Music

I used to really like the sound of the 70's band America, but their lyrics were so butt stupid, and pretentiously stupid that I can't bear to hear them.

Dance Gavin Dance. Oddly enough I don't mind the lyrics by Jon Mess, but a lot of the lyrics sung by Tillian and Jonny are tough to listen to.

I had the same feelings on Jedi Mind Tricks, but decided to keep listening based on this justification.

1. my morals will never perfectly align with any band. It's obvious when the lyrics are awful & hate filled, but it's impossible to know what every band was thinking when creating any music.
2. I don't believe in heroes. I respect a good piece of music as is. It's creators should not get a pass in any way because of that.
3. music or a message. Creative processes differ, some artists use their music as a vehicle to promote their beliefs, while others focus on making a sound first. It's not always easy to know which came first.

It's all subjective to me, some albums get deleted, others stay on probation, pending annual review

I wouldn't say I hate their lyrics, but Hollywood Undead is a weird one for me. Some of... Most of their songs are "BOOZE BOOZE FUCKING CHICKS BOOZE" and it's like OK this is some frat boy shit. But then they have songs like Lion and (chorus of) Black Dahlia that are just soul rending. It's an insane juxtaposition but maybe that's part of the appeal.

Also they're a boy band and you can't convince me otherwise.

i think there’s an important distinction to make between thinking lyrics are poor quality and strongly disagreeing with the message in the lyrics.

i often ignore lyrics of poor quality because the music behind them is so good. luckily i don’t recall coming across messaging like you are struggling with, but i think it would anger me enough to lose any interest in the band. don’t support people like that.

honestly, the world holds so many forms, genres, sounds of music. if a band is spreading a shitty message, there is another artist around the corner that can deliver a similar musical vibe without being caked in hateful bullshit. i personally don't get down with bands who have a garbage message for the same reason that i would tell a racist pos he was a racist pos if they used the n-word in front of me. if you truly don't like the message an artist produces, why expose yourself to the shittiness. /rant

Limp Bizkit are a great band when you remove the vocals

Combichrist. They're obnoxious misogynistic wankers with fucked up lyrics, but they had some really fun songs to dance to.

Meshuggah. I don't like that style of vocals and don't know what they're even singing, but I really like the rest of their sound.

Some hymns are absolute bangers but fuck that whole christian god thing. This drunk guy was singing Glory Glory Hallelujah while walking down my street last night and it's a really catchy and sounded fun to sing.

I mean, I'm glad you can put aside the lyrics and listen to the music beneath. But I couldn't. Because I think about how those musicians are spreading the hate through the music also. Cause like, without them the singer wouldn't have any platform to spread the message.

So, in my mind, although the drummer isn't saying any words, theyre just as hateful for giving the words a good beat to sing to.

Not saying I judge you. Just saying I couldn't

Most of the times Frank Zappa and Prince.

Donna Summer. I love most of her music, and many of her lyrics... until you get to the religious intonations of he later work. She was on track to be one of the biggest stars of her lifetime, but she ended up being a horrible homophobic piece of trash. Blaming her drugs and partying on others. She is thankfully dead now, so I can listen in peace and tune out how hateful she became. ♫ Once upon a time... There was, a girl... Who lived in a land... Of make believe... ♫

I love blues and blues rock, but the lyrics are often full of misogyny, unfortunately. Same with rap. Some I can't listen to anymore because of that, but some I give the benefit of the doubt, if that makes sense. They feel like they are using a misogynistic language, but aren't actually saying anything misogynistic.

Oh and then there are these really sad and self depreciating songs I used to love, when I was more emo, like Creep. I still love the sound, but I can't connect with the lyrics anymore. I'm basically only listening to them, when I'm down and even then I'm basically ignoring the content and focus on the vibes.

Van Helen, Motley Crüe, The Scorpions, some Queenryce songs, however it's spelled. Mostly just a lot of really dumb teenage idiot style misogyny. At least with the scorpions they were only pretending to speak English, so a lot of it could aping lyrics from other English songs without really knowing what it means.

Dream Theater 100%

Ridiculous musical talent and then the lead singer...ugh

Brian Jonestown Massacre. Great sound but Anton’s lyrics are just lazy.

Five finger death punch.

Tbh not all of their lyrics read like a jr high aged edge lord, but a lot do.

Same with Texas Hippie Coalition, only add redneck to the descriptors.

But both of them have a great sound as bands. Crunchy as fuck.

I mean, foster the people.

I'm hoping that's the obvious one for everybody.

But also for me, Jamiroquai. Dropping some line about how it's not nature's way for a mother to be able to choose the color of her child randomly in the middle of a song about how the world is changing so quick, and nobody can keep up with it.

At the same time, though, I'm nitpicking. It's just that one line in otherwise a cool song.

Flipside, I do not enjoy ICP, but my friends started playing the Shangri-La album, and I didn't know it was ICP, and I was like, man, this is actually pretty good, and then they were like, yeah, it's ICP, don't you like it? And I was like, well shit, they got like, one kind of decent album, fuck.

There 's a Dutch band called Son Mieux that I cannot stand. They sing in English. The music is.... fine. It's well produced mass market pop music. I understand people like it. But their lyrics are so atrociously bad it ruins everything for me. It's like a middle school kid with a poor understanding of English lifted parts of well known phrases and put them together based on sound alone, like a bad Christmas gift poem. It's entirely vapid and meaningless, even compared to other pop music. And a lot of Dutch people love it because they don't listen to the lyrics anyway. I cringe every time it's on the radio.

Reel Big Fish, but that's also kind of the point.

GUNSHIP.

I'm so glad they release instrumental versions of their albums. Their singing grates on me.