What corporate music type do you hate the most? For me it's those generic electronic rock(?) things that play in truck commercials and E3 events, with the minor pentatonic riffs and loud digital percussions that all sound the same. I think it's even more insufferable than the yooka laylee songs, because they're so loud, and they think they're so badass
Every radio station playing contemporary music here has the most bland mix of american pop/edm and native pseudo-rap.
The songs I hate the most are often by Pink. She sings nonsensical lyrics as repetitive as the music, often in a vaguely accusatory tone. Then people say she is a "music activist", because she insulted Bush once for being rich and doing drugs (we literally had to listen to this in school as an example of "music activism").
>>7608What do you think of christian rock bands like Creed?
>>7610>often in a vaguely accusatory tone.Oh god I hate this kind of music. I call it butthurt music. It's like most of the songs on the radio today.
Why can't people just make pretty songs about how sad they are instead of all this butthurt shit?
>>7610Really not my thing, but I don't really find it that bad personally, because it looks like effort was put into it, I guess. I hate being the enlightened centrist, but I can see why ppl would hate and why ppl would love this. It's not irredemable like nickelback or imagine dragons
>>7615I'm not using music theory terms to be pretentious, I'm just giving an accurate description so yous can know what i'm talking about. I think u'r the pretentious one for name dropping mozart
>>7621These two singers obviously sound very distinct, yet their songs emotional content irritatingly clashes with its delivery. I think this is a problem caused by the stylistic ossification of contemporary pop music:
A pop song cannot engage fully with negative emotions, but must retain a certain aloofness.
Complementary to the emotional register of pop, the musical register does not allow for an interesting enough tension/release dynamic, to make the listener emotionally invested.
To mask the emotional shallowness of the music, some singers go for an overly dramatic delivery with pregnant pauses and irregular vocal rhythm in general.
>>7622The restriction in tone has already been present for many decades. Still I think this particular dissonance started when buttrock bands merged traces of an abrasive sound pioneered by the likes of Flipper with vaguely depressive love songs. The result both sonically and lyrically remained within what radio stations deemed acceptable:
>Around 2001, Chad Kroeger started "studying every piece, everything sonically, everything lyrically, everything musically, chord structure. I would dissect every single song that I would hear on the radio or every song that had ever done well on a chart and I would say, 'Why did this do well?'" Kroeger said that Nickelback's single "How You Remind Me" sold so well because it was about romantic relationships, a universal subject, and contained memorable hooks.>>7616Creed is literally christian Nickelback though.
>>7621Male butt-hurtedness is even worse because it's far more self-centered than female calls for more attention and respect.
<Female pop singer"I wish my man loved me better. I guess I'll find a better man"
<Kurt Cobain and Cobain-wannabes"I am too good/authentic/special for this world, please pay me loads of attention and hear me moan about wanting to kill myself."
>>7633Final exhibit
Something about the desperate imitation of musicality and "folkness" as well as the horribly lit and staged music videos that make you feel like you're k-holing
>>7782Why this chick show up with a handbag
Why do pop vocalists do this whisper-singing shit
Why
>>7633>>7632>>7631I thought I wouldn't have anything to add to this thread because I find it hard to hate any genre of music exactly, but Stomp Clap Hey is the most wishy-washy shit I've ever heard. I hated it at the time, and I'm glad it died.
I listened to The Staves' first album not long ago, released in 2012, and some of the tracks came dangerously close to this sound. I liked the rest of the album, though.
>>7782Boy's a Liar is the prototypical post-Roe v Wade pop song
I couldn't come up with something more misogynistic if I tried
>>7898Since the mods are being such whiny manchildren, Imma post my opinion again.
Punk and early urban R&B are two of the most insufferable corporate drivel.
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