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Maybe someone in the comments can help us change our minds…for me i’ts Raggaeton Reggaeton, I tried, I searched thru the early years but nothing, dumb genre in my opinion.
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Country in the past 40 years.
Same I love country but bro country sucks.
Christian Rock.
Contemporary Country.
R&B.
every now and then i find an r&b song i vibe with, but otherwise same
Country music. I can’t stand it. The twangs make me cringe.
Johnny Cash and a couple Dolly songs are about all I can enjoy
Honestly? 99% of rap. Also reggae and reggaeton, and dub. Also not a fan of much R&B or Hip-hop.
Sorry.
Please tell me that 1% is Wu Tang
My 0.1% is A Tribe Called Quest, specifically The Low End Theory album. I did find a new (to me) rap-ish song I liked a few days ago too, Skin by WebsterX. It reminds me of Dan Deacon a bit.
Not to my knowledge. It’s a small smattering of Eminem, Coolio/Weird Al, and maybe Tupac.
Dunno why dub is catching strays, there’s great groovy dub. Check out ‘Stepping to Kebra Ethiopia Sound’, ‘Trojan Dub Massive Volume One’ and Volume Two. Or, for more melodic dub, try Zenzile.
Hiphop by itself is meh, but instrumental hiphop is another thing. Particularly, Ninja Tune released lots of good music: e.g. Wagon Christ.
Commercial pop from the early 2010s. A horrible time for anyone who listened to the radio.
Think Katy Perry, Usher, Pitbull, all that tasteless garbage that still gets repeated 3 times a day on some stations because they dont want to buy rights to other songs.
And that really unoffensive “summer vibes” style edm that was really popular in 2020.
Any boy band music. It’s all just so cliche. It feels like none of them have actually lived any of the things they’re singing and so just make up the most generic lyrics imaginable. There’s no detail, no specificity, no iota of the people behind it in my ears.
Its music made by market research
Pretty much any thing with a repetitive beat and lyrics that sound like they were written by a 14yo going through puberty. Basically hip-hop, bro country, and pop for the last 15 years.
pop for the last 15 years
I suppose that depends on how you define pop? Marina for example has some really good songs. But if pop means “stuff that plyas on mainstream radio”, I’d agree.
“smooth” jazz.
You mean elevator music?
There’s good smooth jazz: Sade (of course), Soul Ballet, Gran Turismo soundtracks.
Jam bands. I get bored.
I don’t think there are any inherently bad genres of music. There is only bad execution of a genre.
Take modern country, for example. A lot of it is absolutely terrible, but even within the genre there are great artists and great songs. Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton are obvious examples. Every genre has its own defining sound, and every genre has performers who demonstrate just how good that sound can be when it’s done properly.
That being said… there are definitely genres and styles of music that I have very little patience for.
Anything labeled “easy listening.” Elevator music. Modern commercial pop. And, especially, mumble rap.
A lot of it sounds like lazy, formulaic music that has been meticulously overproduced to be as commercially marketable as possible. It feels less like someone had something they wanted to say and more like a committee designed a product that would generate streams.
And that’s ultimately my problem. I don’t dislike a genre simply because it isn’t my taste. I dislike music that feels like it was made with absolutely no artistic ambition behind it.
There’s some great old ‘easy listening’, but it doesn’t come up often. E.g. ‘The Lost Philips Tapes EP1 Passport To USA’ or Walter Wanderley and Portinho’s ‘Órgão, Sax E Sexy’.
Thank you! I am legitimately excited to listen to these!
Let me give you some great recommendations as well from my extremely eclectic tastes!
Rodrigo y. Gabriada specifically their album area 51.
Anything at all a bluegrass band called Crooked Still
And right now I’m listening to Timecop1983 amazing artist! Lots of albums just really really good.
Thanks! I’m somewhat familiar with Timecop1983, and heard of Rodrigo y Gabriela, but am yet to listen to them properly.
Aside from easy-listening proper, you might also dig some bands influenced by it and the lounge genre: Messer für Frau Muller, Combustible Edison, Ursula 1000, De-Phazz, Jazzanova. There was a bit of a lounge resurgence in the nineties, combined with hiphopy beats and whatnot.
Another for reggaeton. It drives me out of stores.
for me i’ts Raggaeton
“Reggaeton” according to Wikipedia it seems. I hate that shitty beats with all my guts. I don’t know why though. It’s like the most simple and repetitive and bland kind of music. Even techno music has more diversity. Reggaeton is the same crap for 5 minutes.
Any twang. I can tolerate some fun Bluegrass.
Billy Strings is my Bluegrass pass, guy’s phenomenal.
I hear ya. I have “Turmoil & Tinfoil” on my playlist.
Crooked Still. Not just one of the best bluegrass bands but probably one of the best bands I’ve ever listened to.
Truly amazing.
Ty I’ll look into them.
For me, it’s almost entitely about the lyrics, so as long as they aren’t disgustingly bigoted or have an ass backwards message presented unironically I’m cool with it.
Tho if the “music” is just random, annoying sounds it might also get thrown out.
Most rap; most grunge; all gospel; everything with heavy distortion applied to voices.
