I’ll always be a hater at heart and making snarky comments about something I dislike can really brighten my day. But it’s always underpinned by genuine respect for anyone who manages to create something and put it out there, no matter how bad I think it is. And knowing it’s just my taste and my opinion doesn’t matter any more than anyone else’s.
I love psytrance, but I couldn’t eat a whole one.
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Its nowhere near as offensive as trap - esp that country and western version
I saw people line dancing to it in New Orleans and it wasn’t drunk people being ironic
They were doing it on purpose, in public.
I think the nearest I ever got to psytrance was a few eat static cd’s in early 90’s .
The older I get the more i hear music that I really don’t like (or don’t understand). It is so easy to bash it. Thank you for reminding me that „you don’t have to consume something if you don’t want to/don’t like it“ isn’t just something I say to others but also something I should love more!
Can’t Stand the music of
James Blunt
Psytrance
Country
Adele
To name a few. I don’t know James Blunt or Adele, so can’t comment on them as people. I just don’t like their music at all, it’s awful, in my opinion.
I can’t stand country, but I do know a local bloke that writes country music, he’s a nice dude. Likewise I know some people that make psytrance, perfectly alright people.
Then there’s the flip side of it. For example…
James Pullen, racist right wing wanker, great music.
I won’t bother listing any more.
At some point you have seperate the art from the artist. They are not the same.
Some times people mistake harmless pisstaking for hate, which seems daft to me but then, I’m English, and pisstaking is modus operandi.
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Hell, I clicked through and thought it was James Blake…
There’s a limit to your hate
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Well it looks like we all grew a bit today, high five to us!!
Edit: you all are pretty cute with your “can’t stand Xx music”
You sweet summer children have not been through the seven rings of hell that is “melodifestivalen” season!
If you have kids who are remotely interested in music and you live in Sweden your ears will bleed February through March each year…
When April comes you kind of go “this Jameson Blunty guy is pretty good”
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There’s zero relationship between how interesting someone is as a musician and how likeable they are as a person. I think I figured that out about twenty years ago when I started playing shows. It’s almost a cliche that when you gig with a band who are mediocre-bordering-on-bad, they’re really nice people; and the good bands are sometimes arrogant pricks…
I remember seeing Josh Groban, who sings pretty awful ballads, on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He was very smart and very funny – like James Blunt.
These days I find that people who are more tolerant in general also are more tolerable.
I also had to look up James Blunt and Ed Sheeran, not my first choice either. But I would’t let my day be ruined just because that’s on the radio and I can’t change the station.
Life’s much better when you’re not constantly annoyed when somebody puts on music you don’t 100% resonate with.
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You’re beautiful
You’re beautiful
You’re beautiful, it’s true
I saw @Fin25 face in a crowded place
And I don’t know what to do
'Cause I’ll never be with you
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I vaguely remember an interview with James Blunt from waay back. My recollection is that wasn’t his first album basically written on an acoustic guitar while he was deployed to Bosnia (or that region)?
It is pretty natural for us to use what we like and dislike to communicate which part of society we fit into. I’m a serious music fan so my general impression I have felt the need to convey is I don’t really like Top 40 music.
But it’s not really true, great music from Evanescence, Linkin Park, James Blunt, Britney and heaps more came out. It got over saturated and annoyed people. I might grudgingly admit liking it at the time, but it wasn’t cool. I guess the done thing was seeking out interesting music, not just receiving it.
But there’s a definite pattern I’ve noticed where you give a lot of this music space and time, and 10-15 years later it’s much easier to appreciate it for the music itself. It’s separate from the social context it was released in. There’s a bit of nostalgia for the era that helps.
But most importantly, I find it much easier to put into a musical context. I can hear the funk lineages from the 70s or 80s in a track from the mid-2000s or whatever it is. For some reason, most pop music when it is new I can’t pick up on this (unless it is blatant).
And the whole recording artist megastar thing might be a 70-100 year flash in the pan of human history. We shouldn’t be too hard on them, every decade of that time has kind of had new rules and expectations. It must suck to go from writing songs on your own to selling millions of albums and finding yourself a punching bag and butt of every joke.
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I love Justice for all, but hate most albums that came after it, i can understand why they changed, and possibly needed too, but i would still prefer they didnt sell out. I dont hate them, but didnt bought their later albums either.
I think anger is a tool, but better not use it all the time. No i dont forgive St Anger. But i dont mind it also, my taste changed also, and there is so much good music to find, they dont own their fans anything.
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You’re Beautiful
You’re beautiful, it’s true
I saw your face in a crowded place
And I don’t know what to do.
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I guess it was my early 20s when I made a conscious decision to try and stop hating any kind of music or art. It wasn’t about removing my sense of taste or style, so much as reframing the question. Instead of “Do I like x?” It became “Why do/don’t I like x?”
Turns out art is married to its context, and I think that a lot of taste can be accounted for by context. Both the context in which a piece of media was created, and the context in which it is consumed (which can include lived experience, mind state). If I don’t understand the interest/appeal of a song or artist, and I can’t figure out why I dislike it, I just shrug it off anymore, and say it wasn’t meant for me, I’m not in the right context.
For a lot of music, I can “make up the difference” in my head and find ways to enjoy music that’s well outside of my normal comfort zone.
Nobody’s perfect, I’m guilty of the shit talking too at times. But I think the less discriminatory I am about art and music, the more I end up enjoying it all.
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@Fin25 this is such a top post. I don’t have anything much to add but felt a like wasn’t enough to express what a truly excellent sentiment this is
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I’ll be visiting my in-laws in the mid-west this holiday. They have a family tradition of music trivia. My brother-in-law started it, then his kids joined in. Rule #1: The trivia-master gets to pick the tunes.
From a dark place inside me, I really want these people to know how much their favorite bands suck. None of the music that I’ve heard in their trivia games has made me think, “Jeez, I should listen more to that artist/genre!” I recognize almost none of it. Very little effort seems to be taken by the trivia masters to include music that can be appreciated by a mixed crowd. Which, to my mind is deeply anti-social, since music trivia is ostensibly a social activity.
My attitude about pop music lyrics can be pretty much summed up as:
My connection with music was never much based on the lyrics. Maybe lyrics resonate more with non-musicians (my in-laws?). Not so much with me.
Kind of off-topic, since the subject is real-life dissing of artists, and I’m discussing imaginary dissing of my in-laws’ musical tastes. I listened to the beginning of a few of the JB’s songs, since I knew nothing of him before reading this thread. Kind of reminded of music trivia with the in-laws.
@Fin25 you going soft on us here? 
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I love nickleback and Coldplay. I’m gonna have to check out this Blunt fellow.
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A social activity that you seem to be excluding yourself from…
I’m not sure it’s them who are being anti-social mate.
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