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...

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Rap.  Can't stand it.  All of them trying to plumb the depths of cool, rhyming words just for the sake of it, mostly talentless, always to the same beat with almost no musical content.  Hey, come to think of it, I'm off subject as OP posted 'music'.

Any song where they are screaming at me. If I wanted to hear people screaming at me I'd turn off the stereo.

@larsman Wow.... the name of the song is not "Headed south on the Northern lights"...... it's "Charing cross" but who knew. I guess I just liked that name better and put it down as that.

While I agree lyrics are important - and bad lyrics can quickly ruin an otherwise excellent song - keep in mind most rules are made to be broken. Listen to CAN and tell me what you think of repetitive lyrics. Also, 12 bar blues is a structure and sometimes - especially old blues songs - they just followed the structure in the lyrics. Root x 4, root, 4th, root x 2, 4th, 5th, root x 2. That sort of thing.