Nebraska_HuskersWhat's a song you could never stand hearing?
ANYTHING by Jimmy Buffet
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Console_ModderThere’s entire genres that I don’t like such as country or Christmas music. Specific songs have to be Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney and I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston. Wonderful Christmastime I already don’t like because it’s a Christmas song and almost all of those feel preachy and disingenuous, but a friend described the song as Paul trying out every button and knob on a synth and I can’t unheard that now. I Will Always Love You I just don’t like. The instrumental is there, but that’s all I can say about it since nothing seems to stand out and it just kinda sounds like background noise. And I understand that her vocal work is impressive, but that doesn’t make it a good song. Honestly, the song feels like I’m being yelled at for 4 and a half minutes
southsamuraiHave you heard the original Dolly Parton version of I will always love you? She’s got a less forceful voice in general, and her version was a much gentler delivery on top of that.
Not saying anything about you liking or not liking the song, just curious if it’s Whitney that’s the problem, the arrangement, or the song itself.
Honestly, I tend to be pretty capable of tolerating songs I don’t like. It’s artists and a small range of genres that give me trouble.
About the only song I can think of that comes close was that first backstreet boys song. Can’t remember the name, but it was the one that was all over the radio from their first album.
I liked other songs, but that one was such a generic pile of dreck that it came close to being intolerable from the beginning, and eventually got there. But even that, at first, it was just something I didn’t like and disliked strongly, but I could sit through it if necessary. It took a week or two before it reached nails-on-chalkboard levels.
Now, genre wise, contemporary christian just grates on me. Even the songs that are otherwise almost listenable suffer from the bland composition and empty lyrics that make them annoying. Since I’ve also dealt with people in the industry around the genre, including performers, knowing that those lyrics are utter bullshit to the vast majority of the idiots singing them makes it a very unpleasant thing.
CC suffers from the same cookie cutter writing that Nashville country does, but lacks the redeeming qualities of at least being catchy if you don’t pay attention to the lyrics.
Which, cookie cutter country isn’t something I can handle a lot of at once. But I can tolerate it.
Then again, I listen to death and black metal regularly, so I know damn good and well that what one person can enjoy is abrasive to others, and vice versa. So I tend not to judge the listener by what they listen to.
agamemnonymousBorn to Run
dont stop believing. makes my ears bleed