music Musical Misconceptions/Stereotypes That Bother You

[Hansel 1,512]

Ah, I apologize, I should have clarified that I wasn't talking about pieces that are performed by electronic instruments.  I meant pieces that require no human performers, and are only meant to be played through speakers.  Playing an electronic instrument is certainly not easy.

 

Oh, no worries. I kinda guessed what you meant, but I just wanted to clarify that there's loads of ways of creating and performing electronic music, It's one of its beauties. 

[Midnight Dragon 264]

Everytime people say that Skrillex has no talent, I just want to "KILL EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD"

[Away 2,077]

The misconception that classic rock is a genre. It's not.

 

For example: AC/DC is hard rock. Rush is progressive rock. Ramones are punk rock.

 

You get the picture.

[BastementSparkle 20,335]

I hate it when people state that video game music isn't real music. How can you say that when video game music could be anything? It could be Chiptune, Rock, Metal, Rap, etc. There are some really talented people who work on that stuff, it's pretty much just like real music.

 

 I also despise it when people make assumptions about my personality based on what music I'm listening to at the time. My tastes are so varied and random that there's almost no way you could piece it all together based off the music I like.

[Dargent 80]

"Electronic music is all the same."

I absolutely hate it when people say things like that.

[Adorkable 2,737]

"Dubstep is just transformers banging."

 

Seriously, guys?

 

Dubstep rocks.

[Mutemutt 773]

There's nothing that annoys me more than when someone says video game music is not real music. Actually, make that pretty much all music; I can't stand it when people talk about there being "real" music, in general.

[DND 2,355]

Whenever people require vocals in music just to listen to it. It's absolutely mind numbing that people will write music off just because it doesn't have some half-wit mumbling crap into a microphone. I also hate it when people assume the radio equals good music. Very rarely do I hear a good tune on the radio and its usually the same good tunes. EX: On a local "classic rock" station the play the same Rush tune, Same Yes tune, same 5 Led Zepplin tunes with the very rare Kashmir, same 8 Pink Floyd songs and the same 2 Doors songs over the span of a week. Some of them occur in an 8 hour timespan twice. I just want to drive down to the station, kick down the door and yell, "YOU KNOW THEY HAVE A LARGER DISCOGRAPHY RIGHT?!" Suffice to say, my car had a broken antennae when I bought it and its staying that way. Another one as people mentioned is the big amount of hatred on dubstep claiming its not real music. Chances are they heard Skrillex and that was the end of it. If only they knew of the good stuff.

 

GOD DAMMIT I HATE THIS SO MUCH YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.

 

This is exactly why youths of today crave that dance/rave pop music, and take no regard of any other genre whatsoever. 

"Music is my life but I listen for lyrics."

"I don't like oldies stuff they sound wierd."

 

 WHY WHY WHY-

THAT'S NOT WHAT MUSIC'S ABOUT!

 

sorry for the caps spam i just fucking cant even-

[Away 2,077]

"Musical Misconceptions/Stereotypes That Bother You"

 

Pretty much most (if not all) of them, especially when people use them as serious arguments for why they don't like a certain artist or genre.

Edited May 19, 2014 by LatinoChurro

[Carbon Maestro 1,003]

Age isn't an excuse if you think age is what holds you back at composing.

 

Mozart wrote a freaking symphony at age 9.

 

I have more fingers on my hand this this guy's age when he wrote this

 

I guess this is more aimed towards composers. The older the better they always say. See John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Beethoven for examples.

Edited May 19, 2014 by Carbon Maestro

[Away 2,077]

Age isn't an excuse if you think age is what holds you back at composing.

 

Mozart wrote a freaking symphony at age 9.

 

I have more fingers on my hand this this guy's age when he wrote this

 

I guess this is more aimed towards composers. The older the better they always say. See John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Beethoven for examples.

I agree. And Beethoven was definitely an outstanding composer.

[Sir Hugsalot 9,369]

Pretty much every stereotype about music. But the ones which bother me most:

 

-rock/metal music is satanic. No. It's not. The only genre that truly is satanic is black metal and EVEN THERE not every band is satanic/antichristian. Even more. There are also bands like for example Pillar who plays rock/metal music with christian message. And most of bands (at least the ones I listen too) sing about both light and dark sides of life, in some certain genres old folk tales (folk/pagan/viking metal) or in some cases they are just random, but definitely not satanic. If someone says that this entire genre is "evil" then sorry, but... that's just one of most stupid thing someone can tell. 

-rock/metal musicians all take drugs. No. First it's not only common in rock/metal music. Second. I am not sure how is it in mainstream music, but I know that there are bands like Iron Maiden where nobody takes drugs. And barely any less known rock/metal band is taking them. The fact that some random artists take them and in more severe cases die because of it does not mean that every musician is like that. 

-lyrics in rap music are garbage. Some are. I can't deny that. But even if I am not fan of this genre (matter of taste) I've read many lyrics that actually have deep message and deserve some recognition. Every music genre has bands that simply suck. But that does not mean that entire genre sucks. 

-louder=better. It's a common fashion in music industry now. It's called "loudness war" and it's the very reason why new CDs are much louder than music written for example in 80s. Basically it causes dynamics reduction (in most severe cases like Metallica - Death Magnetic it is almost non existant) in order to make music louder. Problem is - it damages quality of record, makes it sound lifeless and on top of all it was proven that listening to overly compressed music is exhausting for human's brain. Person who mostly stays behind this is Rick Rubin and I hope someone will finally do something about it, because what he did with Black Sabbath - 13 is crime against humanity. Ears have literally no room to "breathe" on that CD. 

 

And I think that's all for now.

[Guest90210 3,569]

I am a living example of a music misconception. I'm a Juggalo. Of course, when attempting to explain why I like ICP, Twiztid, and so on, I'm blasted with magnet jokes and white trash insults. Meh...

[FaZe Vinyl 521]

1. Screaming/Growling takes no talent.

 

2. I do drugs and stuff because I like Metallica and the like.

 

3. I'm Satanist and a dick because I like Punk.

 

4. (Not really music, but whatever) All punks are jerks.

 

5. Vinyl is always better than CDs or digital

 

6. "You can get music for free on the radio, why don't you do that?"

 

7. All punk bands/artist are tattooed head to toe, pierced to where they have no ears left, and have mohawks (see: August Burns Red)

[Rhythm_Song 0]

play the grand piano gets mistaken for the piano

 

carrys a guitar in a case gets asked why i am carrying a gun

 

many a facehoof

[Away 2,077]

-rock/metal music is satanic. No. It's not. The only genre that truly is satanic is black metal and EVEN THERE not every band is satanic/antichristian. Even more. There are also bands like for example Pillar who plays rock/metal music with christian message. And most of bands (at least the ones I listen too) sing about both light and dark sides of life, in some certain genres old folk tales (folk/pagan/viking metal) or in some cases they are just random, but definitely not satanic. If someone says that this entire genre is "evil" then sorry, but... that's just one of most stupid thing someone can tell. 

Satanic/occult imagery and lyrics don't bother me anyway.

 

-rock/metal musicians all take drugs. No. First it's not only common in rock/metal music. Second. I am not sure how is it in mainstream music, but I know that there are bands like Iron Maiden where nobody takes drugs. And barely any less known rock/metal band is taking them. The fact that some random artists take them and in more severe cases die because of it does not mean that every musician is like that. 

Even if a certain artist is taking drugs, it's dumb to let that fact take away any enjoyment of their music.

 

-lyrics in rap music are garbage. Some are. I can't deny that. But even if I am not fan of this genre (matter of taste) I've read many lyrics that actually have deep message and deserve some recognition. Every music genre has bands that simply suck. But that does not mean that entire genre sucks.

Yep. To be fair, there are A LOT of cliché and cringe-worthy lyrics in rock and pop music too.

 

-louder=better. It's a common fashion in music industry now. It's called "loudness war" and it's the very reason why new CDs are much louder than music written for example in 80s. Basically it causes dynamics reduction (in most severe cases like Metallica - Death Magnetic it is almost non existant) in order to make music louder. Problem is - it damages quality of record, makes it sound lifeless and on top of all it was proven that listening to overly compressed music is exhausting for human's brain. Person who mostly stays behind this is Rick Rubin and I hope someone will finally do something about it, because what he did with Black Sabbath - 13 is crime against humanity. Ears have literally no room to "breathe" on that CD.

Yeah :/ Unfortunately, even remasters of classic albums suffer from this problem. This is why records are sometimes better than CDs.

[SCS 7,537]

I'm not a fan of the misconception that all of metal is satanic/angry/violent and so on. Yeah, some of it is, but that doesn't mean all of it is. I listen to death metal all the time, including some brutal death metal, but nothing I listen to is even remotely satanic. Some of it is violent, but it is never violent to an egregious extent, and there's usually some kind of allegory behind it. Otherwise, it's clearly in a fantasy context.
 
Metal is a form of artistic expression, and one that I actually don't associate with anger all that often. Many other emotions come to mind, such as passion, determination, love, and even peace. Metal is one way of expressing the effervescent vibrancy of the soul. 
 
Metal might seem frightening or angry on the surface, but a lot of it is quite the opposite.

[DiscordedBrony 77]

One musical stereotype I really hate, is that if you enjoy or perform in musicals such as broadway or some other, a lot of people think that makes you gay. I hate that stereotype so much! I love musicals! I mean, sure there are people who perform in musicals and are gay, but that doesn't mean they all are!

Edited June 7, 2014 by DiscordedBrony

[Guest]

I grew up listening to country, my favourite genre, and the incestuous redneck stereotype was always the first thing thrown in my face for liking this stuff. As @@Shoboni, mentioned on the first page of this thread, country has a lot of heartfelt and meaningful lyrics which is what drew me to the genre. However, that stereotype is the first thing I usually hear when mentioning my musical preferences.

[Magical Anarchy 177]

"Dubstep is just transformers banging."

 

Seriously, guys?

 

Dubstep rocks.

Yeah. Basically this^.

 

Dubstep is most of the music I listen to.

[Sugar & Sins 156]

"It's not even hard to make Techno music or Dubstep!" I can't do it for the life of me, but then again I haven't exactly took classes or anything (Prefer to teach myself things) It's really not that easy.

 

"All metal heads are druggies!" Seriously? I love metal, I grew up on the stuff and I've never even smoked a cigarette in my life let alone done drugs...