I really hate Cradle of Filth. I remember coming across pictures of Dani Filth getting the crap beat out of him by security on his last birthday. It made me laugh but I was sad that I couldn't have witnessed it.

Agreed upon all the shitty metalcore, nu-metal, emocore, etc.
I like a lot of black metal, death metal, and industrial that uses "screamy" vocals, but the huge difference is that I prefer my screams to be deep, dark, inhuman demonic screams, full of processed effects from the depths of the abyss!!!
When it's just some short-haired geek in baggy shorts and a skater hoodie, screaming like an angry little kid over some mediocre unthreatening rock music, I just gotta laugh

I know I'm beating a dead horse by saying this, but.... CRADLE OF FILTH. The crappy faux hardcore lyrics about falling in love with a witch or a zombie or some shit, the fat bitch reading emo poetry she printed of deviantART during the breakdowns, Dani's dying animal singing an little-boy-with-no-testicles screaming, and the overall air of TRYING TOO HARD that radiates off EVERY DAMN SONG. The whole mess makes me want to rip out my ear drums with a rusty meat hook.

Its all just vomit-inducingly fake and forced. I just can't fucking stand the special brand of posercore peddled by Dani Failth!

CRAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWLIIIIIIING IIIIIIIIIIN MY EEEEEEEARS THIS NOIIIIISE IT WIIIILL NOOOOOOOOT STOOOOOOOOOOP!!!! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAASEEE JUST MAAAAAAKE IT EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEND!!!! THIIIIIIIS SHIIIIIIIIIIT IS WOOOOOOOOOOORSE THAN POP.


....I'm done now.

I cant stand screamo a nd metalcore. If I cant understand what your saying then Im not going to spend ten minutes pressing the back button and try to decode the song. i also hate emotionless songs, I just feel like they just threw up on a peice of paper and didnt give it any effort. I hate the fact that people call screaming at the top your lungs singing/ talent

sorry for that rant there. anywho band I dont really like:
ICP- good gosh someone please make it stop! I honestly dont know why they are so popular. I hate hip hop as it is but this is just terrible the lyrics are just... ugh... i dont even.... -_-

Slipnot- do I need to explain?

Evanescene- Im sorry but these guy are just terrible, the lead singer has a nice voice but... I dont know, not my kind of music i guess

Voltaire- I feel like they just took the instrementals from one song and used it for all their other songs but they just change the lyrics. If I were listening to one of their CD's I wouldnt know whereone songs started and the other ends although I must atmit i like thier song Brains!

-Any of those new bands that scene and emo kids seem to love so much like Asking Alexandrea,Bring Me The Horizon etc. (I dont think I really need ot explain this one)

I also hate thos band that have really lond and unessesary names like We Butter teir Bread With Butter,or I Wrestled A Bear Once really people?! teenagers eat this stuff up though... its rather sad

Terribly sorry for the rant

*blushes* My dear lady, you are too kind.


Regarding...


Lady Gaga - I can enjoy some of her songs (yes, I actually admitted to that) as what they are: totally mindless, thoroughly meaningless pop, that's all. It's not art at all, just consumer noise that ranges from crass to amusing. I enjoy "Just Dance", for example, on the same level that I would enjoy, say, an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, Plan 9 from Outer Space, an extremely silly action flick with no actual plot or a Big Mac: it's fun for a minute, but there's no depth or meaning to it whatsoever. No nutritional value can be gained from her works, it's just bubblegum for the brain. Chew, blow a few bubbles, discard when finished. The rest of her songs either bore me to tears or rot my poor brain like sulfuric acid.


Rap "Music" - I remember an old magazine I read as a child (specifically, this was 1991, after MC Hammer had just released "Too Legit to Quit"; don't ask me how I remember that) described rap music as people speaking in rhyme about one of two subjects:

• how awesome they are;
• how stupid they think everyone else is.

Hot damn, was that ever accurate! Aside from some of the "urban warzone life" songs like Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" (when the Hell did it become popular to misspell the word "gangster"??) or the mournful "Tha Crossroads" (again with the misspelling of easy-to-spell words; did they have to misspell the word "the" to make the song title look appropriately thuggish?), most rap music I've heard is about those two topics and nothing else.

Embarrassing Admission #2: I actually like the original version of Katy Perry's song "E.T.". (Can't stand the rest of her songs; I just like that one, for whatever reason.) I absolutely hate the new version with rapper Kanye West. (Sure, I've thought Kanye was a drooling idiot ever since this incident, but that's beside the point.) Her song was this nice little tune where she praises her paramour, describing his love as cosmic and otherworldly; in a silly, sci fi way, it was somewhat romantic. His "contribution" to the song (I use that term the same way I would describe what I find in my cat's litterbox) described himself, using lyrics as perverted as he could in a pop song meant for a general audience. Her lyrics were directed outward, toward her lover; his were directed inward. For me, it definitely illustrated the point I made above: if they're not talking about life on the "mean streets" or how stupid their opposite-coast rivals are, rappers are usually rapping about their incredibly high opinions of themselves.

When they try to rap about something else, it's usually inane drivel without any meaning that cannot possibly be enjoyed on any level by any rational, thinking person. For example, the song "1st of tha Month" is literally about a street celebration being held on the day welfare checks are paid out. (Seriously! Check out the Wikipedia article!) To say nothing of the black hole of meaninglessness that is the song "Lip Gloss"... To misquote the Bard, I think of the average rap song as "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."


Within Temptation - This band I like. I dig the symphonic sound, the vocalist's voice is choral and ethereal, and the lyrics actually mean something. Even better: the videos actually try to express that meaning visually! (Can't tell you how many times I've seen music videos that seemed to be in an entirely different universe from the song they feature.) It's not just this band, either; I love the entire genre. Nightwish? Epica? Sirenia? Bring it on!

Linkin Park.

Never could stand them, now they seem to be all that's on the "rock" radio station here. :/

Ah, I've just remembered Fear Cult... I totally forgot about them but I've just stumbled upon their version of Sexbeat again and oh God, do I feel like I could tear off their heads for butchering up that faboulous song! But all other songs I've hard by them were really crappy, clichéd and their singer is like a bad version of a Rozz Williams-wannabe. Oh, God, oh God...

I can't stand Sara Jezebelo's "spoken whore voice"..... it's just....... ugh!!!!