by Tono_Fyr » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:18 am
For me, there has to be some level of complexity and integrity to the music itself.
Like, I don't like listening to music, and then counting off the cords when they're all the same 3 and always in the EXACT SAME PATERN, never changing for the full three to four minutes of a song (god forbid any of them ever decide to try to write anything longer - I think my head would explode).
As far as integrity, "does this feel like it was made for money?". An album made entirely for money generally is also a very simple form.
And one last thing that makes me urge to change the music if I have to listen to someone else's music. Crappy lyrics. You know the kind, the "oh, oh, love me baby" of the Dirty Pop artists from the mid ninties to now, and the "yeah, yeah, bitches and hoes, smokin' dope (WHEW!)" that you hear out of a lot of rap artists to a stale, "Same thing over and over and over and over again" beat.
Of course, that's not to say there aren't a few good rap songs (there are no good pop songs, though), but just that I find the vast majority of what plays on the radio so irritating, and the entire "gansta" culture that's formed around it so pointless, that it drives me a bit nuts every time I have to hear any of it.
I quit listening to the radio a year or two ago, so that solves all of my problems.