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What I really hate about some music

When I listen to music, there are four things that I really bothers me and was wondering if there are others who feel the same way about songs just as strongly as I do. I don't like feeling this way but when I hear these things, I just want to turn the music off and I'm not sure why the song writer doesn't realize he probably has a dud and not a hit. Here they are:

1. When a song writer finds a catchy phrase and the singer repeats the line three times in a row and then a stanza later, here it comes again repeated all three times and this just keeps going on and on.

2. Very similar to the above, a writer writes a real good line of music and then makes the whole song a repeat or variation of this line of music and has no imagination to add a little something in-between.

3. Singers who can't really sing well and think they can but get such really great score of music behind them that if a really good singer sang the song it would be wonderful to listen to. Please understand that carrying a tune to me doesn't make a good singer and I'm not talking about karoke singers here either.

4. Rhyming in a melody.... Please you can predict what the next line of the song is going to be before it is sang because it rhymes with the last line just sang...

frankmc195

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frogman
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We like what we like and we could leave it at that… depending on what level of involvement with the music we each want. However, to approach listening to music (or any art) with preconceived and rigid ideas about what aspects (repetition, rhyming) of music we like or don’t like is extremely limiting and stifles our growth as listeners; and, no disrespect intended, belies a rather simplistic (some might say sophomoric) appreciation of the art.

Repetition can be a valid and very effective compositional tool. Sure, we may not like specific songs (or works) that don’t employ that compositional technique or another in an effective way; but, the judgment of the validity of that technique needs to be in the context of the total of the compositional parts….the complete work. This idea applies to any music, from Pop songs to Classical works. Are we to dismiss a great composition such as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 because of its constantly repeated opening tune (motif)?

https://www.bsomusic.org/stories/the-power-of-musical-repetition/

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