Consolator

It really depends on your music taste. I'm a big fan of dance music as well as electronic music, so I can tolerate most of what the radio plays. Beiber does poppy stuff, I gave his album a listen and Baby was the only song I liked. I loathed Ke$ha and Lady Gaga when I heard their first singles. Ke$ha grew on me after Your Love Is My Drug, and I realized that Gaga isn't a talentless whore aftering looking up her live acoustic performances (well, she is a whore, but a supremely talented whore, I shouldn't be one to judge.) And I fell head over heels in love with Gaga's second album, which is a mix of industrial dance music and pop music that isn't so lyrically shallow like her first album.

I listen to the mainstream pop radios on my lengthy commute to University everyday, though if my car had a CD player, I'd probably never listen to the radio. The lame commercials annoy me much more than the actual music. I generally check out radio artist's CD's when they're released, just to make sure I'm not missing some random gem of a song.

Edit, response to the previous post: Did you not read the previous page at all? You're right, I have not been here for long, but you have to understand from the point of a newcomer, the comments on the previous page were (at the very least) giving off the impression that you all were bitter elitist peeps who were anti-mainstream. "I've evolved past the radio and proud to say that I don't listen to it." What kind of crap is that? That is the EXACT same thing that the snooty little hipsters I knew would say, thinking they're the absolute **** because they're listening to some band that no one knows, and aren't "conforming" to the radio. If that's what gives you an ego boost, fine.

I have absolutely no problem with someone wanting to listen to music with more substance than pop music. I thought I pointed that out in one of my last posts. In fact, it disappoints me that a lot of pop music today revolves around partying/sex/alcohol/whatever. I could give you a long list of the things that I wish were different about pop music. That isn't what this is about though. This is about people generalizing and making blatant assumptions about something they haven't heard. I loathe most food, but am willing to try everything that's handed to me once. I guess it comes down to nothing more than opposing viewpoints. I may not like a lot of pop songs I hear, but there are always a few that I end up really liking. To me, it's worth the time going through and finding my favorites. To you, it may not be, and that's fine -- it's the **** attitude towards popular things I don't like.