How well do you tolerate music that you don't like?

[Buried Alien]

We all have music that we don't like, but how well do you respond when you hear music that you dislike? Do you become rude or violent towards the source of the offending music, or do you take it in stride and not let it ruin your day?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Clint Barton]

I wait for the light to change and put the pedal to the metal, baby!

[Ontir]

If it's just a song, it's one thing, but I can't abide country music (with VERY rare exceptions!), it HAS to go!

I rather nakedly try to manipulate a change of music. I once worked with a team leader who insisted we listen to country music, which just kills me. I worked slower and slower every day for 2 weeks. Finally, we were behind and had to get the order out, and he couldn't figure out what was going on. He yelled at us to go faster, and I finally told him, "That crap you make us listen to is like kryptonite! If you want us to go faster, you need to change the station to something with a pulse!" He finally relented, and we got the order out well before the end of the day.

[DWEarhart]

I'll roll with it, mimic and mock it, all in a playful manner, but only for so long, usually about half an hour, sometimes an hour, but after a while, whatever it is, BITCH GOTTA GO.

[Gezora]

If someone is playing particularly vulgar music in my vicinity (ICP, Short Dog, Cannibal Corpse, Garth Brooks), I ask politely for them to turn it down.

If they decide to get froggy and turn it up (as is usually the case), I end up kicking their asses.

[TinMan]

I can take it for a little while, but I'll go over and physically change the thing afterawhile. I don't like rap or country so those two will be the first to go once I hear enough of it, if I can block it out I will, but if I can't I'mma change that shit.

[TinMan]

If someone is playing particularly vulgar music in my vicinity (ICP, Short Dog, Cannibal Corpse, Garth Brooks), I ask politely for them to turn it down.

If they decide to get froggy and turn it up (as is usually the case), I end up kicking their asses.

Isn't that kinda hypocritical/oxymoronish? "I don't like vulgarity in music so I'll kick your ass.", thats real mature. :rolleyes:

[Adam Crocker]

Isn't that kinda hypocritical/oxymoronish? "I don't like vulgarity in music so I'll kick your ass.", thats real mature. :rolleyes:

I think it has more to do with the fact that he politely requested that they turn it down and instead they decide to be assholes about it and turn the music up.

[jessecuster3]

Depending how offenisve it is I can listen to anything for at least a half hour. I personally really don't like jazz and my dad has a habit of putting on the station with the most cacophonus(sp?) sounds. I can still sit in the same room for an hour or 2 while he plays it.

[TinMan]

I think it has more to do with the fact that he politely requested that they turn it down and instead they decide to be assholes about it and turn the music up.

I know, I exaggerated a bit, but there are still better ways to handle it than throwing your fists cause you don't like cuss words. I mean seriously, is violence not worse than some cursing?

[Adam Crocker]

I know, I exaggerated a bit, but there are still better ways to handle it than throwing your fists cause you don't like cuss words. I mean seriously, is violence not worse than some cursing?

Certainly there is, but saying it's just about his distaste for vulgar music isn't quite accurate.

[Jessica Drew]

I was a DJ at a Adult Contemporary/Country (the former on the FM, the latter on the AM) radio station for four years, and I've been spinning records at wedding receptions/class reunions/proms for twenty years, so, with time, I learned to be very tolerant of music I didn't like. I've just programmed my brain into thinking about what song would flow well next to the one playing, while (almost) ignoring the artistic aspect of the music I play (and have played).

If I'm ever riding in a vehicle with someone, I let him/her know before we ever start traveling that I'd rather not have the radio/CD playing. If I'm riding with my wife, my brother, or one of my very close friends, then they know that if they play a song I don't like, then I'll be very critical of that song (but rarely to the point of growing truly angry).

If I'm driving and have others in tow, then I'll either not play anything at all, or try to play something that I think we both might appreciate.

If I'm ever in a position of being in a vehicle with someone I don't know that well, and they insist on playing something anyway, I just put on the DJ hat and ignore what's being played. Same goes for parties/get-togethers I attend where someone else is playing music: it's their pad/their gig, so--unless I'm asked--I don't say negative about what's being played.

[The Mirrorball Man]

I'm a radio host, and as Jessica said, tolerating music you don't like is something you learn pretty quickly in that line of work.

[Valmore]

I wait for the light to change and put the pedal to the metal, baby!

I'd hurl bricks through the offending jerk's car windows, but that would get me arrested.

[Cash Lone]

At the grocery store I shop at, the music selection has just changed from mellower AM gold and Muzak to "hip" and trendier songs (Uptown Girl, Shiney Happy People, Vogue, tons of hip hop that I cant stand).

Anyway, I find those songs offensive and irritating - I can only shop late at night now to avoid large crowds and losing my mind while "The Heat is on" by Glenn Fry blasts thru the store.

[rick]

I have children.

I hear music I hate all the time.

I just do my best to live with it.

[howyadoin]

I have children.

I hear music I hate all the time.

I just do my best to live with it.So you aren't jiggy wit it?

[kmeyers]

So you aren't jiggy wit it?
few are.

hopefully.

[berk]

We all have to tolerate it to some extent, unless you happen to like every single thing that's played on the radio. It's just all around us, in public spaces, at the gym, at work, etc, etc. I don't like it, but it's part of the environment we've created for ourselves. Myself, I'd prefer not to be forced to listen to piped in music in public spaces at all, because I dislike most of the stuff they tend to play. But there isn't really much you can do about it.

[Ayo]

I don't get all offended by other people's music.

[GRANT!]

We all have music that we don't like, but how well do you respond when you hear music that you dislike? Do you become rude or violent towards the source of the offending music, or do you take it in stride and not let it ruin your day?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

I usually just start dancing like an epileptic monkey on crack. That usually gets them to stop.

[Ilash]

It really depends on the music. I hate Boy bands like Westlife but they're easy enough to ignore so if they come on I just tune out. Rap, on the other hand, is music I hate that I can't tune out so it really, really annoys me if I have to listen to it for too long. I've walked out of many a music shop simply because they're playing rap on the loud speakers.

[eJm]

I just bare with it. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just music, you know. Some people like some and some people don't

[Dan Apodaca]

I make fun of it, and make fun of the person playing it, and then get the fuck out of there.

Music is important to me, and I'm a snob about it.

[Hiromi]

If it's just a song, it's one thing, but I can't abide country music (with VERY rare exceptions!), it HAS to go!

I rather nakedly try to manipulate a change of music. I once worked with a team leader who insisted we listen to country music, which just kills me. I worked slower and slower every day for 2 weeks. Finally, we were behind and had to get the order out, and he couldn't figure out what was going on. He yelled at us to go faster, and I finally told him, "That crap you make us listen to is like kryptonite! If you want us to go faster, you need to change the station to something with a pulse!" He finally relented, and we got the order out well before the end of the day.

Heh, I work at a Western themed steakhouse,so we simply have no choice in the matter, but after two years it gets to the point where I litterally don't hear it unless I try to, sorta how factory workers tune out the background noise after a while.

[howyadoin]

In a live-music sceanrio, the best bet is to yell "you suck" repreatedly.

[Albert]

I have children.

I hear music I hate all the time.

I just do my best to live with it.

Yeah, I can sympathize with that. For me, its not what type of music it is... its when the same song is played again and again, to the order of 15 times in a row. That's when I start feeling like Alex in A Clockwork Orange, with the alligator clips prying open my eyelids.

[Jonathan Bogart]

Being slightly deaf is an advantage; usually when I'm out with friends and they start making fun of whatever music is on in the restaurant or bar or whatever, I have to ask what song it is so I can get in on the joke.

I have wide-ranging but specific tastes: there's little chance that any music being played publically will be my precise cup of. So usually I ignore whatever I'm not fond of and demonstrate slight enthusiasm for the stuff I like when it comes on. On the other hand, I don't have very many harsh antipathies, so it's really hard for me to get worked up about anything.

Recent anecdote: My friend and I were in a jazz club and after a nice boppy set the manager put on Kenny G. We figured it had to be a signal that the club was closing and that patrons needed to get the hell out. So we did.

[Alex]

Only time i'm ever really forced to listen to music is when im in someone elses car, and im a firm beleiver in the "My Car, my music" rule.
So i might make fun of it, but generaly, i'll remain mum.

[zombie]

My parents, brother, and roommates all have musical tastes different from mine, so after years of hearing stuff I wouldn't listen to if I really had a choice in the matter, my tolerance has become pretty good. I don't get all offended and filled with rage or anything.

[Spike-X]

Depends what kind of mood I'm in.

It's hard to tolerate crap music on the radio when I have a bunch of really good music with me, but all people want to hear is the same old crap over and over again.