Popular music...why do people hate it =S

[Keepitclean]

The people posting in this topic only further my belief that those who dislike pop music are just as close-minded as your average teeny-bopper pop fangirl. There are just as many vapid, repetitive punk/metal/indie songs as there are vapid, repetitive pop songs. The only difference is the bad pop songs get more airplay because they're, you know, popular.

You are wrong, hating pop music doesn't make you closed minded. When I was in my early teens I liked pop music mostly because I hadn't been exposed very much to any other type of music. I later got exposed to other types of music, I went through phases of liking metal, rap, classic rock, drum 'n' bass, dubstep, house even orchestral music.


You could argue that non mainstream band's sounds are repeatative but at least each artist sounds different unlike pop music where all artists sound the same.

At the moment I have a large reange of music that I enjoy. It just doesn't involve the barren wastesound that is pop music, does that make me closed minded?

 

[soilent]

right im the kinda guy that listens to pretty much anything...from Beyonce...to Hollywood Undead...30 Seconds to Mars...to Westlife and i see posts where people are harrasing popular music, and i hear people talking about it's like its another plague.

i wanna know...y people hate it, i mean some singers get accused of being a fake artist (because they dont write their own material bla bla bla) but they acctualy do, Alexander Burke for example (winner of X-factor 2009) even stated that her songs have come from her diary. yet she gets accused.

i just want to know why people hate the popular type of music, not just because they don't write their own material...i want more reasons cause that reason has been done to death =P

EDIT: something im noticing here, i said popular music and most of you refer to "pop" lol =P hehe something tells me people have lived in the dark and not shoved the charts on have they =P

I'm noticing that some people like to make grand assumptions that everyone else is a moron and they are right, and that they know what everyone is thinking before they say it...

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Why do we hate popular music? Because for the most part the 'good' popular songs are just horribly boring, annoying, or mediocre. The bad ones are sonic abominations.

Not everything that's popular is terrible of course, but as a general rule of thumb, if it gets radio play? Probably crap. Have you heard of it [small](where 'you' are the average person on the street)[/small]? Probably crap. Never heard of it? Also probably crap. Do kids like it? Almost definitely crap, because kids these days have a real penchant for the kind of terrible we couldn't even begin to imagine could ever exist 20+ years ago. Music from 20+ years ago? Probably crap as well [small](you might be noticing a trend here)[/small].

Essentially all music is terrible, from a statistical standpoint - the good stuff is an infinitesimal fraction of the total, and the overlap between 'good' and 'popular' is an even smaller fraction. All the terrible crap gets to exist and flourish because people are really really stupid.

It's been brought to my attention that I'm a music snob, but that doesn't stop me from being completely and totally right on this point.

 

[Ack-ack]

The biggest reason i hate "pop music" is because i find it too uniform and bland, and the same applys to most of those "sings-by-screaming"metal bands. The only recent band that has gotten my attention was the baseballs and even that was only briefly, reason was because it was different, not new but different to the mainstream music made today.

I hear people going on at me about how i am somehow strange when i cant remember some nelli furtado from some lady gaga or what ever, but that is simply because they sound the same.
To me they are interchageable, i would not notice if you played one and said it was the other.
But still i can recognize most of the beatles's songs from first few seconds and i can sing the lyrics from almost all of the popular pop songs from the 70's.

I find the 70's and 80's rap music superb and the rapper's delight is 14 minutes of pure awesome. Michael Jackson from days of bad is still charismatic and The Blues Brothers has best soundtrack ever and most importantly every song sounds different while still being good music. RANT!

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

Popular songs tend to be what is on the radio. The music I listen to is pretty much unable to be on the radio due to how long most of the songs are. I like my 20+ minute progressive metal songs. Which are also much more musically technical.

Plus, when you have little kid singing about how they love their shawty [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHVhwcOg6y8], just annoys the hell out of me.

 

[Dark Knifer]

The popular music your describing is bland, unoriginal and quite generic.

Plenty of music is popular, just to different audiences.

This also. The music I like is popular, just not the stuff you would see on tv.
[small]I hope system's comeback is newsworthy...[/small]
[small]it is, except they all have bad taste in music and would be too busy with an interview with beyonce or something...[/small]
[small]yeah...Stupid news people...[/small]

 

[[Insert Name Here]]

Because I'd rather listen to a truck full of cats run head-on into a truck full of babies with megaphones strapped to their mouths while someone hits my right ear repeatedly with a jackhammer and someone else cuts the left one off with a butcher knife.

 

[FluffyNeurosis]

I think its because the masses are asses(especially young people) and if everyone likes it there must be something wrong with it. I hate a lot of it because It is shallow and about sex or money, and not nearly violent enough but that's just my gripe.

 

[boholikeu]

You could argue that non mainstream band's sounds are repeatative but at least each artist sounds different unlike pop music where all artists sound the same.

Nope, that's just plain not true. Name any genre and I can probably name 15-20 bands/artists from it that sound very similar if not exactly alike. Punk and metal are especially guilty of this. Heck, I can't even tell the difference between modern metal and stuff from 20 years ago (though I will admit I don't know the genre very well so this might be my own ignorance speaking). At least pop music changes every couple of years.

At the moment I have a large reange of music that I enjoy. It just doesn't involve the barren wastesound that is pop music, does that make me closed minded?

Hm, perhaps not as close-minded as a teenage girl, but definitely as close minded as those people that are prejudiced against classical or country music.