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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So-called dead air songs -- usually progressive rock where keyboards dominate -- or soft bells, drums and low harmonies that can add up to 3 to 4 minutes to an a song.

As long as I enjoy the song, I don't care about any of that other stuff; I do not look down my nose at anything and I've got no rules that a song has to follow.

I'd likely enjoy many songs that you hate and vice versa. It's all good! 

@frankmc195 I share none of your complaints.

Your #3 grievance I can’t make heads or tails of.

You say “carrying a tune to me doesn’t make a good singer” immediately after saying you hate “singers who can’t sing well but think they can.”

I don’t follow.

I’m curious as to which songs you find antithetical to these transgressions.