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Why do we hate music we hate?
Or in other words, why does it annoy us so much that certain music we hate happens to exist? I'm asking this after reading the excellent and funny http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...out-music.html from our late friend Urban, and I of course realise that much of what he wrote is to be taken tongue-in-cheek, but it did set me to thinking.
Why does it annoy us that say bands like Dragonforce or Tool or [insert hated band here] exist? Or that a certain genre or subgenre we hate is liked by others ? Obviously, nobody is ever going to like ALL music, but why put down that which we don't like? Nobody here - no individual, and no group - can be the ultimate arbiter of taste, so while I might hate hip-hop or jazz, and you might hate prog rock, why does its existence offend so? It's not the same in other arenas. Sport, to some extent, yes, but that's more a case of rivalries between teams, states or counties. But if you hate horror movies, you don't watch them. If you like science-fiction books but hate trashy romance, you don't read the latter. If medical dramas get up your nose you don't look at them. But we don't complain about the existence of any of these things: we accept they're there, but don't try to put them down. They simply don't matter to us. We have no interest in them. If others like them, fine, but we don't. And that's the end of it. So why do we tend to froth at the mouth about music we hate? Why is it so important? Radio? Well nobody's forcing us to listen, and there are surely thousands of stations we can choose from. Fans of these bands or genres? Quite possibly. But if we don't like certain music, why do we feel the need to put it down? Why can't we just accept it's not for us and move on? What is it about music that polarises opinion in a way few if any other subjects do? |
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I hate it because it's terrible.
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The music I hate is the worst.
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The only kind of music I have a more-or-less blanket "hatred" of is rap, and the reason I dislike it is because it has more-or-less eliminated melody. I find that to be obnoxious to listen to. The rhythms themselves can be interesting, and a lot of non-rap in the past 15-20 seems to have adopted those kinds of rhythms successfully while still maintaining a melody. But once you eliminate the actual melody from the singing it sounds like somebody yakking away at me which really turns me off. I don't find somebody yakking away at me to be very entertaining.
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A LOT of people like peas. I don't like peas.
A LOT of people like baked beans. I don't like baked beans. A LOT of people like going to baseball games. I don't. A number of people like Coprophagy. I don't like Coprophagy. A LOT of people like The Grateful Dead. I hate The Grateful Dead. It is what it is. It either gets you off, or it doesn't. |
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How can anyone not like baked beans? They're beans. At most you just don't care. Or you're a right thinking person and jump at the chance to fart more.
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Beans in general are kinda suck-ish
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Boston Baked Beans is one of those foods that everyone makes but only a very small percentage of them get it right. They're too damn easy to mess up. My step-mom's mom use to make them and they were heavenly. She was a French-Canadian and everything she made that was regional was too die for.
Her Gorton (pork spread) is legendary. I hate them because 99% of the most of ones I've eaten have sucked. |
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How do you not like the Red Sox and baked beans but are from Boston? Saw Chula's baked beans explanation late. As far as the OP, it either clicks with you or it doesn't. The tiniest thing about a certain song or band could throw you off and you end up not liking them for it. |
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Troll is dead wrong if he thinks nobody gets mad about movies or TV they hate. Ask me about Guardians of the Galaxy 2 or the end of How I Met Your Mother, I dare you. :P
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretons https://i.imgflip.com/15n5lz.jpg |
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Spoiler for I don't actually expect you to read this, no worries:
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And dear god on Heroes. The first season did a great job at ripping off Watchmen, but then... Jesus. I don't know what makes me angrier, turning into Sylar into a fanfiction plot or throwing away Kristen Bell's awesome character on a show that no longer deserved her. |
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I'm amazed you didn't like Snowpiercer though. I thought that movie was great. |
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The first season of Heroes was some seriously great TV, but it all went to hell after that regenerative blood thing. When a series starts to break the rules of its own universe, that's when you lose the audience. I watched the whole second season uneasily, but tried to keep an open mind, then I quit immediately in S03 after they introduced Ali Larter's 213th character. |
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Snowpiercer is a masterpiece of ridiculous film. I love it because I think it's terrible. Captain America trips on a salmon and that's not even the silliest part of the whole film. |
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I didn't care for the Lobster either, so perhaps I just don't like satirical films with serious facades. |
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P.S. I have no idea why it was important to Peter's character that his bottom lip had to look like he just had a stroke. Not exactly a criticism but it's just been bugging me for years. https://68.media.tumblr.com/cd189243...5ikso1_250.gif |
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as for himym wasn't ted a pretty horrible character throughout the show too? like he was always portrayed as this "love searching nice guy" but most of his actions with girls were self indulging or just plain shitty. his sad puppy shtick only really applied to his robin obsession, but everyone else it as like "kids, im not proud of this moment.."
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The Lobster was the second movie by the director of Dogtooth and you should watch it Janzface.
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Mother of god. |
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:shycouch: But mention a band 99% of people hate here that you happen to like (let's use Coldplay rather than the more obvious ones you all expect) and it's a full on ragefest, snarkfest or snootfest. Maybe something else ending in fest. And I don't quite understand why. So you don't like the band, and I do (maybe). So what? Why keep telling me they suck and that I, by extension, suck by liking or at least listening to them? And I don't just mean me: I don't give a **** what people think of my music taste. But this happens to other people too. Kudos to Batty by the way for trying to turn this into the "Why don't you like beans?" thread. As it happens, I do like beans. But not peas. **** peas. Oh, and yes, eternal thanks to GD for pulling up that Urban thread: I'm reading through it as I go and it's bloody hilarious. :laughing: I miss that guy. :( |
I mean, no I don't go around telling people they shouldn't watch stuff but... I also don't do that with music? Point is, my opinion on music is not special or different from my opinion on anything else, and I don't treat it as such as the discussion asserts people do.
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