Top 10 Biggest Pet Peeves In Music

Personality doesn't affect the quality of an artist's music. Of course, there are some exceptions, like Fred Durst, and I also find it hard to enjoy black metal due to many of the musicians in that genre being scumbags. But for the most part, a particular artist having a bad personality doesn't mean that their music is trash.

Now, a bad personality obviously doesn't make someone a bad musician, just like how a nice person doesn't make someone a great musician. So I should've at least put this lower on the list, but it still sucks meeting someone you've looked up to for a long time, and they give you the cold shoulder.

I don't get "repetitive" as a criticism. Repetition isn't a bad thing - it allows a piece to breathe. You can hypnotize a listener with it, letting the loop ebb and flow while you add new things on top, whether minor or major. Hell, Steve Reich and Basic Channel have made entire careers out of finding ways to entrance the listener.

This gets really annoying in songs like "Whip My Hair" or "Gucci Gang," where they're repeating the same thing a million times throughout the entire chorus. But hey, if it gets your song played on the radio every 10 minutes for 5 months straight, then I guess, do you.

I can't even tell you how many bands I've been turned off from because of this. There are so many I've heard with great instrumentation, but annoying vocals, and it's probably the number one thing that stops me from being a fan of the band.

Autotuned vocals are extremely irritating to me. Also, singers who sing off-key and singers with weak voices. But I would say this item is very subjective - for example, death metal vocals aren't irritating to me, but autotuned vocals are. Some people would say the opposite.

Yeah, it pretty much ruins the song. You can add grandiose, lush, or epic instruments and sounds to your music, but if the vocals suck, everything else goes down with it.

Personally, I think that autotune can actually be used quite tastefully. Seeing as how I view the voice as just another instrument, I'd really like to see some artists get creative and start using autotune not as a pitch-correcting device, but instead as a distortion effect over their voice, in the same way that most guitarists use distortion pedals to alter the sounds of their instrument.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind a little bit of autotune, and some of my favorite singers probably use it, but please keep it in moderation. Heavily autotuned vocals are just a mess, and it kind of makes them sound like robots.

Genres such as metal or rap are nowhere near as easy as people think. Don't believe me? Try playing a guitar solo for 10-20 minutes, or rapping and actually being good at it, then come back and tell me they take no talent. And it's not just metal and rap. The same goes for every other genre as well.

The thing that makes this dumb is that no talent implies anyone can do it. If that were the case, then why wouldn't they, if they can make massive amounts of money from it?

Some specific songs don't have any talent in them, but every genre has some good artists and songs.

As someone who loves rock and metal in general, as well as several subgenres, I find songs with lots of breakdowns, djenty elements, and constant screaming - especially layered screaming - boring.

So, I choose subgenres that tend to avoid those elements.

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't mind some screaming in songs. Almost all of my favorite bands have screamed in at least one song, but sometimes the vocalist does it a lot, and it's really hard for me to enjoy metal because of it.

Meanwhile, I'm over here listening to Converge, which is basically headache-inducing noise at points, yet I love it.

Kanye West's cover of Bohemian Rhapsody.

I don't want a cover that I don't want to share with people because it's embarrassing.

No, not all metal is screaming about burning churches. Not all rock is some dude whining about how he hates his life. Not all pop is repetitive and heavily autotuned. Not all rap is about drugs, sex, and money. And not all country is drinking whiskey and having sex with a minor on a tractor. So cut the stereotypes already.

Not all metal is about Satan or burning things, not all pop is girly, not all rock is about an emo guy with a small penis, and not all rap is about sex, drugs, and money. Not all.

All of the boy bands and girl groups I've heard sound exactly the same as each other, only sing about love, don't play any instruments, have annoying voices, and have absolutely no variety whatsoever.

If the singer goes out of their range, it messes up the whole beat.

I actually like trap beats, but it has a bad reputation because a lot of trap rap artists are awful.

Some rap songs are guilty of this.

'90s and 2000s R&B are filled with these. That's why I now prefer '70s and '80s R&B, as well as neo-soul, over modern R&B, because back then the singers actually had naturally great and big voices and didn't need to try so hard.

I don't usually mind singers who are not technically great, but this is something I generally can't tolerate.

Change by Deftones and This Broken Soul by Korn are perfect examples of this. It's really unfortunate because they're also perfect examples of vocals that ruin otherwise pretty decent songs.

No, I don't want to hear graphic descriptions of what happens with what's in their pants and what they do with it.

This is something that annoys me more than it should.

Swearing too much will mess up the beat and change the tone. It will also make it less impactful.

Yeah, men with high-pitched, girly voices who also scream! Screaming isn't singing!

Eminem is a prime example. His fanbase is annoying as hell, but he's a good artist.

I don't find it fair to judge someone by their fanbase. It doesn't take away from the music.