Hi, i'm a gamer, and I like mainstream music.

[SnootyEnglishman]

So you like the popular mainstream music i don't care that you because that's your thing..but you don't need to justify and defend yourself because of it. if there's a song you like and offer me to hear it i'll give it a listen i may not like it but i value your opinion on it.

 

[JanatUrlich]

I think you're my soulmate <3

Ok, ok when I say I love pop music, I don't necessarily mean chart music, although I do enjoy a lot of it. My favourite artists are people such as Cash Cash, Lee Jung Hyun, Portishead, After School and PB33, who are by all means pop artists but not chart music.

There's alternative sides to every genre and I just find pop music to be the genre that most excites me, much as some people feel the same about metal or whatever.

It also doesn't mean that I don't listen to other genres because I most definitely do. There's something for everyone on my ipod and frankly, I don't think I could survive listening to one genre. I love music too much!

 

[Lusty]

Just because something is popular doesn't make it bad. Every now and then something will turn up in the charts that I like. But most of the stuff in the charts at the moment is, in my opinion, lazy and formulaic. It's music generated by a focus group, there's no soul to it. You mentioned Lady Gaga and she's the prime example for me, every one of her songs sounds the same.

You will never beat someone writing a song about something they actually care about. There's a passion in their voice and to the song which Lady Gaga (or whoever) and her army of song writers can never reproduce.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

Okay, im completely fine with what music you listen to, i may hate the music you like, but i can respect your interests.

What i can't respect is your inability to find something new. What i mean by this is,(directly quoted from you, the OP)
"Well partly because finding music that isn't popular requires effort and I really can't be arsed, while popular music is readily available on the radio and internet without me having to scope things out."

ARE YOU KIDING ME, all your going to do is listen to the crap on the radio and thats it, your missing out on soooooo much good music. All you have to do is follow some links on youtube and you'll come across these amazing bands, bands that ARE better then alot of the stuff you listen to.

Now before you say that i just completely contradicted everything i just said, let me eleaborate. I like Hilltop Hoods (check them out, their a great underground Aussi rap band), i followed some links and i found a guy names Cecil Otter, he's also a great rapper (please tell me thats spelled right). I would have never found him if i hadnt followed those links.

But anotherthing, you can't be arsed to put effort into finding good music, THAT is just stupid, i think you can understand why.

 

[zhoominator]

I loathe pop music. All your post says to me is that you're a casual music listener and not serious about your music like I am.

Sorry bub, but that's just bullshit. I know plenty of people who are seriously into music but ike manstream bands. It's really this kind of elitist assumption that needs to stop.

My cousin for example, could tell me the names of the instruments or the kinds of computer programs that would be used to create different kinds of dance music and is really interested in all the technology side of it so I could argue that he can appreciate that music as much as any metal fan could appreciate their's.

 

[reg42]

Well, just listen to Lady Gaga's lyrics and you may understand why people (including myself) hate her. Most of her songs exploit the average persons drive for sex. If a movie's poster had a giant pair of tits on it I would be just as cautious about it as I am with her music. Pop in general seem to do this.

 

[DuplicateValue]

I'll generally listen to anything, though I prefer indie-rock and metal and all that sort of stuff. There's still a good bit of pop on my ipod though.
Even if I say I hate something, if I hear it enough times I grow to like it, and eventually end up putting it on my ipod.

I do have a strong hatred for dance music though. Probably because I don't think that it involves any actual talent on the artist's part.

 

[Hiphophippo]

I loathe pop music. All your post says to me is that you're a casual music listener and not serious about your music like I am.

Sorry bub, but that's just bullshit. I know plenty of people who are seriously into music but ike manstream bands. It's really this kind of elitist assumption that needs to stop.

My cousin for example, could tell me the names of the instruments or the kinds of computer programs that would be used to create different kinds of dance music and is really interested in all the technology side of it so I could argue that he can appreciate that music as much as any metal fan could appreciate their's.

Don't misunderstand me, I try not to generalize all mainstream music because there's some that's decent. It's been my experience though that mainstream bands are best served as a gateway into better bands of the genre. Radio music is lowest common denominator music. It just is. It's marketed and created to be as accessible to as many people as possible, and that's fine if that's what people want. It's all subjective anyway.

As for your friend that enjoy's dance music, sounds like he's really into his craft. I'm not one of those metal heads that says anything not played a stringed instrument isn't real music. Anything created to be music, is music. Just that simple.

It's just not my kind of music.

edit

Let me also clarify that I would be in a goddamn boy band if I could make that kind of music. I think slipknot is fucking terrible metal but I'd put on that mask and riff the night away for a few million bucks. I'd sell out relatively quick, and use that money to create the album I really want 10 years later.

 

[Plurralbles]

no you don't.


and no you aren't.

hehe, pointless reply to a pointless post.

Like what you like, don't like what you find not worthy. It's not that difficult.

 

[TheScarecrow]

I've been known to dabble in pop, like Le Roux and the Ting-tings.

 

[Chebs]

I don't listen to the radio, so the only current music I'm exposed to is vh1's Top 20 Countdown that I put on over the weekend while I'm cleaning. I've heard a lot of songs I like because they have a good beat. I'm not someone who listens to music because it carries a message or anything like that. I have books if I want something deep. I don't really see the point in bashing someone's music choice because it's not something that hurts anyone else. All the person doing the bashing does is make himself look like an ass.

And to put it out there, my favorite music is 80s hair metal. I hear the 'your music sucks!' all the time. You get used to it and tune it out.

 

[Nickolai77]

So why do I like popular music? Well partly because finding music that isn't popular requires effort and I really can't be arsed, while popular music is readily available on the radio and internet without me having to scope things out. And partly because everytime I've been recommended to music by some obscure artist I've hardly ever liked it. (this isn't a cue for everyone to throw their favorite songs at me, please, that isn't the point of this thread and I don't need 'converting') However, mainstream songs generally appeal to me; and though there is some shit out there I enjoy a lot of it.

One thing I do dislike about my preferred genres is a lack of much of a decent message in the song (it's not always shit messages though as some people would have you believe, just most of the time it is) However, the music itself is more important to me, and I'd prefer to have a song that sticks in my mind and is 'infectious'.

But this doesn't make me thick, it just means that music means something different to me than to you people. While to some, every song must be a masterpiece that gives us emotion, to me music only has to be distraction to relax or dance to. And I'm sorry, but, people like me happen to be the majority, and we're not all thick.

Well, many of my friends have mainstream music taste anyway, so, i think i can understand were your coming from. All i'm going to suggest to you is, if you like music so much, go out and find some more music, rather than just be content to listen to whatever pops up on the radio. If you spend your life only listening to pop music, you really are missing a lot.

Youtube's a great place to find new band's, personally i love listening to the works done by this guy-

 

[Stranger of Sorts]

Hmm I can't say I agree with your blind following of mainstream music. But as long as you don't preach about it then I'm fine....

wait.

 

[caz105]

Well done?

 

[SonicKoala]

Good for you - I fully agree that liking mainstream music does not, in ANYWAY, make you intellectually inferior. Hell, a lot of the people who are into "indie" music are such pretentious douchebags that it's almost impossible to talk to them. It all boils down to personal taste.

Oh, and when it comes to really solid, danceable pop music, Lady Gaga kicks ass; seriously, Bad Romance is one of the BEST fucking songs I've heard on the radio in years.

 

[Frenger]

Lady Gaga is rad, you could do a whole lot worse. I listen to chart music at times, the difference is that it was in the charts 20- 30 years ago. One can argue that music was better before, but most of the times that's just not true.

But "looking for good music" does not take effort, at all, just so you know. Infact, pandora/spotify/itunes take care of that and it works pretty well.

And sometimes, you will stumble over stuff no one cares or have heard of.

Not that it matters, really...

 

[the Dept of Science]

(When reading this, keep in mind that at one point I was a person that believed I would never find anything to match classic rock, until I started really listening to alternative rock bands, and then I believed that I could not like anything but classic and alt. rock, until I started really listening to indie rock, then I believed that I could not like anything but classic, indie and alt. rock until I started listening to soul and started noticing a pattern.)

"Pop music is mass produced .'. its crap" - So was the Motown scene and Brill Building Pop, they had team of resident song writers (Holland-Dozier-Holland), session musicians, producers (Phil Spector), fashion designers and makeup artists, voice coaches and dance instructors. If you judge modern day pop music on being mass produced, then you could say similar things about The Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye, the Ronnettes and the Shangri-La's.

"Pop music is unimaginative and uninteresting" - Not really true either. Take Say My Name by Destiny's Child, the musical backing involves: fingerpicked acoustic guitar, funky wah-wah guitar, string section, a triangle, sleigh bells (a la the Stooges "I wanna be your dog") and synths. Ok, you may argue that this is an exception to the rule, but there are plenty more examples of mainstream pop being musically interesting. The opera singers at the beggining of Cry Me a River, the bombastic horns on Beyonce's Crazy in Love, the wierd harpsicord beggining to Bad Romance that breaks into synthpop and crazy chanting, the breakdown at about 2.15 in Toxic, the near alt. rock of Since U Been Gone,. On top of this, they are all fronted by immensely talented singers and melodies that you could probably recall after only one listening.

I can't recall getting the memo that said that good singing, clean production and memorable singalong melodies stopped counted for judging the quality of a song.

Anyway, there is a large proportion of crap in whatever genre you listen to. If you are sitting there thinking "Hang on what about metal/indie/jazz/classical?*", as yourself, are 90% of the performers of that genre doing something that hasn't been done better by someone else? No genre is inherantly better than any other genre, each one with a small percentage of noteworthy acts, either rising above or buried within the unimaginative, derrivative, poorly conceived acts that is the rest of the genre.


*jazz and classical may be a bit misleading, mainly because they are so old as a genre that pretty much all the bad and average musicians have fell from any noteworthyness, meaning only the genuinely good ones are remembered.

 

[Plurralbles]

I laugh that the artsy stuff Gaga is spewing out and the weirdness is exactly the same thing that every high schooler used to shun and make fun of. I'm not sure when or why there was a transference.

 

[zacobar]

What surprises me is the Thread title, that you feel it necessary to tie an identity as a 'gamer' (a stupidly trite phrase but sod it) with that of your musical preference. Neither should really inform the other, though personally I just feel psychological profiling is flawed. Musical tastes are subjective so that is a moot argument however you swing it.

It's is difficult to assume any real interest in pop music when the public are essentially 'told' what to like through popular media like Radio and Internet. When the top 40 only reflects the recent TV shedules, I find it hard not to be intensely bored by the whole affair. The spate of 's got talent and idol programming seems to produce only a homogenised pap that is no different from the pop of 10 years ago.

By all means should anyone defend their views, for we are all entitled to free speech. However your argument is less credible when your 'hips don't lie'.