What sort of normie-tier music do you hear in public? Here's the miasmic stew of substandard slop my gym plays no thanks to Zoom Media:
The 1975, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Mimi Webb, Billie Eilish, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Fall Out Boy, Empire of the Sun, Becky Hill, Blxst, Lil Nas X, Zara Larsson, Ariana Grande, Anitta, Alesso, Em Beihold, Justin Bieber, Hailee Steinfeld, BLACKPINK, Black Eyed Peas, R3HAB, Charli XCX, Dev, Jason Derulo, Kat DeLuna, Dirty Heads, Ava Max, Dua Lipa, Missy Elliot, Icona Pop, Jagwar Twins, Jessie J, Ellie Goulding, FLO, Flo Milli, Bebe Rexha, anything with David Guetta, Bruno Mars, Ella Henderson, Jack Harlow, Imagine Dragons, Mabel, Machine Gun Kelly, Rita Ora, Paramore, Yung Gravy, Meghan Trainor, Portugal the Man, Latto, Lizzo, Meg Myers, Sofi Tukker, Sam Smith, Jax, Chappell Roan, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, 5 Seconds of Summer, Afroki, Alok, Arctic Monkeys, Beartooth, BENEE, binki, Blu Cantrell, Cazzette, Clean Bandit.

>>127167930 (OP)
sombr

>>127167930 (OP)
I never hear any of this stuff in public mostly just 70s-80s music. IDK what gym you go to but it's probably populated by guys who resemble Fantano.

>>127167999
Nah, not at all. It's a funny mix of retirees and overweight people trying to get fit, young bucks staying fit and working Joes keeping their tools (ie: muscles) in check for their jobs. Nobody likes the playlist, but it's part of the corporate packaging. Even the staff hates it.

>>127167930 (OP)
I heard I think Neighborhood 1 by Arcade Fire in a Publix once

I heard Ed Sheeran yesterday and it's soul crushing. Like other normie music I can tolerate. It could be bad or bland or pandering or overproduced or anything really. It just fades into the background. But something about that fucker's music just grates on me in a way I don't know how to describe. Nicki Minaj is another artist like that. When I was forced to listen to that Starships Are Meant To Fly song I would be seething inside. I'm glad she's having an extended meltdown during her rapid fade to irrelevance at the moment.

>>127168065
I honestly don't know why people loathe Ed Sheeran so much. The guy is admittedly quite bland, but not offensively so yet tons of people absolutely hate him.

>>127168276
I guess it's like Drake. Offensively bland yet he still gets laid anyway.

>>127168276
I do think it is quite offensive. Let's take a song like Dive for example. Very shallow lyrics sung with great intensity by a mediocre singer over bland instrumentation. Or Shape Of You, too obvious of a target I know, but it's Ed Sheeran making a song about fucking. It's not just corny it has negative sex appeal. If you don't pay attention to the lyrics it's a bad song from the short lived gay ass "tropical pop" trend that happened. If you do you're forced to think about Ed Sheeran fucking. Lose lose.

>>127168288
I hate Drake but my problems with him are very different. I'm a rap nerd so I was never going to like a Canadian teen soap actor coming for the top spot. I thought Started From The Bottom was a pretty good song. Everything else was ass. The only song of his I have had forced upon me in public spaces was Hotline Bling. Can we admit now that song was a turd?

>>127168329
>I hate Drake but my problems with him are very different. I'm a rap nerd so I was
Hi, Anthony.

>>127168329
>Ed Sheeran making a song about fucking

It's kitsch but still romantic. It isn't half as carnal as you're making it sound. The fact that elderly mother can groove to it kinda dispels that premise.

>>127168341
I promise I'm not fagtano. I'm some guy who used to read the Big Ghostface "softest niggas in the game" lists and lmao at them convinced they were written by a guy I used to know from a specific private IRC channel. The rumors about him being a white Canadian guy only made me believe it more. I listen to all the Griselda shit, Roc Marciano, Action Bronson, anything Alchemist produces etc. I hate on Drake passionately even though I have never heard more than 10 songs he made, even including guest verses, in my entire life. Basically I'm an aging millennial who wishes it were 2002. I don't think the Clipse album was a 10 but it was pretty good. Alfredo 2 is better.

>>127168375
"Now my bed sheets smell like you oooh woooh ooooh" makes me retch just thinking about it. My Neck My Back is less disgusting to me.

>>127168396
>Basically I'm an aging millennial who wishes it were 2002
Nobody needs Nelly and Avril Lavigne to be in the top 10 again.

>>127167930 (OP)
Yesterday I heard Creep playing at a local supermarket.

>>127168396
>"Now my bed sheets smell like you oooh woooh ooooh" makes me retch just thinking about it

Hmm, doesn't have the same effect on me. It's trite but not gag worthy.

>aging millennial

Me too. I'll be 37 in a couple months.

>>127168341
I don't listen to Anthony Fantano. Everything about him disgusts me. If you ask me, he's on the same level as Christgau. Only Scaruffi is bearable but even he's cringeworthy to me.

>>127168402
I hated both of them. In fact, I hated most Pop music from the 2000s with a passion.

>>127167930 (OP)
>>127168443
While we're on the subject...

>Simple Plan - "How Could This Happen to Me"

That tune about the perils of drunk driving became the go-to joke for the 2000s Internet. Any flash cartoon or YTMND that focused on "Emo" played that melodramatic number as crude mockery. It transcended its original, painfully sincere purpose and instantly became a parody of itself. Most bad songs transform into memes years later, but Simple Plan received immediate ridicule. Unfortunately, what started as unintentional comedy devolved a rapidly exhausted joke that was thankfully put down by the the close of the decade.

>Plain White Ts - "Hey There, Delilah"

Is the man's woman 60? I strain to think of a single woman under the age of 40 who has that name. It's painfully tryhard emotionalism is further compounded by the whiny vocals which function as a sonic weapon. It's astonishing that man's voice hasn't sparked a wave of violent crimes.

>Vanessa Carlton - "A Thousand Miles"

"A Thousand Miles" should be my jam on paper—melancholy piano hook, wistful lyrics, early-2000s sincerity but there's something about how overproduced and melodramatic it is that turns it into a white wine spritzer of a song: sugary, cloying, and pretending to be deeper than it is. It's the soundtrack to a montage of a sad rich girl staring out a car window.

>Fountains of Wayne - "Stacy's Mom"

Everyone who likes this song is a douchebag.

>>127168402
Nelly was fun at least. But completely washed. That whole country turn was weird. I don't think Avril still has it in her either. The lyme disease took away her will to live.

>>127168409
It's really hard to describe what it is about Ed Sheeran that pisses me off so much. I could nitpick song by song but he's just a master of making music I hate. It started with Thinking Out Loud, his first hit obviously. But it's like with each new song he finds different ways to piss me off. They don't all sound the same but each one is just as hackneyed as the last. His career is pretty much done with now isn't it?

>>127168443
I was still young so I kept up with it. I don't have intense nostalgia for it or anything. Nelly and Avril are pretty harmless compared to the music at the time that was actually bad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUi54JTgL5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV4DiAyExN0

>Jay-Z - "99 Problems"

This song is treated like scripture. Everyone quotes it ignoring the fact that it's a smug, posturing anthem for people who think quoting Jay-Z makes them profound. Even the supposedly conscious lyrics are irritatingly superficial. Critics praise it as sharp commentary on racial profiling and police overreach but Jay-Z delivers it like he binged Law & Order and now thinks he's Thurgood Marshall. Jay-Z was already on top of the world when he released this. He wasn't speaking from the block. He was speaking from the boardroom. Fuck this.

>Jet - "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"

I want to shoot speakers every time I hear this.

>Kelis - "Milkshake"

Smug, saccharine, sassy and stupid as fuck, the entire song operates on that tired "I'm hot and I know it" theme delivered with such banal haughtiness.

>Jennifer Lopez - "Love Don't Cost a Thing" and "Jenny from the Block"

These two blatantly lie to my face.

>Mindless Self-Indulgence - every song they ever wrote.

It's the worst mix of smug and zany hand tailored for losers who shop at Hot Topic. MSI were the band for kids in class making fart jokes even 5th graders would've rejected and became defensive when no one laughed. Every song gives off the vibe of, "We're too smart for the scene but too insecure to be anything else, so here's a song about fucking your mom while screaming 'FUCK' over breakcore." MSI is guilty of weaponized insincerity. May all their fans be permanently transported to their favorite flash cartoons and be forced to stay there for eternity.

>Maroon 5 - every song they ever wrote.

'nuff said.

>Nine Days - "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)".

Apart from the insipid songwriting, the vocalist pisses me off so much, it's unreal.

>No Doubt - "Hey Baby"

The chorus makes me homicidal. It's not catchy. It's not sexy. It’s just Gwen Stefani faux-flirting with a rave whistle while the beat slaps together like two soggy flip-flops.

>>127168459
Is there any mainstream artist from the last 10 years you actually like? For me, it's Maggie Rogers. Seriously, this song goes very hard:
https://youtu.be/SylF32J2g8k

>>127168451
I remember this copypaste.

>>127168460
Jay-Z was never going to release anything as good as The Blueprint after he made it. Ether (which isn't even a good diss track despite what most say) threw him off his game. I don't think 99 Problems is bad but it's not his best work either.

Milkshake is a dumbass song. Always has been. Incessantly obnoxious. But the production is flawless. The Neptunes made trash into treasure. The same can be said about Hollaback Girl. Stupid song, stupid lyrics, at a deeper level a stupid fucking idea for a song. Gwen Stefani in full sellout mode. Recipe for disaster. But they made that shit work. The only other producer capable of doing that is Timbaland. All the same things can be said about Sexyback but it's flawlessly produced. It should not work. It does work.

I knew a guy who was really into MSI back in the day. He was a pedo. Does that track or what?

>>127168474
I'm not afraid to say I love Sabrina Carpenter. She won me over.

>>127168524
>Milkshake is a dumbass song. Always has been. Incessantly obnoxious
The fault with it is that Kelis really doesn't have a very pleasant sounding voice it's a bit hard to listen to.

>>127168524
>knew a guy who was really into MSI back in the day. He was a pedo. Does that track or what?

Wouldn't be surprised although the guy in Blood on the Dancefloor apparently is. Both of those groups have overlapping audiences.

>Sabrina Carpenter

Ugh, no!

Re: Maggie. She is the kind of woman you wish to start a family with or at least collapse into the arms of after a long and exhausting day. The entire album Surrender is about permanence and romance in a way that feels realer than real. She's pure in a way that feels real without being sanctimonious or put on. That or she's a master performer capable of a Tony or Oscar.

A shame her Gala appearances where she's dressed like a high class escort clash with her girl-next-door image on album. Nice areolae, though.

>>127167930 (OP)
I never listened to a single song by nearly half the artists you mentioned, am i blessed or out of loop ?

>>127168597
You're not wrong. That's why she only has one true hit. Caught Out There is a minor blip and she just screamed her way through that one. Then there's Trick Me, which I guess was more popular in Europe etc. Not really a good song. But I kinda implied Milkshake isn't really a "good" song either. It just has multiple things in it's favor. Catchy, memorable, I mean we are still talking about it today, and Chad/Pharrell did not miss.

>>127167930 (OP)
I heard Ariel Pink playing in a Wal-Mart once.

>>127168687
I consider you blessed.

>>127168709
Yeah right

>>127168019
My condolences

>>127168402
>Nobody needs Nelly
i need a direct feed of pimp juice all the time

>>127169139
Problem with Nelly was that, much like Ja Rule, he was overexposed

>>127169319
That and Hot In Herre was one of the single worst top 10 hits of all time.

>>127169319
Nelly wasn't pretending to be something he wasn't though. That's why he didn't get into a career ending beef. Just a retarded one with KRS-One.

>>127169328
NLT Choppa's version is even worse

>>127169364
*excuse me, NLE Choppa. Stupid either way.

>>127169328
2010s music was mostly just dull and bland but it didn't have many songs that were physically disgusting to listen to (well, maybe Lucid Dreams) while the 2000s had tons of them.

>>127169436
Why were the 2000s so awful for music?

>>127169543
after 9/11 everything just became about being as hedonistic and gross as possible

>>127169565
Honestly, it was going that way before 9/11. Look at the trashy Pop at the end of the 1999 and beginning of 2000.

>>127169329
Kinda amazing he rebounded with Florida Georgia Line

>>127169565
and for that I blame George Bush for actively promoting this trashy fratbro aesthetic from the top down much like the president after him enabled a different kind of cancer

>>127167930 (OP)
This is as Normie as it gets. Once I swigged the "brown drink," my life was generic and sterile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ngVXg8W6K4

>>127167930 (OP)
weezer, taylor swift, top 50 songs, nigger rap, playboy carti, ariana grande

I saw a comment on Justin Bieber's Beauty and The BEat describing it as a masterpiece

>>127167930 (OP)
why are you at a point where you can recognize these "artists" from the top of your "head"?

>>127168276
There's only one song I like from him and it's Castle on The Hill

>>127171233
Because I see their music videos at my gym.

>>127167930 (OP)
My work is pretty cool, it plays a little bit of everything. Everything from the 60's to the 10's, from R&B to Hip hop, to dance, electronic, rock, pop punk, and yes, even a little post grunge and nu-metal. And I ne>>127168405
ver hear shit like Taylor Swift or Sabrina Carpenter or whatever the fuck is being overplayed on the radio right now

>>127172127
Good for you

>>127167930 (OP)
I like normie music. Problem?

>>127167930 (OP)
>miasmic stew of substandard slop
beautiful sentence

>>127173196
Thanks

>>127167930 (OP)
Ed Sheeran - Shape of you

>>127168065
>>127168459
>>127174658
Seethe

>>127174740
who are you nigga

>>127174797
Just a guy who's baffled by the hate Ed Sheeran receives.

>>127175002
But I didn't say I hate Ed Sheeran nigga

>>127175011
Got the impression you did. Sorry about that.

>>127175002
If you're baffled by the hate Ed Sheeran receives try sucking down some plain oatmeal. You'll get it.