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My Personal Top 10s :: Musical Dislikes

• Deadly Duets: See 2pac up top there? He’s sadly no longer with us, and as much as I wish that wasn’t the case, it doesn’t mean I want to hear the half baked songs that he never thought good enough to release. All his estate are doing when they sign off on all the duets & remixes/reproductions with artists he never even met is weakening his legacy. The same goes for Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, Eazy E, The Notorious B.I.G, and many many more. Sadly for us music fans we live in a world where people think it’s a good idea to put Korn & B.I.G together on a track. It really isn’t, it’s even worse than 2pac & Elton John together or the same B.I.G. verse being used 5 times! So in short, JUST SAY NO!
• Louder is better: No it isn’t. The best music sounds good no matter what the volume, you shouldn’t have to have it blasting out. If you disagree with this you probably listen to shitty music. 
• Post-Success Haters: Yeah, we get it. You listened to _____________ before everyone else and they were so much better when you were wishing more people liked music like ________________. Yet as soon as that happens you’re all “Sell out, this sucks, etc, etc” Just can’t please some people.
• All music sounds better live: Nope, not true. Not in any way. I’ve been lucky to have seen all of my favourite artists live - Not a single one has disappointed yet - but I’ve had to sit through many a shitty support band, lazy headliners, and a few “Ah, so it’s all down to the studio magic then” types too. As much as I love it, I’d have to admit that Hip-Hop is one of the worst offenders, I’ve only seen 2 Hip-Hop artists - Common & Schooly D - live that didn’t make me regret buying my ticket. Basically, go check out YouTube videos, online reviews, ask friends who’ve seen them before, whatever it takes to be sure that your night out won’t be a complete waste.
• “Oirish” music: I’m sorry, I’ve nothing against bands that come from Ireland. It’s the faux Irish bands I hate. Nothing turns me off quicker than “Oirish” music. I can’t even write about it. 
• Chopped & Screwed: Why would you take a perfectly good album and “Chop and screw” it? Especially when most of these Chopped & Screwed remix albums seem to be just really really slow versions of the original albums, with no other changes, is there even a point to them? You seriously can’t handle Hip-Hop & R&B at it’s normal speed? Too many BPMs for you, right? Drugs be fuckin’ up yo mind? If you wan’t something good for your high then why not just put on some Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky, Four Tet, perhaps even Nirvana Unplugged in New York. They’re not even good from a remixers point of view.
• Auto-Tune: T-Pain. T-Mother-Fucking-Pain. That’s all the argument I need for this one. You know I’m right! 
• Ironic Covers: I blame Radio 1 & Jo Whiley. I don’t need to discuss this one, do I? Just go and download anyone of the Radio 1 Live Lounge albums and you’ll have plenty of evidence of why this is another musical trend that needs to be put to bed. 
• Bonus Tracks: I buy the album physically and I get 10 tracks, you buy the album digitally and you get 13 tracks and a video, is that fair? I don’t think so. The way I see it, all versions of an album should be the same. I understand why they aren’t, I just don’t agree with it. I’ve seen some albums that have 4 or 5 different track lists. It’s like we got the record store version, the iTunes special, the Amazon special, The Best Buy deluxe, and the international edition. How much you think I earn, I ain’t no footballer, can’t you cut me some slack? And the dumb thing is … this is a major reason so many people download torrents. Jack me and I’m gonna jack you back. 
• MTV Music Awards: No self respecting music fan takes MTV seriously these days. Me personally? I’d rather watch the Grammys … just. If the choice of nominees and actual winners wasn’t bad enough, we now have to suffer some of the most pathetically weak performances ever seen, a presenter that just has to make 10+ costume changes, a “controversial but not really” moment, several random award announcers, a few attempts at being hip, and anything else that can distract from the fact that the music being glorified has gotten worse and worse as the years go by.