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Okay, it's the offseason for almost all of us. Obviously teams like mine don't have some postseason play at all, but for anyone not a fan of 5 teams, you've got some worthless bowl game that half your star players will have portalled out before the game and the other half want to sit out and declare for the draft. So...

What's a musical artist that you "should" like, but you don't.

By that I mean a musical genre and demographic that this artist would fall squarely within your listening wheelhouse, but you don't like them for some reason. I.e. if you don't like hip hop, don't say Snoop Dogg. If you don't like pop, don't say Taylor Swift. We don't care what genres you don't like. And it can get more specific--I'm a fan of alternative rock, and Billie Eilish is alternative rock, and I don't like her music much. But I won't use her as an example because I'm not her demographic (angsty teen female), so it's no surprise I don't like her.

It's about artists that if someone saw your normal listening habits, they'd be surprised by a specific exclusion. 

I'll start it off with one that I've mentioned before. I'm an alternative rock fan, including modern stuff. My primary music stations are ALT98.7 in LA and Alt Nation on SiriusXM. 

But there's one alternative band that's wildly popular and I just don't like them:

twentyone pilots

They're just weird... And it seems like they're trying to be edgy for the sake of being edgy. And most of their songs include an interlude where they say some phrase that's supposed to be quasi-deep and philosophical, and which I probably would have loved when I was 16 and thought it was mindblowing... But I'm 45 and it just doesn't hit. 

Who do you have?

Fun.  

I could probably come up with more if I put some thought into it, but off the top of my head, it's got to be Motley Crue.  I love 80's hair bands....the driving riffs, the flashy guitar solos, overly compressed drums....the bizarre amounts of hairspray and makeup...  Poison, Ratt, GNR, Leppard, Whitesnake, you name it, I'm mostly here for it.  Except for MC.  

Motley Crue checks all the boxes and were frequently kings of the scene, but something about their stuff is a No for me.  

I'm a big hair metal/glam rock fan too, of course.  But, I'd expect Poison-hate before Crue-hate.  I personally like Poison but I always considered them a Motley Crue-Lite.

Poison should do a song called Alice Cooper.

G-N-R,actually like their stuff but when Axel starts his nail on the chalboard/cat in a fan belt wailing on Beatles/Dylan and other covers - fuggedaboutit. Journey Perry sounds like the wretches he's attempting to serenade.Heard a few bars of Taylor Swift years back - underwhelming

You into the Holiday Nog already?

You into the Holiday Nog already?

Nah a couple of weeks yet.

Let me try to assist.  Think of some bands that you really like, or a style of music that you really like, that has several bands that play that style, and that you enjoy.

And then try to think if there's any similar band, that others who like the same music you do, actually do like, but that you just don't get into.

I mean, nobody expects an old guy like you, or even an old guy like me, to like Taylor Swift.  So naming Taylor Swift isn't really the point of this thread.  Get it?

Unless, UNLESS-- unless you are a huge fan of Olivia Rodrigo, and Ariana Grande, plus Katy Perry, and Lady Gaga.  But Taylor Swift is the only one you DON'T like.  Then, naming Taylor Swift, would fit the OP's thread topic.

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