The Music You Hate

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Published 2020-01-20
Why do we hate the music that we do? I think it is partially because of a musical "uncanny valley" where we have a revulsion to things that are somewhat like what we connect with, but fall incredibly flat for some reason or another.

Recommend me some CCM!

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All Comments (21)
  • The worst type of music is definitely "corporate ukulele music" that horrible repetitive ukulele music from commercials. Literally, makes me want to rip out my own hair.
  • @BryanParnala
    "the opposite of love is not hate, but being indifferent. Because love and hate means that you care". What an eye opener.
  • @KpatTX
    for me it's the background music of every single spotify ad
  • “You’re not making Christianity any better. You’re only making rock and roll worse.”
  • @OliviaSNava
    “Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of loving something is being indifferent to it because loving or hating implies that you care about it in one direction or another” - Shawn Crowder Damn Shawn getting out here with the life lessons.
  • What Shawn said reminded me of a quote by Neil Gaiman: "The opposite of 'funny' is not 'serious'. The opposite of 'funny' is 'not funny'."
  • @youtub5599
    "I hate his music and my own music" Relatable
  • @Twisthle
    The entire genre of "Ad Rock", created by U2 and perfected by Imagine Dragons. It should be constrained to car commercials only.
  • @ashypharaoh8407
    Modern folk music where they stomp, clap, whistle and shout "Hey!" Just kill me
  • @shane.dixon_
    When Shawn said “Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of loving something is being indifferent to it. Because loving and hating implies that you care about it.” That struck a chord with me. Good input.
  • @evancookman9853
    I am a minister. I listen to punk and metal, and been in a number of punk bands that were all spectacular failures (I wasn't always a minister). It weirds my church out that i like classic hymns and have a deep dislike for most praise music. They think because I like to listen to Slayer I would for some reason embrace the soft rock show that is called worship on most Sunday mornings. I don't make a fuss about it, but I can relate to your sentiment more than a youtube comment can convey.
  • @ApsaraMenaka
    There is a German lullaby called "Heidschi Bumbeitschi" where basically the mom died and the father then sings this song to his baby boy to get him to "Take a long sleep" where the child "dreams of angels" and yes, you guessed it, dies in the end. I cried and left the room whenever this was sung/played when i was young.
  • @CG10CG20CG3
    A wise man once said "I hate his and my own music"
  • I agree with you on CCM, as a guitar teacher I have had dozens of students over the decades want to learn their fave CCM songs. I've listened, I've written chords, I've "tabbed", I've even not note-for-note transcriptions for small groups; your using the word "insipid" is exactly on-point and the one word I've never used to describe CCM! Even from another room, with two doors closed and virtually unintelligible lyrics, I can still pick it out! Kinda like the smell of a skunk...
  • @erbrferg
    "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" will always drive me to immediate anger. It is completely intolerable.
  • @mm-gg3nq
    I really hate "typical" film scores which we hear almost in every modern commercial movie trailer
  • @Rhythmmical
    Commercial music. Ukulele music, especially with whistling and clapping of any kind. So...cute animal video music.
  • "Our experience with art is deeply personal" I think this is also the reason why it can feel so incredibly hurtful when people crap on the music that you love. Like, my feelings get genuinely hurt when people are negative about the music I love, because so many of my own personal experiences are wrapped up in those songs. It feels like a rejection of me as a person
  • When I was in junior high and high school, I had an hour-long bus ride to and from school, and the bus driver on my route kept the bus' radio tuned to HI-99, "the Wabash Valley's Country Station!" HI-99 being a shamelessly commercial pop country radio station, it played the top few current chart hits over and over, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. This was in the early-to-mid 1990s, when "Boot Scootin' Boogie" and "Achy Breaky Heart" dominated the pop country charts for months at a stretch. I was forced to hear the same small set of $h!tty stupid songs multiple times per bus ride, twice a day, every school day for five years. I don't enjoy hearing even songs I love multiple times in a row, and I never enjoyed pop country at all. It was psychological torture. I'm still pissed off at my bus driver for putting me through that, and I'm 41 years old. I consequently loathe both of those songs, and other pop country songs of the era, with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.