Top 10 Worst Assumptions People Make About Music

Almost any new songs I hear on the local pop radio stations get overplayed to death. Some are good, but I remember hearing Dance Monkey everywhere on the radio. My god, that was awful.

It's actually harmless. It doesn't ruin your brain either.

The two sometimes go hand in hand, but correlation doesn't equal causation.

I agree, but that also doesn't mean it's automatically worse if it's popular.

More copies just mean that it is played more, not that it is actually liked.

Metal musicians have had far fewer problems with drugs than musicians in rap, pop, grunge, and classic rock.

No major metal musician died of drugs or alcohol, and metal lyrics aren't about drugs. (Master of Puppets by Metallica is an anti-drug song.)

This is not accurate. Let me give an example - sometimes we confuse hard rock and metal to be the same (I do too). It's because we judge metal and rock (and other genres) by their loudness. But loudness doesn't always mean "heavy." Yes, metal music is loud, but it doesn't always have to be loud to be considered metal. When I was young, I used to think that simply increasing the volume would make any song metal, but now I realize why it can't be.

Metal = power + speed. When you beat a drum very hard or strum a guitar heavily, it will create loud or heavy music, but it won't necessarily be metal. Punk rock is also loud. Metal is only metal when a certain amount of speed is used in it. Some metal songs aren't very loud, especially guitar solos. When guitar chords are played very fast, they create a very fast solo. Then it sounds like, well, let's say, like a device. For example, a "telephone" sound or something like that. Those solos are metal too, but they aren't loud. There are other loud genres that can't be considered metal.

So, those who think metal is just a loud genre are wrong. Totally wrong.

Anything sexual sells, though.

There's no such thing as a better genre.

My sister has this opinion, and she thinks any song that's at least 5 years old is forgettable and didn't age well. It's like she doesn't give older songs a chance.

I think you're forgetting the electronic music genre...

And even worse, some of these people trash other people's music tastes just for liking underground artists, even though people who listen to underground artists typically have a much more diverse taste than someone who listens to the same 10 mainstream artists.

I don't care how popular music artists are.

I don't think so - but I'm sure there must be some idiots who think that.

Not a big fan of this genre, but there can be good and bad in anything.

Selling out isn't always necessarily a bad thing.

The Monster Mash is a song from the 1960s that still makes the comedy charts every Halloween, but it's still terrible.

In some cases, this is true. That said, sometimes garbage songs are remembered.

There are bad songs that come back to the charts every Christmas.

Agreed, overrating and underrating are more likely subjective things.

Good lyrics in songs are nice, but that doesn't automatically make the song good. After all, the music has to be good in order for a song to be called "good." Lyrics are secondary and sometimes even irrelevant.

If a song has good lyrics but boring, lame, or bad music, then it's not a good song. It's a good poem or short story with boring or bad music in the background.

Again, not necessarily true.

For example, I LOVE Pink Floyd to death. That said, Roger Waters, despite being one of the greatest songwriters of his time - at least in my opinion - does not have a fantastic singing voice. It's not bad by any means, but it's not as good as David Gilmour's, for example.

Being a good songwriter does not mean you are a good singer. Singing and songwriting are two different things.

You can have great lyrics but terrible singing, and vice versa. Though I'd rather have a good singer performing rubbish lyrics than a bad singer performing good lyrics because when I listen to a song, I want to hear good music (i.e., instrumentals and vocal performances) rather than just good lyrics.