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

[teijakool]

Because I do despise the false Happy Gaudy World this kind of music simulates. It's like saying "If I just ignore all the fuckup that is going on, it's bound to go away".
Also, I dislike music that tells me to dance to it. IF I want to dance to music, and by this I mean headbang or go moshing, it's because I want to, and not the music that needs to tell me to.

 

[Mushroomfreak111]

because... You got your answer already, right? No need for me to explain^^

Now go listen to something awesome!

 

[Hristo Petrov]

Well I try to keep an open mind when it comes to music. But pop music is just a bunch of shit, huge companies promote talentless singers with stupid gimmicks, and the worst part is people buy this shit!!! I mean come on people The Disney channel has shows like Hannah Montana and The Jonas brothers what kind of bullshit is that? Fuck it the pop music in my country is a genre specific to Bulgaria called chalga and here is a example of how much it sucks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHT278OksVA&feature=PlayList&p=CA2C1C08FFE874D9&index=36

 

[Cherry Cola]

Apparently it is impossible to either like or dislike something in this world.

If you like it then people accuse you of no taste.

And if you dislike it people say that you only dislike it because it's popular.

I, for one, hate a lot of new music. And my hate is totally justified. How is it justified? Because todays mainstream "popular" music is of a certain sound, and I have always disliked that sound. When Beatles becomes popular again, and they will I'll start to like what is considered popular music.

It's all about the times. Currently what is considered popular isn't my thing.

 

[Nerf Ninja]

I love it when people say that everyone that hates something popular is trying to be edgy or unique. maybe we just don't like it and it's not really our thing?

I'm not a fan of most modern music of any genre. It just doesn't grab my attention, I know it means I'm getting old but I don't care.

I hate and detest the twilight saga because I fear it has led to a dumbing down of modern cinema and literature. Doesn't mean I'm right though or that if you like it you're an idiot.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Because its tuneless, musically stunted, repetitive rubbish?

That was only after T-Pain. See, that guy comes on the radio with an auto-tune and makes millions of dollars so everyone else thinks that he's popular because he used an auto-tune but really he was popular because he sounded different. Ironically, everyone tried to sound the same as him in hopes to get money. It's like how nearly every unpopular 80's metal band sounds like a crappy Metallica rip-off, nearly every unpopular 2000's "artist" sounds like a crappy T-Pain rip-off. And his music was pretty terrible to begin with.

No, popular music for ages now, has been shallow, generic soulless crap. There are no redeeming qualities of modern music. Modern music being the practice by which a huge corporation makes a person with minimal talent extremely successful to boost an image.

 

[Sun Flash]

don't like X Factor type stuff because if they were truly amazing, they wouldn't need to go on a karaoke show to prove they can sing.

don't like Hannah Montana/Jonas Brothers because they feel manufactured and therefore false. I listen to their music and fail to empathise with them. One occasion in particular that annoyed me was Miley Cyrus on Jonathan Ross, he cut to the green room and she was sitting next to Helen Mirren (an accomplished actress who would have a few interesting tales to say the least) and there is miss Cyrus on her phone texting her friends. seriously, that's god damn rude. Also, she had a hissy fit over Radiohead not wanting to meet her.

however, I do like Lady Gaga as she puts on a performance, her videos are original, different and bat shit insane.

just a few examples I'll throw in.

 

[ElTigreSantiago]

I even said to my classmates at the time "Just wait 'til you're 18 and you start going out clubbing, you'll love this mindless 'crap' then.' And lo, was the prophecy fulfilled.

Um no, I still hate it, now I just have to listen to it more often.

On topic, people hate it because it's terrible. It's not about the music anymore. Take Lady Gaga for example. There's rumors going around about how she has a penis and stuff like that and she freaking loves it because it is making her more popular, and making her more money. And that's all that popular music is about today, making money. Lady Gaga made a lot of money off of a song that basically tells you she is a drunk whore. Where is the artistic value in that? And the popularity keeps building because once MTV tells you to listen to someone, all the kids want to be cool so they start. Then it spreads and more and more kids want to be cool so they download it too. And that's when it becomes number one on iTunes.

And all the girls think the Jonas Brothers are so cute singing the songs that were wrote for them. I can play guitar better than those guys, and they are swimming in money. Then there's the equally-talentless auto tune. These rappers and singers have songs that completely degrade women, but they don't care at all for some reason. There once was a time when music had poetic lyrics, epic tales and true meaning. But now it's about meeting some girl in a club and then sleeping with her. Epic.

 

[Earthmonger]

My biggest reason for detesting that crap is this: 99% of it deals with meaningless relationships. And worse, it's usually teenage - 25 crap. I just can't treat it as serious music.

 

[CrashBang]

Most pop music is genuinely shit, and the reasons are various. It's usual qualms such as unoriginality, autotuning, lifeless and generic lyrics, generic sounds which have been recycled and used athousand times before, using drum machines and synths rather than producing music with real instruments, using people with real talents and passion for what they write and create.
Popular bands are generic, they're safe, lifeless and boring. They bring no excitement to the world of music, they simply recycle tunes, melodies and lyrics and mass-produce them to be heard in clubs and pubs around the country. It's dull and irritating

 

[Gruchul]

Alexander Burke for example (winner of X-factor 2009) even stated that her songs have come from her diary. yet she gets accused.

Joe McElderry won X Factor 2009, Alexandra Burke won the year before.

Back on topic though, I don't know and I really don't care. So long as they don't whinge at me anyway.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Everyone claiming that modern pop is nothing more than slick corporate crap and past pop artists are not also this are missing some things through that rose colored fog. We remember the artists of the past who made it really big and had some really good tunes to their names because all the dross from that period has faded away and been forgotten, not because all music at that time was actually great. For every Ramones or Sex Pistols there are a million crappy punk bands who you've never heard.

Personally, I don't hate modern pop music as that is too strong a word, but I don't really care for most of it because it's not heavy enough for my tastes.

 

[DemonicVixen]

I hate the new music but you can bet that a few months later i love them or at least can tolerate them.

 

[DarkMessiah]

This really depends on what you think "popular" music is. Plenty of music is popular, just to different audiences. People are more likely to make judgements based on the sound of a song, or the genre it comes from as they are to make judgements based on how many other people like it.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Because they want to sound cool and edgy.

Quite common round these parts.

 

[Lord George]

Because people want to seem individual by rebelling against the norm, I long ago got out of that phase, I like Lady GaGa and I'm not afraid to admit it, still don't like most rap though due to it murdering my ears.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Apparently it is impossible to either like or dislike something in this world.

If you like it then people accuse you of no taste.

And if you dislike it people say that you only dislike it because it's popular.

I, for one, hate a lot of new music. And my hate is totally justified. How is it justified? Because todays mainstream "popular" music is of a certain sound, and I have always disliked that sound. When Beatles becomes popular again, and they will I'll start to like what is considered popular music.

It's all about the times. Currently what is considered popular isn't my thing.

Exactly when have the Beatles been unpopular? Didn't a movie, "Across the Universe", just come out a couple years ago that is entirely about Beatles songs? Also, Beatles Rock Band, anyone? I'm just saying they're hardly considered an underground act these days and haven't been since the 60s.

 

[Kajt]

Because I don't like the sound.

Really, there is nothing more to it.

Same reason here. It just doesn't sound good to me.

 

[PlainTwo]

I dunno, for me, I just find listening to some guy or girl sing with either a synthesizer or no instruments at all backing them kinda boring to listen to.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Apparently it is impossible to either like or dislike something in this world.

If you like it then people accuse you of no taste.

And if you dislike it people say that you only dislike it because it's popular.

I, for one, hate a lot of new music. And my hate is totally justified. How is it justified? Because todays mainstream "popular" music is of a certain sound, and I have always disliked that sound. When Beatles becomes popular again, and they will I'll start to like what is considered popular music.

It's all about the times. Currently what is considered popular isn't my thing.

Exactly when have the Beatles been unpopular? Didn't a movie, "Across the Universe", just come out a couple years ago that is entirely about Beatles songs? Also, Beatles Rock Band, anyone? I'm just saying they're hardly considered an underground act these days and haven't been since the 60s.

They're not exactly playing at MTV, are they?

This thread is about the MTV-definition of "popular music". At least that is how I grasped it.