For me : Trippie Redd’s “!” Is actually a great album
Rap and Hiphop are just shit music.
I have a pretty broad music taste, I have rock, classical, pop, eurodance, opera, bitpop, industrial, metal, ballads and more on my phone, except rap or hiphop.
There is just something in me that as soon as I hear either it just sounds like shit.
On the rare occasions I’m scanning through FM radio stations, the reason I hit the Next button the fastest when I find myself “listening” to a hip-hop station? The hi hat. tss ts ts ts ts ts tss ts tssssss. It’s most of what you hear, everything else is mixed down in the mud beneath it. I’m informed this is an…artistic choice?
Also, I implore you to listen to JU$T by Run The Jewels and really listen to the lyrics.
I tried to, but I just coulnd’t stand the rythm or the rapper’s voice.
Sorry but the genere just isn’t for me.
The one song that might classify as rap/hiphop that I do enjoy is https://youtu.be/KD59LJX2r38 though is has a lot of pop in it, the video is quite cool, and I would be lying if I said that I would not like to have a fur baseball cap.
It helps if there’s a transcript to read along with it. Zack De La Rocha from Rage Against The Machine has a verse at the end of that song that hits really hard, because he’s a great lyricist.
There’s a line in El-P’s verse where he says “hand on my heart and my mind on my drugs, got a Vonne-gut punch for your Atlas Shrugged,” and the whole song is about modern ultra capitalism and our state of society at large.
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You shouldn’t generalize, a lot of the stuff that gets played a lot is not indicative of the whole genre. There is some rap that makes me cover my ears, and there is some rap that makes me feel enlightened. Hip hop it just depends on the song, since there is so much variety.
I mean, OP litterarly asked us about what our most unpopular opinion about music is, this is mine.
I would never impose this view on others, they are free to like what they like.
That’s true, I was just hoping to maybe convince you to try out something that maybe you don’t know is wonderful yet. I’ve had that experience with music before, and I think it helped me to understand why people like things
I have had it happen several times with music, lastly with Opera and Classical music.
I like it because I can equate it to poetry. You have to be one talented motherfucker to come up with some of those rhymes, and to be still able to put it along to a rhythm and beat, sometimes incredibly fast (Busta Rhymes, George Watsky).
ETA: I also have a soft spot for three particular white Jewish boys from NYC
I’ve been thinking about something similar (as someone who isn’t a fan of rap/hip-hop). No matter how much I don’t like it (the actual music behind it is too bland for me), it has the greatest potential to deliver deep lyrics with puns and other wordplay.
But then it got me thinking: What the HELL is holding us back from improving the other genres’ lyrics, or actually slapping some decent music on top of rap/hip-hop music, and not just some bland base or short and repetitive catchy tune?
There’s a lot of rap and hip-hop that isn’t just running along to a bassy beat. Busta Rhymes doesn’t rap to a beat, and he comes up with some clever lines. I’ve heard that Childish Gambino is one of the most clever writers right now, with some lines in Bonfires and Sweatpants being pretty damn hard.
I really like A Tribe Called Quest as well, because they have a more jazzy sound than most. I REALLY like Digable Planets though because they’re like the ultimate fusion of funk, jazz, and hip-hop.
I may check some out, thanks for the examples!
For more unconventional hip-hop, try Flobots. Handlebars is the only song that got radio play and it’s alright, but most of the rest of that album is better. Mayday is my favourite song by them
noise music is unironically great and the justified reponse to capitalism ruining music
That punk died in the early 80’s.
That Portlandia sketch with Jello Biafra waking up from a coma to the Yuppies having won was probably the only really good and well thought out sketch on that show.
Portlandia sketch with Jello Biafra
I thought it was 2 “No more yuppies.”
The Simpsons bootleg one is pretty good imo.
Sir, this is not a “Your unpopular opinion about sketch shows” thread.
Please leave without making a scene.
The sketch supports the assertion that punk died in the early 80’s. That’s all.
Sir, you are making a scene.
*throws trashcan through window
Punk!
I think that’s pretty widely agreed upon - ditto with KISS.
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The majority of both Drake’s and Kanye’s discographies are horrible. I’ve had this opinion since way before they’ve had their public drama.
90% of all radio songs lately have been horrendous covers of old songs, with some of them literally being just that old song, but with a cookie cutter beat under them. The other 10% are just said cookie cutter beats with some generic singer doing an annoying voice over them.
Popular music is becoming more creatively bankrupt than it ever has been.
I think they asked for unpopular opinions
Oh right. Weezer sucks.
David Bowie had like, 2 okay songs.
You’re wrong but I’ll bite. What 2 songs lol.
And I’m joking with the you’re wrong. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Bring Me The Disco King, and that other one about taking protein pills
Unrelated but pooping ok?
Fiber for the win!
Bands that title their album random symbols (or a series of them) are assholes.
I’m looking at KMFDM (can’t even encode “symbols” accurately) and Justice (their first album, often called latin cross). Both great albums that suffer from fucking horrible visibility because of their shit names.
I don’t think I’d call them assholes… more just shortsighted about the realities of selling an album, specifically in how you refer to the album both in speech and in writing.
Everyone calls it “KMFDM - symbols” for a reason. I agree only in that it drives me insane when I would rip CDs and have to deal with trying to figure out what to name them. Also, fuck Leæther Strip for their stupid “æ” in the name.
What?? KMFDM back in the 90s were groundbreaking with their name and album art alone. Very stylized, nihilistic vibes aesthetically when I would see their albums in the record store - even before I ever listened to them. Hell, I even shoplifted a cassette tape from Camelot Records when I was a teenager just cuz I was so intrigued as to what this band was about.
You’ve awakened my “old man yells at cloud” vibes with this one.
Hey, both the bands I mentioned are awesome - I just object to the symbolic naming of albums. If you read “KMFDM’s Symbols album” and knew exactly what I’m talking about then you’re part of an in-group and everyone not in that in group standing with us in a record store in the 90s wouldn’t have a clue which album we were talking about… if we were talking about the album over lunch and they went to a record shop to pick up a copy they wouldn’t be able to find it without awkwardly asking a clerk.
Obscure symbol album names create elitism that we don’t need - you could easily find Nirvana’s Nevermind but by naming their album… that untranscribable string of symbols they made it less accessible to new listeners.
Phil Collins’s solo work is mind-numbingly, eye-bleedingly, toe-curlingly boring and awful.
Not unpopular, just weird: the way to find your favorite song is keeping one as an alarm sound without starting to actively hate it.
I feel like that’s impossible for me.
However, I set my ringtone forever ago and it never annoys me when it comes on. I like hearing it. It’s a chiptune from a keygen of soft software I pirated as a teen lmao.
Next level: set it as your boss’ phone ring tone.
Yup, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine theme song as my alarm, 5 years and counting
Scat is, well, scat
Yeah it is!
The Kinks are better than The Beatles
The Chats are better than The Beatles
