Madaraki
A River of Pure Piranha
Simple enough. What are your top five pet peeves when it comes to music? What are five things that annoy you in general, no matter who the artist is?
Keep in mind when answering; I'd rather this not just turn into artist bashing. "Lady Gaga" is not an applicable answer. "Excessive use of auto-tune" is. Also, feel free to mention artists who happen to do that thing you don't like.
1: When the singer/artist announces him/herself by name and says they're singing. This just bugs me to no end. IMO; the song should speak for itself. The singer shouldn't have to come out and introduce themselves in the lyrics. Now this doesn't mean I hate stuff like Rick Astley saying "I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling, gotta make you understand" or the like. It's when you get Jason Derulo announcing his name at the start of his songs or Lady Gaga plugging "Gaga" into her lyrics.
Violators: Taio Cruz, Ludacris, Lady Gaga, Jason Derulo
2: Excessive Auto-tune. I can get sometimes altering voices for a specific effect, but if you have the talent to actually sing with your own voice; DO IT.
Violators: Nearly all modern pop.
3: Lack of real instruments. I'm old fashioned. I like hearing actual drums, guitars, keyboards, and the like. If they're electric or whatever, that's even fine too. I'll admit music that sounds like it was programmed can be catchy, but it just isn't the same. Get a real band, guys.
Violators: Again, nearly all modern pop.
4: "Edgy" lyrics. I swear to god if I hear one more song about how you've been "abandoned to tears after it was just all too much to take and you're dying inside to come back from the edge where you were so numb" I'm going to do something to you that'll make those lyrics sound f*****g happy.
Violators: Paramore, Evanescence, and other such bands.
5: bishie boy and bouncy girl. There are many images out there in the music world; be it the goth-lite image of Nightwish, comic book supervillain Lady Gaga, and industrial S&M critic-trolls Rammstein. The two that just bug the crap out of me however, are the bouncy happy party girl images in which the singer tries to come across as hugely exuberant and active and just ends up looking like they've huffed too much glue. To look at the hairier sex; the boy bands who come out looking and acting as though they're asking everyone "am I oozing sex yet? Am I inspiring awe with my half-stoned gaze?"
Violators - M: Muse, Coldplay, HIM
Violators - F: Ke$ha, Katy Perry
Keep in mind when answering; I'd rather this not just turn into artist bashing. "Lady Gaga" is not an applicable answer. "Excessive use of auto-tune" is. Also, feel free to mention artists who happen to do that thing you don't like.
1: When the singer/artist announces him/herself by name and says they're singing. This just bugs me to no end. IMO; the song should speak for itself. The singer shouldn't have to come out and introduce themselves in the lyrics. Now this doesn't mean I hate stuff like Rick Astley saying "I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling, gotta make you understand" or the like. It's when you get Jason Derulo announcing his name at the start of his songs or Lady Gaga plugging "Gaga" into her lyrics.
Violators: Taio Cruz, Ludacris, Lady Gaga, Jason Derulo
2: Excessive Auto-tune. I can get sometimes altering voices for a specific effect, but if you have the talent to actually sing with your own voice; DO IT.
Violators: Nearly all modern pop.
3: Lack of real instruments. I'm old fashioned. I like hearing actual drums, guitars, keyboards, and the like. If they're electric or whatever, that's even fine too. I'll admit music that sounds like it was programmed can be catchy, but it just isn't the same. Get a real band, guys.
Violators: Again, nearly all modern pop.
4: "Edgy" lyrics. I swear to god if I hear one more song about how you've been "abandoned to tears after it was just all too much to take and you're dying inside to come back from the edge where you were so numb" I'm going to do something to you that'll make those lyrics sound f*****g happy.
Violators: Paramore, Evanescence, and other such bands.
5: bishie boy and bouncy girl. There are many images out there in the music world; be it the goth-lite image of Nightwish, comic book supervillain Lady Gaga, and industrial S&M critic-trolls Rammstein. The two that just bug the crap out of me however, are the bouncy happy party girl images in which the singer tries to come across as hugely exuberant and active and just ends up looking like they've huffed too much glue. To look at the hairier sex; the boy bands who come out looking and acting as though they're asking everyone "am I oozing sex yet? Am I inspiring awe with my half-stoned gaze?"
Violators - M: Muse, Coldplay, HIM
Violators - F: Ke$ha, Katy Perry
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