{"id":103275,"date":"2025-07-29T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103275\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:08:10","slug":"here-are-6-things-that-absolutely-drive-me-nuts-about-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103275\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are 6 Things That Absolutely Drive Me Nuts About Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s another Tuesday, which means it’s time for the column that has more complaints than a nursing home after the power goes out during a Matlock marathon, The Gripe Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but I listen to a lot of music when I’m doing pretty much everything.<\/p>\n

Working? Tunes.<\/p>\n

Driving? Tunes.<\/p>\n

Walking around my neighborhood for exercise? Tunes\u2026 and occasionally podcasts.<\/p>\n

Have a gripe? Send it in!: matthew.reigle@outkick.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Everyone has their favorite kinds of music, but I want to talk about specific music-related things that drive me nuts.<\/p>\n

And since I’m the sheriff of this here Gripe Report \u2014 *Hocks a loogie in a spitoon* \u2014 that’s what we’re going to do\u2026<\/p>\n

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“Now this is a numbwe I can really tap my toe to. I think I’ll turn it up so that everyone within a 1-mile blast radius of my car can hear it.” (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

People Who Blast Music Loud<\/p>\n

The great thing about music is that your taste in it is unique to you. So, that means the odds are others won\u2019t want to hear the same things as you. This is why I find people who blast their car stereo so loud that it can be heard in neighboring counties to be some of the most obnoxious people on the road.<\/p>\n

For some reason, I rarely hear what I would deem “good” music getting blasted out of a car. It\u2019s always some ultra-bassy dance music or something that I hate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I never hear Black Sabbath getting blasted out of a car. I\u2019d at least appreciate that\u2026 Rest in peace, Ozzy.<\/p>\n

“You Can\u2019t Stop Me” Rock Songs<\/p>\n

One of the great things about music is that you can write a song about whatever you want. There are, however, a few things that bug the bejeezus out of me as far as hacky, overdone song topics\/themes.<\/p>\n

The first one is what I call a “You Can\u2019t Stop Me” song, and it is a scourge on rock radio these days. I use this term to describe any song that is just saying no one is going to stop you\/me\/us from doing whatever it is you\/I\/we do. They also just talk about not giving up, because that\u2019s something that hasn\u2019t been discussed before.<\/p>\n

My problem with this is that if these are the only topics you can think of to write about \u2014 tired platitudes and clich\u00e9s \u2014 maybe don\u2019t write a song or try to find inspiration literally anywhere else. A few that come to mind are “Indestructible” by Disturbed, “The Mountain” by Three Days Grace, and “Never Again” by Breaking Benjamin. Not terrible songs musically, but thematically?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Belch.<\/p>\n

I find that very successful bands start to write these songs a few albums in, once they\u2019re making plenty of money and have used up most of their good ideas.<\/p>\n

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Kiss’ “Rock And Roll Nite” is one of the premiere rock songs about rocking. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Rock Songs About Rocking<\/p>\n

The other topic that drives me nuts is any rock song about rocking. If a band can\u2019t even come up with a “You Can\u2019t Stop Me”\/”Don\u2019t Give Up” song, they just throw up their hands and say, “F\u2013k it, let\u2019s just do one about rocking.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s rock\u2019s version of country music songs about trucks, ex-wives, and cold Coors Light, and rap songs about money and large asses. Here\u2019s my thing: don\u2019t tell me you\u2019re going to rock, just start rocking. It will be very clear to all parties once you start whether or not you\u2019re rocking.<\/p>\n

There are some very popular rock songs about rocking \u2014 “I Love Rock \u2018N Roll,” “Rock \u2018N Roll All Nite,” etc. \u2014 but I want to hear a little more originality than playing music about the music you play.<\/p>\n

How Every Reggaeton Song Has the Exact Same Beat (at Least to My Ears)<\/p>\n

Boom, Da-boom-da-boom, Da-boom-da-boom\u2026<\/p>\n

No, that\u2019s not someone trying to remember the name of one of Kid Rock\u2019s biggest hits. That\u2019s me trying to phonetically write out the beat for what is \u2014 as far as I am aware \u2014 every reggaeton song ever written.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not familiar with reggaeton, don\u2019t get it mixed up with reggae (which I\u2019m also not big on). Reggaeton is like a Spanish-style of hip-hop popular in places like Puerto Rico. Obviously, despite four years of high school Spanish classes and a semester in college, I have no clue what they\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n

I can, however, ask where the bathroom is, which is muy importante. Anyway, I had a roommate in college who was into reggaeton, and I would hear it blasting through my dorm wall while I was trying to eat microwaved mac and cheese in solitude.<\/p>\n

It drove me crazy that because I was mostly hearing the bass and the beat thumping through the wall, it sounded like the same song over and over and over and over\u2026 It was not, it\u2019s just that, for whatever reason, this is the agreed-upon reggaeton beat.<\/p>\n

There are other repetitive music genres, some of which I happen to like. Take blues music, for instance. A lot of songs are structured the same, but at least the keys and drum patterns change. With reggaeton, it\u2019s the same thing for every song, at least to my ears.<\/p>\n

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I blame Billie Eilish for the disturbing rise in whisper singing (also for people wearing shirts that are too big. Buy something that fits). (Photo by Gareth Cattermole\/Getty Images for Live Nation)<\/p>\n

Whisper Singing<\/p>\n

This is something that\u2019s popular today, and I can\u2019t stand it. I blame Billie Eilish (which is also the title of my upcoming book of essays on how Gen Z ruined America), because whenever I think of singers who whisper too much, she\u2019s the one I think of.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re going to sing, sing! Don\u2019t whisper into the studio mic like you\u2019re trying not to wake the neighbors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have more to say than that, which is good because that was already “Old Man Yells At Cloud” enough\u2026<\/p>\n

Repetitive Radio<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve tried to make a habit of listening to the radio when I drive lately. It feels nice to listen to some good ol\u2019 fashioned frequency modulation radio like the pioneers used to.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Plus, who wouldn\u2019t want to listen to Spotify that they pay for and can play just about any song ever recorded in an instant, when you can listen to the same 40-50 songs that someone else picked for free?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my problem with radio, and, unfortunately, I think I\u2019m just wasting my breath with this one, because the radio industry will completely die before they change how they program music. My local rock station plays what seems by my unofficial count to be about 65% Red Hot Chili Peppers, Linkin Park, The Offspring, and Foo Fighters.<\/p>\n

Every single time I\u2019m in the car, I hear at least three of those four, and I\u2019ve even heard a song on the way to my destination and then heard another one by the same band on the way home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Can we spread it out a little bit? I know that these playlists are sometimes focus-grouped to death, but can we just bench the Chili Peppers for a few hours (or forever\u2026 I kid, kind of) after you play them?<\/p>\n

Just give me more variety, and would an occasional deep cut kill you?\u00a0<\/p>\n

I heard them play Metallica\u2019s “Harvester of Sorrow” the other night, and the fact that they didn\u2019t just play “Enter Sandman” for the 11 billionth time, made me want to hug someone.<\/p>\n

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Whew, I need to cleanse my palate with some good tunes. Might throw a Clutch album on the ol’ record player.<\/p>\n

Anyway, thanks as always for checking out The Gripe Report, and if you’ve got a gripe of your own, send it in for a future edition: matthew.reigle@outkick.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s another Tuesday, which means it’s time for the column that has more complaints than a nursing home…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,975,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-103275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114939042781871644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}