Top Ten Signs You are Listening to Bad Music
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It has more than a billion views on YouTube
Many great songs that deserve a billion views don't even come close, while less deserving songs reach that milestone easily.
Too many mediocre songs get over a billion views. All the good songs are underground nowadays.
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The singer is twerking
Nowadays, singers don't need talent. They just need to twerk and try to look attractive in the video to get views and gain popularity.
If your music is genuinely good, you shouldn't need gimmicks like this to sell it. Are you offering music or selling sex?
Look what we have here...Nicki Minaj.
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The chorus starts with 'I love you' and ends with 'Yes Yes Yes'
This reminds me of an early Beatles song, but I can't recall the title.
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The singer is semi-naked
This is another thing that isn't uncommon. Singers and rappers, most likely female rappers, are often semi-naked, meaning partial nudity, to say the least.
Good music doesn't need sexual imagery to be successful.
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The lyrics are grammatically incorrect
Although it doesn't necessarily make the song bad, it is a bit of a turn-off when artists use incorrect grammar in their songs.
I heard a song on the radio that says something like, "You're the Dutch and I'm the Duchess."
There are exceptions, but I think this holds true in most cases.
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It talks about sex/drugs
I don't like songs about sex and drugs. I just find it annoying, and it seems to be a repetitive topic, especially in modern music. Not saying that modern music is bad.
It's unfortunate that most rappers nowadays mainly talk about these topics or boast about how much money they have.
This is all too common. Kids should be cautious about the music they listen to.
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The song starts with 'La la la' and ends with 'La la la la la'
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The rapper mumbles
Ex. "Pretty! Boy! Swag!" "Pretty! Boy! Swag!"
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The guitarist is beating the guitar with his fist in the music video, the drummer's head is upside down and several neonlights are flickering
Great music can be successful without resorting to such circus-like antics.
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The lyrics are bad
A lot of today's songs revolve around the same themes. Pop music almost always seems to be about love these days.
"England is my city."
2017 flashbacks.
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The tuning is inconsistent
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It has a featured rapper who hypes themselves
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You always know which sound comes next
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You like the album cover better than the song itself
I don't really care about a song's album cover. I prefer listening to the song rather than focusing on the artwork.
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You are thinking about playing it in a senior club
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Half-naked women in the video
That's pretty much all we see in music videos. Sensuality has always been a very efficient tactic for selling things. Just look at some commercials that use half-naked women to make products more appealing.
I saw a Polyphia music video. The band was just playing, but at some points, there were clips of a busty woman walking around. WHY? It had nothing to do with the music! (Instrumental Progressive Metal).
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The YouTube comments are all "2018?" even though the song is from 2017
It doesn't reflect well on the song if people are already worried about it becoming irrelevant just a year after its release.
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You listen to the song for the beat, not for the lyric
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The first lyric is "yeah" or "uh"
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You don't like the song
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You like the video clip better than the song itself
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Awful/predictable rhymes
Examples: love-life, (nowhere to) run-(nowhere to) hide, two words ending in -tion, baby-crazy, you-you.
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The most common pronoun is the N-word
No one cares if the rapper is Black or White. Please don't be racist.
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The singer uses voice synthesizers
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The singer uses Autotune
A little bit of autotune won't hurt anything. I'm sure a lot of my favorite singers probably use it, but if it's to the point where the singer is relying on it to make their voice sound good, then there's a problem.
I'd rather listen to an autotuned voice than a weak, forgettable voice that needs autotune to sound decent, although I avoid both when possible.
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You've already come up with its melody when giving birth to your child
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You want to listen to it at the gym