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You have your big groups and your indie bands, your classical composers and your jazz legends. You have the pop stars who have been around for decades and the Latin hits that consistently rank high on the charts. And then there are the music tropes: the common and overused songwriters’ clichés that seem to make their way into every single genre, from rap to rock ’n’ roll and hip-hop.
If you’re into songwriting and music production, you know how hard it is to come up with fresh ideas. Every chord, drum fill, melody, and even lyrics get recycled over and over again, and it’s getting harder to find something that hasn’t already been done or doesn’t sound suspiciously familiar. You’ve surely been there, listening to a new tune and thinking, “Hey, doesn’t this sound like that song?”
We all have music formulas that we secretly like, while others have gotten so boring and annoying that we’re ready to rip our headphones off and throw them across the room. So which tropes in music are trite to the point that people explicitly said they couldn’t stand them anymore? That’s what we’ll find out today, thanks to a Reddit thread that asked people to name the music clichés they’re sick of hearing. From the classic “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back” love story to excessive auto-tune, we’re calling out all the overused music elements that make people want to hit the skip button!
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#1
"Naming oneself after a mobster, a god, or having the name Lil'."
Confused Duck 2 years ago
I feel like "Fat Harry" is a perfectly good rapper name
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#2
"Love songs normalizing cheating... Like the singer saying they can't help it, dont tell my xyz, lines like "i know it's wrong but it feels good". Please stop. Oh and kids choir."
StrangeOne 2 years ago
"Every morning there's a halo hanging from the corner my girlfriend's 4 post bed..." Kill it with fire.
#3
"Hearing the "All I want for Christmas is you" song every christmas."
Missy Corron 2 years ago
I sing it with shoes (started as a joke with my littles) jewels (joke with hubby) but IRL I can't stand her!! She isn't a good person in any way!
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I'm only ok with the song when watching the movie Love Actually and I haven't seen it in a few years
#4
"When singers start randomly start listing location names in songs. Most of the time it has nothing to do with the rest of the song. The one that bugs me the most was when Jennifer Lopez said it in one of her songs. She once sang: "Brazil, Morocco, London to Ibiza Straight to LA, New York, Vegas to Africa." What kind of dumb arse flight plan is that? You start off in Brazil and then go to Morocco. From Morocco, you go to London. That's not too bad so far. But then you go back down to Ibiza. Then you go all the way back to LA. Then, rather than to Vegas first, you fly all the way to the other side of the USA and then head back Vegas. And then, fly all the way back to Africa. Which, by the way, you have already been to because you went to Morocco. Makes no sense."
Nobody 2 years ago
Crossed the deserts bare man, breathed the mountain air man…
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A Wild Bean 2 years ago
Ah yes- Country, country, city, island, city, state, city, continent. Makes sense.
William Dennett 2 years ago
I like this song, but the way she pronounces “Africa” as “æf•REEK•uh” always annoyed me.
Kate Haslam 2 years ago
Riots on the streets of Miami, riots on the streets of Chicago... on the streets of Long Beach... and San Francisco... riots on the streets of Kansas City... Tuscaloosa, Alabama... Cleveland, Ohio...
#5
"Girls like Mariah Carey who think that because they can warble all over the range, think that they should and that it improves a song. It is like the singing equivalent of a car skidding on ice, all over all the lanes and you are just wincing waiting for it to end."
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
Carey once stated in an interview that while she inherited her mother's operatic singing range, she never really learned to control those wild notes. So she just worked it to advantage.
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
"Just because you can doesn't mean you should." Call me a dog if you want, but I don't appreciate those sustained dog whistle notes, they hurt my ears.
Caitlyn Davis 2 years ago
Yea there can definitely be too much stuff like that in a song, I feel like some is okay, but there is a point where its too much
Fiona Parky 2 years ago
Thank you! She gives me a headache. She warbles every side of the tune but never actually hits it. I have actually asked shops to change the album because she annoys me so much. The tune is right there Mariah. Try hitting the notes for once.
NetworkNate 2 years ago
I always say that they just like the sound of their own voice. I don't like it at all, though. I completely despise it.
#6
"Taking two lines of lyrics and stretching them into a 4 minute song."
Fiona Parky 2 years ago
Perfect example. “No limits” by 2unlimited. The word no is actually used so many times it’s uncountable
Caitlyn Davis 2 years ago
THIS is so annoying fs when it repeats over... and over.... and over..... and over again
#7
"DJ Khaled screaming his name."
#8
"Sirens. Screw anyone who puts a siren in their song, that is not an instrument."
Caroline Grova 2 years ago
I can't agree. But then my daddy was a cop....from the east side of Chicago....
YoungMoneyMilli-Onaire 1 year ago
Mrs officer? Bobby V provides his own siren, thank u very much
William Dennett 2 years ago
Remember the very early 2000s when every euro-trance song had an explosion in the breakdown? Good times.
Luna 2 years ago (edited)
Only songs that do this well are from girl groups. (I stand corrected. Listen to the YouTube link)
User# 6 2 years ago
Allow me to disagree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y64211sjSko
Load More Replies... Esme Weatherwax 2 years ago
Someone's knocking at the door someone's ringing the bell
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Adventurous_Yak_9234 wrote: "Pop remixes of old songs." asking--questions replied: "But what if it's a painfully slow, stripped down version with flat, melodramatic vocals? That's always great art, right?"
Fiona Parky 2 years ago
I will die on this hill! The song “hurt” by Johnny Cash was just incredible and I think even 9 inch nails would acknowledge it was a fantastic cover.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
Johnny Cash can't sing. He can't sing in the most amazing way.
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Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I looooove Richard Cheese covers like Down With The Sickness. They're fantastic 🤣
William Dennett 2 years ago
Ah yes, the theme song to every dark, gritty crime thriller in the past 10 years.
the shrimp whisperer 2 years ago
YES. there should be a rule that no one is going to be able to cover chop suey cause all the covers are cringe
#10
"Saying who you are at the beginning of the song or something along the lines of "You already know who it is!" No... we really don't..."
William Dennett 2 years ago
DJ Khaled’s biggest contribution to music is showing up in a song and yelling his own name.
#11
"Na na na's, hey hey's, whoa whoa's, and yeah yeah's."
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
I loved Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart until she gets to the emotional, tragic climax and then totally ruins it by going "Whoo!"
Ingrid Jeffers 2 years ago
And aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah or oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo is also just unnecessary. Don't take up the whole song howling at the moon, actually sing words!
#12
"This is specifically about Contemporary Christian, but these 3 minute songs are getting stretched out to 10 minutes. The song runs its course, but then goes back into the bridge and spends 5 minutes repeating it, lowering the instrumental until it's acapella, and then just when you think it's faded out, the drums start going again and it swells back into the chorus, and then the cycle REPEATS???? It's ridiculous. I might understand it if it only happened when the songs were played live, and everyone was really feeling it, but this happens in the recordings, which is simply unacceptable. There's a few songs that I really like but always skip after the first 3 minutes because there's only repetition from there."
Lydia 2 years ago
Not much different than some of the non-Christian music though... And still better than in the old days when they had like one, two or three minutes songs and then you had to sing them twice, trice or whatever zillion times... Or that they make you repeat the last sentence forever... But hey - that's not just Christian music. Btw ever read Psalm 136 - David did the same in endless repeating ( assuming he wrote it). So, be happy to hear three minutes and then skip if that is what makes you happy :)
Blaze Fitzwater 2 years ago
As a Christian, I LMBOROTFL @ your Psalm 136 reference. 🤣#FACTS
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"In the early 2000’s I don’t know why everyone found it necessary to fit the word "tonight" in to the song as much as possible."
SassyFrassy 2 years ago
Coooooome tomorrow, tomorrow I'll be gone saaaaave tonight
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Oerff On Tour 2 years ago
Tonight Tonight It all began tonight I saw you and the world went away Tonight Tonight
#14
"I hate handclaps. I also hate excessive use of chanting, ESPECIALLY when they get a group of children to chant lyrics. Seriously, wtffffff."
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
🎶You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need 🎶
Zach Heimann 1 year ago
The children part is annoying in damn near every song except Another Brick In The Wall Part 2.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
There's something about handclaps I hate, too. Not everyone is keeping to the beat. Especially when it's already got a beat in the song. Clapping to the beat is not helping the beat. If anything the clapping is drowning it out.
#15
"Beautiful intros that resolve into a totally predictable and boring maintro."
Donkey boi 2 years ago
The title sequence for 'National Treasure: Edge of History' comes to mind. A fantastic bit of guitar that leads you to think it's building up to something awesome, only to just... Meh! Then it gives you the guitar again and you think 'This time...!' Only it's meh again.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
The first song I heard like this was Genie In a Bottle. Totally thought the bold piano intro was leading up to something else.
#16
"Everyone has to use some extreme inflection but it just kills it. That's why I hate remixes and modernized covers of old songs."
#17
"That raspy whisper indie female voice... idk how else to describe it. It’s typically paired with just an acoustic guitar."
#18
"Constant songs about relationships. How about some new topics? That’s one of the reasons that I like “Lights” by Ellie Goulding. It’s a pop song about her childhood fear of the dark."
Imperial Guard 2 years ago
Yeah! I like when songs are used as a storytelling medium, or an emotional outlet, rather than dissing your ex
Bored Retsuko 2 years ago (edited)
However, songs that appear to be a love song at first glance but are really about something darker are interesting. (Drug addiction, stalking...)
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
Listen to Starset. Sure, they do have love songs, but also songs about space, with science themes, uplifting / encouraging songs, political songs, whatever you wish for.
Confused Duck 2 years ago
Also, songs that claim they aren't love songs, but are. "this ain't a heartbreak anthem" - Then what is it?! Sounds like an anthem about heartbreak. It's the literal things that annoy me.... Also Scrubs by TLC - no good reason, just a s**t song :)
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Yeah, I've been thinking about this a lot. There are ton of songs I enjoy that aren't about relationships. Or at least not all romantic relationships. I get drawn to songs about feelings and dealing with inner turmoil. Garbage is one of my favourites and same with Nightwish, Within Temptation and Sirenia. Depeche Mode is another. Delerium is a classic to me.
#19
"Look so fine / Make you mine."
Donkey boi 2 years ago
Give a dog a bone / over hills I roam / cappuccino with the foam / Rims with the chrome / Hair needs a comb / Living in a dome / Garden's got a Gnome / Reading dusty tomes / While I'm laying prone
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"The annoying hi-hat beat found in many modern rap songs. Old school rap had a variety of beats, but I swear I hear the same one in half of rap songs today."
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Just can't get into rap after early 2000's. Also still can't believe mumble rap is a thing and not someone being made fun of
#21
"Whenever the song stops halfway through and the singer starts doing a really long, dramatic monologue. That one Alicia Keys song is like that and I always turn it off."
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
"One general law leading to the advancement of all organic beings is multiply. Therein, let the strongest live and the weakest die. Eventually, a species can become complacent. At that point, a de-evolution can occur. A spiral downwards signalling an end of that life form." (If you know what song is it, I automatically like you)
Caitlyn Davis 2 years ago
I feel like a short monologue,, like maybe one of 2 lines at the very beginning is fine, ( Alien - Han) but if its too long its j annoying
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I hate it when they do their monologue but make it so personalized that no one can really sing a long to it without it getting really awkward. Mandy Moore's "Candy" for one.
#22
"Songs with whistling, ukuleles or mandolins, clapping, and shouting “hey”! Lately I’ve also noticed what I call the bro version of the clap-heys, which is a stomp-whoa with some guitar riffs. Used most often with “reality” show trailers geared towards men."
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Give me the Horsehead fiddle any day. Love The Hu (Mongolian rock with throat singing and Horseheads fiddle)
#23
"Corporate "inspirational" music. So soulless it makes me wanna plug my ears with forks."
Blaze Fitzwater 2 years ago
Like when my co-worker got fired and grabbed his box and beta fish bowl and walked out singing "We are the Champions?" 🤔
#24
"If you sing about tractors, pick up trucks, very hot girls, in new country music."
Imperial Guard 2 years ago
We need a country song in which the singer expresses their love for their shiny new combine harvester
Load More Replies... Fiona Parky 2 years ago
“I’ve got a brand new combine harvester, I’ll give you the key” the Worzels. Westcountry instead of country. Aye arrr
StrangeOne 2 years ago
This is why I lean towards Dark Country. But I do LOVE Blake Shelton's "God's Country" when I'm on my way home from work. Idgaf I'm not American. This song can apply to anyone's coiuntry.
Leanna Krys 2 years ago
♫ A dirt road, a cold beer, blue jeans, a red pickup. Rural noun, simple adjective~♫
#26
"Need two more syllables in this next line? "Today" or "Tonight" are your best friends."
#27
"Using a song to promote something based solely on the chorus without listening to any of the lyrics or reading the title of the song. Examples: Anything patriotic that plays “Born in the USA” Your school or summer camp video collage set to “Good Riddance” by Green Day."
James016 2 years ago
The people who use Born In the USA for whatever they are promoting/campaigning for seemingly have no idea what the song is about.
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
Still can't stand Springsteen though. Kinda had it with multimillionaires fetishising being working class
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Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
Born in the USA is a protest song against the Vietnam war and its negative aftermath for those who returned home from it. Nothing patriotic about it whatsoever..
Amanda P 2 years ago
This one bugs me so much. There's a current animated film that I'm pretty sure is marketed for children but uses Billie Eilish's Bad Guy hook in the trailer. The song mentions questionable activities with inappropriate individuals that I'm fairly certain are not metaphors. I could be wrong but yeah, not something I would pair with a kitsch-y bad guys vs good guy feel good kids movie.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Oh God I just read the last line. This just reminded me that the stupid "cool" kids for Grade 9 grad dance turned this song into the grad anthem. Now I have to laugh because "hope you had the time of your lives" is sarcastic. XD
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Not a big Springsteen fan, but Born In The USA is not exactly a patriotic song. It's more like in a similar context when Jimi Hendrix played the American anthem at Woodstock and added in guitar rifts imitating war sounds.
#28
"Slow covers of songs. Sounds like they were made for trailers."
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago (edited)
Yes and no, there is a slow cover of Cris Isaac song " Wicked game " ( yes it even slower than the original ) and its frikking stunning. ( Ursine Vulpine - Wiked Game )
Terry Tobias 2 years ago
This makes me think of A-ha's 'Take On Me'. They take their upbeat, high energy song (The video is AMAZING! I saw it when it first came out and was mesmerized!) and turned it into something that's slowed down, haunting and sad. I'm sure everyone is familiar with it in Deadpool, but watch the video from MTV's Unplugged. It's fantastic to see the musicians themselves doing their acoustic version. Anyway, both versions are phenomenal!!!
William Dennett 2 years ago
Used as the intro music for every noir thriller tv show on every streaming service.
#29
"Being told to put my hands up in the air, like I just don’t care."
Caroline Grova 2 years ago
Right? What if I'm stranded on a desert island and trying to flag down a passing aircraft and they assume I just don't care?
William Dennett 2 years ago
Pilot: “Is that guy stranded on that island?” Co-pilot: “I think so, but since he put his hands in the air he obviously just doesn’t care, so leave him.”
Load More Replies... Ingrid Jeffers 2 years ago
If I don't care, then why would i waste energy flailing my arms about like a possessed octopus? I don't, because I DONT CARE!
StrangeOne 2 years ago
LOL I sang J-Los "On The Floor" at a karaoke session. I do not recommend. Getting to the part "Put your drinks up" and no one is putting their drinks up, just staring back at you is .... a weird, awkward feeling. I struck that song off my "sing it again' list.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Ok then how about 🎶bend over to the front and touch your toes bounce that àss up and down and get low🎶
#30
"The voicemail bits usually before or after a song imo."
#31
"Using "woah" to replace any sort of expression or use of basic vocabulary."
#32
OldMuley wrote: "Obvious autotuning." NoLogicBot replied: "Sometimes the auto tuning is just part of the “sound” of the song just like how a distorted guitar is. If it’s on every single song with no variation then there’s a problem."
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
Im with this guy, you use autotuning ( i don't care if its intentional or not ) we are done.
Lazy PANda (she/they) 2 years ago
You remember that one time when everyone used overly auto tuned voices in their songs cause it sounded “cool?”
#33
creepiest-greek-myth wrote: "I hate overdone rhymes. Give me some creativity! Think a bit harder!" an_ineffable_plan replied: "Every time I hear a new song rhyme "girl" with "world" I want to throw a shoe at whoever thought they had a shred of creativity while writing those lyrics."
Theoretical Empiricist 2 years ago
Never mind "Take the Money and Run" with "Texas", "facts is", "justice", and "taxes".
Thee8thsense 2 years ago
So, if you hear world with girl, it makes you want to hurl a shoe, or makes your hair curl a few?
#34
"Cuts like a knife. It's crazy, but it's true. All night long."
#35
"The river... runs to the sea. Never to a lake, or underground."
StrangeOne 2 years ago
But does it?... Like there's that one waterfall that leads to somewhere underground and know one has discovered where yet.
#36
"I know pretty much nothing about non-classical stuff but here's some annoying things in opera: the Generic Opening Chorus (belcanto / early Verdi is especially guilty of this. I stg they all sound the same) baroque da capo arias. b*tch we already heard it why are you repeating Staccato Chorus Of Sneaking Around "someone's coming we must part" "goodbye" "goodbye" "goodbye" (repeat at least 8 times) villain loudly sings about his plans like 2 meters from everyone else yet no one hears him."
#38
"Most rap songs would talk about how they started from the bottom and now they're at the top, to the point where I feel like they're just rubbing it on my face. It was something that I thought was pretty genuine the first time until it got overused in a ton of songs to the point where I just find it cliche."
#39
"I love you so and I'm never gonna let you go. Rhyming girl with world or pearl."
#40
"The "pub rock" ending (everyone plays noise until the leader signals to stop). Hate it live, hate it even more recorded."
#42
"My pet peeve is when the singer says his/her own name. Has annoyed me since Sugar Ray did it in "Every Morning." Even more annoying when multiple artists are in a track and start naming themselves. It's a song, not a roll call!"
StrangeOne 2 years ago
"DMX woof woof" "Xibit" "Eminem' Dr. Dre's In tha house. Yeah.. yeah...yoyoyo"
#43
"95% of the time when someone is singing about 'eyes', they try to de-emphasize the harsh sounding nature of the word by drawing it out, and putting a down-pitch on the y. So it sounds like a posh british person saying 'a*s'. So now whenever I hear people singing about eyes, all I hear is them saying ass."
William Dennett 2 years ago
This reminds me of one of my voice lessons years ago. I was learning a *groan* Matchbox 20 song with the word “hassling,” in it, and my instructor said H sounds can sound rough, so she said to just sing “‘assling” instead. 😄
#44
"Needless fade-out endings, children that can't sing and are most likely only being paid in chocolate, slurring words so no one can understand the lyrics the first time around, and rap segments in songs they have NO BUSINESS being in."
William Dennett 2 years ago
I’m a big fan of rap music, but rap bridges have ruined so many great pop songs. Thank goodness there is often a version of the song without the rap part.
#45
"In metal, the relatively quiet intro for 4 bars followed by an abrupt yell or growl, then followed by the basic riff. e.g. Every nu-metal song."
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
Lolol, true, but then after the rift, you get the flute, violin, and bagpipes, and the the 4 arms drummer kicks in, with the melódic sound of the preety redheaded Singer, and its amazing ( talking about Eluveitie )
#46
"Singing about love, relationships (starting, having, or ending) and sex, as though that were the sum totality of human experience. I find myself drawn toward musicals and comedy songs just for the variety. There's more to life than finding the right fluids to wet particular parts of your anatomy. Let's have a song about when you're running late to work only to discover that your car won't start, or how comforting it is to come home on a Friday night from a very busy week to the home where you live alone knowing that you have absolutely nothing planned whatsoever until Monday morning. Or a song about that time you confidently taught your kid cousin the names of the all stars and constellations you could see in the sky one night, only to look them up later and realise that you got every single one of them wrong. These are relatable experiences to most people and humanity would benefit from having them immortalised in a catchy anthem."
User# 6 2 years ago (edited)
Fed the cat, then made some tea. Then I noticed the sodding flea! Looked at the cat, it can't be true, I've only just treated you (chorus) Cat didn't care, his eyes glued on the bowl with disppearing food (2x) Drops in your neck, I remember it well, you ripped me open with your claws from hell. So here we are, back at war, with those dastardly sods, the itchy arthropods (chorus) Cat didn't care, his eyes glued on the bowl with disppearing food. (2x) Looked again, I couldn't believe, what I saw with great relieve. That what I thought was a flea ready to do combat with me. Was actually a poppyseed. From the bun I intended to eat (chorus) Cat didn't care, his eyes glued on the bowl with disppearing food (ad infinitum)
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Early in the morning, risin' to the street Light me up that cigarette, and I'll strap shoes on my feet. Got to find the reason, reason things went wrong Got to find a reason why my money's all gone. I got a Dalmatian and I can still get high. I can play the guitar like a motherfùkin' riot.
#47
"Ending the chorus with “tonight” Most producer tags, Generic upward key change in the last chorus, Quiet verses, then explosive choruses (not really bad, just kind of predictable) Also not really a cliché, but it annoys me when people only focus on Freddie Mercury, and completely ignore that Brian May John Deacon, and Roger Taylor are all also phenomenal musicians."
Bored Retsuko 2 years ago
"Generic upward key change in the last chorus" YES!!! I've always hated it sooo much, makes me cringe.
Caitlyn Davis 2 years ago
In some songs i feel like it sounds good, but if its every song then it gets a little annoying XD
Load More Replies... Luke Branwen 2 years ago
I will not tolerate any Linkin Park slander on my watch xD
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Beastyboyy1 wrote: "Chords. So overrated. I like the classics, back when it was just sticks on mammoth vertebrae. Then it all went downhill with those damn “Baroque’s”" ManPiaba replied: "Sticks and vertebrae are for posers, grunts are where it’s really at."
William Dennett 2 years ago
Dude, grunts?! 🙄 Newfangled garbage! I preferred it when it was just the wails and howls of saber-toothed tiger victims.
#49
"Having music videos or lyrics that are inherently suggestive in nature when it's really unnecessary. I find the suggestive videos with perfectly normal lyrics the most annoying, as it's unneeded, and it's not like it's going to make me want to watch it more."
#50
"When the lyrics say "stop" and the music stops for a couple of beats. So clever, not."
Caroline Grova 2 years ago
I believe this is meant to give listeners time to collaborate and listen.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Oh f**k NO. Not that song. Put it in the trash. Light it on fire then throw it the Marianna's Trench.... Along with Marianna's Trench, the band.
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gozba wrote: "How a lot of songs use the same chord changes. Yes, I know what the blues is, but that doesn’t mean all pop songs need to follow those changes. Be creative." My_dog_is-a-hotdog replied: "It’s not just blues though, the same chord changes have been used since the invention of the Motet."
#52
"That "pat-boone-debbie-boone" drum fill."
#53
"Crowd singing songs."
Donkey boi 2 years ago
To be fair, the Green Day crowd singing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was pretty fire!
#54
"When the chorus is just the title repeated over and over."
#55
"No longer a thing, but The Loudness War that dominated rock and metal in the late 90s and 00s. I don't know why people thought compression and amplification made their music better... but it's made much of that music from that period straight up unlistenable. The thing is, you can accomplish a "wall of sound" type of vibe for your music, if that's what you want, without loss of fidelity. Just look at someone like Devin Townsend... even during that period when he was still with Strapping Young Lad and had one or two solo albums out... He had that "loud" presentation of his music, but it sounded so good... because he didn't go into the sound file, cut out his lows and highs... and put out what is essentially butchered music like most of his peers in the genre."
#56
"In black metal, the use of intros. Its way overdone and so outdated, just get into it, already!!!"
#57
22poppills wrote: "Whatever Imagine Dragons is." Commenter No. 2 replied: "It's like their music was made for commercials or tough dudes on tiktok."
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
I frikking love Imagine Dragons, love most of their músics, i don't get this post.
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
Same. I admit it's not the most profound or revolutionary music in the world, but they have some amazing bangers. And it's even better since my mom loves them and it's one of the few bands where our music taste converges :)
Load More Replies... Missy Corron 2 years ago
Yea, it's bad to have music you can share with your children with out having to warn them NOT to sing in front of Nana & Papa.
Cal the dragon! (She/they) 2 years ago
It's soooo bad to have a lead singer that is a huge supporter of the LGBTQ+ community. And it's just horrible that that same singer tells his fans to stay here. And the charity that they lead so families that have children battling cancer can afford healthcare. Horrible.
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Cal the dragon! (She/they) 2 years ago
NO. I LOVE THEM. THEY ARE THE BEST. DAN REYNOLDS (LEAD SINGER) IS VERY KIND. AND THEY ARE BETTER THAN THERAPY.
#58
"The electronic drum machine snap/clap that’s increasingly popular in country music."
#59
"Rhyming “fly” with “high” (even switching it up and throwing in a “sky” in there) Rhyming “night” with “light” Rhyming “away” with “stay”."
#60
DonovanMcLoughlin wrote: "Any time a musician says "I don't know..." in their lyrics." DismalChance replied: "Ozzy Osbourne has a song you're really going to love."
StrangeOne 2 years ago
"I don't know. :I just... don't know" If you've ever watched Corner Gas, you'll know.
#61
"Key change towards the end of the song (usually up by a tone I think?). I'm glad it's not as popular anymore."
Terry Tobias 2 years ago
It needs to be used judiciously. When it's used correctly it's very powerful.
#62
"Songs being less than 3 minutes, sometimes 2 minutes."
#63
"When I listen to rap music off of a music video, it’s usually a prty good video with the song at a fitting length to the video without stopping, but when I listen to country music there’s suddenly a need for the artist to make a 10:00 long video with talking parts in the middle of verses and random sounds from the video in the background, as if I was listening to the song for the sake of the video and not the song."
#64
"Songs that start or end with some kind of “bit” tacked onto the song so that I have to hear it every time it comes up in a Spotify mix. Like the end of Killing Me Softly by the Fugees. Beautiful song. Ends with some guy yelling at me about the family gonna rat on me. Or Queens of The Stone Age’s No One Knows that ends with a Mexican radio station ad. They’re never clever or endearing or a meaningful addition. Just some weird stuff the band comes up with that makes no sense to anyone else."
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
Eminem's skits where he's pretending to be P Diddy blowing some guy. Basically extremely noisy sloppy oral sex sounds. That'll change the mood fairly sharpish
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I never really got those skits or who they referenced. I thought they were some sort of mockery of a music producer he hates. Is P diddy a produce now? Either way, I think the skits are separate tracks on the album, and not part of the song.
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#66
"In hiphop when they just repeat the hook over and over and over for literally half the song."
#67
"I hate it when they start with 'let me tell you a story...'"
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
'Bout a man named Jed, a poor country farmer barely kept his family fed...
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
Mountaineer. Not country farmer. Let me tell you a story ‘bout a man named Jed. Poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed. Then one day he was shootin’ at some food, when up from the ground comes a bubblin’ crude. Oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea. Well, first thing ya know, ol’ Jed’s a millionaire. Kinfolks said “Jed, move away from here”. Said “Californey is the place you oughta be”. So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly. Hills, that is. Swimmin’ pools. Movies stars. (And the announcer says) “The Beverly Hillbillies!”
Load More Replies... Confused Duck 2 years ago
Dont do it... don't do it... Now, this is a story all about how My life got flipped-turned upside down And I'd like to take a minute Just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air
StrangeOne 2 years ago
In West Philadelphia born and raised On the playground was where I spent most of my days Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin', all cool And all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school When a couple of guys who were up to no good Started making trouble in my neighborhood I got in one little fight and my mom got scared She said, "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air"
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"This one's kinda weird, and I'm probably the only one who hates it, but it sounds so bad when audio engineers limit trap beats and squash all of the transients instead of just letting it clip independently from the vocals. One example of this is kid cudi's man on the moon 3. I would've liked the album if it wasn't for the mastering on the beats."
#70
"In country the dumb hickhop bridge before the predictably slightly louder last chorus and outro."
#71
"Songs that have very little music and is literally just the singer saying something with no tune. Feels like I'm having a conversation with someone. Have some beats in the song atleast."
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
Fitting a whole sentence into one long note. Proof that the performer can't sing.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
"Down at the Men in Music Business Conference" - Lana Del Rey
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"More to do with fans but I hate how people think new music sucks. If you’re not going to try to find the good stuff you have the wait a few years(or more) for the good stuff to be found for you."
User# 6 2 years ago (edited)
That's not how it works, though. Take it from an old man: there comes a point in your life when you're just done with new music. Not that all new music is bad, it's just that you have enough of a library of 'old' music to last you the rest of your life. It may come early or late, but at some point you just can't be bothered with new artists anymore.
Kate Haslam 2 years ago
This. Once in awhile a new song comes to my attention and I actually like it, but I was a teenager in the 90s, so there will be Sublime in the playlist.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 years ago
I can always find something I like. Much of the music from the 90s I used to love I can't stand anymore. But I've been finding stuff from 20 years ago to now that is just awesome. Morcheeba is great. Depeche Mode is still killing it. Delerium is putting out a new album this month.
#73
"That old recorder sound in every punk - rock or grundge song that last 13 seconds just kills all the vibe before the song even starts playing."
#74
"Rhyming 'knees' with 'please.' We... we get it. You're on your knees, it's dramatic, blah blah blah shut up."
#75
"The blatant pandering to any particular demographic. That's not to say that people can only sing songs about stuff from their personal lives. But it's really hard to take any of that "life of emotional turmoil and struggle" stuff seriously when it's coming from somebody who has been a world-famous entertainer for like 10 years."
StrangeOne 2 years ago (edited)
Nah. I find it more hard to enjoy and relate to a song singing "I'm just a kid and my life is a nightmare".
What do you think ?
Emily Chandler 2 years ago
I absolutely hate music that has the beat louder than the tune. With lo-fi, for example, it's always that damn snare drum.
Emily Chandler 2 years ago
I absolutely hate music that has the beat louder than the tune. With lo-fi, for example, it's always that damn snare drum.
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