# Pretentious or just plain stupid reasons to dislike musical things, and general music turn-offs

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 15, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretentious-or-just-plain-stupid-reasons-to-dislike-musical-things-and-general-music-turn-offs/644121 "2012-12-15T17:53:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretentious-or-just-plain-stupid-reasons-to-dislike-musical-things-and-general-music-turn-offs/644121/41 "2012-12-17T23:30:44Z")

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I share the “x feat. y” annoyance mentioned earlier upthread.

I’m also irked by the leet/text speak abbreviations, they make me cringe. “Nothing Compares 2 U”, “Sk8er Boi”, and crap like that. It seems childish and uneducated to me, like when in school elections in the 3rd grade we thought “Vote 4 Dave” was clever wordplay.

Besides, [Slade](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slade) did it first, get off my lawn.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretentious-or-just-plain-stupid-reasons-to-dislike-musical-things-and-general-music-turn-offs/644121/42 "2012-12-18T00:43:20Z")

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I do have a couple songs by the Decemberists, and I would purchase whole albums by them because they’re sort of good. But I just hate their name, with the superfluous-seeming “e” in it.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretentious-or-just-plain-stupid-reasons-to-dislike-musical-things-and-general-music-turn-offs/644121/43 "2012-12-18T00:49:03Z")

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> [@GargoyleWB](#):
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> – My obligatory country music bashing…the instant that I hear the effected country drawl in a performer’s voice, I ignore them.

I agree with you wholeheartedly on the affected country drawl. The actual music and even sometimes the lyrics of country can sometimes be good (even if it is subject to more than the usual Sturgeon’s Law percentage where 99% of it is crap rather than the expected 90% for a genre), but I just can’t stand another Nashville or Nashville-coached accent.

A few years ago I noticed that most of the very few country singers I like have a Texas accent rather than Nashville. It’s also probably the reason I like bluegrass a lot more than country. ETA: The non-nashville thing, not the Texas thing 🙂

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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretentious-or-just-plain-stupid-reasons-to-dislike-musical-things-and-general-music-turn-offs/644121/44 "2012-12-18T03:13:13Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> As I read that sentence my first thought was “Oh, you mean like half of Led Zeppelin’s catalog.”  
> After Hey Lady, play the viking song and then Hey Hey Mama.

Do you want the “Hey Hey Mama”, that’s named “Black Dog”, or the one named “Black Country Woman”?

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