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Country music. That twangy sound is super grating to me, I hate the way certain vowels get stretched out, plus I have no cultural touchpoints with it on either a lyrical or musical level. The stuff that seems most popular is the most obnoxious to me. I'm told this is "the Nashville sound". Different strokes for different folks, but I sincerely don't get the appeal of it.

But there's some country-adjacent music that can be alright. E.g., my husband got really into Sturgill Simpson and I ended up more or less liking his Sound and Fury album, even if some of the vocals do have that irritating twang. I guess I'd consider that more like country-infused rock.

And I guess some older country can be OK once in a while - e.g., Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton.

I find some types of rap include lyrics I find offensive, and so I skip them.

I do not enjoy a lot of country music. If it sounds like the theme song to firefly - I'm so conflicted - I wouldn't listen to it otherwise.

But that's a personal preference. I did some Algerian rap the other night, and it sounded really good.

I’m afraid of listening to Grateful Dead for the fear of possibly liking it.

Anything 'AI' generated, because fuck that uncreative nonsense.

Maybe music that reminfs me of people I hate. Perhaps I'm being petty though.

This is gonna sound like a pretty weird train of thought, but I cannot listen to that Pharrell Williams song "Happy" because I'm my brain has forever connected it to the time I had some bad pea salad from a local place, which completely ruined both of them for me. Every time I hear it, even in my own head, my stomach starts churning a little and I eventually start to feel like I wanna throw up. Thankfully that song has died and I hope to god nobody ever revives it.

Christmas music, because I worked in retail and had to listen to it 8 hours a day for months.

Corporate country music. Bo Burnham specifically wrote a song about it (lyrics link, since the song is technically a podcast episode w/ no accessibility).

Americana/folk, like Dolly Parton and Woody Guthrie are a far cry from the fox-news-to-a-melody garbage that gets put on country stations.

It’s the musical equivalent of John Wayne vs John Brown.

PS: Fun fact - Woody Guthrie wrote a scathing song about Fred Trump, so the war between the working class and that cursed name goes back at least a century.

Lost Prophets. I'm usually one for separating art from artist but fuck that baby raping piece of shit and if a member of your band rapes babies there's no way you're oblivious to the whole thing.

Fuck Ian Watkins, fuck those that ignored and/or enabled his despicably evil behaviour because he was your pay day.

Country. I associate with my upbringing in Klan country where I went to Robert E. Lee High School and got to experience federally mandated desegregation busing, which doesn't do shit to decrease racial divisions in housing but does drive white people into religious schools in droves to avoid letting their children ever mingle with minorities. They fucking love that country music, though. I will never listen to it voluntarily if I can avoid it.

I believe every genre is filled with good and bad music. I used to think I didn't like country or reggae but it was really just the mainstream music of those genres I disliked. Mainstream country has a lot of stereotypical lyrics and mainstream reggae has a lot of slow single chord riffs. But after a bit of digging I found artists and songs that explore those genres in more unique ways.

Hillsong, Elevation and especially Bethel music - basically "Christian Worship" music mass produced for money and has loads of dodgy theology

"Patriotic" rap.

There's certain classical music that goes into very high notes, it hurts my ears and I can't stand it. My dad loves classical music and I feel bad not being able to share his joy for it, though there is some that I don't mind.

Also metal for same type of reason, some guitar noises just hurt my ears.

Songs where someone is singing about loving (not in a platonic way) their "baby". I'm just unable to get it out of my head

Saxophone. It should always be replaced by vocals, strings, or trumpets. Maybe synths.

100 Gecs makes me cringe. It's mostly the lyrics and the nasal auto-tune voice.

Don't get me wrong, I can enjoy heavy auto-tune a la T-Pain, but that's quite more enjoyable to me.

Rap, I don't like it.

Metal - basically I don't enjoy loud music.

I can’t listen to Tim Minchin’s “White Wine in the Sun” because I’ll bawl like a baby

I genuinely get headaches from techno. A colleague was recently on a techno festival and that just sounds like the seventh circle of hell for me...

I have a special hate for Phil Collins's solo work. Take a decent drummer from a sort-of-interesting band and have them throw away all their talent to make drivel that has all sharp edges filed off. Also, I was forced to hear this throughout my teenage years all the time.

All music I don't like which is a lot. I'm annoyingly sensitive to music that doesn't click with me and it'll actually make me angry. Luckily, I only hate 90% of music that exists but the other 10% is pretty damn entertaining.

Classic rock.