Older Guys: Does Today's Music Annoy You?

[The Resilient]

I'm 33 and 90% of pop culture annoys me.

Same, I've been listening to Chevelle,HELLYEAH,Trivium and Drowning Poolfor the past 8 years.
I can't stand any of the sh** that comes on the radio.

Hell I deleted Spotify because they'd constantly suggest garbage to me. Switched to Amazon music (cheaper) and less SJW bombardment whenever I open the app.
Nümetal/Hard Rock/Alternative/Grunge Metal were my flavors growing up in the late 90s early 2000s . Can't change what I like

 

[66Scorpio]

If and when I listen to music it is CFNY 102.1 The Edge.

For reference my birth year is 1966.

My wife is 17 years younger and she brought in the music that defines our relationship.

 

[Syberpunk]

Guys (Mostly young) on acostic guitar with bum fluff beards whisper singing because they actually can't sing. Perhaps they're trying to to sound world weary or have a Johnny Cash hardman persona. They sound like posers.

Fucking enunciate and say it loud and clear, belt it out son! Stop sounding like your constipated.

I can't unsee it or hear now, they always sound like they're in pain or just plain whining. The whole last decade has been full of this.
Bring back power anthems.

And this:

 

[TigerMandingo]

Does anyone else just not care that much about music? I could go for months (probably years) without listening to anything and still be ok. I don’t mean to say that I hate music, I just don’t really seek it out and I feel that it’s always being forced on us wherever we go.

They banned smoking but are now blasting tunes in every restaurant, bar, convenience store, supermarket and mall. It’s insane.

 

[Rigsby]

For someone who's a few years over 40, I find that today's pop music so annoying that I literally can't listen to it without it producing anxiety in me.

I simply cannot stand to be around it, even if it's playing as background music in a restaurant or bar. And that brings me to the problem: you cannot get away from this crap.

I don't like today's Hollywood films, but that's an easy fix. I just don't buy tickets to shows and instead I opt to stay home and watch older movies which don't promote the Globohomo agenda.

But contemporary pop music is thrust into our lives whether we want to hear it or not. I can't go to a restaurant or bar without being exposed to it. Even if the place is filled with older people, for some reason these places think I want to hear the pop star puppets of today instead of the much better music I grew up on.

It becomes a real problem too when you're out with friends, especially younger friends who grew up listening to these singers/bands and don't seem to mind it. If you protest, you come across as a complainer.

And even if you are with others who think like you, where do you to escape from this brainwashing? Nearly every establishment pumps this genre through their speakers. So you're assaulted by it wherever you go.

I'm interested in knowing if there are others here who feel the same way and how it's affected them.

Got to hand it to you Salinger, you old catcher in the rye, you!

Well played sir.

Time and time again the members of this forum have been warned about data harvesters, but still, they can not help themelves. Spill their guts they must.

It's an emotive subject.

This has been one of the better 'can-oppeners' I've ever seen. Even experienced members lining up just to 'let it all out'. Sad.

For fuck's sake. Get a grip!

This poster is not your friend. No one cares!

Stop crying like little schoolgirls about how 'de big nassty musix'.

"OLDER GUYS" - demographic.

"I'm 92 and I still love hip hop"

"I'm 47 and I still remember when America was Green"

"I'm 99 and nearly dead and don't care anymore"

How do you do Fellow kids?

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The OP has put in so much effort. He's given so much back to you, hasn't he? All that emotional reward.

You are being clowned.

I don't liket to see my bro's being clowned.

Get a fucking grip.

NO one cares about your pussy taste in music.




I find it kind of funny

I find it kind of sad

Happy Birthday!

 

[No More Mr. Soy Boy]

I think older people have never understood the music the youth listen to, but you can't argue that today it's legit to be questioning it.



I think this is a good example of how degenerate shit has gone nowadays haha.

I hear these millennials in my country listen to gangster rap and it's absolutely horrendous. Some dumb monkeys talking in auto tune about how much gangster they are, have women and nice cars and in the music videos you can see these low IQ freaks doing a wheelie on bikes in some immigrant suburb.

The gangster culture is extremely glorified here in Scandinavia.

 

[RWIsrael]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yRFAFkLEdm0

Yep hate that gangsta shit

 

[Salinger]

For someone who's a few years over 40, I find that today's pop music so annoying that I literally can't listen to it without it producing anxiety in me.

I simply cannot stand to be around it, even if it's playing as background music in a restaurant or bar. And that brings me to the problem: you cannot get away from this crap.

I don't like today's Hollywood films, but that's an easy fix. I just don't buy tickets to shows and instead I opt to stay home and watch older movies which don't promote the Globohomo agenda.

But contemporary pop music is thrust into our lives whether we want to hear it or not. I can't go to a restaurant or bar without being exposed to it. Even if the place is filled with older people, for some reason these places think I want to hear the pop star puppets of today instead of the much better music I grew up on.

It becomes a real problem too when you're out with friends, especially younger friends who grew up listening to these singers/bands and don't seem to mind it. If you protest, you come across as a complainer.

And even if you are with others who think like you, where do you to escape from this brainwashing? Nearly every establishment pumps this genre through their speakers. So you're assaulted by it wherever you go.

I'm interested in knowing if there are others here who feel the same way and how it's affected them.

Got to hand it to you Salinger, you old catcher in the rye, you!

Well played sir.

Time and time again the members of this forum have been warned about data harvesters, but still, they can not help themelves. Spill their guts they must.

It's an emotive subject.

This has been one of the better 'can-oppeners' I've ever seen. Even experienced members lining up just to 'let it all out'. Sad.

For fuck's sake. Get a grip!

This poster is not your friend. No one cares!

Stop crying like little schoolgirls about how 'de big nassty musix'.

"OLDER GUYS" - demographic.

"I'm 92 and I still love hip hop"

"I'm 47 and I still remember when America was Green"

"I'm 99 and nearly dead and don't care anymore"

How do you do Fellow kids?

The OP has put in so much effort. He's given so much back to you, hasn't he? All that emotional reward.

You are being clowned.

I don't liket to see my bro's being clowned.

Get a fucking grip.

NO one cares about your pussy taste in music.



I find it kind of funny

I find it kind of sad

Happy Birthday!

A little paranoid, aren't we?

Data harvesting? Nope. Just interested in how others are coping with this onslaught of crap we're subjected to every day.

I am though a little disappointed that it's turned into a video repository thread. I was hoping to hear more about how others deal with this torture when out with friends or trying to date girls who enjoy this music.

It's cost me friends because I walked away from the club scene. However, even with the hot girls there, I could not stand the punishment anymore.

 

[ilostabet]

I was hoping to hear more about how others deal with this torture when out with friends or trying to date girls who enjoy this music.

Alright.

I don't go to places where they play anything post-1998. If I must, I either have headphones on with some musical antibodies or I get out of there as quickly as possible. My wife has good taste in music. All my friends have good taste in music.

It's not that difficult escaping the crap the culture feeds you if you are not an alpha consumer. Don't go the cinema. Don't go to clubs. Don't go to restaurants. Don't go to festivals. Just go where nature is and people aren't. It's not that difficult.

If you are caught in the middle of it (because living in the city makes it unavoidable sometimes) just act as if you are an anthropologist studying a particularly annoying and idiotic tribe, observing their disgusting customs and horrible rituals, realize that their ancestors are the same as yours and produced beautiful, creative and inspiring music and think to yourself: Evolution is clearly a hoax.

Then get the hell out of there.

 

[Cr33pin]

Don't move to the Philippines. They have the worst taste in music in the universe and blast it at full volume everywhere. Usually two different songs at the same time, plus a TV going as well.

Unless things have really changed since the last 4 years when I was there, or you have shit taste in music.... then I highly disagree. One of my favorite parts about the Phils was the music they had playing every where. It was a lot of 80s jams and ballads and Ice Ice Baby in the malls. IF you don't like that..... there is no hope for you

 

[CynicalContrarian]

No pop-tart will ever create a song with this much impact.

 

[Aurini]

TooFine complains like a grandpa about "today's music"...

So since you and your girl have different tastes, I'm interested in knowing how this affects your relationship with her.

Does she like your music?
Do you fight over the radio dial?
Does your taste in older music limit where you take her on dates, etc?

Oh, no, there is no conflict at all. Pardon me for painting a bleak picture.

She loves 90% of the same music as me. She can't handle 4 straight hours of Bach solo cello or late-period Coltrane, but for one album -- if I choose it -- we are on the same page.

She just has far lower standards on what constitutes music, and so will allow a ton more in to her purview.

We live together, so music isn't an issue. I will tolerate music I don't love, just like she will, if it's within an acceptable threshold.

For instance, in front of me, she plays no rap/hip hop, period. Even though she likes some of it, that stays headphones/solo time only.

On my side, I keep the most intense improv jazz to my personal listens. Or Dylan albums, she can't handle more than a few Dylan songs in a row.

So we just pick a handful of CDs (if in the car) or records (at home) that we are in the mood for that day, and then narrow it down from there.

I can't stand the radio, so I ask her not to play it when I am in the car. She, however, is content to let the radio play when by herself. But generally the music she likes is decent, it's just not something I would choose to listen to always with my very limited time on earth.

Also, there are the few times when she has introduced me to a new song/band I did enjoy, so that is worth it.

My taste (in hating most live, local music) means I decline going to concerts with her most times. But actually, for 2/4 birthdays that we have been dating, she has gotten us concert tickets for my birthday (meaning she bought tix to artists I like, for us both to go).

You inspired a tweet:

 

[questor70]

I think part of the problem is I don't think enough people appreciate music for the music anymore. They said music videos devalued music back in the 80s but now I think image has become so important that the music is sort of superfluous. For instance, remember Open Gangnam Style?



The industry is effectively dead. And in its place pop stars are "lifestyle brands" and music videos are publicity stunts.

Youth today are desensitized and they lack meaning in their lives (beyond SJW self-righteousness) and so they gravitate towards anything that provides enough stimulation, and it takes a LOT to stimulate them. That's why Youtube stars tend to talk as fast as auctioneers and scream yell and swear. Pop culture is the equivalent of "cutters" who jab their arms because they are so numb to life that the pain is comforting.

There is a very small minority out there who actively listen to music, appreciate musicianship, key into the emotions of songs. And when they do that, they are probably vibing on covers, and even then somewhat tongue in cheek in our Ready Player One style end-of-culture post-post-post-modernism.

 

[Lost in Transfiguration]

As a zoomer it's even annoying to me.

One, I blame the record companies for using formulaic songwriting and the same two dang producers for every single pop song:

Every song you love was written by the same two guys

After Backstreet’s success, Cheiron and Martin were now well known in the music world. PoP would not get to see how his method took over American pop music, as he died of stomach cancer in 1998, at age 35.

Martin became the bearer of the Swedish pop torch, and as Jive Records tried to determine a direction for an unknown teenage singer named Britney Spears, it turned to him.

He had written a song called, “…Baby One More Time,” for TLC. When they rejected it, he brought it to Spears, who sold 500,000 copies of the single the day it was released.

In addition to making Spears a star, the song was the first of what is now 21 No. 1 singles in the U.S. for Martin, including songs for *NSync (“It’s Gonna Be Me”), Pink (“So What”), and Maroon 5 (“One More Night”).

Martin has played a pivotal role in Katy Perry’s career, co-writing and/or producing hits including “I Kissed a Girl,” “California Gurls,” and “Teenage Dream.”

His three most recent No. 1 songs came from Taylor Swift’s blockbuster release, “1989” — “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space” and “Bad Blood.”

Martin co-wrote seven and co-produced nine of the 13 tracks on the album, which was the best seller of 2014 and might just capture that title again in 2015.

When a New York DJ named Lukasz Gottwald, a former pot dealer who later spent six years as the guitarist for the house band on ”Saturday Night Live,” wanted to start producing records, he sought out Martin, who became first his mentor, then his partner.

Shortening his professional name to Dr. Luke, he followed Martin in becoming one of the industry’s top producers, working on hits including Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend,” Flo Rida’s “Right Round,” and Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.”

PoP, Martin and their collaborators and disciples have had such a strong influence on modern pop music that “Swedish hitmakers supplied one quarter of all the hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014.”

This is the 80/20 rule. Or a more extreme version of it.

There for sure is also some fault to online music sales and spotify, which have destroyed the concept of an album in favor of releasing singles.

 

[thatguywhoisthatguy]

Yes its unbearable

but i do use it as an opportunity to redpill co workers if the song is obviously promoting an agenda, for example, pointing out that every song with a white vocalist is whining about some woman like an effeminate bitch.

 

[Kurgan]

I'm starting the mid-30's age range and I don't like today's music after reading things from places like The Vigiliant Citizen and other sources on how musicians and actors are passed around to sweaty producers like a party favor.

I'm more into the the grunge/alternative era, there seemed to be less propoganda. I've recently started to listen to Pearl Jam and Collective Soul.

 

[Tail Gunner]

I dont care what anyone says, rap over the last few years is lightyears ahead of the dark soulja boy laffy taffy era. This is a good time to be a rap / hip hop fan.

Musically, African-Americans had it all: blues, jazz, R&B, soul, Motown, funk, etc. All good.

Rap and hip hop not only set back black music, but also black culture, for generations. A real shame.

I literally cannot listen to rap or hip hop for more than five seconds before becoming disgusted and seeking an escape from it. If rap or hiphop plays during a film, I fast forward the film without even caring about what I might miss.

 

[Tail Gunner]

I love all music.

When you start being inflexible enough to see the value of modern music, that means you are officially "old".

Not passing judgment, this is just my opinion. Good or bad, like it or not, I worship all music. Could be a aborigine banging two sticks together.

I will give money to anybody on the street if they are playing real music.

What you just described is part of the war on Western civilization, e.g., equating the efforts of mediocrity with a culture of great and glorious beauty based on the efforts of the best, the brightest, and the most inspired.

 

[Eusebius]

I love all music.

When you start being inflexible enough to see the value of modern music, that means you are officially "old".

Not passing judgment, this is just my opinion. Good or bad, like it or not, I worship all music. Could be a aborigine banging two sticks together.

I will give money to anybody on the street if they are playing real music.

What you just described is part of the war on Western civilization, e.g., equating the efforts of mediocrity with a culture of great and glorious beauty based on the efforts of the best, the brightest, and the most inspired.

Lemon's post should be in the textbook under "Boomer Posting".

-worried about being old instead of owning his tastes regardless of whether it's "cool" not.
-applauds natives clacking sticks together, implicitly groups it with Bach.
-shows no evidence of actual knowledge or passion about music. If he actually liked the aboriginal stick clacking, he'd show some knowledge about it. But it's just virtue signaling.

 

[John Dodds]

At 63 I listen mostly to Reggaeton and Bachata


Clean Bandit managed to incorporate Reggaeton in one of their songs.