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.
I’m curious to see if you find anyone. I do know there are some kids who are very sensitive to the moods of music and cry for Happy Birthday, for example, because it’s in a minor key. I can see how it could almost be like someone is whining at you or trying to get you hyped up and you just want to be with your own thoughts?
Not trying to take from the emotional side of birthdays here.
Going to put on my poindexter hat: It’s not in a minor key. But the melody is in a mode, called Mixolydian, which is more major than it is minor because its primary triad is a major chord.
Sorry to be that guy but it’s actually just in regular ionian mode! If it was mixolydian the first note of the ‘insert name’ part of the tune would be flattened.
“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.
I hate 100% of modern music and about 90% of old music.
My playlist is like:
- Mozart
- Show Must Go On by Queen
- Moscau (German version) by Gengis Chan
- Hall of the Mountain King
Beatles and Pink Floyed are tolerateable.
And I apologize for anything I misspelled anywhere above.
What specifically about music is it that you don’t like? And what is it specifically about those particular songs that makes you like them?
I think they are the only ones where both the music and the lyrics are good. Good music actually fits well with the song and actually changes as the song moves along, and good lyrics (in my opinion) should describe a moment in time rather than a whole story.
There are many other songs that fit this category, but I am really picky about it and some are to boring and others are just not the type of vibe I like.
Mozart (or other classical) is for the cases where I had enough of songs and just want some music in my ears.
Mountain King beats any movie action music, not to practical when just listing to, but really good for imagination.
You know nothing of modern music if that’s your opinion lol
You think people stopped composing music like that? No, other genres just became more popular. Your playlist is just the songs that survived the test of time. There’s artists making pretty much every type of music right now.
“Modern” isn’t a genre
Those artists are close to impossible to find. If you know a website where you can actually get some good songs out of your already existing playist please tell me.
SoundCloud and Bandcamp is where it’s at. Pretty much all I listen to. When I find an artist, I follow them and see what they’re listening to. I admittedly have been doing this for over a decade so I’ve got a curated feed that would be hard to replicate. Then there’s whole artist “crews” like Vulfpek who have solo projects and collaborate with a million other similar artists.
People often think of listening to music as a secondary activity but really it’s a hobby. There’s just… So much music out there. Once you start to narrow down the genres you really like, you get a better understanding of what you look for.
Another tip when you find a new release you really like…Google em. There’s still a ton of music blogs and if you find one talking about someone you like, you’ll likely find even more. It’s a compounding effect, too
I live with a guy that seems to hate music. Haven’t actually asked him about it because he just yells at the TV or radio if they have music on.
He just switches channel and screams about what he wants to watch not being on.
I hope this is a joke where you’re calling your two year old child “a guy you live with”.
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.
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.
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?
