What was the first music you ever hated?

Alternate answer: American Pie

― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 01:46 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This one is another contender - but the Madonna version 0 which my uncle had on single and I feel like he used to play it on repeat on car journeys

p sure I've heard people say they hate Madonna's "American Pie" more times than I've actually heard the record (which was not a single in the US although it charted modestly anyway)

Bananarama's cover of "Venus" stands out in my mind.

the star spangled banner

and all the other patriotic garbage they made us sing in grade school in the very early 80s

one day that garbage is gonna

nah

i think every band noise is implicated there to some extent

Did you just hate how it sounded or was there something about American patriotism that turned you off at a young age?

Dreadlock Holiday for me too! Long car rides parents controlling the tape player.

i can't remember when patriotism writ big made me feel sick but the tie to uncoditional love is rock and roll maybe? "Queen are fasicsts" is kinda silly but "Queen realised gigs are fascist" is kinda true?

On a Star Spangled Banner tip, God Save The Queen (not The Sex Pistols song)

Much as I used to hate it, that hate seems like love compared with the loathing I have for it now.

Also Disco. I was very wrong and have repented.

you usually get hit with the fascism of music as a kid a fair way before you think about fascism

and there are still dopes out there arguing strongly that "liking music" = succumbing to a brainwash

isn't the fuckedest thing about US Freedom that it's the replacement bug for monarchy worship?

and i prefer the American fallacy but they're world-fucking mistkaes

My dad insisted we only listen to Radio 3 when I was growing up, so probably Mozart is the first thing I remember loathing with a passion, seeing as how I wanted to listen to wholesome stuff like, er, Gary Glitter. Still hate Mozart btw, it's inculcated into my neural architecture now and there's no changing it.

My Grade 4 teacher had us sing "God Save the Queen" as well as "O Canada". ('God Save" was officially still our anthem until 1980 iirc; this was years later but he was v big on our colonial ties - also made us research Guy Fawkes.) I loved it tbh.

xp :(

i'm sorry sund4r i wish youse indepedence ASAP :(

altho i'm glad "O Canada" exists because Joni and no other reason

ffs tho nobody needs a Queen

except etc

Second verse that no one sings about confounding their politics and frustrating their knavish tricks esp classic xps

yeah exactly, do you do the verse where they want to kill the Scots etc?

"Rebellious Scots to crush..."

hmmm.

Sund4r, i think it was just hearing it so often combined with an intuitive notion that pomp and circumstance was just wrong.

it was definitely the patriotism that turned me off. that was only a few years after the hostage crisis and i was mercilessly bullied for being from iran (nvm that we had preemptively fled as enemies of the new regime and all ...)

i didn't really have problems with america per se at the time but overt displays of patriotism just reminded me i was "other" or whatever ... we didn't become citizens until 84 and i do recall the LA olympics that year being one of the first times i felt any national pride, though that might have been more local southern california pride than anything else

i am more tolerant of the american project now but overt patriotism generally still feels gross to me and patriotic music is no exception (also the star spangled banner always struck me as weirdly tuneless)

i'm English and i still won't stand up for that booshi

i'm a white Anglo and have always been sympathetic/cuddly to the US project TLG but flag-fucking music has always hurt nme in my heart as long as i can remember

Can You Feel the Love Tonight.

I honestly don’t remember really “hating” any music until I was a young adult and subjected to bands like RATM and a few others I can’t stand.

"Break My Stride" is the first song I recall actively disliking. Now I'm merely ambivalent.

I really, really, really hated "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne, et al., but that was a couple years later.

eddie money - “take me home tonight”

Can You Feel the Love Tonight.

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, November 17, 2020 7:39 PM

oohhh if i were a little younger, this would be a serious contender.

elton john, in general, is someone with whom i've never heard a single song and thought, "ahh, well that's not too bad!" not like seething hatred most of the time, but i dislike everything i've ever heard. everything.

Foreigner

The Macarena.

I was in Grade 5, and during our class's Halloween party there was this one kid who was in control of the CD player, and he basically just kept playing the song over and over again. And this was still half a year before the English Bayside Boys mix would blow up in America.

Now I'm just kind of indifferent to the song, but I don't ever go out of my way to listen to it.

context on Foreigner:

A: overplayed (especially in 1979)
B: sexist & gross (even to 13-year-old me in 1979)
C: clearly Bad Company Lite (even to my 13-year-old ears)

Another hair metal, especially "Pour Some Sugar on Me"

this is a really good question! i'm trying to pin it down. at first i thought, "dashboard confessional"?

it is a really good question! I had to think for a couple of hours. I have also hated bad reggae opening bands, but that was later in life

My dad loves Bob Dylan, and I just absolutely could not deal with it as a child. I got over it somewhere in my mid twenties.

I wonder how many of these are *stuff my parents played*. My first was def opera -- my parents played it around the house a lot and I remember those big, shrieky voices filling the whole house on weekend mornings and feeling assaulted by it.

i keep coming around to this wonderboy idea that maybe i don't truly hate any music, and i want to slap myself

but really, i tend to just forget or ignore bad music. and then if it's truly, TRULY bad, it becomes interesting again and possibly funny. so...?

check this out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tYvGfF1Gkg

I have a few that stick out also from my mom playing classic rock radio in the car -- Black Water by the Doobie Bros, pretty much any Boston

ooh black water’s a good one. also “your mama don’t dance”

(loggins & messina)

I remember a good friend put on The Downward Spiral in his room all the time when we were playing N64 and I didn't have the heart to tell him but I fuckin' hated it. Instead I just made fun of all the songs..."hey pig PIGGY PIG oink OINK OINK OINK"

a decade later I was at a bar, maybe cuz I was drunk but someone played "Reptile" and I was like what da fuck....this is really good!???

Re: "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," it came out when I was 9 going on 10 and finding my initial footing into what I thought was cool. I liked Nirvana and Aerosmith, the "grunge" on the radio, etc.

The sappy blech of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" made my skin crawl then, and it does similar now. Awful song that really wastes John's talent and subtlety in favor of a histrionic cryfest.

I wonder how much Elton John's terrible material at the time has prevented me from ever watching The Lion King. I've seen all the other movies from Disney's animation rebound in the late 80s/90s, but never that one.

Tbf, it's also a terrible movie

eminem

i found "stan" and "kim" nightmarish as a 10 year old and i was disturbed that this was considered "popular music."