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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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sns
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I suppose for every generalization I can make there are exceptions. Example being repetition not good, plenty of songs I like repeat lyrics, time signatures, melody. Poor voices, is Neil really bad singer if he moves you with his voice?  Genres and era of music, I'm all over the place with this.

 

For serious listening sessions on home stereo I no longer have to experience music I hate, streaming allows only listening to tracks that please.

 

Having said that, I still occasionally have to suffer listening to music I don't particularly enjoy. Just last night I had to listen to five or six hours constant rotation of mid 70's through early 90's commercial/arena/headbanger/metal rock, this blasting through garage stereo system at extremely high volume level. What bothered me most about this wasn't any particular qualities or lack of qualities from any individual song, rather it was from the feeling or mood this music evoked in me.

 

The moods or feeling music evokes in us may be perhaps most telling in why we hate any particular song or genre of music, says far more about us than the songwriter, performance.

sns
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When it comes to repetitious songs, Beatles, Hey Jude, first to come to mind, love the Beatles but that song has to be one of the most bothersome!

 

Back in the day, when FM and vinyl only choices for listening had to put up with many bothersome songs. With advent of cd's could skip over bothersome songs, with streaming I can skip over any and all bothersome music!

sns
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Ah yes, the fake sunshine message, you know its fake because they have to repeat, repeat, repeat. Real sunshine comes through with subtle reference to nice and beautiful things.

 

Repetition comes from lazy writing, attempts to get hit record, hit one over the head with message. It all works in reverse for me, I rebel against message.

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