The Worst Genre of Music?

[Erebus]

Normally I'm willing to accept that everybody is allowed their own tastes and opinions, but when it comes to certain types of music I can't help but think some folks are abusing that privilege. I'm sure everybody here has at least one genre of music that makes them wish they were listening to nails on a chalkboard instead of whatever noise is currently playing.
Here's your chance to have a rant about it. What genre/s of music make you want to pull out your own eardrums?

For me:

1. Rap/Hip Hop - I'm happy to concede that I haven't listened to all the examples out there and that not every rapper "sings" about nothing more than money, female dogs and that N word I don't want to mention. However, there are plenty that do and frankly I'd be happy to see them choke on their gold chains.
Even the odd track that holds a deeper meaning than a juvenile boast of masculinity just doesn't gel with me. The whining, nasally voices coupled with the sort of beat you'd expect from a five year old with a glockenspiel put me off.

2. Soulless pop - This is the sort of music that gets mass produced to appeal to the lowest common denominator. The producers don't care about the music, the artists don't care about the music (assuming they even sing in the first place) and I don't care about it either.
It's that sort of sterile paste I'm talking about here. Music that's created with the same amount of love as a tube of superglue.

3. Emo - High school is rough, I get it. Move on.

 

[Debater Slayer]

While I like some rap songs (ones where good instrumental music sort of makes up for the subpar lyrics, at least), rap is probably my least favorite music genre. Its lyrics are usually shallow, nonsensical, and full of sexist and racist words. Even in relatively good rap songs, there's usually at least one or two swear words shoehorned into the lyrics for one reason or another, which degrades the quality of the lyrics and makes them sound rather immature.

Also, even though it's my favorite genre, heavy metal can sound very crappy when it's not done well, like a bunch of people making noises with random instruments accompanied by the voice of a "vocalist" screaming as hard as they can to sound "hardcore."

 

[crossfire]

Muzak version of "The Girl from Ipanema" has got to be right up there in the range of most annoying:

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Blues Brothers - elevator music - YouTube

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

heavy metal / screamo

 

[Debater Slayer]

heavy metal / screamo

:thud:

(Does that mean you were offended by about 95% of my posts in this forum section? )

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

… but I found the other 5% to be most melodic -- almost soothing. :yes:

 

[crossfire]

Whenever this song (piped in from corporate offices, so we can't even turn down the volume) plays at my weekend job I want to shoot the speakers out.

I'll hide it, so as not to traumatize the more delicate amongst you.

Spoiler: yuuuuuuuucky!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKCl2ODTWB0

 

[Assad91]

Whatever genre Beiber and Miley do

 

[Quintessence]

1. Rap/Hip Hop - I'm happy to concede that I haven't listened to all the examples out there and that not every rapper "sings" about nothing more than money, female dogs and that N word I don't want to mention. However, there are plenty that do and frankly I'd be happy to see them choke on their gold chains.

Ahaha... you should look up Chap Hop. Seriously. If you dislike mainstream Hip Hop for these reasons, there's a fair potential you will love Chap Hop to pieces. Because an obscure UK sub-genre of Hip Hop that makes a veritable mockery of "traditional" Hip Hop by dragging it into the Victorian Era has 100% turned around my sentiments on this genre. The genre has terrible, awesome potential if only it gets used properly. And by properly, I mean spoken in a British accent whilst discussing grammar, tea, and correct footwear. Or, occasionally, mad science experiments and airship races if you take to Professor Elemental more than the Gentleman Rhymer.

That aside, I wouldn't say this is the "worst" genre of music, but I can't stand opera. I mean, I recognize it as being a classic and a veritable art form, but the way opera singers sing just makes my skin crawl and grates on my ears like something awful. I can't seem to listen to it for more than about five minutes before my brain protests. I'm like that with "traditional" rap/hip hop as well, along with the guttural screaming genre Jay mentioned. They snap my concentration, too, which is the worst when I'm stuck around people listening to it while working or studying. I don't fathom how people can concentrate at all with that sort of thing in the background. If I need to concentrate, the only things I can listen to are musics without lyrics, and typically only of the classical or soothing New Age variety.

 

[Erebus]

Ahaha... you should look up Chap Hop. Seriously. If you dislike mainstream Hip Hop for these reasons, there's a fair potential you will love Chap Hop to pieces. Because an obscure UK sub-genre of Hip Hop that makes a veritable mockery of "traditional" Hip Hop by dragging it into the Victorian Era has 100% turned around my sentiments on this genre. The genre has terrible, awesome potential if only it gets used properly. And by properly, I mean spoken in a British accent whilst discussing grammar, tea, and correct footwear. Or, occasionally, mad science experiments and airship races if you take to Professor Elemental more than the Gentleman Rhymer.

Haha! That sounds like a laugh actually, I'll have a look. I have heard a few parody rap songs that made me s******, again though the actual music doesn't appeal to me it's the lyrics that crack me up.
I think the best I've said about a rap song is "great lyrics, just not to my taste." I can't remember the artist, but he essentially flipped the glorification of gang culture on its head and talked about the damage and pain it causes.

 

[Twilight Hue]

The modern version of rap/hip hop is pretty bad. It was much better when the music once had stories to tell. Now it's just bling, sex, and im gonna kill you mutha******. ....

Music based off corporate formulas on what turns a profit, turns into something gawd awful and shallow like reality "music" shows spew out.

Excessive and overly protracted guttural moanings grunts and shrieks tend to be a huge turn off, and auto tune causes belching and frequent vomiting. Imo Cher is the only one who can get away with it.

Country isn't too hot these days either. It lost much of it's meaning imo but the genre has it's ups and downs.

I think whats awful today about music genre is the lack of imagination and good lyrics. It's more on showcasing at all costs, and less involved with a persons natural talent and ability.

 

[Nerthus]

I guess for me it would be hip hop and jazz.

They both have their talents, but I just find jazz boring. Some hip hop is good, but it's not for me and I don't like the swear words and anti women/ homophobic content in many.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

They're mostly all bad these days. That is, if you can even hear the differences in them. They all seem to be flat, generic, over-produced flavors of some type of awful, soulless pop music.

 

[ChristineES]

My least favorite genres are the very loud ones: Screamo (I think that's how you spell it), heavy metal, rap. I also can't stand today's pop (what my daughter listens to): One Direction, Selena Gomez, and similar.

 

[ChristineES]

They're mostly all bad these days. That is, if you can even hear the differences in them. They all seem to be flat, generic, over-produced flavors of some type of awful, soulless pop music.

That's how I find them, too. They don't put any emotion or anything into it or any of the "themselves" into it. It all sounds the same.

 

[technomage]

For me, Progressive Rock is a mixed bag. Some of it can be very, very good (Pink Floyd from "Dark Side of the Moon", a lot of stuff by Jethro Tull), and some can be very, very bad (some other stuff by Tull, Focus, King Crimson).

I'm not a fan of Hip Hop or Rap. There's some of the old school stuff that I really dig the lyrics, but the new stuff is mostly crap, and I've never cared for the style.

For the most part, Punk/Post-Punk and Grunge just isn't my style. There are exceptions: my son turned me on to a couple of MCR songs that are pretty cool, and some REM is good, but a lot of it is just crap.

I listen to a genre probably few of you have heard of called Filk. Again, it's a mixed bag, but when it's good, it's very very good, and when it's bad ... well, you know the rest.

 

[Assad91]

All the hate for metal makes me think if Jack Blacks song about how metal cannot be killed

 

[technomage]

All the hate for metal makes me think if Jack Blacks song about how metal cannot be killed

Cannot be killed? No, that's probably true. But those who listen to metal will feel better once the headache stops.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

I'm the thread's worst nightmare. I love hip hop and rap as well as metal.

What grates on my nerves is mainstream country. It took two great forms of authentic American music...blues and mountain/bluegrass....and created a Frankenstein's monster out of their combination while adding bland lyrics about alcoholism and infidelity. Give me Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and try not to combine it with the Ballad of Jed Clampett and it's ilk, and I'll be happily listening.

Please, no more Red Solo Cup. I'd rather twerk on the kitchen counter.

 

[dawny0826]

I'm the thread's worst nightmare. I love hip hop and rap as well as metal.

What grates on my nerves is mainstream country. It took two great forms of authentic American music...blues and mountain/bluegrass....and created a Frankenstein's monster out of their combination while adding bland lyrics about alcoholism and infidelity. Give me Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and try not to combine it with the Ballad of Jed Clampett and it's ilk, and I'll be happily listening.

Please, no more Red Solo Cup. I'd rather twerk on the kitchen counter.

I'm right there with you. With the exception of a few songs by a few artists, I do not enjoy country music and the twangy, nasal vocals really get on my nerves.

Thing about rap and hip hop is that even if I don't enjoy the lyrics - I can usually dig the accompanying music and sounds.

Though certain brands of metal aren't my favorite - I love metal in many forms. Rock of many genres remain my favorite.