boards of Canada also land onto that same spectrum as either Fleet Foxes or Aphex Twin fans. These type of people are really relaxed, comfortable and very cool people to talk to.

 

[iSaidShhh]

Personal red flags:
- Five Finger Nickeltheory of a Shinepunch or any other crunchy butt rock band that sounds exactly like each other
- Noah Kahan; I really like his music but every single man I've ever spoken to that also likes him has unironically referred to themselves as soft or a smol bean. The new Keaton Henson irt irritating softboi fans.
- Zach Bryan or Tyler Childers but only in the context that he's the only alt-country artist they listen to
- Bleachers, the Front Bottoms, Soccer Mommy, any of the boygenius girls, all of whom I love but oh my God @ their fans we get it you have feelings. You have big feelings that nobody else feels except this musician and therefore they are the most important parasocial relationship you can ever or will ever have. Your feelings are so important. We get it.

ETA despite my own unending love for a couple of his albums, Sufjan Stevens. So many of his fans are super aggressive and condescending about how you clearly don't actually like his music if you don't like his weird electronica bullshit. Yes my favorite Sufjan album is Carrie & Lowell don't @ me.

 

[Generic Anime Girl]

Bleachers, the Front Bottoms, Soccer Mommy, any of the boygenius girls, all of whom I love but oh my God @ their fans we get it you have feelings. You have big feelings that nobody else feels except this musician and therefore they are the most important parasocial relationship you can ever or will ever have. Your feelings are so important. We get it.

listening to pheobe birdges makes me wanna neck myself

-but nothing is as bad at Penelope Scott's "music". It's just liberal fat woman complaining over chiptune beats Jesus Christ. And no surprise her fans are fat white liberal women

-also mitski fans are fucking annoying too

 

[iSaidShhh]

-also mitski fans are fucking annoying too

If someone lists her as one of their favorite artists I start internally counting down until the inevitable panic attack or BPD freakout. It's worse and weirder than the Lana fans because girls that listen to Mitski know that there's a stereotype so they try to circumvent it.

 

[Spunt]

Morbid Angel. Morbid Angel sound exactly the way people who hate heavy metal think all heavy metal sounds. Likewise, Morbid Angel fans look and behave exactly the way people who hate metal fans think all metal fans look and behave. It's lowest-common-denominator metal for lowest-common-denominator people. See also: German thrash bands, Kreator and the like.

Also, David Bowie. Now if you like listening to David Bowie then that's great, and not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is people who really want you to know that they listen to David Bowie. Last time I was single I signed up to OKCupid, and it was fucking swarming with insufferable BPD hipster nightmares who weren't even born when 90% of his hits came out who all, fucking hundreds of them, listed David Bowie as one of their favourite artists. He came up even more than Morrissey, if you can imagine. Women I know say that they guys on OKCupid do the same thing, though instead of Morrissey at #2 it's Pink Floyd. I swear there's a factory somewhere in East London pumping these people out.