What are your least favorite modern music cliches? (lemmy.studio)

submitted 1 year ago by favrion@lemmy.studio to c/music@beehaw.org

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Some for me are when they do an uplifting key change at the end (a phenomenon which has existed for decades,) when they use too much tape wear effect to make it purposefully warbly for no good reason, when they lower the pitch of a singer's voice by an octave, and when the song just ends with no finality like the tape was cut (unless it's part of a progressive rock album.)

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[-] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate the sound of Auto-Tune with a passion to the point where I want to break something when I'm being forced to listen to it.
Maybe that dates me, but I think that Auto-Tune is still exclusively used for its original purpose - make talentless twits sound less talentless.
If you can't sing, just don't sing. Don't filter your voice through annoying effects until it's unrecognisable. That's the musical equivalent of drawing nothing but a dick on a test and failing it 'on purpose' because you couldn't get a passing grade if you really tried, and trying to pass it off as acting cool. Either study/train harder or do something else, FFS.