Top 10 Countries that Make the Worst Music

As an Indian American (I am American but of Indian descent), I hate Indian music (most of the time, that is). I mostly listen to Alternative Rock and Rap/Hip Hop, which is a lot better than Indian music.

Bollywood music is just meaningless and usually consists of two badly dressed people running around trees or in a temple, singing about their marriage. Then they say some gibberish in an extremely high-pitched voice that annoys me.

I'm honestly mixed on traditional Indian music. Some songs are boring, while others are emotional. My mom is always forcing me to listen to dumb Bollywood songs or annoying Indian religious songs. Whenever I'm trying to listen to some Alternative Rock or Rap (those are my two favorite genres), she is always playing her stupid Bollywood or Indian religious songs so loud that I can't hear my music. Worst of all, she thinks Bollywood music and religious Indian songs are the only good types of music.

Whenever I show her my music, she never listens. And when I ask her why, she says I should stop yelling. I don't even yell!

For the record, I listen to other genres too, like Punk Rock, Industrial Rock, Drum & Bass, Ambient, Electro-Industrial, and Lo-Fi.

-DarkBoi-X

Let's face it, Canada, a lot of what comes out of your country just doesn't quite make it. There are certainly a few really interesting, original acts up there, but their efforts get outweighed by the massive spew of either overrated or second-string acts that have emerged from the Great White North over many years.

Maybe if your government gave up on its weird Canadian content regulations so that more outside influence would get in, then there'd be a lot more cross-breeding of ideas going on, instead of the Canadian music scene being a self-enforced backwater.

I don't think it's fair to generalize the whole country for making bad pop music because South Korea has great singers and bands that are overshadowed by their manufactured pop music. I used to listen to K-pop when Baby V.O.X was still around (Yes, I'm older than most K-pop fans today). Then, I got tired of it because the groups produced the same, mediocre music over and over again, except with new faces in the scene. It's like if Steven Moffat wrote songs for them or something. I'm kidding, but in the K-pop industry, looks come before talent. I know most labels will deny it, but it's mostly true. I don't see girls who look like Susan Boyle in K-pop. Even if they hired one, they would pressure diets and surgeries on her the most, and it's sad.

Most K-pop fans I've encountered today are vain, even more so than J-pop fans. Why? It's because they value their appearances more than their music. Most I've seen on social media are unhappy with themselves because they wish they looked like their favorite airbrushed/surgically enhanced K-pop idols. Many of them actually travel to Korea just to get surgeries done, trying to reach K-pop's unattainable beauty standards. Others I know are struggling with eating disorders. You may disagree because I'm "generalizing" K-pop and their fans, but that's their reality.

Of course, people will criticize it for stupid reasons, but my reasons for disliking K-pop are valid.

Sri Lankan music is good for murderers, rapists, gangsters, drug addicts, sexual deviants, lunatics, psychopaths, and idiots! You can't even call it 3rd class because 3rd class music is a million times better than Sri Lankan music.

You need to call it 4th class or the class of hell!

I think anime music is annoying, and I hate it. Though I kinda like anime, I don't like the music. Real J-pop is much better.

Very, very annoying vocals, incorporating unwanted high-pitched wailing. Also, a very annoying language in general.

Every singer sounds and looks like an anime character, which is bad from the start. A lot of it is pretty annoying as well.

I wouldn't even call anything that comes out of this country music. It's all just military marches and propaganda songs.

One would have to listen to what plays on national radio in North Korea to hear their stuff.

It's so bad it's amazing. Such cloying tripe is hard on the ears!

I didn't know North Korea had music. But then again, there's probably no such thing as "music" there anyway.

I gotta say, I hate my country's music. It's everything flamenco or pop.

I wish it had some variety. And even that variety is small!

Sorry, Spain, even though your language is fun when I speak it, I hate your music.

Terrible party music. Music without soul.

It's nothing against Mexico, but I have some bad memories associated with Mexican music. Now, whenever I hear it, I remember times of being alone, surrounded by people who have no manners and don't care one way or another for you because you're white. It was a very lonely time for me.

And when I thought I found somebody, they turned around and backstabbed me. All of this while they listened to Mexican music.

My issue with traditional Mexican music, whether it be mariachi, banda, norteño, or this new stuff that's around, is that it's very generic. The majority of the songs sound the same and feel uninspired. There are thousands of songs with the same harmony and bassline, whether it's 1/2 polka, 3/4 vals ranchero, or 4/4 bolero, and so on.

The instrumentation isn't the problem. The issue is that there's not much variety in the musical aspect. They often copy elements from past songs. When a new song sounds like something I've already heard, that's a problem. There are a handful of catchy songs, but the rest feel generic, uninspired, and forgettable.

The lyrics are also very mediocre. While many love songs contain a nice message, it's clear that some of them weren't well thought out, using oversimplistic sentences just to fill the song. In my opinion, a song can be about something random, like a tree, and still have strong songwriting. Conversely, a love song can have weak songwriting. Overall, this music feels overrated.

German "pop" music is cringy, nasty, shallow, and plain horrid. Every song sounds the same, and the language is just not fit for art in any way. There are some exceptions of good German contemporary music, like Kraftwerk, Rammstein, or some former GDR bands, but they in no way make up for the hideous monstrosity that is German pop music.

While I must say that Germany had some awesome classical composers, it makes the terrible modern "music" even more shameful.

Not only do they make cringy, terrible, soulless, stale, recycled pop, dubstep, and techno music, but the Germans themselves seem to have a terrible taste in music in general. German rap is just the same song, and their selection of pop songs generally has no life or meaning.

Nice country, though.

If you watch all those car accident videos on YouTube, you get the feeling that those poor people are killing themselves because of the awful pop music. American pop music has basically been garbage before and after the sixties, the only time in 300 years that it was any good at all.

But Russian pop music doesn't make it sound better, just less offensive. It sounds like an out-of-tune violin next to a fart.

Communists always thought that good lyrics meant good music. This is where they failed miserably. And what is India doing here? I have heard Hindustani classical music, and it was just great. Nowadays, Indian musicians have become copycats, but if you go back to the sixties, you can really feel the emotions in it. Musicians like Salil Chowdhury and Shankar Jaikishen were simply prodigies.

While this country has a lot of awful artists, it also has many great ones. Since Puerto Rico is not a country and falls under the US, the awful subgenre known as reggaeton originated here. Despite this, you can't deny that most popular music genres such as rock, R&B, jazz, soul, hip hop, blues, funk, disco, and pop originated in the US.

How stupid is a country that brought us Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Ariana Grande, Rebecca Black, Fifth Harmony, Carrie Underwood, Toby Keith, Florida-Georgia Line, Ted Nugent, Ke$ha, Meghan Trainor, and all these emo bands (Black Veil Brides, whatever).

How stupid can Americans be to make them popular?

Norway makes way better music than Sweden. The Norwegian accent is way more beautiful than the Swedish accent.

Swedes are not talented singers at all. They don't even know how to sing properly.

The only reason why Sweden is popular is because it's overrated. Nothing else.

Yeah, what black metal bands do is bad. Let's talk about the music, though. We're not talking about what music scenes do.

And you know what? I don't like black metal music. I don't like how the quality is always bad. Is it a rule that in order to be a black metal band, your songs have to sound like they're going through a toilet bowl? The lyrics are also pretty bland, and it's mostly just unoriginal.

This is my opinion, so please don't take it too seriously. I'm just one guy.

TL;DR version: Make the sound quality better, and it will be (sort of) better.

Really sucks, like the government there.

All their music sounds like a goat.

Most Serbian music is dominated by hooting, owlish pop-folk. The rest is some type of brass orchestra music that sounds like the love child of Mexican Banda and Turkish folk. Other Balkan countries managed to keep their Slavic musical heritage mostly pure or blended their oriental influences into something tasteful. For example, Romania, Bulgaria, and Macedonia have wonderful folk styles. I don't know what happened in Serbia, though.

Serbian music sucks. Turbo folk artists have zero talent, and even the "rap" sucks. The artists are promoting alcohol, smoking, and drugs as positive things, and the production is crappy.

Songs from Serbia should be number one. I think no country has music that actually promotes drugs like Serbian music does, especially the new ones.

I am ashamed to be Vietnamese. Its music is the worst of the worst. V-pop or Vietnamese traditional music are so old and sound the same.

My parents listen to traditional Vietnamese music all the time. I want to die.

Traditional Vietnamese music makes me sick.

I just don't like mainstream Filipino music that is all about love, especially those sung by actresses who are trying hard to be singers. It's so obvious that they are using auto-tune. Eraserheads, Parokya ni Edgar, and some other bands are good, but Filipinos have to admit that the instrumentals almost sound the same for these bands.

As for Filipino rap, even if you say the late Francis Magalona is good, I personally find every Filipino rap song trying hard and for the general mass. The general mass is in the lower middle class and below. Folk music is very trippy and definitely better than Filipino rap.

I don't like the current Greek music scene, and I'm Greek. In the past, we produced better songs. Nowadays, only if you sing a bad song will you be popular here, with a few exceptions, of course.

This is the most pointless music ever!

When I was in Greece, I heard Greek radio. It was torture for my ears. They try to make songs like their traditional music, which is just pointless guitar. Yes, it's very repetitive and boring. It's an ultimate strike to the ears!

It's trash, not music, or maybe I just don't get it. And why is it so low on the list? Please, get it higher! It's awful!

Mainstream Iranian music has a very funny rhythm that is very recognizable. It's actually quite annoying if you hear a lot of its mainstream music.

For example, has anyone seen the "Shift it" commercial in the U.S.? The background music sounds like very mainstream Iranian music. It sounds silly. I haven't heard traditional music, so I won't judge that.

Worst music in the world: Persian pop music. Every song sounds the same - same stupid electronic beat, same boring vocal melody, and every MF is a singer here!

Don't even get me started on Persian rap or the borefest they call traditional music. Iran should be #1 on this list.

Disco polo is probably the worst and most lame music genre ever. Surprisingly, not only peasants listen to it, but it's popular club music!

Just bad, vaguely "Latin"-sounding synthesizer sounds with girls squealing over it. Occasional horn sounds.