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.

[barbie meat]

Not a band red flag but a music related one: people who can't tell genres apart. I dated a dude who didn't like it when I listened to Elliott Smith because, quote: "I don't like country music." He also tried to argue with me once that pop-punk bands like Blink-182 were Real Punk Music. I'm not even into punk and that annoyed the shit out of me.

 

[TVB]

He also tried to argue with me once that pop-punk bands like Blink-182 were Real Punk Music.

I bet he's scared of Sid Vicious or GG Allin

 

[The Hardest R]

Not a band red flag but a music related one: people who can't tell genres apart. I dated a dude who didn't like it when I listened to Elliott Smith because, quote: "I don't like country music." He also tried to argue with me once that pop-punk bands like Blink-182 were Real Punk Music. I'm not even into punk and that annoyed the shit out of me.

I think that can go both ways. I find it equally annoying when I say <x> band is country and get told well ackchually, it’s post-punk neoclassical bluegrass. I’m sure that’s technically accurate but only about 20 fags who listen exclusively to BandCamp and SoundCloud will think that genre is actually a thing.

 

[barbie meat]

I think that can go both ways. I find it equally annoying when I say <x> band is country and get told well ackchually, it’s post-punk neoclassical bluegrass. I’m sure that’s technically accurate but only about 20 fags who listen exclusively to BandCamp and SoundCloud will think that genre is actually a thing.

Lol, fair. I was just baffled as folk vs country is a pretty basic distinction, like not every guy with an acoustic guitar singing sad songs is a country artist. I should also add that this dude was a raging music snob who considered anything that didn't fit his personal music taste to be objectively bad, yet also listened to almost exclusively mainstream emo. If it wouldn't come on the playlist at a Hot Topic he thought it was shit. Come to think of it, it's mainly music snobs (especially ones who don't know shit, because the hypocrisy) that are my red flag. (Insert "Are we the baddies?" meme as I consider if I am, in fact, the music snob.)

 

[An Sionnach Seang]

I used to know a woman a little older than me (33 at the time, I was 31) who into Julia Michaels and Melanie Martinez, which was not so much an outright red flag as a bit odd, because they're virtually unknown on this side of the pond, and in any case, she turned out to be not as interesting as she thought she was

this thread has also made me realise I know a real-life anti-stereotype: a lass on the other shift who, despite being an unrepentant Koreaboo, is not a stan, and is sane, grounded and generally lovely

 

[Real Mayun]

Eric/Patrica Taxxon. His singing is JustinRPG tier to my ears.

Femtanyl. Trying to make self-mutilation, pup-play, and being trans sound cool with scream rap and earrape bass ("Take my E and think about my setbacks," "I get clocked like it's a job to me"). Almost all of his fans are underage just by looking at the comments and animation memes featuring his songs. Didn't screenshot it, but a suicide helpine autopop-up used to show on Youtube when looking up his songs.

I like the vulnerability of PT's singing – she isn't known for vocal acrobatics but I like the softness of her voice atop her pointed synth instrumentals. Her music makes me feel like I live inside a tranquil, cozy PC JRPG and I can forget about the outside world for a while.

 

[Señora Airi]

Slayer were the fastest, heaviest and most blasphemous band in the world in about 1986

Eh, Bathory had his debut and The Return out by that point.

RABM is, quite bluntly, a forced meme.

the amount of people I've seen shit on Christian Black Metal while propping up Neckbeard Deathcamp will never not be enraging.

Speaking of:

If you like Christian Contemporary Music, you do not listen to anything outside of KLove and are scared of anything heavier than 50s rockabilly.

If you like Carly Rae Jepsen, you are either a gay man, or a RYM /mu/core faggot who retroactively says all her work is good.

Any themed metal bands (Sabaton, Powerwolf, 1914, etc): you are a LARPer, or the kind of person who says "they're the greatest band ever" but only know one song.

If you like Deafheaven, you are a pretentious cunt who has daddy issues.

If you like Alcest, you are a pretentious cunt who has daddy issues and is a weeb.

 

[Claus]

There are probably a lot of artists that many of the people in this thread consider red flags that I enjoy so I'm just gonna say I don't really associate with any fanbases and kinda just listen to and enjoy the artists on my own. The only true red flag for me is Taylor Swift because people won't shut the fuck up about her and I can't escape her.

 

[CowPox]

When they say the like heavy music and then list Pantera and Metallica as their favorite bands.

 

[TVB]

Slayer were the fastest, heaviest and most blasphemous band in the world in about 1986, but they've been surpassed on all fronts since then

Both Slayer and Pantera may have claim the title for blasphemous and horrifying, but are very tame compared to GG Allin, Passenger of Shit, Anal Cunt, Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Burzum, and even horrorcore rap groups like NWA, Gravediggaz, Geto Boys, ICP, etc.

 

[Pomniman]

There are probably a lot of artists that many of the people in this thread consider red flags that I enjoy so I'm just gonna say I don't really associate with any fanbases and kinda just listen to and enjoy the artists on my own. The only true red flag for me is Taylor Swift because people won't shut the fuck up about her and I can't escape her.

Yeah, I think to me the real key to all this is that their tastes aren't banal first and foremost, because an insipid woman who does nothing but slavishly chase trends is something I can only despise personally because boring people suck most of all in general.

 

[Señora Airi]

I think that can go both ways. I find it equally annoying when I say <x> band is country and get told well ackchually, it’s post-punk neoclassical bluegrass. I’m sure that’s technically accurate but only about 20 fags who listen exclusively to BandCamp and SoundCloud will think that genre is actually a thing.

Once something gets past two subgenres/descriptors (ex. Symphonic Power Metal or Melodic Death Metal), then it just becomes autistic nitpicking.

 

[Here to Gawk]

Tool. Over the course of my entire life, I've had both men and women who love this band try to get close to me and then ultimately reveal themselves to be opposite of what they appear. It's so bizarre, and the only common thread linking all of them is this one fucking band.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Once something gets past two subgenres/descriptors (ex. Symphonic Power Metal or Melodic Death Metal), then it just becomes autistic nitpicking.

 

[Digital Thunder]

Mitski is so inseparable from the insufferable, terminally-online teenage girls who specifically obsess over shit like Minecraft youtubers she attracts that I thought she was one for a good couple months. Her artist name reading like a gamertag doesn't help this in the slightest.

Lemon Demon, Tally Hall, and Will Wood for pretty much the same reason.

 

[TVB]

Lemon Demon, Tally Hall, and Will Wood for pretty much the same reason.

These bands are fun mid-to-late 2000s bands that shared cult status thanks to albinoblacksheep, but have also generated horrifying trannies and creeps by earlier this decade

 

[lord kill the pain]

Has anyone mentioned Nicole Dollanganger yet? If a girl listens to her, just cut off all contact and never look back. Also anyone who loves Queen in 2024 should get beaten with hammers.

 

[neurotardvirgin]

>Anything associated with "Manipulator Male Music" memes:
Either a specific type of abstract-thinking, predatory Salvador Dali-esque fuccboi - or a whiny, self-flagellating covert narcissistic incel carrying too much baggage for everyone's own good. Can't attempt to 'fix him' without being anchored to his level. Kind of sucks; as a significant bulk of the indie shit I was into 10+ years ago is now being taken up by this problematic facet of culture in the post-tiktok age. Spoils my genuine sentiment of things.

>Kottonmouth Kingz:
The audioslop intake of every skeletal, white, middle aged, face tatted drug addict clad in a wife beater, riding around in stolen children's bikes that are just -far- too small for him. Blares that noise on a (likely shoplifted) walmart bluetooth soundsystem in full, almost underwater-muffled earrapey bass that you can hear out from a trillion blocks away at 2 AM. Makes you yearn for the Fent OD's to kick in faster and finally take these guys out already.

>Bloodhound Gang (and as subsequent follow up candidates, any music that loosely falls under what I dub as "American Pie-core"):
A specific flavor of fratdouche that holds the issue of not taking anything seriously enough at all - and lacks/otherwise has a buried sense of shame (in contrast to your tapout-clad "Fred Durst-bags", who tend to flex their comically bloated alphabro egos - dangling outwardly in the public eye.) Peaked between Middle school to Early College by taking advantage of the whole cultural wave LARPing as Bam Margera/something akin, and has since been promoted to the role of "creepy uncle who's only invited to family gatherings/functions out of politeness".

He's a middle aged alcoholic who inserts middle school-tier toilet jokes everywhere, and shoehorns/otherwise turns everything into a sexual innuendo/euphemism, going out of his way to provoke/make everyone around him at the table wildly uncomfortable. Insists/self-affirms that he is the "funniest/coolest/most awesomest guy" every other waking minute, and anyone who disagrees or otherwise attempts to confront his pestilent antics is "gay/can't take a joke". Most likely the tumorous culprit behind a great majority of (C)SA cases within your extended familial pool; so don't leave your autistic nephew, your timidly mousey niece, or your granny with dementia unattended within his mutual vicinity.

>Unironic nightcore listeners:
Literally re-enforces the notion that perhaps bullying isn't always a bad thing after all.

 

[Retard of the Month]

Anyone who obsesses over bands that were cool to dislike until recently.

If your favorite bands include Creed, Limp Bizkit, Nickelback, or any other band that got hated on for decades until people just now came around to them and started enjoying them unironically, and you weren't a fan of those bands back when they were seen as shit, you're a poser. I'm guilty of this myself with Creed, but at the same time it took me until 2021 to listen to anything that wasn't dubstep and video game music.

Of course, if you're a fan of Bizkit, you're already a wigger, and that's bad enough as-is.

 

[neurotardvirgin]

Anyone who obsesses over bands that were cool to dislike until recently.

If your favorite bands include Creed, Limp Bizkit, Nickelback, or any other band that got hated on for decades until people just now came around to them and started enjoying them unironically, and you weren't a fan of those bands back when they were seen as shit, you're a poser. I'm guilty of this myself with Creed, but at the same time it took me until 2021 to listen to anything that wasn't dubstep and video game music.

Of course, if you're a fan of Bizkit, you're already a wigger, and that's bad enough as-is.

Well fuck, tell me about it. Especially the whole woke re-appraisal wave reframing buttrock/mallcore/nu-metal hate as "classist".

I'm currently anticipating the incoming post-Conde Nast Pitchfork journo shitting out a column about how BOTDF were "Le EmPoWeRiNg" visionary pioneers in spearheading hyperpop/zoomer culture; and how Dahvie Vanity hate is apparently "transphobe-coded" or some schlock.