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Maybe someone in the comments can help us change our minds…for me i’ts Raggaeton Reggaeton, I tried, I searched thru the early years but nothing, dumb genre in my opinion.
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I would say Rap, but it’s not really music so I don’t think it counts.
Im not sure I can say this for sure. I do not like rap and country/western. In some ways they are sorta the same to me. I like a lot of complex melody and varied instruments. That being said there is so much variety and crossover that there are songs that are considered in the genre or elements of the genres in songs that I like. Further there are songs that I don’t particularly like but they still have meaning enough for me to. mmmmm. I dunno. respect them for the art type of thing.
Country music. I can’t stand it. The twangs make me cringe.
Johnny Cash and a couple Dolly songs are about all I can enjoy
Country in the past 40 years.
Same I love country but bro country sucks.
I can’t stand nu metal and metalcore
I love black, progressive and melodeath metal, I love psytrance, techno, d&b, I like a few rap artists, but I can’t stand those two.
Christian Rock.
Contemporary Country.
R&B.
every now and then i find an r&b song i vibe with, but otherwise same
Rap. Can’t sing, with shitty stupid lyrics.
I, for one, like reggaeton. Although I first got to listen to it at a dance school that taught how to dance to it. Which arguably, is the way to experience it first. There is a difference between say, Bad Bunny’s “Moscow Mule” and Don Omar’s “Dale don dale”/Don Chezina’s “Tra tra tra”/Wisin & Yandel’s “Mayor que yo”.
I think Rosalia’s Motomami is relatively easy to enjoy although it’s a sub-genre (neoperreo). I think it’s hard to enjoy if you start with the top albums on Rateyourmusic. Don’t get me wrong - Plan B’s “Love and Sex” is a great classic, althought you need to be a bit further down the funnel (“brainwashed”) to enjoy it.
I don’t think there are any inherently bad genres of music. There is only bad execution of a genre.
Take modern country, for example. A lot of it is absolutely terrible, but even within the genre there are great artists and great songs. Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton are obvious examples. Every genre has its own defining sound, and every genre has performers who demonstrate just how good that sound can be when it’s done properly.
That being said… there are definitely genres and styles of music that I have very little patience for.
Anything labeled “easy listening.” Elevator music. Modern commercial pop. And, especially, mumble rap.
A lot of it sounds like lazy, formulaic music that has been meticulously overproduced to be as commercially marketable as possible. It feels less like someone had something they wanted to say and more like a committee designed a product that would generate streams.
And that’s ultimately my problem. I don’t dislike a genre simply because it isn’t my taste. I dislike music that feels like it was made with absolutely no artistic ambition behind it.
There’s some great old ‘easy listening’, but it doesn’t come up often. E.g. ‘The Lost Philips Tapes EP1 Passport To USA’ or Walter Wanderley and Portinho’s ‘Órgão, Sax E Sexy’.
Thank you! I am legitimately excited to listen to these!
Let me give you some great recommendations as well from my extremely eclectic tastes!
Rodrigo y. Gabriada specifically their album area 51.
Anything at all a bluegrass band called Crooked Still
And right now I’m listening to Timecop1983 amazing artist! Lots of albums just really really good.
Thanks! I’m somewhat familiar with Timecop1983, and heard of Rodrigo y Gabriela, but am yet to listen to them properly.
Aside from easy-listening proper, you might also dig some bands influenced by it and the lounge genre: Messer für Frau Muller, Combustible Edison, Ursula 1000, De-Phazz, Jazzanova. There was a bit of a lounge resurgence in the nineties, combined with hiphopy beats and whatnot.
Honestly? 99% of rap. Also reggae and reggaeton, and dub. Also not a fan of much R&B or Hip-hop.
Sorry.
Dunno why dub is catching strays, there’s great groovy dub. Check out ‘Stepping to Kebra Ethiopia Sound’, ‘Trojan Dub Massive Volume One’ and Volume Two. Or, for more melodic dub, try Zenzile.
Hiphop by itself is meh, but instrumental hiphop is another thing. Particularly, Ninja Tune released lots of good music: e.g. Wagon Christ.
Please tell me that 1% is Wu Tang
My 0.1% is A Tribe Called Quest, specifically The Low End Theory album. I did find a new (to me) rap-ish song I liked a few days ago too, Skin by WebsterX. It reminds me of Dan Deacon a bit.
Not to my knowledge. It’s a small smattering of Eminem, Coolio/Weird Al, and maybe Tupac.
Commercial pop from the early 2010s. A horrible time for anyone who listened to the radio.
Think Katy Perry, Usher, Pitbull, all that tasteless garbage that still gets repeated 3 times a day on some stations because they dont want to buy rights to other songs.
And that really unoffensive “summer vibes” style edm that was really popular in 2020.
Any boy band music. It’s all just so cliche. It feels like none of them have actually lived any of the things they’re singing and so just make up the most generic lyrics imaginable. There’s no detail, no specificity, no iota of the people behind it in my ears.
Its music made by market research
Another for reggaeton. It drives me out of stores.
“smooth” jazz.
You mean elevator music?
There’s good smooth jazz: Sade (of course), Soul Ballet, Gran Turismo soundtracks.
Pretty much any thing with a repetitive beat and lyrics that sound like they were written by a 14yo going through puberty. Basically hip-hop, bro country, and pop for the last 15 years.
pop for the last 15 years
I suppose that depends on how you define pop? Marina for example has some really good songs. But if pop means “stuff that plyas on mainstream radio”, I’d agree.
