Popular music...why do people hate it =S
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It's killing originality. If one or two bands did it, it would be fine, but I still wouldn't listen to it. The problem is that every band these days sounds EXACTLY the same. Every rock band sounds like every other rock band, every metal band sounds like shit (which makes me sad), every rap "artist" sounds like every other one, it's all just the same shit.
We all belong to different audiences. The normal definition of "popular" music, is the one with the biggest audience. And I don't belong to it. I'm a death metal fan, and I dislike pop and rock. I want music that screeches in my ears and delivers epic melodies and riffs along with screaming vocals (unless I'm listening to Muse, Dragonforce or Depeche Mode).
OT: Really, I just don't like a lot of new pop because it tends to have very little about it. It tends to be the same singer, the same autotune, singing about the same thing, and frankly, it just bothers me, because not only do I not like the music, but people with actual talent are being snuffed because they don't like this style either.
Man, looking at this post, its easy to see how MOST people in here will do anything to justify their dislike for whats "mainstream" thus further proving the point that some people dislike the music, entirely because its "mainstream".
A year ago i finally got out of my "idolizing face of life", and if you open up, I would say that any genre and trend of music got something beautiful and unique to offer civilization. Personally I dislike most "pop" because the music simply makes me sort of sleepy, and I can't make personal relations to the lyric.
But then again, one must remember that what is "popular" is what appeals to the most. So that pile of mainstream pop, topping the charts and running all day through the radio, is just the songs appealing to widest specter of the population. Music is business. So naturally only the songs with soft-clear-lyrics and a catchy tune will top (and thus was born the genre of Pop) or the songs which makes way for a new fad.
I guess if the wide specter of pop music appeals to you, you must either be very, very lucky, or just not too much into music a whole.
A year ago i finally got out of my "idolizing face of life", and if you open up, I would say that any genre and trend of music got something beautiful and unique to offer civilization. Personally I dislike most "pop" because the music simply makes me sort of sleepy, and I can't make personal relations to the lyric.
But then again, one must remember that what is "popular" is what appeals to the most. So that pile of mainstream pop, topping the charts and running all day through the radio, is just the songs appealing to widest specter of the population. Music is business. So naturally only the songs with soft-clear-lyrics and a catchy tune will top (and thus was born the genre of Pop) or the songs which makes way for a new fad.
I guess if the wide specter of pop music appeals to you, you must either be very, very lucky, or just not too much into music a whole.
I had the perfect answer but my laptop failed...
I'm generalising, but alot of the time the music has no meaning. It's churned out to make money. Real bands play for the joy of playing rather than the fame and fortune. Popular music is made for the masses so it's bland and meaning less so it's not irrelevant to most people. Music is meant to convey meaning and imagination. Popular music can usually fit easily into one of three brackets: 'I can get any man/woman I want and it's amazing', 'I can't get that one man/woman I want and it sucks' or 'That one man/woman turned out to be a dick and I hate them'.
X-Factor proves it. Most people go on to the show to make money and become famous and not for the joy of performing, and then regardless of who wins, money is made from music produced and the show carries on for another year.
I'm generalising, but alot of the time the music has no meaning. It's churned out to make money. Real bands play for the joy of playing rather than the fame and fortune. Popular music is made for the masses so it's bland and meaning less so it's not irrelevant to most people. Music is meant to convey meaning and imagination. Popular music can usually fit easily into one of three brackets: 'I can get any man/woman I want and it's amazing', 'I can't get that one man/woman I want and it sucks' or 'That one man/woman turned out to be a dick and I hate them'.
X-Factor proves it. Most people go on to the show to make money and become famous and not for the joy of performing, and then regardless of who wins, money is made from music produced and the show carries on for another year.
cyber_andyy said:
I agree with these guys 100%. I used to work in a music store and it was a nightmare. We were forced to listen to whatever god awful crap was in the charts all day every day. I once heard justin timberlake's future tard love songs album 14 times in one day... Let me say that again for emphasis; 14 TIMES IN ONE DAY!! It was literally one of the worst days of my life. That was same year that Timbaland (Satan in the flesh) produced Nelly Furtardo, Timberlake and a whole host of others' singles/albums AND THEN RELEASED HIS OWN DAMNED ALBUM! And then, just when i thought it couldn't get any worse... he went and stole Chris Cornell's soul. I couldn't get away from his factory produced lifeless hollow synthetic soulless crap that he called music. The rest of the crap in the charts was equally bad but he was becoming damn near omnipresent for a while. I always wanted to work in a music store because i thought it would be awesome but i just had to quit because of chart music. It's so fucking shit. Its just mass produced noise that's killing real music. It's soulless, factory made, recycled, lowest common denominator bullshit and it must be stopped!!!CrashBang said:
Wow, it took ten posts to actually get it right? Wow guys, we used to be smarter than this.Ciarang said:
I honestly can name far too many people who now refuse to listen to Muse be because they did a song for twilight and now they've been ruined by "the mainstream".
Recently I've been recently listening to S Club 7.
Now three reasons why I've done so.
1) They're British.
2) I grew up with them and such and didn't mind some of their songs. They fitted in my no care in the world time in my life. Oh also I believe that some can actually SING.
3) Rachael fucking Stevens.
That's just example No. 1
Lady GaGa. I liked some of her songs. Why? I just think they are pretty good in terms of originality and performance.
Now three reasons why I've done so.
1) They're British.
2) I grew up with them and such and didn't mind some of their songs. They fitted in my no care in the world time in my life. Oh also I believe that some can actually SING.
3) Rachael fucking Stevens.
That's just example No. 1
Lady GaGa. I liked some of her songs. Why? I just think they are pretty good in terms of originality and performance.
So is it not possible to just not like it? judging by this thread it looks to me that most people like to seem edgy by hating on people who have an opinion other than "the mainstream"pantsoffdanceoff said:
Because it is popular - and no they do not hate it only because it is popular, but popular stuff always has more people experience it and who know about it, so you hear their opinions more.
"OMG So much Modern Warfare 2 and Halo hate, only because it is popular?" Well, more people have played those games and it's a hot topic of discussion, you are going to see more people that hate it than you think.
"OMG So much Modern Warfare 2 and Halo hate, only because it is popular?" Well, more people have played those games and it's a hot topic of discussion, you are going to see more people that hate it than you think.
lol west life to 30 seconds to mars, how varied 
i listen to pretty much everything, im really into experimental and extreme metal, and ive gotta tell you
popular music is pretty good, when its obviously just generic its shitty, but some stuff is genuinely catchy and fun to listen too, that takes a certain level of talent too. i dont mind a 2 minute song that has cool hooks and a good chorus, and i dont mind a 75 minute album about loss and death
i dont know why people resent it so much
i listen to pretty much everything, im really into experimental and extreme metal, and ive gotta tell you
popular music is pretty good, when its obviously just generic its shitty, but some stuff is genuinely catchy and fun to listen too, that takes a certain level of talent too. i dont mind a 2 minute song that has cool hooks and a good chorus, and i dont mind a 75 minute album about loss and death
i dont know why people resent it so much
It is [i/]possible[/i], however the people who honestly don't like it are horribly outnumbered by those who don't like the mainstream, or people who just don't like it but feel a need to vocalize it so they feel indivdualistic.Nerf Ninja said:
pop music these days seems to me to have gone downhill, aside from artists like beyonce and shakira "who can actually sing", most of it's meaningless sameing and often cringeworthy, take girls aloud's "i'm to sexy in this club" for example, they stole a line from a parody song and made something that doesn't rhyme, and most artists are always editing their voice recordings.
these days i do hate popular music, i didn't used to though, but it's turned into something horrible.
but that shouldn't get in the way of you liking something.
these days i do hate popular music, i didn't used to though, but it's turned into something horrible.
but that shouldn't get in the way of you liking something.