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Originally Posted by WhateverDude
Panning effect.
I don't listen to a lot of music that utilizes this but if I hear it anywhere I just ****ing hate it.
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...You'd hate my music then... Um, not to be a pedant though, but do you mean when an LFO rapidly pans a synth leftrightleftrightleft and gives you vertigo? Because otherwise, any music not recorded in mono is panned.
If you took nearly any modern recording and removed the panning, it would sound all muddled and dense and hard to hear. Our brains like panning, because the real world has incredibly wide-spread panning of every single soundscape you encounter.
I love panning.
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Yes! Also, people who rhyme the same syllable line after line. 99% of the time that just sounds supid an unimaginative to me.
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Oh God yeah.
"I love YOU,
Yes it's TRUE,
And I'm BLUE,
Without YOU,
Ooh ooh OOH,
Scooby-DOO"
Unless it's really creative. Some rappers can rhyme the same syllable or syllable set for thirty seconds and keep it interesting. Then again, those usually aren't end-rhymes, but cleverly syncopated internal slant-rhymes...
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Originally Posted by dca
tracks that inexplicably fade out before they should
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Can't agree enough. Although, I hate fade out in almost any track. It may have been a clever way to cut song length well over half a century ago, but now it screams, "couldn't write a decent ending to the song."
The exception, for me, is music where the musicians actually repeat and fade, playing more and more softly and eventually dropping out. That, sounds like professional musicianship, pulling of a cool sonic stunt.
When the band obviously just jammed out half heartedly for three minutes which has then edited down to 45 seconds with a fade-out? Blegh. No thank you.
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Originally Posted by Christian Benteke
British people who sing or rap with American accents.
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So weird, especially when the native accent comes through. Not as wierd as K-pop with "American" accents, or really any sort of non-American pop with "American" accents.
The weirdest though, is that even Americans do fake "American" accents when singing in a huge swathe of popular American genres. My favourite is the Middle Class East Coast white boys who sing hard pop rock with a combination of Rural Texas and Newark, but speak with a slight lisp and an upward ending inflection...
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Originally Posted by Moss
Yeah, some people can pull off that falsetto but when it's done badly it's awful.
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As my mother used to say, "Just because you CAN hit that note, doesn't mean you SHOULD."
Interestingly enough, many times when female singers hit high notes, they are actually singing falsetto. It just sounds so similar that many people don't even realize female falsetto exists. Some vocal teachers still deny it's existence. Many times, this female falsetto is why female singers can hit really high notes that sound just as crappy as male singers singing falsetto frequently does.
That said, skilled male or female falsetto can be beautiful.
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Originally Posted by Dylstew
...they ask ''What's the name of that song?, I might know it''
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Yeah. This always happens to me when I mention a GENRE they've never heard of. You've never heard of the genre, yet you expect to know some weird song? Alriiiight.
My coworker who listens to mainly Three Days Grace and comparable stuff, always asks this, and is super surprised not to know some 21st century orchestral work, or 1980's spectral piece...
He's a fun guy. I like him.
Personal, biggest, song-ruining pet peeve for me though? Root-V basslines. You know, plodding, on the beat oompah-oompah, boom-chick type country basslines? I can be loving the track, and the bass player does that, and I'm done. can't help it. Hate it.
The exception is Beethoven spending a minute ending a piece with root-V-root-V-root.
Rant concluded.