I’m the opposite. I go back to high school music and still love it. Better than most things I hear.
Fr, old me had really good taste for music, probably better taste than current me, but I like the weird stuff I listen to now more.
Authentic pirate hip hop is not nearly as bad as it sounds
It says “high school”, why are you all talking about songs from the 2010s?
…oh no…
Dunno what kind of meh you listened to in high school. Iron Maiden, Queen, In Flames, Ozzy, Dream Theater and At the Gates still slaps the shit.
“My Humps” is a classic though.
A lot of what I listened to in high school still rocks but I’m still tired of it.
Tell you something that has happened: I’ve gone back and listened to the songs I heard but didn’t listen to much. The ones that were never on my mp3 player but I heard places. Just to return to an era for a minute. I find it’s more vivid with songs you aren’t as familiar with.
Name names
Most (but not all) music has something to recommend it. If you don’t like entire eras of music it’s not because the music is “bad,” it’s because it’s not to your taste anymore (or, for stuff you didn’t listen to, never was).
Much like with food, if you can find what makes a particular genre enjoyable and listen for that, you can enjoy a lot more. I would never listen to Taylor Swift the same way I listen to Rush or Pink Floyd, but I still loved Midnights. I wouldn’t listen to Bach the same way I listen to Nightwish, but they’re both fantastic.
There’s nothing wrong with being discerning in your tastes. But there’s also nothing wrong with the styles of music you don’t like, it’s just a different flavor. I don’t like cilantro and never will, but I understand why people do. And I didn’t like coffee until I learned how to taste it properly. The same is true of music.
I listened to a lot of somewhat niche cringiest punk and red dirt country bands (odd combo i know but I was a confused teen) in high-school. Like bands that no one has heard of, no I’m not bragging these bands were just that awful. But I was young and HAD to be different and some of the songs would make me cringe so hard now that my soul may leave my body if listened to one. You’re right about one thing my music tastes changed drastically
Our names be similar like whaaaat
You’re not the first fellow TheReal<Something> I’ve found in the wild, but it always makes me do a double-take. 😃
Where’s the real Slim Shady? Can he please stand up? Please stand up? Please stand up?
I dunno the first minute of Dig by Mudvayne still helps me get ready for a zoom call just as it did between each high school class period.
Not from what I experienced unless… oh, right… millennials …mmmmyea. Throw it out. Something happened with music around then.
My first purchase CD was Kenny Fuckin’ G. Sigh. Still, some pretty melodies I guess, and that’s not all bad.
Started improving right away by moving on to a lot of John Williams soundtracks and Weird Al. Then a lot of Classic Rock “best of” albums, including some Southern and Southern-inflected ones (CCR!). Start to fold in some folk music from the British Isles and sellout former college-rock bands (Crash Test Dummies’ first two major-label albums are actually good. Fight me!).
Add one English degree from a southern university and a move to Texas after a leftward political swing during law school (seriously you guys, nothing like seeing how the sausage is made to understand that while important and not without a certain rigor, the law is fucked up and EVERY judge is an activist judge, so you just need to do the right thing), and blammo, you get a dude who is way more into artsy fartsy “Americana” alt-country than your average Lemmy user. Now I want to listen to some Isbell before I go to bed. Good night y’all.
Idk there are still quite a few artists and songs i can listen to from when I was in high school
There are also quite a few that I can’t listen to anymore. Guess it really depends
My first musical physical media purchase was Backstreet Boys, but the rest after wasn’t cringe, I swear!
Only because the passage of time declared Backstreet Boys to be no longer a cringe!
They still make me cringe. But now it’s classic cringe.
Oh, Backstreets back alright.
My first album was a cassette dub of License to Ill my friend made in elementary school. My first purchase was Even Worse by Weird Al.
That’s the best first I’ve ever heard. My first tape was Cruisin’ Classics, which was free with a tank of gas from Shell. Thanks mom!
My dad basically hated any music post about 1950 except for The Beatles (don’t ask me why The Beatles), so I was a late bloomer to rock albums. I think I was 12 when the Weird Al album came out.
Ya’ll don’t like Voltaire and P Diddy anymore? /s
Well, there’s a random combo if I ever heard one.
For me personally those two bring the most cringe value when I suddenly hear them again.
Voltaire is cool, but it just seems a little juvenile now.
I think if Voltaire took himself seriously, then he would be cringe, but it’s clear that he doesn’t.
Some people don’t think that humor belongs in music, and that’s okay. But it’s kind of like calling Weird Al cringe. It makes me think that you don’t understand the artist.
Weird Al doesn’t sing about undead teddy bears, vampires, and the beast of pirates bay. Weird Al sings about being fat, discount groceries, and being stuck in the drive through.
I honestly don’t know what point you’re making here.
You don’t think he’s funny, and that makes you cringe? Okay.
Tastes are subjective and you’re in here questioning the validity of my taste. Perhaps it is you who needs to take a step back, assess your stance, and fuck off.
The stuff I used to listen to as a teenager, I now listen to when I’m drunk because they are some banging pops
It’s just I do love me my black/death metal when I’m sober
