There's entire genres that I don't like such as country or Christmas music. Specific songs have to be Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney and I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston. Wonderful Christmastime I already don't like because it's a Christmas song and almost all of those feel preachy and disingenuous, but a friend described the song as Paul trying out every button and knob on a synth and I can't unheard that now. I Will Always Love You I just don't like. The instrumental is there, but that's all I can say about it since nothing seems to stand out and it just kinda sounds like background noise. And I understand that her vocal work is impressive, but that doesn't make it a good song. Honestly, the song feels like I'm being yelled at for 4 and a half minutes
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God I hate Wonderful Christmastime. It's the laziest, most cynical cash-in on a Christmas song. It goes nowhere. Aaargh.
Have you heard the original Dolly Parton version of I will always love you? She's got a less forceful voice in general, and her version was a much gentler delivery on top of that.
Not saying anything about you liking or not liking the song, just curious if it's Whitney that's the problem, the arrangement, or the song itself.
I didn't even know Dolly sang the original, I've only ever heard Whitney's version. Dolly's is... slightly better, I think because like you said it is gentler. Still not a fan. Also I hear the Whitney Houston version at least once a day at work, that's a big reason why I hate the song
whole genres. Like a ton of country/western and rap but especially m&m. that friday song but like 99% of people can't stand that.
You put that earworm in my head so now you have to suffer as well
It's Friday, Friday Gotta get down on Friday Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend Friday, Friday Gettin' down on Friday Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend Partyin', partyin' (Yeah) Partyin', partyin' (Yeah) Fun, fun, fun, fun
lol. I have shingy happy people now anyway but I like that. turn your love around. and tommorrow shine.
Bittersweet Symphony. Not entirely sure why, but the repetitive strings grate me pretty quick.
Outside of that, any country song from the past 40 years. I can tolerate older folk-country stuff. But newer country? Absolutely not. I hate that I can’t open my mind to it, because there are very few genres that I avoid, but country is simply repulsive to me.
Ya, that one and champaign supernova get on my nerves fast. So does wonder wall.
As far as country goes my knowledge of songs is very limited any males lrom 1990s to 2000s I probably refuse to listen to because I probably heard them on the radio at some point in my life especially during that time.
I like Johnny Cash diamond Rio Alabama they all have some songs that I can enjoy. Modern I like some of Laney Wilson's stuff and the band Perry like some of their stuff
I'm sort of new to it but lately I've been exploring what I would call Southern rock like a silent comedy and Dorothy
Fuck yes! If I never had to hear that song again i'd be so happy. That and Counting Crows Mr. Jones - "Sha la la la la la.." Fuck right off with that.
Any RHCP song
You're holding on to anger. You should Give It Away Now.
Bohemian Rhapsody.
It's some goofball pastiche of bad musical ideas. People love it, and every few years it's "rediscovered" and I have to endure more.
I get that it's played out now, but I really think it's a masterpiece.
Queen is just a masterpiece. I don't know if there will ever be a band like them again that just sold out everywhere they went. I guess Taylor Swift but I don't know if she united people.
They brought so many groups of people together to sing in unison. I find it hard to believe there was a world from my youth when we were united in stomping out bigotry, fighting the aids crisis. Russia lost, the wall came down. The future seemed so promising and when Obama won more so. Then 2016 everything went to shit
Now I want to go watch Wayne's World
Are you mental?
Dopesmoker. As much as I love Sleep and Stoner Doom, that song just blows.
Piano man. And most of billy joel
Just here to comment that there are so many songs listed in this thread that I like: Black Hole Sun, Rooster, No Rain, Wonderful Christmastime, Born to Run, Bohemian Rhapsody, etc.
None of these are my favorite songs or bands, but I like them.
ANYTHING by Jimmy Buffet
What about Coconut Pete?
Shiny happy people by R.E.M
(Black Hole Sun is a personal favorite though! lol)
Anything by Pink or Katy Perry or Vance Joy.
I believe that if there was a time anomaly and we lost all pop music from the early 2010's we would be better off as a species.
Such a dark time for music that was.
Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
It's just banal, saccharine, faux-folksy bullshit.
And my sister absolutely played it to death when it came out.
Blind melon's No Rain. Anything country. Braddah Iz's Somewhere Over The Rainbow...don't get me wrong, he's a great singer, and there's a lot of other songs he sings. I was still living in Hawaii at the time he passed away, and all the local stations played the shit out of that song for a month. Shit, EVERYONE was playing that song non-stop! So much to the point that it drives me crazy whenever I hear it.
Again, love Iz, can't stand that song.
No rain and crash test dummies
Born to Run
I can’t stand anything by Crosby Stills & Nash or by Cat Stevens. It all sounds like horrifically depressing heroin addict music to me.
My deceased father in law loved listening to them, and it drove me nuts.
I've never actually sat down to listen to any of those but Cat Stevens father and son song at the end of guardians of the Galaxy 2 that hit me so at least like that one
I feel like a horrible person for describing anyone’s music like that, but hearing either of those two artists instantly sours my mood and makes me feel depressed and despondent. I’ve had struggles with mental health for 30+ years, and one of the few things that helps with any consistency is avoiding things (music, movies, tv shows) I know will likely put me in a sour mood.
I’m glad their music brings joy to others. I am just not ever going to enjoy it. The absolute best I can possibly manage is to grind my teeth and bite my tongue until the song is over and hopefully something more pleasant comes on.
Oh I never said it was a happy song. It's depressing as fuck.
Superstition, Stevie Wonder. Ugh... He has other songs! In the context of the album, fine. As a track that plays on SO many playlists I just don't want to hear it again.
You're so Vain by Carly Simon - it played two or three times a shift when I worked for a thrift store in high school...for some reason, it's really the only song from those repetitive years I can't stand, as that job helped me discover works by the Carpenters and I always generally liked "Oldies" anyway, but....goddamn, that song just grates my gears
Yeah luckily it doesn't come on any place I'm walking around but I agree.
I figured I never really got it because it came out a few decades before I was born, a few pop songs have been like that for me
Fireflies by Owl City
Anything by Pitbull
Also, unpopular opinion, but I'm oddly adverse to anything by Ed Sheeran.
Mariah Carey's christmas fucking song and also Wham's, just shoot me. I love Black Hole Sun btw.
I made an offhanded comment about not liking Akon's part in Gewn Stafani's Sweet Escape to my friend. He then proceeds to play the song around me every chance he got for weeks and have Pavlov'd me into having a negative reaction to the song. I have also developed an uncanny (according to my SO) ability to recognise Gwen Stafani's voice even though I have never put on one of her songs on my own.
dont stop believing. makes my ears bleed
Our House by Madness
It Takes Two by Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
A lot of R&B feels painfully slow. Like nothing really is going wrong, but I'm almost immediately bored. I sometimes like other painfully slow things, but haven't found a good entry point for this genre.
Anything by Jimmy Buffett or Meatloaf or Joe Cocker.
Meatloaf Junior highs I will do anything for a love flashbacks oh my god
Honestly, I tend to be pretty capable of tolerating songs I don't like. It's artists and a small range of genres that give me trouble.
About the only song I can think of that comes close was that first backstreet boys song. Can't remember the name, but it was the one that was all over the radio from their first album.
I liked other songs, but that one was such a generic pile of dreck that it came close to being intolerable from the beginning, and eventually got there. But even that, at first, it was just something I didn't like and disliked strongly, but I could sit through it if necessary. It took a week or two before it reached nails-on-chalkboard levels.
Now, genre wise, contemporary christian just grates on me. Even the songs that are otherwise almost listenable suffer from the bland composition and empty lyrics that make them annoying. Since I've also dealt with people in the industry around the genre, including performers, knowing that those lyrics are utter bullshit to the vast majority of the idiots singing them makes it a very unpleasant thing.
CC suffers from the same cookie cutter writing that Nashville country does, but lacks the redeeming qualities of at least being catchy if you don't pay attention to the lyrics.
Which, cookie cutter country isn't something I can handle a lot of at once. But I can tolerate it.
Then again, I listen to death and black metal regularly, so I know damn good and well that what one person can enjoy is abrasive to others, and vice versa. So I tend not to judge the listener by what they listen to.
I don't care what anyone says that song blows chunks. So boring. However I could/can never get why Nirvana are so popular. But I like Layne years Alice and 90's Pearl Jam so 50% of the Big 4 ain't bad.