Your Music pet peeves

[M0rp43vs]

Wait, I forgot one. Sampling.

AAARGH, MAKEYOUROWNMUSICYOUUNORIGINALPRICKSANDSTOPSTEALINGFROMPEOPLEWITHTALENT- sorry, had to get that out.
I just dislike how they managed to turn Under pressure, I love Rock and roll, harder better faster stronger, 21rst century schizoid man into boring, bland, UNINSPIRED, STUPID, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH*slap* rap songs and mind you, I don't mind rap songs.

Not really a pet peeve with music, but it annoys me when people call Glados' songs at the ends of the portal games auto tuned when they aren't.

Hard autotune, unless used to effect(Glados

Whoops

 

[Kerboom]

Creepy screamo/growling instead of singing. I will never understand why people would listen to something they can't understand and sounds silly.

This. A million times this.

Also, I dislike any rap I've heard thus far, it's just a person talking. If I wanted that, I'd listen to poetry readings (and those can actually be pretty cool).

 

[The Funslinger]

Wait, I forgot one. Sampling.

AAARGH, MAKEYOUROWNMUSICYOUUNORIGINALPRICKSANDSTOPSTEALINGFROMPEOPLEWITHTALENT- sorry, had to get that out.
I just dislike how they managed to turn Under pressure, I love Rock and roll, harder better faster stronger, 21rst century schizoid man into boring, bland, UNINSPIRED, STUPID, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH*slap* rap songs and mind you, I don't mind rap songs.

Not really a pet peeve with music, but it annoys me when people call Glados' songs at the ends of the portal games auto tuned when they aren't.

Hard autotune, unless used to effect(Glados

Whoops

Oh, the facepalm...

The woman is actually singing. The voice actor is an opera singer, but because she's voicing an AI, they but a robotic effect on her voice. So she sings properly, and they make her voice robotic. They do NOT autotune her. Christ...

Edit: sorry, it just really annoys me. I guess it's an easy mistake to make.

 

[KefkaCultist]

Stereotypical songs of any genre bug the hell out of me.

For example:
-Rap/hiphop songs about gangs, ghetto, money, weed, sex, etc.
-Country songs about trucks, girls, beer, etc.
-Metal songs about satan, killing, etc.

EDIT: Now, a song with one of these themes doesn't instantly make it bad, but it better be damn good to make me care about it.

 

[repeating integers]

-Metal songs about satan, killing, etc.

I've often wondered why nobody else I've seen has remarked on how utterly silly it is that there's a serious metal band called "Megadeth", with album titles like Killing is my business, and business is good!. Now, I could understand it if they were like Alestorm, revelling in their silliness, but this Megadeth band seem completely dead serious about what they do and everyone just accepts it as normal. I need an explanation!

 

[Something Amyss]

Dance music in general. Don't even care what genre, odds are pretty damn good it sucks. It's like, the Michael Bay summer blockbuster.

Most growling and screaming sounds ridiculous. This can ruin a song I otherwise like because I take it about as serious as an LMFAO song.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

Things that erk me are people who spout some pretentious bullshit to defend some piece of complete utter gutter scum of a song or piece of music.

Otherwise, My pet peeve can also be "People who think Dubstep isn't already well over ten years old"

I also dislike Eminem, How many times can you rap about your mother and Vicodin I do not know.

 

[MarkDavis94]

I enjoy heavy music, so when I listen to a new song and I'm really enjoying it because it sounds pretty damn decent. But then it happens. Fucking singing. Singing like someone has their testicles in a vice.

It just sounds so stupid and completely breaks the flow of the song, it just annoys me. It also seems to be the 'only' way to make music.

Intro, Verse, Annoying chorus with stupid singing, 'br00t4' binary breakdown (as someone has already mentioned)

grrr angry face

 

[Shiftygiant]

Probably when the singer repeats a phrase, the title mostly to a uninspired beat and then practice there levels to sound 'deep'. Whilst there as some songs I like that do this (Moves like Jagger had a pretty good beat) songs like Swagger Jagger committed the cardinal sin. Now if you'll excuse me I'll Liston to my Swedish House and classic Rossini

 

[Vault101]

Wait, I forgot one. Sampling.

AAARGH, MAKEYOUROWNMUSICYOUUNORIGINALPRICKSANDSTOPSTEALINGFROMPEOPLEWITHTALENT- sorry, had to get that out.
I just dislike how they managed to turn Under pressure, I love Rock and roll, harder better faster stronger, 21rst century schizoid man into boring, bland, UNINSPIRED, STUPID, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH*slap* rap songs and mind you, I don't mind rap songs.

I love sampling...especially when its done well

 

[Cowabungaa]

Acoustic songs with way too audible guitar squeaks, from the strings or something. To me it sounds like: "Look, I'm playing this acoustically, aren't I sensitive and sophisticated? WELL?! ISN'T IT BRILLIANT?!"

 

[Vault101]

Things that erk me are people who spout some pretentious bullshit to defend some piece of complete utter gutter scum of a song or piece of music.

you don't need to say pretentious things to defend ones music

you just have to say "I like it, it makes me feel x"...because in the end that's all there is to it

 

[Vault101]

Acoustic songs with way too audible guitar squeaks, from the strings or something. To me it sounds like: "Look, I'm playing this acoustically, aren't I sensitive and sophisticated? WELL?! ISN'T IT BRILLIANT?!"

and then you can just hear all those people in your head saying "yeah man! this is REAL music as opoased to that rap/electronic/emo crap!"

 

[omega 616]

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1) You complain about repetitiveness in the lyrics but the music is exactly the same, atleast for the first 30 seconds?

2) More repetitive music and lyrics, I assume with this style of music keeping it slow and peaceful wont keep it's fans happy, so they had to change it quickly.

On topic. I can agree with number 4, especially with pop music, every fucking song is either love or sex. Sex is more done in rap but Rihanna is keeping sex in pop all by herself!

My biggest complaint is definitely how repetitive a lot of songs can be. At about half way through the song I feel like I have listened to it a million times or it's been on an hour. Just this same constant tune and they same lyrics over and over ... it's a form of torture!

Spoiler: some examples

Tell me you don't get the same feeling while listening to this ...

After reading some other posts, bands that can't make up there minds about which vocal style they want. Kitty and Kill switch engage I am looking at you.

Constant growling, dying fetus and such bands ... what the fuck are they "singing" about? Can anybody seriously understand it or what?

What I like to call warbling, Christina Aguilera is one guilty futher mucker for this. Instead of holding a note, she changes it's pitch or something ... she usually does it on things like "YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH"

 

[zelda2fanboy]

I hate it when people use the word "soulful." It's a nonsense word, but it usually means people who use too much melisma and stretch out / mispronounce words pointlessly like they do on American Idol. I can't stand it. I also loathe Amy Winehouse and any Amy Winehouse clones who only exist because she was unreliable and unproductive when she was alive.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

Things that erk me are people who spout some pretentious bullshit to defend some piece of complete utter gutter scum of a song or piece of music.

you don't need to say pretentious things to defend ones music

you just have to say "I like it, it makes me feel x"...because in the end that's all there is to it

I know, but it's people who do spew some garbage a-top of "I like this because I like this and screw you elitist fagbat".

When something is bad and I mean REALLY bad it's called a guilty pleasure, nothing more it's going out the way to give it some form of artistic meaning, Like calling the song "You a stupid hoe" an outlook on modern culture of the youth of today.

 

[mrhappy1489]

I'm going to sound like a snobby hipster for saying this, but I hate that a lot of pop/rock type music nowadays is literally just catching up to Radiohead now. I never actually listened to them up until this this, but it's amazing listening to "The Bends " or "Ok Computer", it just sounds like it was made yesterday which frustrates me (not them the copycats). I mean these guys are classic, these idiots aping it note for note are a scourge on the earth.

 

[razer17]

Rap... well pretty much all modern mainstream rap is absolutely abysmal... with the exception of that one Kid Cudi track that was a hit a few years back...<.<

thanks

and I love me some Kid Cudi..(not a fan of day'n'nite though)

an example of a current pop song with NO annoying party raping/lyrics to ruin it (theres lyrics but they don't ruin the song)

This is not pop, this is proper house, and I fricking love this track. There's a version of this song that's ruined by some twat rapper, though. I don't dislike all rap, but these generic rappers like Pitbull and his ilk annoy me, and they always seem to take good popular house tracks and make them shit. So that's my pet peeve, rubbish rappers ruining really rather excellent songs.

 

[Spitfire]

I hate it when metal bands "over-produce" their records. What I mean by that is, when every single element in a song is equalized and manipulated to sound as clean as possible and at perfect level with everything else. It has become a very common practice, and as a consequence of that, I feel that the genre has lost the raw edge that it once had. Little wonder that one of the few metal genres that I still give a damn about is black metal, where that practice is frowned upon.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Creepy screamo/growling instead of singing. I will never understand why people would listen to something they can't understand and sounds silly.

You can understand it once you get used to it. Avoiding deathcore and metalcore helps too, those are the genres where the singers are the mostly likely to pull out some annoying yappy-dog high screaming bollocks.
I quite like harsh vocals when done right though. It makes the music more challenging, which is good. I don't like being drip fed sugary happy clappy crap like all the morons who just listen to pop.

Repetitiveness, cliches (whether musical or lyrical), boring song structures, excessive beatdowns or breakdowns, silly widdly licks, autotuning, misogyny, lyrics that just amount to boasting, anything with the word 'jagger' in it and Niki Minaj's fucking orange goblin face are all things that will turn me off a song real fast.
That rules out pretty much every pop song ever, a lot of rap and also a fair chunk of metal.

That all said, bands can be repetitive or whatever as long as what they do sounds unique. I tend to only like one or two bands from each subgenre. Eg, I love Dream Theatre, but if another band came along that managed to pull off exactly the same style I wouldn't like them, there'd be nothing to get me interested in their music.