Top Ten Music Genres That Shouldn't Even Be Considered Music

The Top Ten
1 Modern Rap

How the heck is deathgrind above rap!? I mean, I understand how pornogrind is #1, but deathgrind is so much better. Modern rap has nearly no real musical aspects about it, if any. Non-musical vocals, no real instruments, autotun, a lack of true musician's attitude. Modern rappers don't write their own songs. There IS good rap out there - Biggie, Eminem, 2Pac...I'm admitting that there are talented rappers out there. But modern rap? A disgrace to anything that makes noise.

Awful, Cancer, thrash. These are the words that emphasize rap. The lyrics are all about sex, drugs, women,
guns and violence. I call the people who sing these "uncivilized". So far, I have never heard an rapper churn out something that I like to hear.
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I feel like in order to actually be considered music, you need three things: beat, melody, and chords. Most rap only has the first of those.

There are seven elemets of music: Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, Timbre, Dynamics, Texture, and Form. All of these genre have at least two of these.

2 Pornogrind

@visitor who asked for explanation - "Pornogrind, also known as porno grind, porno-grind or pornogore, is a musical subgenre of grindcore and death metal, which lyrically deals with sexual themes." (wiki)
However, sex and porno have never been metal lyrical themes and I really doubt it's metal. Metal bands even avoid love themes and anything sensual, let alone sex and porno. It's more punk than metal in my opinion.

I love this genre so I'm upvoting it, I don't want people making it popular like black metal or thrash has been recently. I love it because of the insane speeds like Last Days Of Humanity, and the gurgling puke vocals and the and the noisecore type guitar work. But most of the bands just chug guitar like devourment and use pig or broken sink vocals with punk type drum beat and trash can snare drum.

The music itself aside, the REAL reason why pornogrind shouldn't be a genre/subgenre is because it's the same thing as grindcore, just with pornographic lyrics. The same goes for goregrind. They should simply be considered "Grindcore"

I thought it was metal with samples of real orgasms playing as the vocals. if that was true then I would have completely given up on music in general. I mean pop would probably sound good almost! I still think this type of music is bad even without the orgasms.

3 Pop

Modern Pop Music is actually pretty good if you dig deep into the genre and find genres like Art Pop, Baroque Pop and Experimental Pop. Also, there's Indie Artist with large influences and some Pop Rock that's also worth listening to.

With that said, I do agree that most of what is in mainstream ranges from mediocre to plain bad.

All right, there are some pop songs which aren't good. But we can't just forget there were artists like Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, The Beatles. From my point of view this list focuses on fake genres. Pop wasn't originated from fake music. Plus this list isn't about worst genres.

You may not like modern artists, trust me I don't either. But there was a time when people like Paul McCartney and Elton John were considered pop!

Just because you don't like a genre doesn't mean it shouldn't be a genre.

4 Modern Country

To be more specific, the term for modern country is bro-country, and yes, it's awful. It's probably the worst "music" I've ever heard. It makes me want to jab scissors into my ears. First of all, some country is good and some hip hop is good, but by all means, they DON'T go together. Second, 3/4 of everything they sing/rap about is girls, and not even in a romantic manner - just sexual, which is very degrading. This genre should've never been invented.

Whatever the heck fronts Country Music nowadays is simply embarrassing. There are some acts like The Church Sisters, Mariah McCarthy and Miranda Lambert who are positive benchmarks for Country, but when most people tend to associate the genre with Sam Hunt and Florida Georgia Line, there's a big problem right there.

How to make a Bro Country song
1. Sex with country girls while playing with a broken guitar
2. Talk about your "assessment framework" on sexy girls
3. Dress up with just a tank top and hat (which is ugly as hell)
4. Drive your century old truck around with the worst look you can have, hugging girls in short blue jeans the most obnoxious way possible.
5. Autotune it to stay on that annoying octave. (Add more fake annoying guitar sounds! )
6. Slap the cheesiest art and get $$$$$$$$$$

AutoTune + Repetitive Music + Sexual Lyrics + More AutoTune + Awful Voice = A Modern Country Song

5 Deathgrind

In order to say what's not music, we obviously have to define music.

Several simple things may help:
1) there is musical and non-musical sound
2) musical sound is composed of structured noises
3) non-musical sound is composed of unstructured noises (we call it noise).

So we have Music and Noise.

From this viewpoint, the genres that shouldn't even be considered music, are those with the biggest share of noise at the expense of music. I added Noise Music and submitted a comment. Noise Music is a component of many punk subgenres.

Why is Deathgrind #2? It takes the vocals and technicality of death metal and mixes it with the chaos of grindcore! Listen to Cattle Decapitation, Aborted, Brujeria, and Terrorizer. They are awesome bands

A mix of Death Metal and Grind Core?

This is a good genre

6 Gangsta Rap

To be honest this list makes no sense and should never have been created, it was clearly made by someone who does not know the definition of music.

I like this better than pop rap like pitbull

I think we can shorten this to just rap.

That's because it's not actual music.

7 Deathcore

Deathcore simply has too much going for the genre. Most bands are either underwhelming, garbage or just too over-the-top and cannot be taken seriously.

Now, there are some good Deathcore bands like Whitechapel, Thy Art is Murder and Carnifex, but the selection is small. Unlike Metalcore which can be experimented upon more for more interesting variations, Deathcore simply doesn't offer much unfortunately.

Death Metals emo cousin. Atrocious vocals, retarted ass lyrics, there's too much to list. The genre that scene girls refer to as "metal."

Some deathcore is good, like Thy Art is Murder. However, Suicide Silence us pretty bad.

Punk wannabe death metal.

8 Dubstep

I actually like dubstep.

Worst genre of noise

Just a bunch of noises.

9 Noise Music

Noise music uses noise within a musical context and noise as a primary aspect. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction between musical and non-musical sound.

So this is one of the several relevant items on this list that are on the borderline (music - not music) and pretty much deserves to be in the top 5, if not higher.
Noise music is an important component of several extreme punk subgenres.

However, probably it isn't a typical music genre - I think it's a style that can be applied to different genres.

Noise is a really important part of music for some genres, and you won't get the feeling achieved without some of it, the homemade studio or garage band vibe, which makes or breaks a band in some cases. music is about making people feel one way or another when thinking about a listener, so including feedback and noise is very important.

What even is this?

10 Dirty Rap
The Contenders
11 Grindcore

Hate me, but there is good grindcore out there. It isn't for everyone obviously. If you hate bands like Napalm Death and Carcass, I urge you to give Pig Destroyer a listen, they are my all time favorite grindcore band. Some other really cool grind bands are Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Extreme Noise Terror, Terrorizer, and Repulsion

Gosh this is horrible.It's just Death Metal but with short sings and a few influences from Crust Punk(Combination of Extreme Metal and Punk).This isn't music because the vocals just consist of pig squeals and bear noises.The "music" in Grindcore is just noise and barely has any musical element.And before you Metalhead elitists call me a "pop fan" my favorite music genres are Alternative Rock and Rap/Hip Hop and I only like a few pop singers but I hate most pop music.-DarkBoi-X

I love all types of metal, but I just found this specific kind of metal particularly hard to listen to

12 Hip-hop
13 Reggaeton

This crap is all the same and it's terrible. Get this crap out of our ears.

Ugh! Worst music genre in the history of music and genres.

NO! Get this off here now!
- TheDuttyGyal

Country is the best music ever

14 Crunkcore Crunkcore (also known as crunk punk and scrunk) is a musical fusion genre characterized by the combination of musical elements from crunk, post-hardcore, heavy metal, pop, electronic and dance music. The genre often features screamed vocals, hip hop beats, and sexually provocative lyrics. The genre developed from members of the scene subculture during the mid 2000s.

This genre sucks.Combining Crunk Rap,Screamo and Dance isn't really a good idea.Some bands like Breathe Carolina are good at this and do it in a proper way but then there's bands like Brokencyde,Blood On The Dance Floor and Dot Dot Curve which are nothing but abominations.This genre consists of really cheesy bands that only emo/scene kids like but everyone else hates it and I really hate it.The screams are so easy that even I can do it and I'm in middle of puberty.I'm glad this crap died out shortly after myspace did.-DarkBoi-X

Crunkcore is a genre that mixes the vocals of screamo with those of amateur MySpace rappers. Thankfully, this musical trend died out as MySpace did. However, many of the biggest crunkcore acts from those days (like brokenCYDE, Blood on the Dance Floor, and Dot Dot Curve :) ) are still together to this day.

Think about it as the following
Mix screamo vocals, half of the time with Lil Wayne-style autotune, bad sounding guitar loops straight from the producer's DAW, add some crunk/Dirty South rap synths, bass, and drums, and some girl who dyed her hair in many colors who is singing about a bad relationship.

15 Pornogore

Pornogore = Pornogrind (just synonyms).
I don't know why both are on this list as different items.

16 Goregrind

Somewhat similar musically to grindcore, except with disturbing themes (typically violence against women) added to the mix.

17 Screamo
18 Bro Country
19 Death Metal

I can't believe my eyes. Death Metal is one of the most technical (sub)genres ever and it's very demanding (requires talent!).
Great drummers and guitarists out there. First came to mind George Kollias (Nile) - his drumming technique is gonna be studied in percussion departments.
Growls also require very good technique(s), otherwise you are gonna lose your voice in no time.

By the way, I'm not sure that talent is the most appropriate criterion to identify 'Music Genres That Shouldn't Even Be Considered Music'.
Talent is the most important thing in general but it doesn't work very well as a criterion here, in my opinion.

Not all of it is my cup of tea, but I dare you to play a death metal song flawlessly on guitar or drums, because it's heavy doesn't mean it isn't music. It's one of the most challenging music genres to play, if not the most

Check out the lists:
Top 10 Death Metal Bands Whose Lyrics Aren't Gory
Top 10 Death Metal Bands Whose Lyrical Themes Are Different From the Stereotyped Image
Top 10 Non-Gory Death Metal Album Covers
Top 10 Non-Metal Album Covers Depicting Blood or / and Violence

Death metal isn't for everyone, but have some respect for it! Every Death Metal Band is different, just not to the untrained ear. Some great Death Metal bands are Death, Morbid Angel, Cattle Decapitation, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Possessed, Dying Fetus, Autopsy, Opeth, Atheist, Necrophagist, Nile, Deicide, Vader, Behemoth, Brain Drill, Decrepit Birth, Abominable Putridity, Goatwhore, Katalepsy, Jungle Rot, Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, At The Gates, In Flames, Turbid North... The list goes on! Pick one and listen!

20 Djent

Djent is a guitar playing style, not a genre. That's like naming a genre shredding. Anyway, some really cool bands have been labeled as djent, them being Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders, and Periphery

I guess the name stuck and it became some sort of pseudo "genre", heh. But really, it's a guitar sound style, not something for other instruments in a given djent band. Listen to ERRA though, they are fantastic.

Not because it's bad, but because it's a style of playing, not a genre. That would be like calling a metal genre "pinch harmonics."

A lot of people don't consider it as a genre. Some say it's a part of prog metal.

21 Crunk

Crunk deserves to be #1

22 National Socialist Black Metal

It's not a music genre, it's just black metal with specific lyrics.

And we can't say it's not music based on its lyrics because it's already another type of art - literature, or "poetry" if you wish.

National Socialist black metal is a lyrical style, not a genre. Themes include nationalism, neo-Nazism, and white supremacy.

A disgrace style of black metal

23 Trap Music

There are some great trap songs out there that are meaningful and melodic. You just have to dig deeper and look past the mainstream, like with any other genre.

It's a mix of trash and crap!

Can we spam vote this to 1?

24 Modern Black Metal
25 Danger Music

Honestly, if you ask me, danger music is something you DEFINITELY should never consider music. If you think metal is "all screaming" then you should take a listen to danger "music." What's musical about someone having a mental breakdown and destroying a bunch of things in their path? Nothing? Yeah.

This literally isn't music. It's some kind of post-modern avant-garde performance art. And by that I mean it's absolute garbage. You thought black metal was just some guy screaming? How about watching a guy on stage literally just scream with no rhythm or melody and knock stuff over.

It's more entertaining to watch than to listen.

Why is this not number one?!

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