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Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Aicebo) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:01:14 +0000

The Mad Thatter wrote:

I cannot stand Katy Perry or Rihanna, or ANY kind of rapper

katy perry and rihanna aren't rappers.

I agree completely with neotguy

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Stormy) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:33:02 +0000

^ Right. Mainstream isn't a genre, but there's definitely a sound to most stuff that becomes mainstream. There's a difference between not liking something because it's mainstream (hipster) and not liking something that happens to be mainstream (person with tastes that differ from the norm).

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (36IStillLikeSpyro36) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:03:00 +0000

I can't take people seriously when they say they dislike mainstream music.

why? i don't like mainstream music, because nearly every song that is mainstream is terrible. it's not because it's mainstream, though i'm sure not everybody is like that, but rather simply because it's terrible. if music that sounded better to me made it to "mainstream" status, i'd like mainstream music.

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Neotyguy40) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:09:59 +0000

I can't take people seriously when they say they dislike mainstream music. Mainstream is not a 'genre' that one can dislike. If someone doesn't like a song because it's mainstream, then that person does not know anything about music. Same thing with indie music. If someone likes a song purely because it is an indie title, then I can't think very highly of their opinion. I am find if someone says they don't like rock, or dub step, or hip hop, or classical music. But those are all genres.

Personally, I like almost all music except for screamo/heavy metal. I can tolerate rap too, but only a few. And I prefer songs for their tune, so I listen to techno and dance music. However, it does not matter who makes it. I rarely ever pay attention to the artist, and only the individual song that's playing. Never have I ever listened to something for the reason that someone made it.

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Clock-la) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:10:51 +0000

Gaga's awfull, she might just as well give up her "wackey" outfits. it gets old affter a while.

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (The Mad Thatter) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:07:02 +0000

I cannot stand Katy Perry or Rihanna, or ANY kind of rapper. I generally do not like modern music, though I do love Lady Gaga. The bands/artists I like - Take That, Florence and the Machine, Micheal Bublé, Maroon 5, Muse - aren't really the sort to do the thumpy-waily club tunes, the tunes I generally cannot abide.
Lots of the songs I like are by bands or artists that I cannot say I am a fan of because I only like a couple of their tracks, so to some degree I agree with Clock-la.

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Clock-la) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:41:48 +0000

I just like songs rather than the musitions TBH.

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Spyro22) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:23:27 +0000

Mainstream music these days is not even what I like to call "real" music. Songs lack passion, meaning, purpose, soul, and sometimes talent. I think it's because so many people are so easily satisfied. There are artists out there that put so much into one song and are not noticed for it. For me personally, I am very picky about what I listen to and who the artist is. I have high standards for what I listen to, and 97% of the mainstream media does not cover that.

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Aicebo) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:40:35 +0000

yours is different swaffy because I know that you listen to lots of music that's from this era. my rant was directed at people who judge this whole generation solely on what's on the radio and say "LOL MUSIC WAS BETTER 20 YEARS AGO EVERYTHING TODAY SUX"

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Swaffy) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:00:55 +0000

Another reason why I am not into the "top ##s" music is simply because it's
not my style. I listen to a lot of atmospheric rock, and I never see it in the top
100s. So I just go search for it. I also never see Christian bands or bands like
Thrice in the top. Most of what I see is just party music. I'm not a party person.

Even if the lyrics are about something positive [or neutral], it's still the style
that I am not attracted to. In other words, I'd rather blast Withyouathome in
my room than Justin Beaver.

I'm not trying to go against Aicebo's rant, since I agree with most of it (if not all).

Also, this is what autotune sounds like: [YouTube]
Next time I make a tutorial for something, I should use autotune.

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Stormy) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:01:23 +0000

Honestly I just don't really care enough to look into artists like Kesha if all I ever hear from them is stuff I don't like. That marketing is obviously working on a lot of people, so good for those artists I guess, but it's doing the opposite for me.

I don't listen to music much at all anyway. I actually haven't downloaded a song in years, so I probably have no reason to even be posting here.

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Aicebo) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:41:29 +0000

here we go again. I could rant forever:

why do people think that today's music is ONLY top 40? there are literally thousands of musicians working on music and releasing it right now, yet people want to base all their arguments and statistics on music for what's on top 40 radio and television. if you wanna find something good, then take the time to look for it and stop complaining.

none of the options on the poll work for me. I don't listen to one genre of music, I listen to just about anything. I think that rihanna, nicki manaj, beyonce, and others have talent. nicki can rap really fast, and it's harder to do than it looks, and there's not many other legitimate female rappers in top 40 music. people keep saying that all pop music is autotuned, have you even heard beyonce's voice? do people even know what autotune is? it's an effect that makes you sound robotic and futuristic, not making an awful voice fantastic.

my personal favorite of top 40 music is enrique iglesias. in fact, this is a good example of when people say "all music these days is about partying and sex" blah blah blah....it's called marketing, that's what the majority public want to hear and what they like. enrique iglesias' past few singles have been all about that. however, if you actually take the time to listen to a full album of a top 40 artist, there are much more songs that AREN'T like that. now I'm not saying that all top 40 artists have other kinds of songs, because really, some don't.

here are some examples of songs from artists at the top of the charts that aren't about what I mentioned above:

rihanna - stupid in love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcnlNgNGJ38

kesha - the harold song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnmY2srJ6uI

katy perry - who am I living for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29naShMGHjY

avril lavigne - push
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKVcOIUD0Kw

I could go on, but I'm not going to.

once again, what you hear on the radio are only an artist's singles, and it does NOT represent them as a whole. it's marketing. it's called being smart and knowing how to make money.

people also seem to think that songs/radio have never been about being sexy and drinking and partying, but that's not true either. what about the 70's? getting high? or the 80's? hair metal? warrant, poison, david lee roth, motley crue, acdc, ect? and the 90's were pretty sleazy too. why are people only just noticing this now? it doesn't make you sound mature or smart. music has been this way for decades. get over it.

and just like in the past, there are lots of fantastic musicians and bands today that don't have songs like that, but people don't want to make an effort to actually look for them, so they just sit there complaining about "the good old days" aka, when they weren't even around, so technically people under 20 years old that say that don't even have the right to.

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Clock-la) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:50:47 +0000

yearofthe wrote:

Clock-la wrote:
G-Man_93 wrote:
They're all generic piece of s**t excuses for music! ALL HAIL HEAVY METAL!!!!:D
OH GOD!!
THATS HELL TO MY EARS ITS GOD DAMM AWFULL!!!!!
IMO anyway XD

I might be getting mixced up with hevey metle and Scremo...

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (Erza) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:35:26 +0000

Paramore is the only mainstream music I like. I liked it before it was cool, because I'm hipster like that.

Re: Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Beyonce, LMFAO, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga....

dummy@example.com (yearofthe) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:36:00 +0000

Clock-la wrote:

G-Man_93 wrote:
They're all generic piece of s**t excuses for music! ALL HAIL HEAVY METAL!!!!:D
OH GOD!!
THATS HELL TO MY EARS ITS GOD DAMM AWFULL!!!!!
IMO anyway XD