Honestly... I don't listen to the radio anymore... It's all the same. Music isn't what it used to be. I still rock out to 70s classics. Then, I'll put in some Bone. After that, I might listen to some Boyz II Men... Music these days sucks fat donkey nuts. Noone wants to play instruments anymore. Everything is synthesized, and crap. Country has turned to pop, pop has turned to Electro, and rap has turned into something that can't be explained. The only good "rappers" are Eminem, Future, Yellawolf, Lil' Boosie, and Kendrick Lamar... Even Eminem is falling off... Lil' Wayne has been garbage from the beginning.

Modern rap, they don't even try to enunciate (Fetty Wap, Young Thug, etc...) [spoiler]Eminem is good though[/spoiler]

Rap - the enormous amount of illiterate and thuggish fans that comprise of the fanbase. Metal - the prodigious amount of arrogance and self inflated ego the fans can't help but display. The repulsive trend of long hair doesn't help withal.

You know, I used to like rap a lot, old rap was some of my favorite. Now it feels like it's the same thing over and over again, with no real effort put forward. I imagine there is some decent rap still that reminisces the style I use to like but every rap song I hear now is the same cliche mainstream song/idea If a rap artist were to come out now and revive that old style of rap, I'd listen to that artist, but I have yet to find one so my hopes of liking rap again are slim to none.

ITT: Insecure teenagers share their feelings about a genre in which they have no contextual comprehension of because they have disassociated themselves with society, and somehow feel like their conformity to anti-culture is superior to any other form of conformity. Thus they cannot understand the context with which this art form is to be received, ultimately failing to see it as art. I'll get back to the topic of discussion, I just wanted to put my thoughts in about the various responses in this thread. Many of you who are criticizing rap for being solely focused on guns, violence, drugs, etc., are the same individuals who will call Kanye West a bad artist. If you don't understand what I mean by that, you are exactly who I am talking to. Rap, and more generally Hip-Hop, has always been a reflection of the community. You criticize rappers like Chief Keef for rapping about violence, when Chief Keef gained popularity the same year Chicago had over 500 murders. What kind of music do you expect young kids who have grown up in this environment to make? Bedtime lullabies? Is art not purposed at being an expression of oneself? How are you going to discount it because you cannot possibly relate to it? Furthermore, most of those who criticize rap for the reasons aforementioned hardly understand the scope of the genre. It's funny to me that people specifically refer to modern rap. Before people like Andre 3000, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, MF DOOM, etc., your criticisms would have actually been valid. The diversity of sounds in hip-hop is at the highest it's ever been, and you would have to be either stuck in the past or unknowledgeable of the genre to disagree with that. That being said, back to the OT. Outside of the music itself, die-hard fans of classic rock are incredibly annoying. That time has past, and their supposed musical superiority is completely unfounded. Swans, Radiohead, Bon Iver, Godspeed You! Black Emperor; go listen to them. There is very high quality music being made these days. That new Bon Iver album was absolutely fantastic. This goes double for Metal fans. Musically speaking, I can't stand music that encapsulates feelings of negativity, and self-destruction. I've always tried to like metal, because it's an incredible body of music with some of the industries most talented individuals who are given far less praise in the mainstream than they deserve, however their lack of recognition is not unfounded, because of the subject matter and receptivity of their sounds.

Country. Write a song with repetitive riffs and lyrics and include something about trucks, pretty women, and beer--> boom

Jesus Christ, this thread is just a circle jerk of people who hate rap. Most of y'all judge the genre simply because you heard the shit-tier artists like young thug or fetty wap. Hating a genre because you hate the most main stream artists is so Damn ignorant.

Heavy metal. I'll show you an example of the verse out of a song I have listened to... [spoiler]GGJKCSOIREEADHKKK DUNDAELPLMMOKUYRWASXXXCZGUVHKIJ I WANT TO DIEEEEEEEEE NOONDAWEKOLKKOJJHUY NOOOOOOO CDONDSAWTOOMBFSZXFGUHJIIKOKOH HBEEIOBFGHB I LOVE CUTTING MYSELF BLOB BLOB BLOB BAHHHHFSSWWIBFDSWSBKKKKJVDHJBFDDJFEFH FUBJKKBFGHHJNGSOOKBDRUIOBF[/spoiler] That is all.

[b][i][u]Country[/u][/i][/b] Over the years most 'Country' music is just knock off and embellished 'Pop' music. The only major difference is that they exaggerate a nasally tone and the elongation of the letter 'R" in words to give the 'Country' twang to their genre. The instruments do not have all that different sound anymore, for they have opted away from the use of the tortured cat (Hawaiian/Steel) guitar. Moreover, many recent songs from country artists are plagiarized ROCK songs and also even last year there was an investigation into the manufacturing of a country hit. It appears that 4 of the top songs were all written in the exact same tempo, scale, nearly note for note, chorus, but only changing the words and by not too much. They were just all done by different 'artists' (read: performers), so they sounded enough different that not everyone (read: the simple minded music listeners) did not readily pick up on it. It's almost as if they've run out of talent and ideas. But how many songs can you make about tractors, pick up trucks, jilted hick lovers, your dog, and a plastic beer cup? [b][i][u]Rap[/u][/i][/b] Where to start... Granted I have not heard all there is in rap, for I can't stand it. What I have heard of it; Overall I despise with a passion the message of the majority of the rap music that has been made (inb4notallrapisnegative, I said majority, not all) (inb4rapisntnegative, what of it do you listen to?). All wanna be rappers all go for the same formula that they see that made it big somehow. Guns, intimidation, disrespecting most everyone, drugs, alcohol abuse, abusive sexual practices against women, and just plain ego on steroids. Before anyone says 'Well ,that is the same thing as sex, drugs, and rock & roll'. I'll stop you here. That's not HOW S,D, R&R worked. Sex and drugs were synonymous with the Hippie generation where rock took off, but it wasn't meant as the rappers use it. In that era it was about peace and 'love', but not really love.... different discussion. Now, couple that with the lack of any real musical content. To be more high brow they add 3 piano notes repetitively to a song, like that somehow elevates it. The background music is so predictable. Then import techno noises, which does nothing more than make the repetition even worse. The delivery of the words tends to be angry and yelled. (Again.... not all, but too much does) [b][i][u]Hip Hop[/u][/i][/b] It's not the worst of the 3, but I won't go out of my way to listen to it either. It all seems manufactured. So much of it seems to be whiny, man boys trying to act tough while warbling 8 notes per second to his love target of the moment. Pouring out his affection for her (body), even though he is not aware of her name. It at least has some form of musical content that could be listened to, but the manufactured aspect of that tends to kill it, if the words don't nauseate you first. [b][i][u]Pop[/u][/i][/b] FAKE, FAKE, and FAKE It is filled with performers brought in because of how they look rather than any possible musical ability. Scantily clad eye candy gyrating while the song, written by a 40-something over weight, bald guy plays in the background by studio musicians. It all follows a manufactured component that all 'hits' are derived from. The performer, who can't carry a tune in a bucket, is auto tuned to sound somewhat on key. Then out of ego the performer does all manner of publicity nonsense, sometimes losing their minds, and becoming drug addicts because of the pressure put upon them to stay on top. There are a few Pop performers out there who really do have talent, write their own stuff, and play their own instruments. They are the minority of this genre. Back in the day all genres of music were made by individuals or bands, writing, playing, and performing their own work. To me, that is when music meant something more than it does today. Heck, some innovators created the very equipment and instruments they played. That isn't saying it still doesn't exist. You just don't see the likes of Boston, Van Halen, Grand Funk Railroad, ELO, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Chuck Berry, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Blondie, GnR, The Beatles, Clapton, Rush, Queen, Michael Jackson, Motown in general, and for the record Barry Manilow and the Carpenters, many, many bands and artists from the 60's - 90's, but all that changed the face of music somehow. Hit makers that made their own songs (maybe not all Motown). Even Country bridged the gap into Pop for a time (mid-70's), and it didn't suck. Just the entire environment has changed. This was therapeutic.

In general I don't like when a song repeats itself over and over again with the same instrumentation and lyrics Also songs with little to no musician ship usually don't appeal to me

EDM. No substance.