Music that its "acceptible" to like

[LilithSlave]

I will say, however, that rap is not an acceptable form for anyone to like because it is almost OBJECTIVELY NOT MUSIC.

While I'm not much of a fan of hip-hop music, this is certainly not true.

You can call hip-hop music. And as well you can call this and this music.

On the topic of that, I don't like how "hip" that hip hop is. I don't know if there's a universally acceptable music, but I hate how hip-hop artists are treated like kings and queens in the American pop culture. Pop music in the United States is pretty bad, but the hip-hop artists that have occupied the American pop culture have been nothing more than an insipid poison overall.

And it sure is odd how people often criticize European and Asian hip-hop as being somehow inferior to American hip-hop, because I, for one, find the stuff overall vastly more enjoyable than the American scene. You know, if I liked hip-hop, which I generally do not.

But eh, I generally don't like most modern forms of music other than saccharine electronic music, and darkly industrial, and experimental music or varieties. Oh, and some heavy metal and ambient genres. Music was much better, in my opinion, before it was infiltrated by the mixture of r&b derived genres it is today. R&B was hugely influential, and has created most popular music today. Personally, I find the roots of a lot of what I don't like in music, from certain genres of rock, to hip-hop, to pop, to country to most remotely listened to popular music, to be in R&B, personally, I lament it a bit. Heck, I don't even much enjoy our movement to Jazz in modern music. Oh, and Swing too.

Were Jazz, Swing, R&B and such, really phases that modern music had to go through? It would be interesting to see a modern music world where they never happened. I'm sure that music would have been just as good today. I would personally bet, greater. Or, to my taste, at least.

 

[applesandoranges]

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[JoesshittyOs]

How about rather than writing snooty posts accusing others of not making logical sense, you acknowledge that you've been backtracking on your original post the whole damn time? Let's take a look at that first post, if you wanna get technical...

No. I refuse to accept Metallica as a music source. I'm not even a hater of that genre, there songs just plain don't end when they should.

The only thing I really don't accept as music is rap, and pretty much all Death Metal.

I don't know any universally liked music. I think everybody likes the uppity Reggae songs. Don't know anybody who hates "Don't worry be happy"

People are jumping into this argument left and right.

"The only thing I don't accept as music is rap and pretty much all death metal." You're not saying you just don't like it, you're saying you don't accept that it qualifies as music - or at least you're being so vague about your use of the term 'accept' that it beggars belief you would try and argue the status of 'consider' as a weasel word later in the same discussion. The most common reading of your statement is that you believe that rap and death metal are not music. That's gonna irritate some folks.

Yeah, I already explained that I was using a hyperbole there.

Do I honestly consider it not music? No, of course not. Anyone with any common sense could see that. Also, too damn bad that they don't like reading that. They came into this thread fully aware that their taste in music was gonna get bashed, so it's completely their fault for getting mad and trying to challenge me on it.

If someone is going to try to start an argument with me trying to put me off as stupid and ignorant, I am going to get as 'snooty' as possible. That's the only way I can reply without full on calling someone an idiot.

Also, pro-tip: you don't wanna use the word uppity. Baaaaaaad connotations for your African-American co-Escapists, and it doesn't mean what you think it means, you were going for "upbeat".

A quick google search verifies you're right. I think we should take that word back.

 

[Roxor]

I copped a bit of flak in high school for listening to MOD files I'd put onto tape (this was the mid-to-late 1990s, so no MP3 players yet). I heard the "it's not real music" line quite a few times. I tended to either respond with a lecture on how MOD formats work (cue the other person's eyes glazing over) or by telling them that they have no appreciation for perfection.

Chiptunes are still a favourite of mine. Pony chiptunes, doubly so.

 

[lRookiel]

In my opinion, the only thing not acceptable is the shit churning out nowadays all about sex/drugs/partying etc, BECAUSE that is exactly what is causing alot of people in the new generation to become a bunch of morons more focussed on their social life than anything constructive (Causing them to fail in life for some people).

 

[Simulated Eon]

Bob Dylan.

Nobody hates Bob Dylan, and if they say they do, they're quite frankly lying.

I don't hate bob dylan but I can't think of a single thing he has written and really don't care.

I'm sure he has some good songs though I just haven't been listening to him.