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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you find that you really dislike some very popular things ?
but don't mention them so people won't get offended .
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Some of the music of the day, some of the popular drinks, the list goes on.
We can't like everything popular, it would make the world dull.
olddots
(10,237 posts)they were right
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 19, 2013, 01:05 PM - Edit history (1)
the list goes on ...
Also I consider myself a huge animal person, but I just can't get into the dog-mania that I see around me. I wish them well and I contribute to animal shelters, etc., but I have to admit I find most of my friends' dogs sort of ... annoying .... I'm way too much of a cat person, I guess.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)No pitch, no melody, no chords, no understandable words, other than B's and ho's.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I'm a couple years from 50 and I'm loving all sorts of new music -- too many bands to name. I'm not into the popular Kesha/Beyonce/Rhianna kind of stuff, or hardcore rap.
I will admit I love the famous "Thrift Shop" song and video. It's irresistible.
Mopar151
(9,965 posts)JD McPherson -
The Decembrists -
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Very little of it is anything I want to listen to more than once, let alone the first time.
And for years I've been telling Mr Pipi that I hate Country music. Well, I don't really. Just the shit that passes for "country" these days.
I was listening to some older Country music the other day and pointed out the difference between then and now...one of those things being that it was fairly easy to tell the band/artist. Not like today where they all sound the same.
One of my favorite C & W singers was Charlie Rich. What a voice. It reminds me so much of the mellowness of a clarinet. Like Aker Bilk playing "Stranger On The Shore".
Anyway, my two cents...
leftyladyfrommo
(18,815 posts)I doubt that any of the current "music" will be remembered for any time at all - let alone for years.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Me, I find it a bit depressing to keep listening to the same old stuff over and over. There's good stuff coming out all the time, IMO. I try hard to not get stuck in the past, musically. And now, with the Internet, it is so easy to find all sorts of music.
But, hey, music is subjective, soooo ... to each her own.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)but I hear you. I can't stand some of it, especially dub step it drives me up the wall how much I hate that wub wub sounding crap.
I'm starting to sound more like my old man every day damnit.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)When something becomes popular (profitable), all of the hacks rush in to try and cash in with mediocre music.
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)it's almost impossible to find without a ton of digging. What passes for popular "music" on the radio these days is worse than at any time save for the awful period between Elvis going into the Army and the arrival of The Beatles. (Yes, there were the Beach Boys and some cool girl groups. But they did not begin to hold the tsunami of awful at bay during those years) Formulaic, processed, lowest-common denominator swill. Popular music has been dumbed down to a point that was unimaginable even 25 years ago.
During the 1960s and 1970s if you listened to commercial radio for 40 minutes you were sure to hear two or three really good songs. These days you could listen for months and hear only things that make you want to stick an icepick in your ear.
On the other hand, the intertubes have made it possible to widely disseminate weird and cool little alternative cultures like Bronydom, in which I am a very enthusiastic participant
csziggy
(34,120 posts)Been true forever, nothing has changed. It's just that so much more is out on the internet and available. Think of the millions of pieces of music that were created before the internet that never made it into the public knowledge. Now thousands of times the music than before is out there, able to be located - and still only 10% of it is worth listening to.
Commercial radio is an entirely different thing today than it was in the 60s and 70s. Then, the DJs could filter out the worst of the music and try to put the best on the air. Depending on the ability and taste of the local DJs the stuff that went out over the air could be excellent or could be crap. I grew up with crap until I left my hometown for college so I missed most good music of the 1970s.
Today the corporate driven radio puts on whatever the higher ups demand. Decisions are made for the entire country by a very few people whose main drive is not quality music but what will sell ads. They will take no risks on edgy music, they go for the lowest common denominator. Voila! CRAP.
olddots
(10,237 posts)the more you appreciate the good the more you hate the banal ,fake and just plain shitty.
Boomerproud
(7,888 posts)That pretty much goes for all of popular culture these days-suckalious.
Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)and cats.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Gather your things and turn your badge in at the security desk.
Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I like a good, strong, unflavored, make with real milk cappuccino.
Don't care much for cats or food police either.
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)Friends and family know that I love coffee, so I usually get a crapload of flavored coffees for gifts, even from people who know I prefer coffee flavored coffee. Maybe they think they'll find a flavor that I do like. I usually wind up giving it away.
olddots
(10,237 posts)we don't touch the stuff and then they say " but I thought you both love coffee " this went on for years
Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)That's not coffee.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Mopar151
(9,965 posts)The "sugar is always poison" ones are on my last frickin' nerve.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)I made a list but deleted it because I didn't want to offend anyone.
Buffalo Bull
(138 posts)Maybe I'm just getting cranky in my old age
alarimer
(16,245 posts)I'm a bit of a contrarian. But when it comes to popular culture, things are that popular tend to play to the lowest common denominator and, for that reason, tend to be bland and dull.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Sometimes I end up cutting off my nose to spite my face, but not often.
For example, I didn't watch and get into 'The Sopranos' until well into the 3rd season, solely because due to the "buzz" it created and the fact that so many talked about it; I figured it just had to suck.
EvilAL
(1,437 posts)I challenge people to leave them off for a day or 2 and they always come up with reasons they NEED them..
heheh
undeterred
(34,658 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)... the list goes on. And on ...
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)I hate malls. There are several other things I could list, but won't.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Most of the ones in NE Ohio are like places where you'd go spelunking. Really cavernous and no shoppers. Only place that has any action is the food court.
Granted, there are some that have redefined the game, like Arundle Mills and Tyson's Corner.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)I know better.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Unless you count Crocker Park and Legacy Village, which are pretty much outdoor malls . . . in freezing NE Ohio, where it snowed this morning.
Loryn
(941 posts)I believe it may signal the end of civilization as we know it.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)The only ones I watch are on Food Network. I love Chopped.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)bamacrat
(3,867 posts)Most overrated musician/band/performer ever. Also Phish and Jimmy Buffett.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)geardaddy
(24,924 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)And those crazy shoes that "they" are trying to foist off on American women with the 3 - inch soles and 7- inch stiletto heels!
Are they trying to break women's ankles?
LeftinOH
(5,342 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)When I mention my dislike for country music, the reactions people register are probably equal to what they would be if I pissed on the flag.
They call it "real American music', as if jazz and rock and roll didn't exist.
You have guys wearing cowboy hats who have never sat on a horse in their lives. (George Strait excepted; he's the real thing. still don't like the music.)
They sing about traditional, conservative values like cheatin', drinkin', shootin' & fightin'.
And for a genre that sells itself with a heavy slug of violent masculinity, the male singers all sound like adenoidal eunuchs.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Case in point -- this very popular, very inane song which include the brilliant lyrics: "I can take you for a ride on my big green tractor."
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I hear a slide-y guitar and an annoying "country" accent ... my skin starts to crawl.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)have astonishing pedal-steel guitar work.
"Tomorrow, Wendy", by Concrete Blonde, for example.
MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)(There's a lot of popular things that I don't like and say as much), and insulting someone else's tastes for for liking what I don't like.
I try my best to not do the latter.
progressoid
(49,824 posts)Actually, most things that are "popular", I can live without.
To quote a line from Repoman, " ordinary fuckin' people, I hate 'em".
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Music has gotten so bad in those two genres nowadays that I have had to either listen to old school rap and R&B, or search for underground artists. With today's rap, it's basically about getting drunk and high and how big somebody's rims are on their ride. And with today's R&B, it's just about hitting the clubs and basically being a male whore. When I listen to old songs, at least there is a story involved, in addition to having catchy beats.
Because of today's watered-down music, I find myself listening to genres I never thought I'd be listening to, such as Metal and Jazz.
Moondog
(4,833 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...I don't give a damn whom I offend. I don't like some stuff and don't care if others do.
So there.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I really dislike a few movies, songs, books and TV shows that everyone seems to love. They include:
Twilight
50 Shades of Grey
E.T.
The Wizard of Oz
Titanic
Game of Thrones
The song "Take my Breath Away" which was the theme song to Top Gun.
Top Gun
I tried to read, watch or listen to them but I really don't like them. There are probably more that I'm forgetting. Kind of therapeutic to admit my dislike of them.
vanlassie
(5,637 posts)But, I loved "Wicked."
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,268 posts)I ought to be deported, I guess.
truegrit44
(332 posts)cell phones, reality tv, country music, tea party folks, and many more............
Initech
(99,909 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,268 posts)Beer is too bitter, except for Bud Light, which tastes like goat pee.
Initech
(99,909 posts)Bud Light and every light beer sucks, I'll give you that. But surely you could find something you like if you searched for it.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,268 posts)and sampled a Belgian beer called Kwak. That wasn't bad. Mostly, though, I just don't care for beer.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)*granddaughter exception invoked
Shrek
(3,970 posts)Facebook
Cats
Whole Foods
Boxerfan
(2,531 posts)And I don't feel I'm missing anything important.
Land line & 2 e-mail addy's if I need to be reached. And facebook is a high school mentality personified-lookie me what I did oh boy oh boy...
When cell phones 1st came out I took a friend striped bass fishing off the Marin county coastline-surf fishing.
Have to hike to the beach & timing is everything. We got there & I was pumped-I could smell the fish in the surf & started casting...
My friend yanks out his cell phone & started chatting about where he was & how nice it was-Really??
I told him he was going to get to fishing or I was going to fling the thing in the surf...
And it hasn't gotten any better with people & their cell ettiquite...
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)meh.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)pregnant women wearing skintight tops, noisy restaurants, helicopter parents, people talking loudly on cell phones in public, movies that consist mostly of car chases and explosions, vampires and zombies (I don't GET the fascination with either and find them boring, except for humorous approaches like "Buffy" , men who look as if they spend all their leisure hours weightlifting, popular writers who crank out a book a year and produce prose that sounds as if it was produced by a committee of 12-year-olds, contemporary Christian music.
The Flaming Red Head
(1,805 posts)I hate Christmas, then Thanksgiving, Valentines day, Mother's and Father's day New Years, and Easter. I wish that we celebrated stuff every 3-5 years instead of once a year. The stores and merchants make Christmas slip up on you around the begining of September and you remember how sick you were of it only last year.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I'm sick of it all by Thanksgiving.
olddots
(10,237 posts)they never go away and they're bigger now than ever and digitally bloodier .
vampire movies ---come on enough is enough
"rock operas " or rock musicals
Beearewhyain
(600 posts)It is an affront to food much less what is disguised as "Italian". And no, the soup, salad and breadsticks don't make it worth going to.
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I haven't changed: I've become an aloof snob simply because seemingly everybody else has morphed into shallow philistines.
sinkingfeeling
(51,275 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)the thread in GD reminded me.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)I want nothing to do with broccoli or spinach.
I like coffee but not coffee ice cream.
Reality TV isn't real and is probably further from reality than the scripted stuff. Trust me; I live in Jersey and I've been to the shore. It's not on that show.
I don't like yogurt, regular, frozen, blended in a drink or with fruit from any country or style.
I agree with Ted Danson's character who said "Hate Danish cheese, love cheese Danish."
Some music really grates but I'm not going there.
I find it really annoying that airplanes are made with as many as 8 doors but everyone is stuck using only 1 or 2 to enter and exit.
How the airlines determine the price for any given flight is decidedly beyond any logic whatever. On several occasions I've priced a flight (let's say $380 for Chicago to Philly) and discovered that there's a nearby cheaper flight leaving Milwaukee and landing in Chicago which connects to the Chicago to Philly flight that is $280 for both flights. Is there a guy with dice and chicken bones huffing glue that decides this stuff?
Oh well, sorry to rant.
hibbing
(10,076 posts)Hey,
I like the specificity of your list.
Peace
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)I like the idea that people have likes and dislikes. Many types of art give us the option to chose that which makes us happy. Some foods are enjoyed by many but not all. Our odd combinations of likes and dislikes along with their continual evolution is an attribute of humanity in which to rejoice and find identity and happiness.
mythology
(9,527 posts)Although thankfully I'm less Ignatius J. Reilly these days and don't feel the need to expound upon how horrid I find Justin Bieber for example.
DearHeart
(692 posts)I worked in a bookstore and it totally pissed me off that people would only buy what Oprah suggested. I could give them a list of 20 different books, fabulous mid-list authors that were so much better than the "popular" shit and they wouldn't even look at them. I still have not read some very popular authors (Grisham, Patterson, etc.) I'm sure that some of these authors are good writers, but I refuse to go along with the crowd on most things, especially books.
Initech
(99,909 posts)Autotune needs to die the horrible death it deserves.
Initech
(99,909 posts)Golf is a game for rich conservatives. You even have to be rich to be a spectator in golf.
olddots
(10,237 posts)and the bands and musicians I love that nobody has heard or will hear (blues & R&B and funk jazz)
ConcernedCanuk
(13,509 posts).
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Just can't get excited about following sports shows.
As a kid, I played baseball, football, hockey in informal neighborhood rinks, fields, etc.,
But following professional sports? - no interest at all.
Alienates me from many I know, because when they ask me "did you see that game last night?" -
I don't have a clue as to whether they are talking hockey, baseball, football etc.,
So I'm out of the conversation right off the get-go.
"Dislike" is really not the right description for me, I just ain't interested.
CC
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Whatever.
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)That I am not
Bacon-- I am a carnivore but I despise bacon (and the smell). Meet the one carnivore on the internet that does not obsess over it
Home design/remodeling/decor--- I don't give a shit if you are redoing your bathroom and what it looks like. To be honest, I lost my childhood to home renovations (as soon as one was done my parents would move onto the next) and have zero interest in it. I don't care that you painted your walls. Whoopty doo, brag about something else on FB. To me, any conversation about home design is about as exciting as watching that fresh coat of paint that you keep bragging about dry.
Another FB one-- I do not give a shit what you had for dinner and what it looks like through Instagram. There, I said it. I'm tempted to post pics of moldy food from time to time, but I'm not bitchy enough to do it.
Apple products--- I do not drink the iKoolAid. I don't have an iPhone and I don't want one. Stop trying to sell me on yours and the latest apps. I downloaded a bunch of (free as I refuse to pay for them) when I first got my Android and ended up deleting most of them as I found them to be clutter.
Edit-- Another one-- Starbucks. I don't see the appeal. I love me some coffee, but I can get it at Wawa for $1.55 for an XL. And I'd prefer to put the milk (none of that non dairy creamer shit, gross) and sugar in it myself. And I don't need some fancy iced beverage, just give me the hot coffee.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)And beer. I can't stand the taste or smell of the stuff. Blecchh...
a la izquierda
(11,784 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)We were so tragically hip that anything successful or popular was rubbish .
still can't do the polyester waffle tone leisure suit with the white stitching , white shoes and belt .
the smile tee shirt
ismnotwasm
(41,917 posts)Actually, "Dislike" is probably too strong a word. I tend to avoid potential irritants, occasionally to my regret.
mvd
(65,148 posts)I don't like fast food much anymore. Like a lot of current music but others are also not Bieber fans.
kurtzapril4
(1,353 posts)and any other jam band, like Phish or Widespread Panic. If you can't say it in less than 3 minutes....edit.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)I don't really like them that much. But I participate only because it's better than sitting at home alone.