# 2015 challenge: give a hated music genre a chance **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-challenge-give-a-hated-music-genre-a-chance/709338 "2015-01-08T19:23:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-challenge-give-a-hated-music-genre-a-chance/709338/61 "2015-01-16T03:31:49Z")
[quote=“bobot, post:60, topic:709338”] This song’s genre is so far from my usual, that I don’t even know what it is called. Traditional Mexican Quirky Pop? I don’t speak Spanish, so I don’t even understand the lyrics. I saw it on you tube, and it’s stuck in my head. I like it. I think I have developed a crush on the singer. Jessy Bulbo: [/QUOTE] Someday I hope to form a supergroup with Jessy Bulbo, the guys from The Bronx and Rodrigo y Gabriella. It would be punk as fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-challenge-give-a-hated-music-genre-a-chance/709338/62 "2015-01-21T09:29:48Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Given the spirit of the thread I suppose I should go with the latter. With a little trepidation and a backup supply of migraine meds. If you’re all right with the sheer volume of the stuff, there are melismatic singers who do soul-pop with a more Motown sound. Jessie J - Strip: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ4xl7XJM08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ4xl7XJM08) Joss Stone - The Love We Had (Stays On My Mind): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiOMUIBkE5c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiOMUIBkE5c) Joss Stone has been compared, not unreasonably, to Janis Joplin. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her perform wearing both shoes and a bra at the same time. Jessie J provided the live vocals for Queen when they performed at the 2012 Olympics. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-challenge-give-a-hated-music-genre-a-chance/709338/63 "2015-02-07T19:29:39Z")
Okay, as promised in this thread, I attended a friend’s country music performance last night. I stayed for seven songs (five originals, and two covers) – and he rocked! That’s what surprised me the most: it was pure rock’n’roll, just with a countrified lead-vocal style. The sound (two electric guitars plus my friend singing while playing an electric-acoustic, plus drums and bass), the power chords…it sounded rather like early AC/DC! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-challenge-give-a-hated-music-genre-a-chance/709338/64 "2015-02-07T19:43:56Z")
(continuing from previous post)…I thought my friend did a good job directing the vocal harmonies, which is something some rock bands do well but is arguably more typical of country. Anyway, it made me think that there’s kind of a spectrum of country music, from country-rock like this (and which I’ve always appreciated, ever since I enjoyed Linda Ronstadt’s _Heart Like a Wheel_ album as a young child), across to “American Roots” stuff like bluegrass, acoustic blues, and other folky forms. I like listening to both ends of the spectrum, but still would choose not to listen to the commercial “pure country” in the middle, given a choice. But at least now I appreciate more how even that commercial stuff isn’t far from rock’n’roll at all. Indeed, one could argue that bands like my friends’ are the _only_ ones carrying on the rock’n’roll tradition these days! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-challenge-give-a-hated-music-genre-a-chance/709338.md?page=3)