Your Music pet peeves

[Wooleh Sheep]

I have to say, it really takes a lot to bother me with music. I'm only 18, but there isn't really any genre that I don't mind listening to occasionally. I can even tolerate the high egos present in rap music, and GTA: San Andreas showed me that country music can be rather good.

The only thing that really irritates me is songs with women complaining about how their boyfriends don't love them enough. And that only annoys me because I know the target audience is 13 year old girls who think they need a boyfriend to be considered a human being.

That, and, guys making stupid promises like "I'll be with you forever". Because, honestly, sometimes people want to go the toilet without being watched by loved ones, contrary to what the songs will have you believe. And there is always that minor inconvenience known as "death". Just a realist speaking...

 

[lacktheknack]

I'm so confused here. You are aware that using your upper vocal register is not "shrieking", right? If anything, "We Found Love" was reserved.

Although if you think this is "shrieky", I'll eat ALL of my hats.

Sorry, I cannot watch the video, because apparently a german institution is able to block an American webiste for showing music videos by Americans... quite ridiculous...


I am perfectly aware that using the upper vocal registers is not shrieking, but similarly, there is a huge difference between "using" and "abusing". There are people with a voice that is capable of stable sound in such tunes. She is not one of them.

Stability -



Ah! I get it now!

I personally think mild instability is good for adding emotional punch to a song, but if you don't, then that's cool. At least I know what you're talking about, now.

Basically, when I think "shrieky", I think of blaring - reaching the point where your voicebox actually physically opens wider to allow the sound out. Try it yourself, you'll find there's a loudness were your throat bobs a bit and the sound feels different, that's when you've it the "shriek range". Christina Aguilera spends pretty much her entire career in there. Rihanna rarely breeches it. They're both fairly unstable in their voices (although again much more so with Christina), so you're right about that.

 

[the Dept of Science]

I have to say, it really takes a lot to bother me with music. I'm only 18, but there isn't really any genre that I don't mind listening to occasionally. I can even tolerate the high egos present in rap music, and GTA: San Andreas showed me that country music can be rather good.

Country music can be awesome. It's a shame that most people think its just guys like Toby Keith, singing about how great Texas and Jesus are.

Willie Nelson, Johnnie Cash, Merle Haggard (although he strays into that territory occaisionally), Hank Williams, lots of Bob Dylan's stuff, Loretta Lynn, Tennessee Ernie Ford, bluegrass, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk, The Holy Modal Rounders, modern "indie" country like Bonnie "Prince" Billie and Wilco. All amazing music.

Stuff like high egos aren't bad by themselves. I'm a massive fan of Jay Z and Kanye West for the simple reason that they are funny and a lot of their humour comes from witty boasts. Kanye West is actually a bad example as well, because if people were to actually listen to his music, they would realise that he contrasts his bragging with lots of moments of introspection and honesty.

 

[Nexxis]

1. Songs where the singer seems to sing off key from time to time. I don't have any specific examples, but I have herd it, and it makes me grind my teeth. And this isn't something common to "bad" singers. I think it depends on the type of song.

2. Songs that take far too long to get to the lyrics. This usually happens in remixes. Similarly, I don't like it when the same beat is looped repeatedly in a remix. It doesn't bother me when the lyrics are going, but it irks me during the wordless moments. It just makes the song feel like it's dragging.

3. Songs with offensive or depressing lyrics. I just don't care for them, personally. I can kinda understand if it's something the artist is trying to make a point, like singing about a situation they lived through, but a good deal of the time, just song just feels like they're trying to sound cool or deep when they're not. Other times, it just sounds like whining or like they're full of themselves.

4. Lyrics that don't rhyme or make sense (unless they weren't suppose to make sense in the first). I just like rhyming in music, and songs without them annoy me to no end. It's just not my style. Also, some songs have ryhming for the sake of rhyming, but they don't make a lot of sense. I find this a lot in amateur rap songs.

 

[Vault101]

Any kind of music that is generated with software.

Includes 99% of Hip Hop, Rap, Pop Music, and R&B and 100% of NES Rape Tracks (AKA Dubstep)

Honestly, learn to play a god damn instrument!

oh god..this thing again?

you do realise that its mostly a stylistic choice and doesnt have anything to do with talent? a talentless hack is going to be a telentless hack regardless of medium

would you honestly go Tell Trent Reznor to go learn an instrament?


or what about thease guys?

 

[Vault101]

If you're going to make an argument for Mac-Music, it helps not to use examples that are actually an Electric Guitar

what? into the void?...I'm pretty sure theres some electronic going on there..and if not Reznor has used electronic or synthetic methods in most of his work

I'm pretty sure "we can make the world stop" is pureley electronic

 

[Reginald]

The word 'shaw-tay' in modern hip-hop/r'n'b, when it's held over eight bars and heavily auto tuned for a ridiculous melismatic effect. Every time I hear 'shaw-haw-haw-haw-haw-haw-haw-haw-haw-haw-haw-haw-tay-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey!' I die a little inside.

Excessive breakdowns in modern -core music. A band might be locked into a good groove, they might be playing some decent riffs, and before they've explored that territory, wham! One note staccato breakdown that removes all momentum the song had gained. I don't like the use of auto-tune in -core, either. Auto-tune always sounds so sterile. Hardcore, metal, and by extension, their derivative genres, should be raw and honest, not flaccid and compromising.

In any genre, when a soloist plays more notes than music. Usually to impress people or get away with masturbating in public. Running through scales rather quickly rather than playing actual phrases is an example of this.

I don't like falses that think they can entry. They think they won't be burned and died. Well, they're wrong, the nuclear drums will crush their brains, slaughtering all with intensive pain.

Here are some things people say that annoy me:
'I don't like jazz, it's too slow.'
'I've never heard of them, they mustn't be any good.'
'Carcass? Are they a screamo band, like Atreyu?'
'How can you listen to music with no singing?'
'Oh, my god, I love Nickelback so much!'
'They might be an awful band that sounds like shit fried in piss, but they're good live. People in the crowd punch each other. No hard feelings, though, it's just fun getting punched in the face. When I saw Elton John,nobody punched anyone else, he sucks.'
'You like Elton John? What, are you gay?'
'Why would you listen to something you can't dance to?'
'I listen to everything! Except for country, metal, rock, jazz, electronic, classical, prog, punk, avant-garde, the blues, folk, disco, funk, hip-hop, r'n'b, doo-wop, gospel, big band, ska, zeuhl, bluegrass, and shoegaze.'
'I just like to whatever's on the radio.'
'All ____ sounds the same.'

 

[Vigormortis]

I only have two "real" pet-peeves when it comes to music.

The first is poor music association or genre confusion. For example, when someone mentions techno or electronic music and the first (and often only) thing that pops into someones head is trashy, awful dance-club trance. I hate that.

Spoiler: Here's an example.

Spoiler: This is dubstep.

Spoiler: This is brostep.

What bugs me is, when people mention dubstep today the only thing most people associate it with is brostep. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING. Brostep is a sub-genre of dubstep. (an absolutely horrid abomination of a sub-genre, in my opinion) It would be like saying pop-soft-rock is indicative of ALL rock music. It makes no sense.

The second "pet-peeve" is when the worst songs in a genre become the most popular (giving far more attention to the talentless hacks of the field) while the better songs and artists go almost entirely unnoticed. (or worse, are actually labeled as "bad" compared to the more popular artists)

Spoiler: Example.

Spoiler: Here is a popular song by an (artist) who is (world-renowned).

Spoiler: And, here is a song that is virtually unknown by the masses.

Not even speaking on the quality of the compositions, just listen to the lyrics. The sheer difference between the two is striking. One is inspirational, emotional, and uplifting; while the other is just confrontational and boorish.

It sickens me to see one of these become immensely popular and the other go down in obscurity.

you werent calling Glitch Mob shitty dance-club trance were you?....because we may need a word about that....(pretty sure you werent though)

eathr way I've never seen then as dubsetp..though tehcnically they might be in at least some of their tracks

as for Skrillex I can totally understand why some people hate him, but TBH I don't mind his stuff...

No. I most certainly was not calling The Glitch Mob "shitty dance-club trance". Haha.

I love The Glitch Mob. They've some fantastic tracks. In general, though, much of their songs (especially on their album Drink the Sea) are a blend of Dubstep and other electronic genres.

However, Skrillex I can't stand. It may be because he is the poster-boy for the whole Bro-step movement, but honestly...I just don't like his music. I find most of his songs boring, uninspired, and abrasive (needlessly). The same can be said for how I feel about the sub-genre as a whole. I'd like to be proven wrong; and welcome any suggestions for good Bro-step musicians/songs/albums.

Though, I will admit I did like that one remix he did for the release of Syndicate.

 

[Vault101]

snip.

indeed, hell they are like my "go to" group for defending the electronic genre as a whole,

'Oh, my god, I love Nickelback so much!'
.'

hey..nickleback are underated! they are actually really good! my favorite song is "if eeryone cared" which is about if everyoen would judt care and be nice to each other then NO one would ever die

seriously their music is sooo deep!
.....

....*snrrrk*

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[piinyouri]

Nickelback.
yeah they are pretty banal radio rock but

Spoiler: Their drummer is an insanely talented mofo

I just realized how much he looks like The Miz.

 

[repeating integers]

Nickelback.
yeah they are pretty banal radio rock but

Spoiler: Their drummer is an insanely talented mofo

I just realized how much he looks like The Miz.

Huh, he's got some pretty good talent there.

 

[cerealnmuffin]

I hate when classical music and classic tunes are used in commercials. It cheapens the music and there are some songs from the a couple decades back that I can't listen as it reminds me of the commercial.

I hate when people think music is only meant to dance and party to.

I absolutely hate when pianos are treated as background decoration. I had a friend whose family was rather affluent and they had a Steinway just to make gatherings look more classy, but no one ever played it. -_- It is often used as a prop in shows and movies. At least in Frasier, they played it quite often.

 

[SuaveSalarian]

I've seen people say they hate Country and Rap but, I'll let you know, these to can pull it off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-weOXYqWmr8

 

[debra_ beretta]

My musical pet peeves could be a list a thousand miles long, but then my taste in music is not really what most people would call "music" in the first place. "Noize" works pretty well, however!

One of the things that really annoys me currently (and I'm not sure whether this is applicable given the nature of the thread) is that due to "workplace policy", we only have one approved radio station at my office, which plays maybe the same six artists repeatedly all day long. It's a wonderful mix of Beyonce, Maroon 5, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, some various "classic 80's" artist and Cee-Lo Green. It's making my brain hurt. So I guess my musical pet peeve at this moment would be "repetitive, annoying, insipid chart music which you are forced to endure at work, five days a week, nine hours a day".

...I need to lie down.


*edit* wow, I've also just remembered that I get intensely annoyed by those who get really, really fussy about what genre their music belongs to and very precious about making it known. Oh, so you're not mathock, you're mathcore? I do apologise. You don't identify with drag, but more like gloomcore? Why I am so so sorry. Microgenres. Are they *really* necessary?!

...I really need to lie down.

 

[debra_ beretta]

Also, more often than not, a "dubstep drop" is so predictable in its arrival that it makes me sick.

 

[Megacherv]

gorwling is also a thing for me..though I supose thats a personal taste thing (I just dont really get it)

It adds power and intensity. Well, in my opinion. That's why I like it.

OT: uninspired, generic, and just plain terrible lyrics. Even if the music is fantastic the song can be totally ruined for me because of how bad the lyrics are.

Killing in the Name does this for me.

Also, Metal songs which sound nice and melodic in the intro, and then BAM! Screamo and guitar-rape.

I mean, listen to what you want, but don't bait and trap me like that.

Also, random dubstep put into an otherwise slightly tolerable (not enjoyable, but you can listen to it without wanting to kill yourself too much) song. I'm looking at you Nicki Minaj and your indoctrination of the human population!

EDIT: Oh, and a remix of a song that's about a year old

Seriously, if you can't think of anything original, don't make music.