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What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form. (lemmy.world)
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For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.

I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don't think he was ever funny not even a little.

His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it's so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.

Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't think I'd call rap not music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music

Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.

I think that it meets that bar.

I don't like it myself, either, but there are plenty of genres of music that I don't like.

When I see people riding down the road bumping modern rap music, I just shake my head, especially 30-year-old or 40-year-old white women.

Like, because it originated from black artists? I mean...I've heard people make similar statements before, but jazz also originated with black artists, and I haven't heard people object to white people listening to jazz.

Maybe they did and it was just before my time. I remember a World War II Danish Nazi poster complaining about the jitterbug, which also originated with black artists, but that seemed to take issue with the music rather than who was listening to it.

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Hmm. Though it sounds like there was some friction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitterbug

Swing dancing originated in the African-American communities of New York City in the early 20th century.[5] Many nightclubs had a whites-only or blacks-only policy due to racial segregation, however the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem had a no-discrimination policy which allowed whites and blacks to dance together[6] and it was there that the Lindy Hop dance flourished,[7] started by dancers such as George Snowden and Frank Manning. The term jitterbug was originally a ridicule used by black patrons to describe whites who started to dance the Lindy Hop, because they were dancing faster and jumpier than was intended, like "jittering bugs",[8] although it quickly lost its negative connotation as the more-erratic version caught on.

EDIT: The WW2 poster referencing jitterbug that I was remembering:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/1774f384-00b9-4f24-8dcf-880f0cb0d58d.jpeg)