Why is bad music like rap so popular instead of music like heavy metal or rock?

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It’s one of those things, if I wear a band t-shirt it’s because I actually listen to their music. Don’t care about fashion, only care about the music.
 
When I look at my iPod for complete albums I’ve listened to over the past week at work, I find (among others) GZA’s Liquid Swords, Iron Maiden’s Piece of Mind, Big Big Train’s Grimspound, Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe, and a collection of Palestrina’s masses & motets. Perhaps broadening one’s tastes might lessen the need to feel troubled by such questions?
 
Horses for courses, I guess. If we all liked the same thing, it would be a pretty dull world, I think.
 
Le_Cracquere said:
Perhaps broadening one’s tastes might lessen the need to feel troubled by such questions?
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For me, it was studying the genres that helped. One of my general education courses in college was based on analyzing western music, and that really helped pull me out of my snobby, elitist metalhead phase. Sure, my personal musical tastes are still relatively limited, but I can at least appreciate music I may not go out of my way to listen to.
 
Big Iolanthe fan here. When most folks mention G & S, it’s usually to talk about The Mikado, Pirates or sometimes Pinafore. Poor Iolanthe never seems to get a look in. Such a shame.
 
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It’s just the sound.
To me I prefer rap rather than heavy metal however I’m really not into “strong rap” either but more something like G easy etc.
I prefer more though dance music like Chainsmokers or pop music or Bosnian music (I’m Bosnian) or old Russian music etc…
I also don’t mind the old American country music with the melancholy songs about breakups and wives leaving husbands etc but don’t really like the rock-country music of today.

Personally I love ballet,but dislike Opera music.
I strongly believe that tastes in music have a genetic component.
 
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I also don’t mind the old American country music with the melancholy songs about breakups and wives leaving husbands etc but don’t really like the rock-country music of today.
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I find it funny you call that old country music. Maybe because I’m getting old! The drinkin’ and cheatin’ country music was more of the middle years.

The oldest country music was really folk music. It covered a wide range of topics but was more wholesome.

Southern rock was really an outgrowth of country music. Rockabilly was also an outgrowth. There you are talking about the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Personally I really like that style.

The modern country rock is different. Also much of it is more pop like than rock.
 
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Theocracy for a while. I absolutely love songs like Mirror of Souls and Altar to the Unknown God, but I struggle to get into a lot of their music. It’s weird, since they exist in the space between power and progressive metal, both of which I love. Maybe it’s some leftover resistance to cheesy CCM, since they lyrically can get really close to CCM.

I’ll certainly take a look at Leah.
 
Have you ever heard of Barnabas? Check these out:
(NancyJo Mann, the lead singer is a victim of abortion, and spends her time advocating against abortion, and for women hurt by it.



 
I really loved country Music from the seventies and eighties and even into the nineties and the early turn of the century. The music of the last 10 years or so is NOT country , for the most part, it is a victim or the big corporate labels and their formulization of everything. What you now have for the most part is rock, and even RAP going on, and hip hop in the mix too.

Give me Ronnie Milsap, Juice Newton, Reba, (and Reba’s sister Susie Luchsinger, who is Christian), Lorrie Morgan, Trisha Yearwood, Joe Diffie, Aaron Tippin, Collin raye, Charlie Daniels, Travis Tritt, Dwight Yoakim and that kind of thing.

I even like some of may father’s era, like Jimmy Reeves, Chet Atkins (great guitarist) Johnny Cash, etc.

Of the newer stuff, I must admit I like this one.
 
Seen some of the young ones wearing Ramones T-shirts… And they know the music!!!

And challenge my 19 year on David Bowie!
 
Neal-from-Tyendinaga said:
Give me Ronnie Milsap, Juice Newton, Reba, (and Reba’s sister Susie Luchsinger, who is Christian), Lorrie Morgan, Trisha Yearwood, Joe Diffie, Aaron Tippin, Collin raye, Charlie Daniels, Travis Tritt, Dwight Yoakim and that kind of thing.

I even like some of may father’s era, like Jimmy Reeves, Chet Atkins (great guitarist) Johnny Cash, etc.
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You forgot George Strait, Vince Gill, The Oak Ridge Boys, Alabama… So much good stuff out there.
 
Some good calls there. But it was real back in the day. And there were so many more. I can’t even listen to those " Today’sHhot New Country" stations for the most part. You do find some AM stations, thiough in upstate NY that play the real stuff occasionally.

As with all genres, Video did indeed kill the radio star.
 
Nashville has long been a big business. The performers were a singer who had a backing band. His songs were written by someone else. The singer was chosen because he was tall, good looking, and could sing. Now you can include he looks good in way too tight blue jeans and is fairly muscular. Outlaw County was a reaction against that. Steve Sailer has written some good articles on this.
 
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