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So many people say they like all kinds of music... except rap and country.
It's an interesting set of musical styles to not like. They're both strongly associated with specific cultural tastes, but they aren't unique in that fashion.
Many people don't hate rap because they don't like the musical form, but because they hate the contents of gangster rap. Okay. Interestingly, this then bleeds into a distaste for all rap music regardless of content. Understandable, I suppose, but the origins of rap aren't in gangster rap, and the music will outlive that subgenre.
What seems ironic -- not wrong, just ironic -- is when the same person also can't stand country. Country music is like the radical opposite of gangster rap in terms of content. Rather than an anti-ideal, most of the songs are happy and upbeat, glorifying everyday life, a whole song about a father who is proud to know that his son looks up to him, or little things that make someone love a sunday church service, going fishing, dinner with the family, or looking back on earlier years with a wise amusement at how young and rash you used to be.
Still, I suppose that both styles can feel alien if you don't identify with the culture of the people singing, and without a taste for it, both can "all sound the same".
Personally, I like all music. Almost anything that people enjoy, I can appreciate. Not always individual songs or styles, but genres.
It's an interesting set of musical styles to not like. They're both strongly associated with specific cultural tastes, but they aren't unique in that fashion.
Many people don't hate rap because they don't like the musical form, but because they hate the contents of gangster rap. Okay. Interestingly, this then bleeds into a distaste for all rap music regardless of content. Understandable, I suppose, but the origins of rap aren't in gangster rap, and the music will outlive that subgenre.
What seems ironic -- not wrong, just ironic -- is when the same person also can't stand country. Country music is like the radical opposite of gangster rap in terms of content. Rather than an anti-ideal, most of the songs are happy and upbeat, glorifying everyday life, a whole song about a father who is proud to know that his son looks up to him, or little things that make someone love a sunday church service, going fishing, dinner with the family, or looking back on earlier years with a wise amusement at how young and rash you used to be.
Still, I suppose that both styles can feel alien if you don't identify with the culture of the people singing, and without a taste for it, both can "all sound the same".
Personally, I like all music. Almost anything that people enjoy, I can appreciate. Not always individual songs or styles, but genres.