I’m not saying particular genres, we all have our less desired musical genres, I mean music in general.
When I was a child I was very confident to say that I hated music, all kinds, and my cousin used to say that was not possible.
Turns out he was right, and I only hated the teenage music my sister from the 90s used to listen to.
Secretly I enjoyed soundtracks and OSTs from several media, such as animes (digimon openings and battle themes for example) and some TV shows or even videogames.
Then my taste “evolved” and pretty much stayed at rock, heavy metal and alike.
So that little memory lane inspired me to ask about this.
“Amusia” is apparently a thing, which would be the inability to feel patterns in pitch, beat and/or rhythm in music, so I can definitely see those people not enjoying music so much. I can’t relate at all, but I guess I can’t exactly relate to what it’s like to be blind either…
Now that we are talking about disabilities… I didn’t even consider deaf people… Perhaps some deaf people are not capable of liking music? (I suppose there are levels of deaf, as blind people do).
Deaf people can still feel vibrations from music, and in my experience tend to enjoy that quite a lot
I had a teacher once who used to work at a school for the deaf and he told us about their school dances. Apparently they would crank the bass way up so everyone could feel the vibrations, and apparently a lot of the kids would carry balloons around because you can really feel it in the balloons, it actually sounded like a pretty cool experience
Well, that doesn’t stop one from liking music, no? Music has such a wide range, there is music without rhythm/beat (or a very different understanding of the concept of “rhythm”), without melody or patterns in general. I think this just narrows down your choice, but doesn’t make you hate music.
Note that I’m using these terms in their largest, most generic sense. Melody as elements of pitch with some kind of temporal progression. Beat as in a regular pulse around which sounds are organized. Rhythm as a form of temporal repetition or pattern (you can have rhythm without a beat). As far as I know, they’re pretty much the fundamental differentiating elements versus what’s just called noise.
I know there are types of music that stretches the limits of what most consider music, but I’m trying very hard to think about a single thing we’d call music that doesn’t have at least one of those elements, and I just can’t. Maybe you could come up with some examples, cause I really can’t haha. I was thinking of things like Perendecki’s Threnody, but it definitely has melodic elements, despite being mostly extremely ambiant and atonal/dissonant. John Cage’s Prepared Piano stuff is basically all rhythm. Most ambiant music is extremely melodic.
Music was much better when I was younger and more emotionally vulnerable.
I also like music from before my time, when they used to let ugly people make it.
It’s complicated.
The people who make good music are still mostly not conventionally beautiful.
There’s like 3 regular-looking Swedes who make just about all popular music, isn’t there?
Funny comment but completely untrue, goddamn lol
Listen beyond what top40 stations play for you.
Bruh why anyone bothers with top 40 when you can find whatever the hell you want out of millions of artists on the internet. It’s not even overwhelming there’s tools that will pick out stuff for you based on criteria you choose. Really just need to find one or two less known artists you like and then from there look at other offerings from their labels, bands they tour with, etc. It all snowballs. So much great music to be found.
I know people who hate some music and are apathetic at best to all the rest, but I feel like theres enough variety that no one would hate all music.
I feel like my dad would be the closest person to hating music. I absolutely love music, so did my mom. My sister was into music when she was a teen and then it was more like: yeah i like when there is some music. I asked my dad once if he doesn’t like any music. He didn’t answer but 3 days later he said he liked the beach boys. He has no album or anything from the beach boys. I once bought him some Mozart album, because he said he liked Mozart. They are still sealed 10 years later. Every time we exchange cars, the radio of his car is just shut off. So i genuinely believe that my dad doesn’t actually like music at all.
There is a condition called Misophonia which literally makes even the most pleasant music sound like silverware in a garbage disposal. I remember finding out about it on Reddit.
Since I watched Guardians of the Galaxy 2 recently it reminds me of Drax recounting how he met is wife: “When I met my sweet Evette (?) she wouldn’t dance at all. The most melodic song would come on and she wouldn’t even tap her foot. She wouldn’t move a muscle. Some people would think she was dead. It was so beautiful.”
Streaming services have been a life changer for me. Previously I rarely listened to music because radio was too much blather and I never got my music collection to the point of being convenient. However since I started subscribing to a streaming service, I listen constantly, to music from various genres and time periods, and have rediscovered music I like that had previously been too much hassle.
Most importantly I discovered the genre that most spoke to me was one that I rarely heard in my region, or among people I knew
I used to not like music for a long time because my family was weirdly annoying about music. They made it uncomfortable to want to listen to it, making me feel embarrassed about it.
