Asklemmy

When people complain about new music not living up to old, it just means they've quit exploring and form their prejudices on the pop genre they hear, which has always been the lowest hanging song on the tree.

Modern electronic music is the spiritual successor to classical music (and modern-day "classical" compositions are just rehashes).

Taylor Swift is fine, her music is enjoyable, but ultimately kind of forgettable. Her popularity comes from the social-cohesion function of popular music.

IDK if it’s unpopular, but I’m worried that TikTok, Instagram, and Youtube Shorts have completely screwed with what kind of music gets popular nowadays. It seems like every popular song has some kind of intense drop because content creators love the “quick build up to some kind of visual punchline” video format and it has ruined what I think could otherwise influence and encourage originality

Separating the artist from the art is fine.
You can like music by someone who doesn't share your social, political, or religious beliefs with.

Most rap sucks and it's effects on mainstream media have had detrimental effects on society as a whole.

It literally just glorifies the ghetto lifestyle of being a piece of shit and acting like it's the only way you can live life.

"the Beatles are overrated" is a poorly defined statement often made by people who give the impression they want to be seen as an iconoclast of some sort.

Ok. Overrated on what metrics? Historical impact? Popularity at the time? Popularity now?

"I don't like the Beatles' music" is probably closer to what people mean, and that's fine. I rarely listen to them on purpose. But the whole "I don't like them, and neither should you" thing is kind of insufferable.

Some music is made by and for lowlifes, where I live is Vallenato, Campesina, Rancheras, Bachata, and 90%of reggaeton.

Lyrics about asking for forgiveness after cheating, smoking, domestic violent (being the one that does the domestic violence), admitting to spike drinks and brag about it, simping for drug Lords, and women are nothing but a sex object.

The people who listen to that music is just as you imagine them. Uneducated, sexist, wife beaters, going around in huge SUVs blasting that music outloud with no respect for anyone around then, they are the ones who start blasting the music at 1AM on a Wednesday and doesn't let anyone sleep in their entire neighborhood.

People give me shit for this and claim is "culture" but I think there is such a thing as music for lowlifes.

Eric Clapton is wildly overrated

There are too many damn love songs. 75% of all music does not need to be about love, relationships, and breakups. I stopped listening to radio because all the damn love songs got annoying.

Can we please have more songs about literally anything else. Weed, flowers, rainy days, animal companions, construction work, types of cars, card games, anything. There’s more in life to sing about than just relationships and/or the lack of them!

Sincerely, A person whose sexuality is “No” and has no interest in that kind of relationship.

There is, in fact, good country music that isn't just about trucks, beer, flags, and right-wing U.S. propaganda.

People have a lot of hate for the genre due to the mass appeal, common denominator examples. But like with all music, dig a little deeper beyond what gets radio play and you can find some good shit.

Disturbed's cover of Sound of Silence is not only awful, it is an antithesis of the meaning of the song. Anyone who likes that version better than S&G's arguably doesn't understand the point of the song, and the fact that everyone holds it up as the gold standard of "covers better than the original" is even worse.

A close second is Postmodern Jukebox and their horrendous tendencies to take tempos to an opposite extreme instead of finding more meaningful ways of changing the genre of a song. I like some of their stuff, but the number of people who love their cover of Welcome to the Jungle is mind-boggling to me.

There are plenty of songs that I prefer the cover of to the original (Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You'), or ones that just give the original a modern coat of paint without changing much else (Smash Mouth's 'I'm a Believer'), but these songs in particular are just awful imo.

Modern music slaps. Just gotta find the right albums.

Most hip hop is missing key musical elements and just isn’t good. I have no idea why the genre became so popular.

Lyrics ruin most music. This is one is weird because I actually love the sound of the human voice, but it most music its just ugly. Also most of the lyrics themselves suck. Usually vague, meaningless, hoping you'll interpret them as something deep. There's just so many songs that most lyrics have to be bad.

Also drums ruin most music. They are harsh, dissonant, overly loud, overpower subtler instruments, and reduce complex, varying melodies to a simple beat. Even when I want simple heavy beats, I prefer electronic alternatives (no idea what they're called) so it's not so harsh

We're in the best time to listen to music. There's amazing stuff out there. It just doesn't come to you automatically, you've got to seek it out.

Now, it's a pretty bad time to be an artist trying to make a living. But it's also the easiest time to DIY music.

Rap and Hiphop are just shit music.

I have a pretty broad music taste, I have rock, classical, pop, eurodance, opera, bitpop, industrial, metal, ballads and more on my phone, except rap or hiphop.

There is just something in me that as soon as I hear either it just sounds like shit.

David Bowie had like, 2 okay songs.

I despise bagpipes. Anyone who thinks that awful noise is in any way related to actual music should have a set jammed into their ears so hard they come out the other side.

/Rant over.

Being a metalhead, most of my opinions about music are unpopular I guess. Or are they?

When someone dies or leaves the band, you have a new band and should give it a new name.

I dislike modern pop's mixing of the human voice, mixed so high compared to the rest, to the point where you can't hear instruments anymore. The music is often there just for accompanyment, elevetor music. I rather have chillwave, where everything is one big reverb trick pony, than having to hear people screaming.

Pink Floyd is the most mediocre group in the prog rock scene (also works if you remove everything after 'group')

I don't care for Dylan or the Beatles. At least I understand the ground-breaking work of the Beatles, but Dylan is incomprehensible.

Lyrics don't add value to 99.99% of music and any notes from them should be from an actual instrument.

That rap is absolute garbage. For reasons I can't explain it makes me unbelievably angry to have to listen to. It probably has something to do with a combination of my anxiety and sensitivity to loud noises, but I don't know. I do like metal, although I don't like it particularly loud.

Imagine Dragons is pretty good

I never got the hype for Satriani’s music. He’s a virtuoso for sure, but I never really found his music interesting.

This is probably high school nostalgia kicking in, but Limp Bizkit is great. lmao

There is actually some great kpop music out there.

The beatles are vastly overrated. They may have been trailblazers at the time but their music really doesn’t hold up