Christmas music, because I worked in retail and had to listen to it 8 hours a day for months.

Anything ‘AI’ generated, because fuck that uncreative nonsense.

Corporate country music. Bo Burnham specifically wrote a song about it (lyrics link, since the song is technically a podcast episode w/ no accessibility).

Americana/folk, like Dolly Parton and Woody Guthrie are a far cry from the fox-news-to-a-melody garbage that gets put on country stations.

It’s the musical equivalent of John Wayne vs John Brown.

PS: Fun fact - Woody Guthrie wrote a scathing song about Fred Trump, so the war between the working class and that cursed name goes back at least a century.

I believe every genre is filled with good and bad music. I used to think I didn’t like country or reggae but it was really just the mainstream music of those genres I disliked. Mainstream country has a lot of stereotypical lyrics and mainstream reggae has a lot of slow single chord riffs. But after a bit of digging I found artists and songs that explore those genres in more unique ways.

Maybe music that reminfs me of people I hate. Perhaps I’m being petty though.

Lost Prophets. I’m usually one for separating art from artist but fuck that baby raping piece of shit and if a member of your band rapes babies there’s no way you’re oblivious to the whole thing.

Fuck Ian Watkins, fuck those that ignored and/or enabled his despicably evil behaviour because he was your pay day.

This is gonna sound like a pretty weird train of thought, but I cannot listen to that Pharrell Williams song “Happy” because I’m my brain has forever connected it to the time I had some bad pea salad from a local place, which completely ruined both of them for me. Every time I hear it, even in my own head, my stomach starts churning a little and I eventually start to feel like I wanna throw up. Thankfully that song has died and I hope to god nobody ever revives it.

Hillsong, Elevation and especially Bethel music - basically “Christian Worship” music mass produced for money and has loads of dodgy theology

Country. I associate with my upbringing in Klan country where I went to Robert E. Lee High School and got to experience federally mandated desegregation busing, which doesn’t do shit to decrease racial divisions in housing but does drive white people into religious schools in droves to avoid letting their children ever mingle with minorities. They fucking love that country music, though. I will never listen to it voluntarily if I can avoid it.

“Patriotic” rap.

I genuinely get headaches from techno. A colleague was recently on a techno festival and that just sounds like the seventh circle of hell for me…

Saxophone. It should always be replaced by vocals, strings, or trumpets. Maybe synths.

Songs where someone is singing about loving (not in a platonic way) their “baby”. I’m just unable to get it out of my head

I can’t listen to Tim Minchin’s “White Wine in the Sun” because I’ll bawl like a baby

Metal - basically I don’t enjoy loud music.