What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?

When people complain about new music not living up to old, it just means they've quit exploring and form their prejudices on the pop genre they hear, which has always been the lowest hanging song on the tree.

Modern electronic music is the spiritual successor to classical music (and modern-day "classical" compositions are just rehashes).

Taylor Swift is fine, her music is enjoyable, but ultimately kind of forgettable. Her popularity comes from the social-cohesion function of popular music.

IDK if it’s unpopular, but I’m worried that TikTok, Instagram, and Youtube Shorts have completely screwed with what kind of music gets popular nowadays. It seems like every popular song has some kind of intense drop because content creators love the “quick build up to some kind of visual punchline” video format and it has ruined what I think could otherwise influence and encourage originality

Separating the artist from the art is fine.
You can like music by someone who doesn't share your social, political, or religious beliefs with.

Most rap sucks and it's effects on mainstream media have had detrimental effects on society as a whole.

It literally just glorifies the ghetto lifestyle of being a piece of shit and acting like it's the only way you can live life.

"the Beatles are overrated" is a poorly defined statement often made by people who give the impression they want to be seen as an iconoclast of some sort.

Ok. Overrated on what metrics? Historical impact? Popularity at the time? Popularity now?

"I don't like the Beatles' music" is probably closer to what people mean, and that's fine. I rarely listen to them on purpose. But the whole "I don't like them, and neither should you" thing is kind of insufferable.

There are too many damn love songs. 75% of all music does not need to be about love, relationships, and breakups. I stopped listening to radio because all the damn love songs got annoying.

Can we please have more songs about literally anything else. Weed, flowers, rainy days, animal companions, construction work, types of cars, card games, anything. There’s more in life to sing about than just relationships and/or the lack of them!

Sincerely, A person whose sexuality is “No” and has no interest in that kind of relationship.

Eric Clapton is wildly overrated

Some music is made by and for lowlifes, where I live is Vallenato, Campesina, Rancheras, Bachata, and 90%of reggaeton.

Lyrics about asking for forgiveness after cheating, smoking, domestic violent (being the one that does the domestic violence), admitting to spike drinks and brag about it, simping for drug Lords, and women are nothing but a sex object.

The people who listen to that music is just as you imagine them. Uneducated, sexist, wife beaters, going around in huge SUVs blasting that music outloud with no respect for anyone around then, they are the ones who start blasting the music at 1AM on a Wednesday and doesn't let anyone sleep in their entire neighborhood.

People give me shit for this and claim is "culture" but I think there is such a thing as music for lowlifes.

There is, in fact, good country music that isn't just about trucks, beer, flags, and right-wing U.S. propaganda.

People have a lot of hate for the genre due to the mass appeal, common denominator examples. But like with all music, dig a little deeper beyond what gets radio play and you can find some good shit.

Disturbed's cover of Sound of Silence is not only awful, it is an antithesis of the meaning of the song. Anyone who likes that version better than S&G's arguably doesn't understand the point of the song, and the fact that everyone holds it up as the gold standard of "covers better than the original" is even worse.

A close second is Postmodern Jukebox and their horrendous tendencies to take tempos to an opposite extreme instead of finding more meaningful ways of changing the genre of a song. I like some of their stuff, but the number of people who love their cover of Welcome to the Jungle is mind-boggling to me.

There are plenty of songs that I prefer the cover of to the original (Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You'), or ones that just give the original a modern coat of paint without changing much else (Smash Mouth's 'I'm a Believer'), but these songs in particular are just awful imo.

Rap and Hiphop are just shit music.

I have a pretty broad music taste, I have rock, classical, pop, eurodance, opera, bitpop, industrial, metal, ballads and more on my phone, except rap or hiphop.

There is just something in me that as soon as I hear either it just sounds like shit.

Modern music slaps. Just gotta find the right albums.

The beatles are vastly overrated. They may have been trailblazers at the time but their music really doesn’t hold up

Lyrics ruin most music. This is one is weird because I actually love the sound of the human voice, but it most music its just ugly. Also most of the lyrics themselves suck. Usually vague, meaningless, hoping you'll interpret them as something deep. There's just so many songs that most lyrics have to be bad.

Also drums ruin most music. They are harsh, dissonant, overly loud, overpower subtler instruments, and reduce complex, varying melodies to a simple beat. Even when I want simple heavy beats, I prefer electronic alternatives (no idea what they're called) so it's not so harsh

Most hip hop is missing key musical elements and just isn’t good. I have no idea why the genre became so popular.

Lyrics don't add value to 99.99% of music and any notes from them should be from an actual instrument.

David Bowie had like, 2 okay songs.

Being a metalhead, most of my opinions about music are unpopular I guess. Or are they?

We're in the best time to listen to music. There's amazing stuff out there. It just doesn't come to you automatically, you've got to seek it out.

Now, it's a pretty bad time to be an artist trying to make a living. But it's also the easiest time to DIY music.

Pink Floyd is the most mediocre group in the prog rock scene (also works if you remove everything after 'group')

I despise bagpipes. Anyone who thinks that awful noise is in any way related to actual music should have a set jammed into their ears so hard they come out the other side.

/Rant over.

Imagine Dragons is pretty good

I dislike modern pop's mixing of the human voice, mixed so high compared to the rest, to the point where you can't hear instruments anymore. The music is often there just for accompanyment, elevetor music. I rather have chillwave, where everything is one big reverb trick pony, than having to hear people screaming.

I never got the hype for Satriani’s music. He’s a virtuoso for sure, but I never really found his music interesting.

This is probably high school nostalgia kicking in, but Limp Bizkit is great. lmao

There is actually some great kpop music out there.

This may not be an unpopular in the outside world but somehow I bet it will be here, the vast majority of metal is just straight noise and incomprehensible yelling to me. I do enjoy when metal songs are covered by bluegrass bands though

The average quality of music in the world doubled the day Kurt Cobain solved his headache problem. Grunge was a disease caused by not changing your clothes, and using too much heroin instead of learning to play instruments and sing.

And, I'm peak GenX and a Seattleite.

People like Hip Hop because it makes them feel cool for listening to it.

People who suscribe to Spotify don't give a shit about musicians.

There are great songs and albums in all genres.

There are terrible songs and albums in all genres.

Listening to an album as it was released, front to back, is the best way to consume music.

I don't care for Dylan or the Beatles. At least I understand the ground-breaking work of the Beatles, but Dylan is incomprehensible.

90% of all radio songs lately have been horrendous covers of old songs, with some of them literally being just that old song, but with a cookie cutter beat under them. The other 10% are just said cookie cutter beats with some generic singer doing an annoying voice over them.

Popular music is becoming more creatively bankrupt than it ever has been.

Mine is: I don't really listen to music

Trent Reznor's original version of Hurt is better than Johnny Cash's version, which is terrible. I strongly dislike him bringing in the religious aspect by changing the lyrics and I just plain don't like his voice.

Yeah, I said it.

I generally don't have any interest in music... I mean, is fine some of the time, but I certainly wouldn't go out of my way for it. I also don't think it should be allowed as "background noise" in public places. It can have profound effects on your mood without you even realizing it's happening.

Bands that title their album random symbols (or a series of them) are assholes.

I'm looking at KMFDM (can't even encode "symbols" accurately) and Justice (their first album, often called latin cross). Both great albums that suffer from fucking horrible visibility because of their shit names.

Guns 'n' Roses sucks.

I just don't listen to Ska because never feels like the time. But whenever I've heard it I've actually liked it.

Beyoncé is not a very good singer.

ABBA = shite.

IMO, obviously.

Old bands such as Joy Division are amazing and most new music doesn't even get close to that.

The vast majority of music without lyrics sucks.

Most unpopular among my friends would be something along the lines of "metal is the best music" or "electronic music/techno sux, because it's all the same".

I like to troll a bit with them, but honestly I do like me some metal. It's so variable, there's progressive Opeth on one side, brutal machinegun Cannibal Corpse on the other, insane meatgrinder Mayhem on the third and groovy jumpy Pantera on fourth. And we're only at the beginning. But I get that some (most) people find it all too heavy. Their loss, not mine ;-)

Coldplay are boring

I can't stand Queen, even though I have respect for their skill. (my highschool had an "arts program" and they bombarded us with musicals, Queen, and some sort of Queen musical)

NIN does nothing for me, and I've tried several albums and owned one. It's just.. nothing soup.

95% of music in any genre is garbage, but you can find the 5% gems if you go looking for it.

There is very little bad music in the world, only wrong ways to "music" to it. Some is meant to be listened to, some danced to, some bonded over to, some created and some thought about.

People who don't enjoy music are somehow missing a part of their humanity.

The Kinks are better than The Beatles

The hipsters are right, popular music directly coorelates to shitty music.

I only want to hear you sing if you're singing your heart out to the void.

That punk died in the early 80's.

Geezer Butler is the most important member of Black Sabbath.

Phil Collins's solo work is mind-numbingly, eye-bleedingly, toe-curlingly boring and awful.

Bomfunk MC's Freestyler is the peak of musical creation. (Ok, prolly no but I love coming back to it.)

(Fwiw, initially I read "triple !" (i.e. !!! or ChkChkChk) in your op comment and thought why?, that's a great band.)

All music without lyrics/singing is background music.

Music is an art and listening to music / going to concert is hobby. It is totally fine not to have a taste for it, for any kind of it.

Not unpopular, just weird: the way to find your favorite song is keeping one as an alarm sound without starting to actively hate it.

Johnny Cash's Hurt is overrated.

Johnny Cash is great, and deserves his legacy, but that cover is mediocre.

Some things that are apparently classics that generally, outside a handful of titles for some of those, bore me to death: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Tool, Radiohead, Metallica…

The Beatles are pretty lowbrow compared to the hype given to them which is based mostly on charisma instead. If they made their song debuts on The Masked Singer, not nearly as many people would be particularly drawn to them.

Many of my friends get super personally offended when I say that phish isn’t a great band

As a comedy music act, Ray Stevens should get into the Rock and Roll HoF before Weird AL Yankovic

Scat is, well, scat

The majority of both Drake's and Kanye's discographies are horrible. I've had this opinion since way before they've had their public drama.

The best AI music is better than most human music of the last few years.

If it's impossible to consistently make good songs. Even an artist whom a person loves will at best make 20% of their songs worth listening to. In a 1 hour set, usually 1-2 songs are worth saving into the library. Anyone who says stuff like "I love this artist's album" is full of crap.

I think The Doors were awful.

Baroque music sounds absolutely shit. Composers try to mix in so many different voices that it’s the musical equivalent of a TV panel show where everyone is shouting over one another.

On that note: harpsichords in ensembles are background noise at best and very few people would notice their absence.

Has it come to this? by The Streets is awful, the worst song I’ve ever heard. It plays a lot on a particular station and it drives me nuts