Hot takes

[Kamako]

For me, it's the only musical genre I've ever felt ashamed of listening to as a kid because I can only relate it to misguided teenage angst/anger, so I sort of can't separate it from something that I consider juvenile regardless of the actual music.
Might also be that I never really liked it and only deluded myself to like it because I was supposed to, but who knows.

Feeling angst is a normal part of being a teenager when hormones are going nuts. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and if you found that nu-metal spoke to you at that age, like it did for a lot of people, that's a thing to be grateful for in my eyes. It's not a perfect genre, great bands make some songs that miss the mark and it can definitely feel dated/of it's time, but that's cool too. So does 1940's Jazz.

Also, nu-metal bands still go hard live and everyone know the lyrics, so they're always great live bands to experience too.

 

[Kamako]

It can be hard when you on the field and forgot to take the drugs from the chest, collecting herbs in the wild could make a difference between life and death. Also don't forget to stock up on well-done meat and traps.

I'll drink to that!

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Reggaeton sucks

 

[Kamako]

(I grew up playing the Gamecube version and I understand why people who grew up with the PS2 version would hate this game like spending 10 minutes just trying to get to the exit of the first pinball section in Casino Park is hell.) Love this game like literally one of my favorite games period. Yes this game has glitches and sometimes uncomfortable to play but lets be real if Sonic Heroes had the broken spindash from Sonic Adventure 1 that lets you skip over the janky parts you wouldn't be complaining about Sonic Heroes. Sonic Heroes is essentially if you played Sonic/Shadow in Sonic Adventure 2 and was like "god I wish there was more of this" with a team mechanic. Knuckles Chaotix was kinda the first to do this (I'm not counting the Genesis version of Sonic 3 & Knuckles because you had to use a second controller to use Tails flying to get Sonic to unreachable places) and I bring it up because for some reason people think the team mechanic was "half-baked" in Sonic Heroes (even tho its the first time they implemented the team mechanic in a 3D Sonic game, like the Light Speed Dash wasn't that great in Sonic Adventure 1 so get over yourself) but I feel like people don't know how Sonic Heroes works they just assume how it suppose to work and if they messed up they just blame the game.

I would absolutely agree, but the homing attack you need to use to bounce between rings can be very temperamental I found....either that or I just couldn't get my head around it. Especially on the canyon level.

 

[DoubleGulpSlurpeeCup]

Another MH issue hot take: An online evaluation of any kind weather through Cerebral or Brightside Health (to name a couple) should not be used to diagnose anyone with any mental health problems and these companies should NOT have the authority to prescribe medication.

This hot take comes from personal experience... a hindsight 2020 kind of situation I guess

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

Feeling angst is a normal part of being a teenager when hormones are going nuts. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and if you found that nu-metal spoke to you at that age, like it did for a lot of people, that's a thing to be grateful for in my eyes. It's not a perfect genre, great bands make some songs that miss the mark and it can definitely feel dated/of it's time, but that's cool too. So does 1940's Jazz.

Also, nu-metal bands still go hard live and everyone know the lyrics, so they're always great live bands to experience too.

Nu-metal is one of those things I went from loving, to hating, to kinda loving again. I just find it fun to listen to, even if It's a bit corny at times now. I will still defend System of a Down until I'm old and gray, however.

 

[naizou's icon naizou naizou]

Anybody who claims to be a music lover but only considers one or two genres as "real music" is not a music lover.

Most music snobs I've met ended up having either milquetoast taste or were trying too hard.

This applies to all media, not just music, but not everything needs to be deep or meaningful to be enjoyed. There's nothing wrong with enjoying something corny or cheesy. Music as a vibe is fine.

You’re absolutely right.
Every type of music has its own charm and attracts many listeners. There’s no need to force yourself to like something, but it’s not bad to try a little bit of everything without prejudice.

When I was a teenager, I hated hip hop and mocked idol songs.
I was preparing to research those genres and attack them, just to mock them, but I’ve come to realize that every genre has its masterpieces, and I gradually became drawn to them. Now, besides metal, I often listen to Kendrick Lamar and The Idolmaster.

Life is very short, so it’s more meaningful to increase the things you like rather than the things you dislike.
Sometimes, it’s good to actually listen to the music you dislike.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

You’re absolutely right.
Every type of music has its own charm and attracts many listeners. There’s no need to force yourself to like something, but it’s not bad to try a little bit of everything without prejudice.

When I was a teenager, I hated hip hop and mocked idol songs.
I was preparing to research those genres and attack them, just to mock them, but I’ve come to realize that every genre has its masterpieces, and I gradually became drawn to them. Now, besides metal, I often listen to Kendrick Lamar and The Idolmaster.

Life is very short, so it’s more meaningful to increase the things you like rather than the things you dislike.
Sometimes, it’s good to actually listen to the music you dislike.

This 100%! If you would've told 15 year old me that he'd end up being a Miku fan, he would have probably said "bullshit", put on Nu-metal, and walked away Jack Garland style.

Another stupid normie take is when they make fun of Vocaloid music because "she's not real". Bitch, you listen to virtual bands like Gorillaz! And to many crappy "singers" (mostly trap singers) that mostly use voice changer (or whatever they call it) when they sing.

Thank you! This one fustratrates me due to people thinking Vocaloid music is made by a computer or AI, completely overlooking the work people like Wowaka, Hachi, Deco27, or Utsu-p put into their craft.

 

[PurpleShoes]

I really despise Heroes, but every now and then my friend Danny and I will call people who aggravate us "a bunch of eggman's robots"

 

[Deleted member 7989]

Pornogrind is a legitimate form of artistry and I will have no slander.
I can't think of any other interesting take.

Anybody who claims to be a music lover but only considers one or two genres as "real music" is not a music lover.

Most music snobs I've met ended up having either milquetoast taste or were trying too hard.

This applies to all media, not just music, but not everything needs to be deep or meaningful to be enjoyed. There's nothing wrong with enjoying something corny or cheesy. Music as a vibe is fine.

I agree with this one. Take Anthony Fantano's play buttons away please.

 

[RunicOrangejuice]

Yes, Gorillaz first album is their best album. I'm not alone

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I also like their b-sides rarity album, especially for the "Soulchild Remix 0f 19-2000".
It seems Noodle as a second singer went bye-bye after their first album:
"Gives me conniptions."

OMG Psi Life Cypher...

 

[Deleted member 257420]

Pornogrind is a legitimate form of artistry and I will have no slander.
I can't think of any other interesting take.

I agree with this one. Take Anthony Fantano's play buttons away please.

Agree, I think people just see shit like “Carnivorous Erection” and “Aborted Hitler Cock” and write the genre off as pretentious edgelordness.

 

[Deleted member 7989]

Agree, I think people just see shit like “Carnivorous Erection” and “Aborted Hitler Cock” and write the genre off as pretentious edgelordness.

I wish I could remember the name of the band but they did some song about Aliens and it went insane. If I figure it out I'll link it to you.

 

[Deleted member 7989]

Hotter take: There are only three objectively bad Sonic games.
2006, 4, and Black Knight/Secret Rings.
And in the case of 06 and the Wii games they still did cool things and had cool stories. But I grew up playing all of these so I'm biased, I'm not one of those "I grew up in da 90's" dudes.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

I did have the PS2 version, so yes I suffered but the soundtrack was amazing that it's probably one of my favorite Sonic titles I own... which isn't saying much since I only had Sony and a few Nintendo handhelds so not much to hate on more like not my...speed? *crickets*

 

[Deleted member 884]

So what makes every other genre besides those "not" music? Also why the fuck do you consider the fucking 40's and 50's good and not the 70's?

Just a name: Frank Sinastra.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Hotter take: There are only three objectively bad Sonic games.
2006, 4, and Black Knight/Secret Rings.
And in the case of 06 and the Wii games they still did cool things and had cool stories. But I grew up playing all of these so I'm biased, I'm not one of those "I grew up in da 90's" dudes.

Sonic 4 Episode 2 is decent if you forget about Episode 1 and take this as a mobile phone game.

Black Knight is bad? I haven't played it. I wish the Storybook games had a non motion control remaster like NMH and other of the kind.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

DJ aren't musicians.

They never claimed to be because they're DJ not composers.

Although DJs can be also composers.

Techno is trash and garbage, it should not exist. If you listen to that £$%& you don't undestand music.

Techno is a really broad term nowadays, anything with synth can be techno or techno adjacent.

It's like saying that "music using brass instruments are not music".

Anybody who claims to be a music lover but only considers one or two genres as "real music" is not a music lover.

Most music snobs I've met ended up having either milquetoast taste or were trying too hard.

This applies to all media, not just music, but not everything needs to be deep or meaningful to be enjoyed. There's nothing wrong with enjoying something corny or cheesy. Music as a vibe is fine.

This!



Also my hot take is that Vinyl does not make it better (of course, there's a slight difference in the sound but not that meaningful, it's like oil painting vs digital tablet drawing).

I don't get why some consider that if the music is from a .ogg/.wav file (even in the best lossless quality possible) counts less than a CD-ROM.

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Crush 40 (Those hacks who made the old Sonic Adventure music) is utter abysmal dogshit. If you like them, odds are they're the only rock "band" you've ever heard.

The main theme of the games, not the entire OST.

While it's buttrock I think that it has a 90's charm. But I prefer Senoue's compositions and the less rocky musics in the soundtracks.

I feel the same over all these schizos who cry like bitches about Ai art while the art they make and shill for is anything but soulful, it's lazy-made as hell and they also use computer to make them. And many of them don't even draw with pencil on paper.

I'll be honest though: AI art, in its current form, looks weird and has that weird "texture" because most people entering prompts are not being informative enough so you have that factory-made model that looks like it was drawn by the same guy over and over again.

I'd rather have someone with a flawed yet original style than a perfect yet watered down one.

 

[Nidoking's icon Nidoking Nidoking]

Now I say this as someone who really doesn't care for the 3D era of Sonic as a whole... I didn't much care for Heroes. I've only played the Gamecube version and it never held me.

But again... not a fan of 3D Sonic, so I don't know how much of my dislike for Heroes is that and how much is the game itself.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Now I say this as someone who really doesn't care for the 3D era of Sonic as a whole... I didn't much care for Heroes. I've only played the Gamecube version and it never held me.

But again... not a fan of 3D Sonic, so I don't know how much of my dislike for Heroes is that and how much is the game itself.

"3D era" is quite a wide range as Adventure 1 will soon turn 30.

Boost games aren't the same either.

 

[Nidoking's icon Nidoking Nidoking]

"3D era" is quite a wide range as Adventure 1 will soon turn 30.

Boost games aren't the same either.

Granted I never stuck with most of them very long, all the 3D Sonic games I've played felt... similar, at least in terms of how the actual game functions. I've never actually had a chance to play either Adventure game but it at least looks like it'd have the same gameplay elements I don't really care for.

 

[chxshire22]

1) thrash metal - more like trash metal
2) punk music is v hardly music at all. rap is a better medium for rebels. but alas i listen to more punk myself.
3) the only way to find good kpop music is to listen instead of watch their music videos cos there's a lot of trash groups out there making it by their looks alone.
4) just because you know complex music theory and can perform them doesnt mean it's good. C G Am F is a great progression because it's simple. i don't need to listen to some tryhard tapping and smacking his guitar and overdoing it. sometimes less is more. this doesn't mean you should never go crazy on your instrument. im just saying not all the time

 

[RunicOrangejuice]

Just a name: Frank Sinastra.

Yeah, he was popular....Didn't he abuse women and detest gays?

 

[Tonberry]

Yeah, he was popular....Didn't he abuse women and detest gays?

Worst of all, he hated Elvis! /j

 

[RunicOrangejuice]

Worst of all, he hated Elvis! /j

Haha, Elvis! That guys would force his unwilling wife to participate in his various extra-martial sex acts