Do you guys like listening to mainstream music?

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In other words, it's "dumbed-down" music?

I totally agree with you on that one.

And yes, sepia is right, the term "mainstream" can be relative, cos the example of chemical brothers , would be mainstream in my country too, or at least it used to be years ago.

Thanx all of you for answering my question, i get a better idea now.

I like some mainstream artists like Gwen Stephani, Pink, , Missy Elliot, Jewel, but I do not tend to like their hits unless it is a remix. I have my faves I've been listening to for years...like Stevie Nicks, Grace Jones, Tori Amos, Bjork(and Sugarcubes), Siouxsie and the Banshees...its the same story though my faves are not their hits. Most radio I listen to is NPR, BBC, etc. not Music stations because I can only listen to one good song in about five hours.

I like synthpop, but most of the synthpop I like tends to be rather underground stuff. I do like one song every now and then (eg. I liked the Ketchup Song, I admit it!!) but by and large I hate the stuff on the radio. Especially since it could be so much better with so little effort, since there is a lot of synthpop I like that isn't all that different from mainstream music.

But most of the music I listen to is usually horribly obscure and considered unlistenable by my family (though our tastes considerably overlap with my NT brother, but I'm meaning the rest of my family here).

They're playing a gig at a festival here in Norway this summer, but I haven't got the chance to see them.

you have some good choices there. bjork has her pop mixed albums but she will always be unique - it's in her character. she also does a lot of underground experimental stuff. i heard her duet with another icelandic national on radio 2 this year and she never fails to deliver and has pop kind of music sociability/sensibilties as well. i'd also have to add debbie harry, annie lennox and diamanda gallis to my diva hall of fame (tho the latter is probably not pop).

you say that your faves are not their hits... why do you think that might be? do the tunes reveal their sectets too quickily or is it to do with radio overplay and subsequent desensitisation?

Amen.

I like lots and lots and lots of things. Depends on my mood.

Yea. I agree with Sola

I'll "listen" to mainstream music, as long as it has a certain rhythm and such and I need to be able to daydream while listening to it...unless you're not allowed to daydream while "listening" to music...I'm not sure what exactly the criteria would be to constitute listening....
I guess the rhythm has to be like when I'm reading a poem or listening to one and I like it better if it's in iambic pentameter. But I don't mean that to say the words in the music have to be that. It's like a parallel comparison, if I can make up phrases like that.....

I guess the music has to have a certain "feel" to it? I have to be able to feel a certain way when I'm listening to music in one sitting...but I won't allow the music to make me feel a certain way...otherwise I'll change the song or the station or whatever.
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Anyways... Yes, i'll listen to mainstream as long as i'm in the "mood" (feeling) for the certain song that's playing..

My favorite music is classic rock, but I like almost anything. I love the pop music they play at dance clubs.

I like barely anything that's currently popular. Once, I told one of my housemates that I listen to a lot of metal, and he said "What, like Limp Bizkit?" I almost wanted to punch him. A majority of the music I listen to is esoteric in some form or another.

LOL. I thought Black Metal was the mainstream music in Norway?

And I guess stuff like Neurosis (Progressive Industrial Metal?) would be pretty popular in Germany? I don't know the band that well but I realy liked a track called 'Locust Star' that I heard ages ago

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I listen to all sorts of music from Romantic to Impressionist to Jazz, Rock and a whole load of other things in between. Whilst it isn't all in the top 40 right now, most of it has been mainstream at some point in history. I guess some of the stuff I like may be slightly obscure or esoteric but I think the majority of it is fairly common-ish. I do sometimes listen to a radio station that plays chart hits (mostly early 80's to late 90's stuff) and I guess that I like a lot of it. I suppose it means that my Paul Weller and Oasis albums look out of place next to my Swedish Death Metal records (mostly Opeth) but hey, that's diversity I guess.

I think the term mainstream could do with some defining though as there are so many people that conciously try and avoid anything popular that the stuff they listen to becomes popular in itself.

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No

Amen. The music I like is a lot of classic rock. I honestly don't have a clue what mainstream.

No, I find mainstream music to be quite boring and aesthetically hollow. --It has no real depth. Referance The Residents 'Tunes Of Two Cities' from the Mole Trilogy.

One side is quite contrived, and used to depict a culture of Cheery, Shallow and quite greedy people whilst the other side is meant to reflect the music of a culture which is much deeper, and more introspective.