To my surprise in the other thread, some people answered there my answer here:
the last song I heard and instantly hated is Foster The People’s “Pumped Up Kicks.”
However, I still have 2 or 3 more of their songs that were downloaded as part of a podcast that I haven’t listened to yet, and I’m sure I’ll hate those too…
So how about you? What’s the last song that left you with an instant negative opinion of it?
I wish I knew the name. It’s a female singer, singing something about her heart, and she makes the word “heart” into a twenty-syllable word… “…something something my heart hu hu hu hu hu hu hu hu hu hu hu heart…”
I know I’ll get slagged for this, but “Someone Like You” by Adele is whiny and repetitive. I loved “Rolling In The Deep”, but SLY misuses the heck out of Adele’s vocal skills.
I heard “I Whip my Hair Back and Forth” (or a sample from it) for the first time just yesterday, and it was like nails down a blackboard. Which sucks because I wanted to like it, I really did.
:: shudder ::
Also, anything at all in which the word “Baby” is pronounced “Behbeh.” If you’re not Cajun, I ain’t listening. This includes the entirety of Justin Bieber’s discography.
I know it’s an old song buy I just began hearing it this year:
The Beach Boys version of Santa Clause is Coming To Town. What’s up with the intercuts of circus music and who is the Beach Boy who can’t sing worth a lick?
Sensual Seduction, holy crap that song is awful, I thought that song was a parody or something. I’m probably alone in hating the fuck out of Hey Ya! by OutKast too.
I was absolutely dumbfounded that someone started a thread here extolling it’s virtues and gushing about what an incredible talent Willow Smith is. I realize she’s just a kid so I held my tongue to avoid thread-shitting but honestly if you find anything what so ever redeeming in that cacophony all your taste is in your mouth.
What’s the last song you heard and hated instantly?
Most of them.
I don’t wait around to hear what they’re called. Not that radio DJs tell you that info anymore, most of the time.
It seems to me a lot of modern music has no melody, no instrumentation, and an unbelievable overuse of drum machine and autotune. It’s a nightmarish cacophony of shite out there.
Do you understand that both of those are vanity projects which are universally mocked? They don’t “pass for music” in any sense that justifies your mournfulness.
I wouldn’t know. I listen to satellite radio or the oldies station. I neither know the names of, nor care about, 99% of ‘modern’ music. But I LOVE ‘Pumped Up Kicks’! Also, I’m very contrary - the whole world will be swooning over Joe Blow and I will resist listening to Joe Blow.