I seem to be part of a dying breed of folks who still find value in CDs. Granted my regular listening has leaned more and more towards Spotify in recent years (as well as the radio, which I've always been a fan of having on most of the time) but I still like to buy CDs from time to time to listen to in the car, especially on long car trips. If I want to support a band after a concert I'll often buy their CD from the merch booth. I'm also a sucker for novelty sets such as video game OSTs and the like. Special/Collector editions that contain full OSTs are a sizable selling point for me (although if it's just a 10-track sampling or whatever, meh).
Oh, here's one:
Modern Country is trash. There hasn't been a good country song written after 2008. All of'em these days are either about sex, parties, or superficial 'country' traits like tractors, farms, or small towns. None of these have the heart and soul, and most importantly stories of classic country. Songs like Fancy and Rose in Paradise were actual stories with characters that made you feel and care, not just these glorified pop songs that rock the radios today.
Course, that's just my opinion.
I know many people instinctually turn on music while they're doing another activity (driving, drawing, etc.), but I find that to be really distracting. Music only hinders my ability to concentrate on anything. I like music, but the radio in my car stays off while I'm driving! Off I say!
Most people give me weird looks when I talk about this, so it's probably an unpopular opinion about listening to music.
Recent times collabs are trash. Are you telling me that you needed 4 famous singers to compose that absolute sh*t? Sorry but you wasted everyone's time.
All pop singers from 2000 to 2021 can disappear from the industry and I won't miss anyone. I perhaps would not even notice at all.
The type of music you listen doesn't make you smarter or dumber.
The fact that you can put random rap part into your non-rap song doesn't mean that you should. Some songs could be much better without those parts. To be fair some artist pull this off nicely, so it's case by case but I don't like it more often than I like it.
I've seen many people online that only listen to metal, where vocals are all screams and growls and... How? I need at least a few seconds of clean vocals in a song. Let my ears rest for a while.
Nickelback is okay.
I don't mind listening to music in other languages than English. I love Japanese music and I can understand only some of the lyrics. In some cases I even wish I didn't understand them at all.
Country music doesn't really bother me.
I like new BMTH more than the old BMTH.
And a really controversial one: I don't like Vocaloids. Just not my cup of tea.
I also love CDs, and also still buy vinyls (new and old). I have a huge amount of cassettes and magnetic tapes and 78rpm. Collectors, signed stuff etc too, but only for my top favorite music, or when they are very aesthetically pleasing (actually waiting for some right now, but I think Covid & Christmas got it lost ).
Digital is practical, but I could not imagine living with only that..
- K-pop fans are low hanging fruits according to many other music communities, but purposely trolling and baiting them just don't make you better.
- Every music fandom has their own bad apple. Classical music fans can be as cringy as EDM fans.
- Billie Eilish's voice (or rather the way she sings) somehow makes me impatient.
- I don't get the "I don't understand what they're saying, so I don't like it." Bitch do you understand violin language in your instrumentals?
- Unclean vocals when done right is a work of art. I like "Soprano and gravel" vocal dynamic.
- Crypton's vocaloid sucks compared to other companies', they're just happen to be the forefront of Vocaloid because Miku gone viral and everybody is simping for her. They're the epitome of overrated.
Yes, I agree! I like to listen to music when I’m drawing or cleaning, but can’t listen to it when I’m studying. And sometimes I can’t listen to music and understand a conversation at the same time, so people get confused/annoyed when I mute the tv or turn down the car radio to actually process what they’re saying.
OH yes there are bad fans everywhere.. One of the worst fans I ever personally met was a classical music fan (and.. reasonably famous classical composer. Disgraceful...). Met a few frustrating metal fans too; (bad) metal fans seem to be specialists of 'I'm all for individual freedom... for me but not for you'. (classical and metal are the only two communities I was ever part of for long periods of time, even if I listen to much more diverse things, but I'm sure it's the same everywhere)...
For me the text is part of the work, so I don't like not knowing what is said, but I always take the time to find a translation if I like the music;. i.e., I don't like not knowing but I learn instead of rejecting.
Mixed vocals...
Unclean/Soprano is not my fav, though, I prefer less contrast, but that is just nitpicking.