I'm not talking about the one you dislike the most, but the one that makes you gasp every time you hear it, because it's always the same thing, because it's overhyped, because none of the new songs offered are original, etc...

In short, the musical genre that annoys you.


For me, it's between reggaeton, which we hear way too often in bars or restaurants. But the worst is still the female vocalist/piano duo, which is WAY TOO exploited, and yet we hear it all the time on the radio, and for some reason that escapes me, there are always extremely popular ones that appear every two weeks. Why? What do they offer more than the hundreds of others who came before them? I can't understand.

It's very difficult to pinpoint just one genre, because I generally enjoy listening all kinds of music. The one I have never enjoyed is this typical corporate "muzak" you can hear playing in ads and whatever videos companies put out. They're designed to be as lame and boring as possible, it's like a caricature of what people consider to be "commercial" and "sellout". Some time ago I watched this funny video where some musicians tried to recreate some of this abomination by using some of the worst, most cliche shit imaginable and it was hilarious, sounded exactly like you'd expect.

Unpopular opinion here, but I think classic rock songs are waaaay too overexploited.
Nowadays it seems there is a wave of bad music on the mainstream in every single country and people who wanna be cultured resort to prefering the music from their era, which just so happens to be the "good old classic rock songs" from back then.
Well, they were pretty good, alright?... The first thousand times you played them.

Written by Metal Diogenes on 09.03.2025 at 12:44

The one I have never enjoyed is this typical corporate "muzak" you can hear playing in ads and whatever videos companies put out. They're designed to be as lame and boring as possible, it's like a caricature of what people consider to be "commercial" and "sellout".

I forgot about the music in ads but yes, it's just bad. But the ads also use quite a few classics, music that I generally like or that leaves me cold, but the ads manage to make me not like them.

Written by Metal Diogenes on 09.03.2025 at 12:44

The one I have never enjoyed is this typical corporate "muzak" you can hear playing in ads and whatever videos companies put out. They're designed to be as lame and boring as possible, it's like a caricature of what people consider to be "commercial" and "sellout".

Good point.

Now let me address this.

Corporate 'muzak' is everywhere(on ads) because it runs on tight time frames, and music takes a backseat to visuals and messaging—the real drivers of conversion. Companies don’t even give a shit about Apple-level ads delivery, they need neutral, non-distracting music that appeals broadly. It sells, man.

It's coming from a guy who has worked in business(especially marketing strategy) for the past 7 years.

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 10.03.2025 at 08:55

Corporate 'muzak' is everywhere(on ads) because it runs on tight time frames, and music takes a backseat to visuals and messaging—the real drivers of conversion. Companies don’t even give a shit about Apple-level ads delivery, they need neutral, non-distracting music that appeals broadly. It sells, man.

Yes, I imagined it would work like that. I actually have to listen to that stuff a lot because of all the corporate educational videos and courses I need to attend every year due to my job, all kinds of technical and security stuff, etc.

I agree with Karlabos above with classic rock and I’ll also add the Coldplay derived pop which plays in grocery stores here continuously. Outside of that, I get annoyed by genres that are just the same thing over and over and are almost a caricature of themselves. Stoner/psych rock falls into that category. Most kinds of black metal. Can we honestly say that all these one man atmoblack projects add anything to the genre or even sound original whatsoever? Or BDM that has album and song titles that are just overlong ways to make the brutality seem intellectual or something? I think they’re even worse and more formulaic than the singer-songwriter pop tbh because at least a lot of times they’re writing about something personal. The former is just lazy.

I’ll add mariachi too because I hear it in every Mexican restaurant ever and can’t distinguish a single song from the next.

Written by Vellichor on 12.03.2025 at 15:03

I agree with Karlabos above with classic rock and I’ll also add the Coldplay derived pop which plays in grocery stores here continuously. Outside of that, I get annoyed by genres that are just the same thing over and over and are almost a caricature of themselves. Stoner/psych rock falls into that category. Most kinds of black metal. Can we honestly say that all these one man atmoblack projects add anything to the genre or even sound original whatsoever? Or BDM that has album and song titles that are just overlong ways to make the brutality seem intellectual or something? I think they’re even worse and more formulaic than the singer-songwriter pop tbh because at least a lot of times they’re writing about something personal. The former is just lazy.

Wow. I never would have thought that you of all people would see it that way, considering you seem to have a very diverse taste in music. But what surprises me even more is that there’s actually someone out there who would name exactly the genres that have either annoyed or bored me to death for years.
I’m probably not even supposed to say this here, but although black metal makes up the largest part of my music collection, I find at least 90% of everything the genre and its countless subgenres have to offer absolutely dreadful. And that includes pretty much the entire first and second wave.
It’s a similar story with stoner/psych/fuzz/desert rock. The general tone of the guitars alone causes me physical discomfort. The worst is when friends who mainly listen to electronic music think they know my taste and try to do me a favor by turning on some random rock radio station all evening. I mean, there's nothing wrong with classic rock and I don't even mind listening to Smoke On the Water for the umpteenth time, but after two hours of nonstop Bon Jovi and AC/DC, I either leave the party or find the one spot where I can hear the least of it.

The weird thing is, I’ve never experienced this phenomenon outside of guitar-heavy music. I can endure hours of music that’s completely outside my comfort zone more easily than I can tolerate 30 minutes of what my social circle considers “great heavy metal". Because in most cases, that boils down to Neue Deutsche Härte, nu metal, groove metal, Marilyn Manson, and modern Metallica.

But my ultimate nemesis will always be acid jazz. Just thinking about Jamiroquai gives me the creeps.

Written by Starvynth on 12.03.2025 at 19:53


Wow. I never would have thought that you of all people would see it that way, considering you seem to have a very diverse taste in music. But what surprises me even more is that there’s actually someone out there who would name exactly the genres that have either annoyed or bored me to death for years.

I still do enjoy a lot of black metal, last year my AOTY was Suldusk and this year so far it’s The Great Old Ones, but it has to have something that makes it interesting, or at least be an excellent version of the style like the last Blackbraid. Too much of the genre is a replica of something else. As far as Death Metal, if you’ve heard Pierced from Within everything else is just unnecessary