Country music. That twangy sound is super grating to me, I hate the way certain vowels get stretched out, plus I have no cultural touchpoints with it on either a lyrical or musical level. The stuff that seems most popular is the most obnoxious to me. I’m told this is “the Nashville sound”. Different strokes for different folks, but I sincerely don’t get the appeal of it.
But there’s some country-adjacent music that can be alright. E.g., my husband got really into Sturgill Simpson and I ended up more or less liking his Sound and Fury album, even if some of the vocals do have that irritating twang. I guess I’d consider that more like country-infused rock.
And I guess some older country can be OK once in a while - e.g., Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton.
There was a catechism on Reddit whenever some 20 something guy would say he hated country music:
Jason Isbell
Sturgill Simpson
Tyler Childers
I can’t remember all of them, I do like country music now I found the good stuff, but hate what’s on the radio for sure, it is truly awful music. My husband has come around because of what I listen to.
None of this is to convince you! There is a wide wide world of music, you will not run out even if you are afraid of twang. Your comment just brought me back to the earlier Reddit.
(ETA I was just listening to Sound & Fury today, I like Simpson’s country stuff but LOVE that rock album, start to finish it’s so good )
Yup my husband likes Tyler Childers too, but I don’t care for him. I don’t think I’ve heard of Jason Isbell.
But to each their own! I love pop music from the '60s and my husband’s not nuts about it. Like Sly and the Family Stone say, different strokes for different folks. :)
Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett are touring together, I have seen both and they are great performers but what I am most happy about is the way they are showing the link between country and R&B. What you like is probably not as far removed from what he likes, as you think. Music is a river.
Who doesn’t like Sly & the Family Stone? What the heck?
I cannot explain the man lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Twangy country. It’s embarrassing
For me there’s a difference between an honest accent and laying it on thick. Someone like Dolly Parton has an actual southern accent. But most of what’s played on modern country radio is just an annoying act.
Mexican tribal/machaca. Dear paisanos, can we fucking not??
I was gonna say Mariachi and the like. Idk if it’s just the music, or if the musicians I usually hear just suck (most of the time I only hear it live from street muscians); it always sounds like each member of the band is playing a totally different song than the others and it just sounds like clashing noises to me.
I’m afraid of listening to Grateful Dead for the fear of possibly liking it.
I dislike them strongly. Like - if someone else covers one of their songs I can like it. But their sound annoys me so. I don’t think they suck, just personally hate that sound.
They did not sound like what I was expecting first time I listened to one of their records. Maybe I was wrong to expect a psychedelic jam band, maybe starting with American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead did not give me a representative view.
The way people talking about them I was expecting something really out there like Gong or Acid Mothers Temple!
Psytrance. I had a bad experience at a psytrance club night as a student where I’d uh consumed my entertainment from the evening at halls of residence, but then my mate gave me another for free at the night. Wasn’t feeling too intoxicated before that so thought, “ah fuck it.” This, dear reader, was a mistake.
I made it about 2.5 hours before begging my gf (now wife) to leave because I thought the whooshing effects they use on the tracks was repeatedly saying my name.
After leaving the nightclub I instantly felt better and the rest of the evening was ok. Just psytrance has never sounded the same.
As an aside, weird crowd there, like lots of millenials like myself who seemed to be neurodiverse or emotionally troubled in some way - including the scantily clad young women. But then there were also older men there who were a mixture of drug dealers and losers who appeared to be out for drugged up teen genitalia of some one kind or the other. This was 13-14 years ago and I noticed a similar phenomenon at house music clubs jn the intervening years (don’t go clubbing much these days lol).
I find some types of rap include lyrics I find offensive, and so I skip them.
I do not enjoy a lot of country music. If it sounds like the theme song to firefly - I’m so conflicted - I wouldn’t listen to it otherwise.
But that’s a personal preference. I did some Algerian rap the other night, and it sounded really good.
Check out MC Solaar if you’d like to hear some French rap.
Or Nujabes - DJ who collabed with a lot of conscious rappers in the 00s - for some “light” rap. I’m underselling him but imagine a Dave Brubeck for rap instead of jazz; technically amazing but easy listening / quite poppy.
Corporate country music. Bo Burnham specifically wrote a song about it (lyrics link, since the song is technically a podcast episode w/ no accessibility).
Americana/folk, like Dolly Parton and Woody Guthrie are a far cry from the fox-news-to-a-melody garbage that gets put on country stations.
It’s the musical equivalent of John Wayne vs John Brown.
PS: Fun fact - Woody Guthrie wrote a scathing song about Fred Trump, so the war between the working class and that cursed name goes back at least a century.
Christmas music, because I worked in retail and had to listen to it 8 hours a day for months.
Fuck you Mariah Carey
I’m agnostic but I fuck with the black church specifically for the music.
Country. I associate with my upbringing in Klan country where I went to Robert E. Lee High School and got to experience federally mandated desegregation busing, which doesn’t do shit to decrease racial divisions in housing but does drive white people into religious schools in droves to avoid letting their children ever mingle with minorities. They fucking love that country music, though. I will never listen to it voluntarily if I can avoid it.
Anything ‘AI’ generated, because fuck that uncreative nonsense.
I’ve been noticing a ton of thosebon YouTube. Especially for goth music. I don’t mind if they use AI for images as not all independent bands have money to produce a video. However, using it to make the song is pretty vile. Especially because the lyrics are trite to the point of screaming.
Honestly, I don’t have a problem with trite lyrics. Some of my most favourite songs are pretty trite. I’ve long desired to be a songwriter, but the reason I haven’t is because I don’t think I could accept putting out anything trite. The difference is, that no matter how trite the actual words or meaning are, lyrics produced by actual human artists have a rhythm and flow that can’t be matched by machinery, or even cynical human music industry producers.
Agreed. The triteness of a song is what gives it away for me. For example, if a goth song keeps hammering out about vampires and cemeteries I skip right over it and assume it’s AI. Real lyrics are a lot more nuanced.
“Patriotic” rap.
Hillsong, Elevation and especially Bethel music - basically “Christian Worship” music mass produced for money and has loads of dodgy theology
This is gonna sound like a pretty weird train of thought, but I cannot listen to that Pharrell Williams song “Happy” because I’m my brain has forever connected it to the time I had some bad pea salad from a local place, which completely ruined both of them for me. Every time I hear it, even in my own head, my stomach starts churning a little and I eventually start to feel like I wanna throw up. Thankfully that song has died and I hope to god nobody ever revives it.
I remember hanging out with a friend who was telling me about his decaying relationship with this song playing in the background.
shudders
I guess you probably hate Weird Al’ Tacky too, don’t you??
I haven’t heard that one, or if I have it’s been long enough that I don’t remember it.
I believe every genre is filled with good and bad music. I used to think I didn’t like country or reggae but it was really just the mainstream music of those genres I disliked. Mainstream country has a lot of stereotypical lyrics and mainstream reggae has a lot of slow single chord riffs. But after a bit of digging I found artists and songs that explore those genres in more unique ways.
Rap, I don’t like it.
Best reason, and a legitimate reason to not listen to anything. What exactly is the point of consuming art you don’t enjoy?
