What was the first music you ever hated?

I liked Guns 'N Roses initially and then "One In A Million" happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_power_music#White_power_country_music

like i said

yes but which of those genres has a subgenre that's openly white supremacist

i guess the answer is prob both

Maybe not "hate" but I remember hearing Phil Collins' "Groovy Kind Of Love" while waiting for my mom to get her hair cut at age 11 or so and thinking "wow, I'm pretty sure this is a bad song". That same day also exposed me to "Solsbury Hill" for the first time and I thought "ah this is very good, isn't it"

On the opposite tack, I loved "Kokomo" when it came out and still am kinda surprised (Mike Love animosity aside) that it hasn't had a reappraisal

ive gotten into more than one irl argument with people saying "country music is racist" while literally wearing the apparel of euro metal acts with uhh shall we say edgy racial politics. that disconnect is always weird to me

I've def seen videos of neo-Nazi rewrites of popular rap songs.

In Hot Chocolate's 'You Sexy Thing' there are weird glottal-sounding timbales - I guess because they have some sort of phaser or envelope follower effect - that made me want to gag as a kid and the song's production still makes me queasy.

I really hated The Monkees' "The Day We Fall In Love" Davy's mawkish love song glopping up the otherwise impeccable More of the Monkees album.

Oh, and "Stay Awhile" by The Bells skeeved me out too.

my earliest memories of hating music (there were probably earlier instances but I can't recall them now):

"Goodbye Earl" by the Dixie Chicks — I grew up listening to a lot of country radio but stopped listening to it because of this song
The Backstreet Boys
*NSync
Britney

sorry, ILM ;_;

^^^ Those are the first acts I remember detesting as a tween. Felt downright oppressive at the time, like the sound of bullying. I’ve whined about this in other threads already but thus began my lifelong skepticism towards poppiness (and poptimism).

first thing i remember really hating was 'you are the sunshine of my life' by stevie wonder. i still have vivid memories of being 3 or 4 and being stuck in the living room with that song seemingly always on the radio while my mother was elsewhere in the house with the vacuum cleaner on and just feeling alone and helpless and tormented by what seemed to be a completely random melody, a tune that made me feel so unsettled and uneasy, everything shifting up and down all the damn time like the deck of a ship in a storm. was also vexed and fearful as to what the ominous sounding 'apple of the eye' might be. terrifying stuff, the whole thing was as awful, oily and confusing as the taste of medicine. put me off stevie for the longest time tbh

I'm sure I've mentioned this somewhere but for me this was Graceland, thanks to my parents playing it over and over on cassette on long road trips. Still can't bear to listen to any of it.

Loved Britney and the Venga Boys and also Man is the Bastard and Limpwrist. 8th-9th grade was a really weird time.

Which is to say that I didn't have the same experience as a lot of young teen or tween males with BSB or NSync and stuff because I was attracted to them

This is purely anecdotal, of course, but my wife found them just as oppressive, perhaps even more so.

I knew a 12 y/o boy in the early 2000s who was figuring out music and very concerned with being seen as a red-blooded straight usa male, and he eschewed any music sung by males as being 'gay', because his logic was that they were singing their love songs you, the listener. So to burnish his he-man image among his peers group he made a point to conspicuously flaunt his CDs by Cher, Britney, and Xtina, which is what he imagined all straight men should be listening to. I hope he's doing ok today.

Flawless logic tbh.

dudes rock

More general, but as a very young kid I just could't listen to vinyl records which were akipping because they had a rift in them. This was probably the most intense hatred back then rather than one particular song or artist.

Somewhat older, I used to despise everything on Barbara Streisand's "Guilty" album when I was about 20 pr 11.

10 or 11 I mean.

Not a whole lot of hated music comes to mind, which is nice. As a kid, Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You". I've come around to not hating it, due to aging and thinking Maya Rudolph is excellent. In college, Judas Priest's "Parental Guidance" drew the line for the before/after of my fandom. Pandering and idiotic. Adulthood, Bowling for Soup, after getting their 3rd album to review it. Aggressively moronic and amateurish. Couldn't find anything positive to say, and round-filed it.

Music from the motion picture Grease.

In college, Judas Priest's "Parental Guidance" drew the line for the before/after of my fandom. Pandering and idiotic.

A truly awful song, but they've done good stuff since.

I got really offended by Candy Flip's cover of 'Strawberry Fields Forever' when I was 9.

'That's a Beatles song! Don't people know they're copying the Beatles? They're trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes!'

I knew a 12 y/o boy in the early 2000s who was figuring out music and very concerned with being seen as a red-blooded straight usa male, and he eschewed any music sung by males as being 'gay', because his logic was that they were singing their love songs you, the listener. So to burnish his he-man image among his peers group he made a point to conspicuously flaunt his CDs by Cher, Britney, and Xtina, which is what he imagined all straight men should be listening to. I hope he's doing ok today.

― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, November 18, 2020 6:30 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

he's living the dream as a power bottom tbf

Music from the motion picture Grease.

Oh yeah. Summer Nights was the bane of my childhood.

"You Light Up My Life"

AC/DC as a kid in the early 80s. I still just can't understand how anyone can like it. Plodding, boring, lyrically inane.

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was made very queasy by green day as a kid-- insisted BJA's voice "sounds like mosquito repellent smells"?-- but was also fascinated i think

Which is to say that I didn't have the same experience as a lot of young teen or tween males with BSB or NSync and stuff because I was attracted to them

yeah i'm p sure i had a crush on JT? some confusing memories from the time. ended up getting sublimated into something apparently

One of the other kids in the class, one day, in an ingratiating move, took me aside in the cloakroom and said, in a hushed tone, "just so you know, I kinda like opera sometimes", and even at 9 my mind was hissing "the Bach Double isn't opera you idiot"

lmao, novel quality imo

I'm sure I've mentioned this somewhere but for me this was Graceland, thanks to my parents playing it over and over on cassette on long road trips. Still can't bear to listen to any of it.

lol @ this being exactly the same explanation given by every millennial who loves graceland

anyway i think my answer is leonard cohen? seemed like some kind of prank. love leonard cohen obv.

I keep thinking Brian Jonestown Assacre when people type BJA

quite a bit older, but I hated garage (or more specifically the chart pop version) when I was a student. Just didn't understand why it was good: flimsy skittering mid-paced beats I found hard to dance to; stupid lyrics that seemed only to speak of rough nights out spending money on expensive drinks etc. And the people I knew who were into it were just dicks.

sort of feel bad about that early assessment because I kind of get it now, having heard it away from WKD-encrusted dance floors, but I still really don't like things in the vein of 'Re-ewind','Neighbourhood' and others

I hated "Moondance" when I was a kid, it seemed like such a "dad" song, like something my gym teacher would listen to. Now I love it, of course. In fact, I've come around to most everything I hated as a kid. I guess love is stronger than hate.

Except Journey. I hated them then, I hate them now. So, maybe Journey is stronger than love.

"You Light Up My Life"

― Guayaquil (eephus!)

YES. I had to sing this in a 4th grade choir performance, so I heard it over 100x during the rehearsal process. When I found out years later the song's about God that somehow added insult to injury.

speaking of god: kumbaya and how great thou art

Embarrassingly, it was Sly & The Family Stone “Family Affair”, which was shortly followed by The Move “California Man”. I thought they were sloppy, ugly and incompetent.

I also hated "family singalong" folk tunes, like "On Top of Old Smokey" and "Molly Malone." And no I NEVER sangalong.

As a kid, there was a lot of music that did nothing for me, but I didn't hate it. I remember TV specials wheeling out Billy Joel or Bruce Springsteen and I'd just be bored. There were songs that were massively overplayed, like "U Can't Touch This", that got annoying just by their omnipresence. I suppose I hated "Witchy Woman" and "Take it Easy" when I heard that hits album at 16 or so. And I still hate them.

This is sort of an adjacent question to the main one, but when did certain songs start to be overplayed? The first time I remember thinking, "maybe this song is being played too much" was with "Feels So Good" by Chuck Mangione in 1978... and then later that same year, "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor. I didn't mind either of those songs, although I eventually tired of "Feels So Good" because it had an extended afterlife, being played in hair salons, doctors' waiting rooms etc. ad nauseam, plus it had a forced cheerfulness to it.

Wow, didn't expect the first answer here to be one of the best songs ever. Though the explanation makes sense. Curious what I would've thought about "Sweet Love" as a kid, can imagine storing it alongside "Careless Whisper" and "Baker Street" (sophistication itself!) as "the music I'll listen to when old" (and being mostly right).

I don't really remember disliking anything until middle/high school, when I started to connect music to bad things in life (homophobia, social anxiety, George W Bush) so that most popular things, however quaint in hindsight, felt horrible and oppressive. Then there was that obligatory teenage phase where I was suddenly dismissive of artists I'd previously loved and would subsequently love again. Remember being all negative about MBV and The Aislers Set, for a brief period.

Cinderella. high pitched shrieky vocals scared me as a kid cos I thought they were demons

In 1982 Charlene's single "I've Never Been To Me" topped the Aus charts for 6 weeks. Aged 12, it provoked such a visceral hatred in me that I felt I'd been betrayed by the charts, and it took a while to realise that I didn't have to like the top ten uncritically.

One thing I remember hating a lot was REM, specifically Losing My Religion. Just sounded so dull, monotone and adult. Seemed to define the adult contemporary sound that bored the shit out of me at that age. It was everywhere too, so its popularity seemed to increase that prejudice in my mind.

I now like REM, but still LMR seems quite suspiciously poor, on a musical level to me, even though I now appreciate its drama.

not my first, but i do recall hating stipe's voice, particularly as rendered on 'to the one i left be-hiiiieeend'

XXP, re Charlene: best spoken section section EVAH, though!

what about:

HEE HAW

i've been crowdsourcing this

N!N!N! the spoken section was the roiling kernel of my hatred, especially because it said "make love", I mean GROSS!