People who don't like music

osarusan · 25-08-2013 03:42PM

Not much interest in music here. Never been to a concery, bought fewer than 50 CDs in my life I'd say. I'd rarely listen to it, and even the musicians I do like (Tom Waits, Dylan, Springsteen, Neil Young mainly) I'm not all that familiar with. As for any other musicians (bar those like U2 that you can't get away from), I'd only know their most famous songs, if at all.

pauliebdub · 25-08-2013 03:43PM

I love music too but I would be very selective about what I listen too, chart music on the radio drives me mad to be honest.

Caonima · 25-08-2013 03:52PM

THT wrote: »

A friend of mine has no interest in music whatsoever, he prefers silence or the sound of the world. How common is this?

Have one friend, never bought a CD in his life, never went to a gig, doesn't own a music player, all that stuff. I've given up trying to introduce him to good music; he just doesn't care.

lidllady · 25-08-2013 03:54PM

PrettyBoy wrote: »

It's funny you should say that - I've been to Thailand with this lad a couple of times and the only song he seems to know is 'Pure Shores' by All Saints (http://youtu.be/qfZ6PLvzlVg) as it was in a film called 'The Beach' which is set in Thailand. He associates the song and the movie with his visits to Thailand and if he had to listen to something I think he would probably listen to this song over and over again.

I knew it

He's not a weirdo then really, he just finds music too plain on it's own without any association.

All the record companies know that certain audiences (mostly teens) will become easily obsessed with a song if the audiences develop crushes on the artist or else strongly identify with them. How else could one direction have become millionaires

I personally starting to love youtube videos that take the piss out of modern pop music though so humour can be a major draw for people aswell.

Stereomaniac · 25-08-2013 04:01PM

Music is my life. But in recent years I have tried to take the emphasis away from it a bit. Now this can be quite difficult since I write songs and I play them with my band. But when I am exhausted and emotional, sometimes the best thing for me to do is to have silence. But there is usually some sort of music on in the room I am in, if I'm at home. I love most types also.

Shenshen · 25-08-2013 05:08PM

Catari Jaguar wrote: »

Because scientifically, music is a pleasure giver - it releases dopamine. It's still a mystery to science as to WHY music causes such a physiological response in people - everything from toe tapping to emotional responses to chills upon hearing a certain note. I am so affected by music, that if I don't like a song I feel violated and dirty that it's in my ears, so I get what you mean about your Gran. Music is one of the only things humans do that gives us intrinsic reward that isn't neccesary for survival e.g. sex, eating, sleeping.

Dancing, to me, is one of the biggest & simplest pleasures in life. Like Billy Elliot says it's "like electricity". Watching a comtemporary dancer like Lukas McFarlane (winner of Got to Dance 2013) be one with the song with his musicality creates the same response in me as listening to really evocative music.

I think it might be best to qualify this statement a little - as has been pointed out in this thread, not all people enjoy music. Some do. The majority, apparently, does. But not all do.
Most of the things that people list as "hobbies" give them pleasure. To me, that would be reading, painting and cooking. Music doesn't give me pleasure.

I'm not saying I run away screaming when I hear music, as I said most of the time I don't really mind it as a sort of background noise. But it's no different from any other background noise, really. For example, my husband is in the garden at the moment, shredding some branches and clippings, and I can hear the noise of the shredder - I don't mind that either, same as music.
But given the choice between this and silence, I'll pick the silence.

Well, ok, there is some music that I might actually run away screaming from, mostly bits of popular music. They'd be the equivalent to a car alarm to me, and as I said I have turned around and walked out of shops because I simply couldn't bear what they were playing over the tannoy (one of the many reasons I love Aldi and Lidl, btw.)

As for dancing, now, that is something I truly despise, sorry.
I dislike watching it, and I will not engage in it even if someone held a gun to my head.

Pensivepuca · 25-08-2013 05:10PM

I never listened to music till my mid teens because I 'hated music'. I just never found music that was my taste till I was older. I must say, I can not live without my favorite music now. So relaxing.

PrettyBoy · 25-08-2013 05:16PM

Shenshen wrote: »

I have turned around and walked out of shops because I simply couldn't bear what they were playing over the tannoy (one of the many reasons I love Aldi and Lidl, btw.)

One of the main reasons why I hate Lidl and Aldi tbh... Anyone know the whY they don't have music/radio in any of them?

Shenshen · 25-08-2013 05:17PM

PrettyBoy wrote: »

One of the main reasons why I hate Lidl and Aldi tbh... Anyone know the whY they don't have music/radio in any of them?

So people can shop in peace?

humbert · 25-08-2013 05:19PM

I'd be another one that wouldn't have much interest in music. Can't remember the last time I put on music at home and it's more often an irritation when I'm out. Find it very odd when people get upset about me not being interested in music.

claypigeon777 · 25-08-2013 05:26PM

How could anybody fail to appreciate this?

Grayditch · 25-08-2013 05:28PM

Lidl and Aldi are even more depressing without music. My God, it's almost disturbing. All you can hear is the clanging of trollies and the beeps from the checkout. Everyone looking miserable. Awful stuff.

PucaMama · 25-08-2013 05:30PM

Grayditch wrote: »

Lidl and Aldi are even more depressing without music. My God, it's almost disturbing. All you can hear is the clanging of trollies and the beeps from the checkout. Everyone looking miserable. Awful stuff.

i never noticed they had no music

25-08-2013 05:48PM

I know one older man who dislikes music, and has never read a book for pleasure in his life. He's generally a very curmudgeonly type of person, and I can't imagine him getting any joy out of anything tbh. He's the kind who'd curse winning the lottery because he'd have to spend time in the bank. I think in some cases, its down to a personality type that finds it harder to get pleasure from the little things.

I'm not extrapolating that to all people who aren't into music, I'm sure most of you are lovely happy people

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When an old Stones tune, or Tom Waits growls his way across the radio waves into my ears, it makes me smile. It's one of lifes simple pleasures.

PrettyBoy · 25-08-2013 05:51PM

Shenshen wrote: »

So people can shop in peace?

Well the music in Tesco or Super Valu isn't particularly loud or disturbing, if the music in there bothers you it would be very odd..the dead, awkward silence in Lidl and Aldi isn't pleasant at all - Grayditch, your description was spot on, I couldn't have said it better.

Grayditch · 25-08-2013 05:55PM

The music in supermarkets is low and pleasant, alright. It's usually like Gabriel or Sade or something.

Clothes shops now, are horrible. Loud, instrusive dance music. I know it's a psychological thing, to pump people up for the weekend while shopping for clothes, so they buy something nice, but man... It really puts me off.

shruikan2553 · 25-08-2013 05:58PM

lidllady wrote: »

I'd say from my own experience that people who don't enjoy music only like songs which have some other factor which draws them in such as a crush on the singer, experiencing the song with a scene in a movie/game or else finding the song humorous.

So while we probably can't enjoy a song on it's own that we have no emotional attachment to, if we associate the music with something we actually care about like the way music videos do we'll actually enjoy it. The song just doesn't have enough to interest us otherwise.

This sums it up for me. I get more annoyed at the people who cant seem to understand that maybe someone else has different likes to them. Its like some people who arent interested electronics may have a laptop and phone but they dont care about the latest technology coming out later in the year or how intel have found a way of placing components with just an atom of space apart. I dont go "sure you have to care, youre using the technology!"

GLaDOS · 25-08-2013 06:02PM

Never even considered the existence of people who don't like music even a little :P

Wabbit Ears · 25-08-2013 06:11PM

Music is grand and all but its just pretty sounds with words that work well with teh pretty sounds. i don't see it has meaning beyond that. Some lyrics are good and smart but I don't get the meaningfulness people ascribe to it.

That said, I do like live music, I likes to dance badly and sing badly but still, Its not like it actually means anything.

Meangadh · 25-08-2013 06:20PM

Grayditch wrote: »

Clothes shops now, are horrible. Loud, instrusive dance music. I know it's a psychological thing, to pump people up for the weekend while shopping for clothes, so they buy something nice, but man... It really puts me off.

Me too. Worst I was ever in is the obnoxious hell hole that is Hollister. I cannot fully explain how much I hate this shop. It's too loud, too dark and would choke you with the smell. No thanks.

marketty · 25-08-2013 06:37PM

I like music alright but not enough to pay for it, hard to imagine people used to do that

o1s1n · 25-08-2013 06:50PM

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

Music is grand and all but its just pretty sounds with words that work well with teh pretty sounds.

That is a very simplistic way of looking at music. Not all music is pretty sounds, some of it can be difficult and challenging to listen to.

Not all music has lyrics, not all lyrics make sense (or try to make sense)

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

Its not like it actually means anything.

To you it may not, but billions of other people would differ.

I think a lot of people this generation have been ruined/turned off by ****ty headphones, ipods, PC speakers etc. To really appreciate the music you need a proper sound system.

Antar Bolaeisk · 25-08-2013 07:03PM

I used to be one of those "weird" people who didn't like music too but it turns out I just didn't like most of the crap on the radio.

Howard Juneau · 25-08-2013 07:11PM

marketty wrote: »

I like music alright but not enough to pay for it, hard to imagine people used to do that

That's why there isn't music in aldi or lidl

Grayditch · 25-08-2013 07:20PM

Meangadh wrote: »

Me too. Worst I was ever in is the obnoxious hell hole that is Hollister. I cannot fully explain how much I hate this shop. It's too loud, too dark and would choke you with the smell. No thanks.

I went into Hollister to get shirt for a present before and I thought the lights had gone out. The music was absolutely blaring and the smell of incense was overpowering. The staff were very frienbly, but in a creepy way. No problem there, really, I'd take fake friendly, over real rude, I suppose.

Jaysus, I sound like an old man now, but you really have to experience that place to believe how weird a shopping experience it is. The music itself seemed ok, but it was mental loud.

Freddy Smelly · 25-08-2013 07:21PM

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

I used to be one of those "weird" people who didn't like music too but it turns out I just didn't like most of the crap on the radio.

lol most radio stations have the same top 10 songs for the week and put the cd player on repeat

UCDVet · 25-08-2013 07:44PM

I don't 'like' music.

I mean, as part of a movie or video game....sure, throw it in. But I never just 'listen' to music and I never really understood why so many people seem to enjoy it.

Back when I was younger, people seemed to define themselves by what music they liked....so I learned to lie. I made it a point to know a few popular bands of a few genres and, depending on who was asking, I'd try my best to answer appropriately.

People are weird.

Captain Chaos · 25-08-2013 07:47PM

Freddy Smelly wrote: »

lol most radio stations have the same top 10 songs for the week and put the cd player on repeat

A week, try about 4 months. Put the play list on repeat shuffle and take a few months off while phoning in their "witty" comments.

karaokeman · 25-08-2013 07:50PM

dd972 wrote: »

Aren't they called Coldplay or Billy Joel fans?

No.

This argument is thrown around a lot but I am yet to meet a Coldplay fan who has claimed they don't like music.

Snobbery makes you no better a music fan than anyone else, one band may not be to your liking, but if someone else likes them whose to say they're wrong? The act mightn't be the most talented in the world, but as long as their music does something for the listener, the efforts put into making the music has not gone in vain.

dub_skav · 25-08-2013 08:13PM

UCDVet wrote: »

I don't 'like' music.

I mean, as part of a movie or video game....sure, throw it in. But I never just 'listen' to music and I never really understood why so many people seem to enjoy it.

Back when I was younger, people seemed to define themselves by what music they liked....so I learned to lie. I made it a point to know a few popular bands of a few genres and, depending on who was asking, I'd try my best to answer appropriately.

People are weird.

Yes, you are

People who don't like music

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