I've read quite a few comments about how much some of us HATE certain songs, or even performers, sometimes to the point of refusing to even play them, no matter WHO requests them..!

I am just curious WHY...

Personally, coming from a classical and jazz background in my early days, I feel that just about ALL popular music is simplistic, both melodically and chordally, and don't get me started about how banal most lyrics are! But yet, that is the very charm of it, probably the reason for its' popularity with the general public. But I certainly don't honestly hear much difference between one writer and another. They all use basically the same chordal vocabulary, and lyrically few stand out as poetry or better...

So why do we end up absolutely LOATHING one guy (or girl), when, in any objective analysis of the songs we hate show us they are no worse than anything else out there? Are these songs TRULY bad, or have we simply let ourselves be influenced by other musicians' attitudes, or the nature of the folk that usually request them?

Obviously, I can understand about rap and hiphop, which is usually foolish to even attempt on an arranger, but some of us get SO worked up about stuff that, if you didn't KNOW who wrote it, is indistinguishable from any other stuff of the same genre. Is it repetition? It shouldn't be, we probably play 'Fly me to the Moon' as many times as stuff we hate! And imagine the poor classical musician, going "Oh no! Not bloody Beethoven's 5th again!" about one of the finest masterpieces ever written!

So what, exactly, DOES get our goats? Are we being snobs, or is there a real reason for it?

Comments?