What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I don't care what people listen to as long as I can't hear it over my own earbuds. If I can hear your music and it is drowning out the sound of my iPod, we have a problem. This also goes for people in their cars. Especially at red lights. I fucking hate when I have to close my window because I can hear your music over mine. And I don't have AC, so that shit sucks.

[KingOfZeal]

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Musical enjoyment is a purely subjective form of entertainment. What you find shitty, someone else probably likes it, for whatever reason.

I listen to all kinds of music and can respect people for liking one type while disliking another.

And if you've pigeon holed rap to be nothing but curses and derogatory remarks, than you haven't truly explored the genre.

I don't care for rap, but there is one incredibly large reason why I say I hate it:
It's one of the few generas (not only, but certainly in a very... shall we say 'select' group) where I can regularly hear the music from others listening to it. Not only that, but I can hear it with crystal clear clarity from their headphones. In some cases it may have to do with the large cavernous space between the headphones amplifying the sound.

If you can get those people to turn it down (or at the very least, don't snap back at me when I ask to turn it down) then I'll give it the respect I give other forms of music I don't care for -- I'll listen to it occasionally, may even buy one or two songs from it. Just don't FORCE me to listen to it like so many are now.


It also doesn't help that most artists that I hear this way seem to stress the cussing more than other words in the song, which makes it sound (in some cases) like "sadeua F*** ma na unh B****" etc etc.

I've never heard Jazz, or Blues (styles I actually wouldn't mind listening to more of) played at 150 dB outside of Beale St in Memphis (or concert settings), it's almost always Rap or death/heavy metal.

[Vyuru]

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I fucking hate when I have to close my window because I can hear your music over mine. And I don't have AC, so that shit sucks.

Tell me about it. One time I got completely fed up with it when this car pulled up next to me and cranked up the music and bass, enough to be rocking my rather heavy truck that I drive. My solution was to stick a tape into the player and crank up the Patsy Cline.

They were not a happy bunch after that all of a sudden.

[Aksannyi]

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Okay now I don't feel so bad, because I do it with the country, too. It's usually some homies cranking their rap (which, as a certified redneck, I am pretty much required to hate) so when I start playing what my grandfather calls "hillbilly music," it definitely drives the rap lovers crazy.

Usually though, it's the days when I've been stuck in traffic for an hour and I'm just hot, sweaty, tired, and I've got a migraine, so the last thing I want to do is crank up the volume and/or raise the window.

And has anyone ever noticed that it's always the people with their windows rolled up tight because they have AC who drive the slowest? For fuck's sake, this is Florida, and I know that I should have AC because I just should, but it stopped working about six years ago, and for 800 dollars, it can stay broke (it's the pump). That said, though, you'd think people would realize that there are some people out there who do not have AC and who would like to get the fuck home like NOW so they can cool off and that you could maybe move your fucking ass. Would you like to be caught behind someone doing 25 in a 45 with your windows rolled down in the 105 degree heat + humidity index in the middle of a Floridian July? No? Then move your fucking ass.

[Yellow Mage]

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Tell them to cut that shit out, no one wants to listen to pop music.

I think I will try to complain to someone about that tomorrow . . .

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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See you just give them a bad impression of Country music. Ya gotta hit 'em with the real stuff like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams and Jr., Juice Newton and Patsy Cline. You just fire crap like the Dixie Chicks at 'em and they'll just keep on with turning up their rap.

Though if its Black Eyed Peas, I totally support it being turned up. Also Jurassic 5, which is far less common, but still awesome.

Speaking of Johnny Cash

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DaL9miHqw4]YouTube - KK Slider - Hurt[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKVf_IOsQIY]YouTube - JOHNY CASH - HURT (Budoka remix)[/ame]

[Murphie]

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At least you don't have to listen to the Big Lots add every 5 minutes where you work...

God that is so fucking annoying!

This is what you get for working at Big Lots. I'm sure the employees at other retailers don't enjoy their music any more than you do.

Hell, even when I managed a Williams-Sonoma, I got tired of the music (primarily old standards, Show Tunes, Big Band, and Jazz) we had to play after a few weeks. Of course, I knew all of them by heart by then, so you know - learning! But also, boring.

[Ketaru]

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Back to the whole rap thing, I've always had confusion over something:

What is the difference between rap and hip hop?

[Murphie]

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One is generally more rhyme oriented and focuses on boasting and I dunno, sounding tough? Whereas the other is more lyrical, and generally follows the more traditional song format.

Or something. I don't actually know.

[DakAttack]

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Hip hop is pop.

[Murphie]

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Pop is such a broad category anyway. If you want to get ultra-technical, anything falls under that umbrella if it's popular.

I don't really try and label my music. I just like what I like.

[Takelli]

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This is what you get for working at Big Lots. I'm sure the employees at other retailers don't enjoy their music any more than you do.

Hell, even when I managed a Williams-Sonoma, I got tired of the music (primarily old standards, Show Tunes, Big Band, and Jazz) we had to play after a few weeks. Of course, I knew all of them by heart by then, so you know - learning! But also, boring.

No, no... The music itself is fine. Its the Add that I gotta listen to every 5 minutes is what is annoying the hell out of me.

[Murphie]

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That's what you get for working somewhere that runs ads for itself in the store that people are already in? I mean it is kind of a silly thing to do (though not so unusual in stores of that caliber). I'm mostly teasing with the "that's what you get" part. I think it's annoying too.

[Ufgt]

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Back to the whole rap thing, I've always had confusion over something:

What is the difference between rap and hip hop?

Rap is a lyrical style, very spoken word.

Hip Hop is a musical style, usually more sung than spoken.

[Takelli]

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That's what you get for working somewhere that runs ads for itself in the store that people are already in? I mean it is kind of a silly thing to do (though not so unusual in stores of that caliber). I'm mostly teasing with the "that's what you get" part. I think it's annoying too.

Ya, I know. I was just clarifying it, since it seemed like you didn't get to what I was pointing at lol.

I have thought about complaining about it, but I don't want to do something I might(SP?) regret.