Anti-Pop or Anti-metal?

congratulations. you've recognized the painfully obvious of listening to mainstream media over the last 25+ years. welcome to the choir. please stop preaching.
 
Win.

I'm not anti anything either. I can go from listening to Opeth, Mastodon, or something of the like to Lady Gaga or Michael Jackson in a matter of hours. It's however I'm feeling at the time.
 
To be frank, I am a anti-pop guy. I enjoy classical, folk, jazz, country, rock (mainly 60s-70s), but never pop. Because I cannot stand the pollution of brainless commercial crappy sound manufactured by BOYS or hot teenage idols. I think it is disgusting. And the so-called entrainment industry was, and is brain-washing our youth.
Rock is dead, said the Doors. I may add that metal is dead also. It
 
There is a medium. I mean, there's pop and then there's metal, but in between them both is rock. Rock isn't too light like pop, but also not too heavy like metal...
 
My feeling is that that's not true at all. Now, more than in the past 20 years probably, music is less controlled by tycoons because anyone can make a song and post it on myspace or cdbaby. There's more stuff to search through these days which makes it a lot harder to find good music, but it's still there. I don't know how popular independent labels were back in the 80s or 90s, but now labels like the whole Beggar's Banquet group, Sub Pop, Jagjaguwar, and tons of others seem to be giving the major labels a run for there money.

I don't think any type of music is really dead, it's just a lot of stuff has already been done so it gets a bit harder to do something new and unique. That's my take, anyway.
 
Plenty of brilliant groups working under the pop banner-Beatles,Kinks,Buzz****s,T Rex.Bowie,The Human League,Depeche Mode,Jellyfish,Prince,Blur,Pet Shop Boys to name just a few.
 
I anti most types of music. Pop, (American) Country Music, Heavy Metal and Rap has become less about music and more about a formulaic corporate product. I think of Pop as being Michael Jackson, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Shakira and so I definitely feel anti-Pop. I can't imagine someone who likes that Lady Ga Ga would talk about British Sea Power or The Kooks.

since most of the banRAB I like from The Beatles to The Jam & The Smiths were once big on the charts, and more recent banRAB like Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, & the Killers on the charts now I guess someone could argue taste in music was Pop because my banRAB were/are on the charts.

Since Pop is urabrella term for all kind of music that is popular at the time, I can't say I am anti-pop, I guess I more anti-Metal.
 
That's a very ill-informed view. I don't listen to much hip-hop but saying that anyone can do it and that it takes no talent whatsoever is complete rubbish. Programming beats isn't as easy as it sounRAB, it takes lots of patience and focus to get a beat that sounRAB good. As for lyrics and rapping, well, i'd like to see you try. Nobody's gonna pick up a microphone and expect to sound like Chuck D.
 
Firstly i am neither.

To be anti pop, in my opinion, means you need to close pretty much every avenue you have for hearing music outside of the internet and your own collection.

Im only 25 and it's only within the last 10 years that i have started to really get into metal. It at least seems to someone like me that there was far more metal worth listening to in the 80's and even the 90's than there is now but that is just one opinion. A lot of metal now, especially thrash, sounRAB like recycled attempts at something that was done 20 years ago and done much better 20 years ago aswell most of the time.

I will not however say that metal is dead. Good, new, metal banRAB are cropping up all the time and will continue to do so, im just not hearing as many as i would like to.

You know, you may find that that money is king if you're listening to the radio or watching music channels or anything that is going to limit your horizons to something commercial that requires said money to fund that particular avenue but branch out a little, hit the internet, you may even find that money isnt as important as it used to be.
 
I hate pop quite a bit tbh. At least nowadays.. the stuff being played on the radio in the 90s was just pure gold. At the same time I hate a lot of metal.. both can be mindless, boring, and uninspired. I'm not sure I hate ALL pop as much I hate the EXTREMELY mundane "rock" that Nickelback, Buckcherry, Hinder, and Theory of a Deadman make.
 
I'm more of the anti-pop-"banRAB"-trying-to-label-themselves-as-rock guy.
All they do is teach those little kiRAB and big kiRAB that that was what rock was and is, and then they go labeling themselves as "rockstars" when they go buy some pink karaoke machine with Kevin Jonas' face stamped all over it.
 
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