The worst type of music is definitely "corporate ukulele music" that horrible repetitive ukulele music from commercials. Literally, makes me want to rip out my own hair.

“You’re not making Christianity any better. You’re only making rock and roll worse.”

"the opposite of love is not hate, but being indifferent. Because love and hate means that you care". What an eye opener.

for me it's the background music of every single spotify ad

next video: reharmonizing some Christian music.

What Shawn said reminded me of a quote by Neil Gaiman: "The opposite of 'funny' is not 'serious'. The opposite of 'funny' is 'not funny'."

The entire genre of "Ad Rock", created by U2 and perfected by Imagine Dragons. It should be constrained to car commercials only.

"I hate his music and my own music" Relatable

Modern folk music where they stomp, clap, whistle and shout "Hey!" Just kill me

“Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of loving something is being indifferent to it because loving or hating implies that you care about it in one direction or another” - Shawn Crowder Damn Shawn getting out here with the life lessons.

I am a minister. I listen to punk and metal, and been in a number of punk bands that were all spectacular failures (I wasn't always a minister). It weirds my church out that i like classic hymns and have a deep dislike for most praise music. They think because I like to listen to Slayer I would for some reason embrace the soft rock show that is called worship on most Sunday mornings. I don't make a fuss about it, but I can relate to your sentiment more than a youtube comment can convey.

There is a German lullaby called "Heidschi Bumbeitschi" where basically the mom died and the father then sings this song to his baby boy to get him to "Take a long sleep" where the child "dreams of angels" and yes, you guessed it, dies in the end. I cried and left the room whenever this was sung/played when i was young.

A wise man once said "I hate his and my own music"

I'm sure somebody said "I hate Ed Sheeran" and Adam cut it out

I agree with you on CCM, as a guitar teacher I have had dozens of students over the decades want to learn their fave CCM songs. I've listened, I've written chords, I've "tabbed", I've even not note-for-note transcriptions for small groups; your using the word "insipid" is exactly on-point and the one word I've never used to describe CCM! Even from another room, with two doors closed and virtually unintelligible lyrics, I can still pick it out! Kinda like the smell of a skunk...

"Our experience with art is deeply personal" I think this is also the reason why it can feel so incredibly hurtful when people crap on the music that you love. Like, my feelings get genuinely hurt when people are negative about the music I love, because so many of my own personal experiences are wrapped up in those songs. It feels like a rejection of me as a person

Commercial music. Ukulele music, especially with whistling and clapping of any kind. So...cute animal video music.

I wanna see the "I listened to Contemporary Christian Music for a week" reaction video

"I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" will always drive me to immediate anger. It is completely intolerable.

7:34 - "Loving and hating implies that you care about it in one direction or another."

When it comes to Christian music I prefer Gregorian chants

Paul Davids' "rendition" of Dutch carnival music is scarily accurate...

When I was in junior high and high school, I had an hour-long bus ride to and from school, and the bus driver on my route kept the bus' radio tuned to HI-99, "the Wabash Valley's Country Station!" HI-99 being a shamelessly commercial pop country radio station, it played the top few current chart hits over and over, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. This was in the early-to-mid 1990s, when "Boot Scootin' Boogie" and "Achy Breaky Heart" dominated the pop country charts for months at a stretch. I was forced to hear the same small set of $h!tty stupid songs multiple times per bus ride, twice a day, every school day for five years. I don't enjoy hearing even songs I love multiple times in a row, and I never enjoyed pop country at all. It was psychological torture. I'm still pissed off at my bus driver for putting me through that, and I'm 41 years old. I consequently loathe both of those songs, and other pop country songs of the era, with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.

I dont really hate any genre specifically, but the one thing that I have like a pure, visceral reaction to is any piano cover that also harmonizes the vocals along with it. Some of my favorite songs are ruined in covers where the right hand is doing "A-A-A-A-A-A A-A-A-B-A-A B-B-B-B A-A-A-A" Uugh I cant even.

I really hate "typical" film scores which we hear almost in every modern commercial movie trailer

When Shawn said “Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of loving something is being indifferent to it. Because loving and hating implies that you care about it.” That struck a chord with me. Good input.

For some reason my brain passionately hates all the stimuluses it's forced to absorb. And since the entire world forces me to listen to pop...

labeling everyone "sick" certainly hasn't aged well

"The glorious orgy of consumer capitalism that singlehandedly keeps the dream of music alive for millions"

It’s almost less of a feeling of hatred, and more one of betrayal.

Thank you for this video, your uncanny valley trigger (CCM) is something I can relate to in so many ways and knowing the why is very eye opening.

Your videos are insanely inspiring both musically and mentally

Through most of the video, I was trying to think of a genre that I have a real visceral hatred for, and couldn't think of any. Then he said contemporary Christian, and I went "ah, that's it." I'm the music director of my church, and what really sticks in my craw is not just that the music isn't good, or that it's popular, but because so many others in my position feel pressure to duplicate the sound in their own services, rather than exercising creativity and cultivating a sound unique to their congregation.

Seriously though, Imagine Dragons is just corporate music with lyrics.

your channel rocks bro! appreciate you! not trying to mindlessly agree with everything but I appreciate that you touch on questions and issues that have not been explored. These are definitely thoughts that got through my head and I am happy they are being explored

Today in ballet class I heard a piece that made me hysterically laugh and cry to the point where I had trouble breathing for the following 10min because the harmony was just so ugly

Controversial take, but 9/11 ruined country music. It all turned into patriot baiting which then evolved into modern bro-country. It turned from "I drive my tractor and stick it to the man" to "I drive my road-only lifted pickup and obey everything the man tells me"

Any top 40 pop song where they sing "WoOOooAaah oh oh oh" In the chorus

3:28 Oh Paul, I'm totally with ya. As a fellow Dutchman, the two types of music that I absolutely can't stand are; 1 Dutch carnival music. Whenever I hear it, it creates this fear of being a child in the midst of drunk adults in "de tent" in the Brabant village I grew up in. The songs have this very minor, fast, scary kind of horror feel to them that absolutely terrified me as a kid. Ok, it's just "s*x met die kale" which gave me PTSD, the rest I can still kinda handle depending on how "go and be drunk" the lyrics and song are. Still, if you put up "shirt uit en zwaaien" around me, any song by Snollebollekes, or overal any song that forces me into a "polonaise" (and even if the song doesn't but the people do), I'll turn into a fetal position and cry on a floor (that I'm afraid is gonna be) sticky of beer. (For some reason, I'm fine with "Welkom in de feesttent" which is exactly about that experience but doesn't fall into this "scary carnival genre" for some reason....) 2 Dutch rap music, but only when my sister puts it up. So I grew up white, very white. I have carnival-ptsd from when I was a child, shows I grew up in the southern Dutch countryside like I good ignorant white boy. Yeah, and then my sister and her friends decide to all go and listen to boys from bad Amsterdam neighbourhoods singing on how they became rich. Look, I have nothing against the boys, but having to listen to that while my sister sings along to it, it gives me shivers. It just doesn't feel correct. It doesn't feel like a white girl from the Dutch countryside should listen to a Dutch-Moroccan guy sing on how he had to deal drugs to feed his mother when he was younger. Something just doesn't feel right there. But I still don't know what.

Woah, when I saw this video the first thought I had was "Mine is sweet child o mine" and then the first interview you do mentioned that song!

So the music we all hate is the soulless version of the music we love. Just goes to show how important context and the spirit of the music we listen to is. Interesting to think how our tastes are so dependent on such arbitrary variables

When you're only known for being a yellow jacket enthusiast.

This was so long ago, yet so relevant. I sit up on the platform at church week after week and trudge through the music that you described. It frustrates about 30% of the worshippers, mostly because it came in with a rush for it to take over and completely uproot and discard all the other flavors of worship song.

Great idea to explore this. There's no easy answer to be had, but we all feel strongly about it. It's a mystery.

When I was in school, I remember the song 'fireflies' being released. I don't remember hearing it on the radio, or on KZfaq, I would catch snippets of it here and there I'm sure, but by far my biggest exposure to it was from friends who absolutely HATED it. They loved hating it in that theatric and exaggerated way that teenagers love to hate on specific pop songs. And I joined in on hating it, it didn't matter that I had never heard the whole thing, I had heard enough to know it was awful. Some years later I realized that I had never actually heard the song all the way through. I had never attempted to listen to it from a nuetral position. And so I found it on KZfaq, put my headphones on, and gave it the chance that any piece of music deserves to have. I was determined to overcome this bias instilled in me by my old peers. I rediscovered the song 'fireflies' that day. And more importantly, I discovered that I really fucking hate the song fireflies. I still have not heard it in its entirety.

Also the fake almost british accent with their mouth small af thing girls do when they play ukelele

My most visceral reactions towards music are usually moral gripes with the message of a song or genre. I know now that a lot of the musical quality arguments I made in the past about music (many of which I no longer subscribe to) stemmed from this type of objection. It also has weird properties. I tend to give a moral pass to music that I'm used to. Music I heard when I was young, or that I associate with a positive role model who I saw listen to a song, etc, which has lyrics I'm still not comfortable with, I might still listen to because I want the musical quality of it, yet I won't justify similar things in music which is more foreign to me.

As a praise and worship leader who can't stand CCM, I immediately subscribed when you said you couldn't stand it either despite this being the 10th or so video of yours I've watched. You should listen to some Lincoln Brewster.

to summarise: People hate music they find disingenuous in intent and/or execution. It seems to me that disingenuous art is way worse than tasteless or stupid art. The melody, rhythm and harmony of disingenuous music still touches us in some way that we resent, and the worst part is that the creator is succeeding in manipulating us. Edit: maybe there is a cognitive dissonance happening because the musical language is inspiring emotions which we cannot justify.

Everyone at NAMM talking about gear, Adam talking about Uncanny Valley effect. I like that

I hate KZfaq guitar reviewer/guitar convention music. Example: “today I’m going to review this Shoegaze Reverb 3000” *plays seven minutes of blues rock soloing

This new trend of remaking old pop songs as this huge epic event, like the stuff they play for circus acts on America’s Got Talent

Freud called this the “narcissism of small differences” - communities with very similar or overlapping interests not being able to stand one another.

That insufferably saccharine music that they add to viral or 'cute' videos. Makes my toes curl like a dead spider.

I thought I hated K pop until I actually listened to quite a lot of it (via my wife who suddenly introduced the real thing into my life instead of whatever idea I had of K pop in my head before). Now I really enjoy K pop and next to black metal and death metal, I'd say it is what I listen to most often.

i only just got reccomended this today and it is making me feel really stressed seeing you wander around a public place with all these bare faces and knowing that in a month covid is going to be run through everything

Your comments on modern Christian music remind me of an old Hank Hill: "Dang it, Bobby. Don't you know you can't make God better? You're just making rock worse." I actually played in what the Catholic church called "Life Teen" masses and completely agree with your assessment. The saving grace for me, to borrow a phrase, was the musicians I played it with. A lot of the problem is just the sterile production, imo.

That input at 7:22 sums it up...great thinking. All of the people you interviewed had a point in common: we hate things that we feel that could be so much more yet they aren't. And, as artists, we hate to see music that "doesn't deserve it" being at the top of the charts. Which is a fair, but interesting, point. Adam hates contemporary Christian music yet he grew up listening to Christian music. Rhett hates "bro-country" yet he grew up listening to country and plays it all the time. Paul hates dutch carnival music yet he grew up with it. All these 3 examples have the same motivation behind them: you hate music that should connect with you but doesn't; you feel like it's an abomination of what it should be - but deep inside you wish it wasn't so that you could enjoy it. Great video Adam, thank you. Very insightful and gives me a lot to think about.

Also I didn't know I needed this channel. So satisfying. I love music. I always thought the ideal job would be around engineering but I was never in that world at all and am not a musician so...

I got hire once to show up at a particular address at 6;15 p.m. rehearse until 6:45, play from 7 to 8. Go home. It was Benny Hinn's church and at 8 he decided to go off on a theological tangent we played non-stop until 12:30 a.m. It was the most boring night of my musical life. On the other hand I got to watch this "faith healer" up close for hours.

Seems like people just hate music that sounds fake or phony.

"Hate is just love with its back turned" - Terry Pratchett

This is a deep topic. I love your sociological approach to music science. Keep these kinds of videos coming dude. :)

one time my mom put on some pianist playing a different song with each hand simultaneously and it was so bad I actually screamed

"You're not making Christianity better. You're just making rock 'n' roll worse." - Hank Hill Good luck with that, brother. Or should I say: go with God.

“Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of loving something is being indifferent to it.” Shawn Crowder, Philosopher

That love/hate observation at 7:28 has some heavy metaphysical implications. Love it.

The corollary to Shawn's advice that what you hate is often close to what you love is that, sometimes, what you love is close to what you hate. In 1994, Whigfield became the first artist ever to get to number 1 in the UK chart with a debut single. The single in question, 'Saturday Night', is what I hate. I hated it then, and I hate it now. Funnily enough, I recently (for some reason) looked Whigfield up on Wikipedia and discovered she's still making music, and then (for some reason) I listened to her more recent stuff... and I really liked it! She hasn't charted since 1996, but I listened particularly to her 2012 album and just really enjoyed it. From an artist I've spent a quarter century thinking I hated!

“Bro Country.” It really is the worst.

100% there with you with CCM. Christian Rock feels so shallow, coming from someone who had to grow up in a Christian household

I miss this so much

Good one... so you really putting yourself outthere now! Incidentally, I have the same 'uncanny valley' reaction to the same type of music that you speak of.. Good luck! WORSHIP ON!

One time, a friend of mine was like "I don't get why people hate Ed Sheeran, he just makes fun pop music" And I hadn't really listened to Ed Sheeran, so I thought, hey, I enjoy fun pop music and liking things that people hate, so let's Google up some of his tunes And I swear to God, two bars of anything that man has ever made makes me feel like Satan is puking on my soul. It provokes the most gutwrenchingly visceral sense of absolute loathing that I have ever experienced, and I have _no idea_ why. It just feels like I'm being targeted by some kind of experimental sonic weapon that bypasses any concerns for taste or quality and just deals psychic damage directly.

This reminds me of Emo Philips' infamous joke... -- Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!" Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

There are songs that were played a lot when I was in elementary school, you couldn’t get away from them. You just had to sit there and scream internally. I don’t actually think the songs were necessary that bad, most of it was probably whatever the teachers thought was cool and popular. Every now and then I hear those songs that feel so ingrained into me and they just make me want to bang my head against the wall. I do think that because I associate those songs with elementary school, which brings back terrible memories on its own, I associate those bad memories with the music. I have thought about trying to listen to those songs in a different context to see if over time my associations with those songs change, kind of like what was being discussed at the end of the video.

Absolutely love Shawn's quote about love and hate.

Dude, I’m Christian, ever since opening myself to other generes and intricacies that come in making Jazz and other new gamers you’ve helped introduce; has helped me realize how stale contemporary Christian music can be.

1. Gungor - Sufjan Stevens of CCM 2. The Oh Hellos - CCM but it’s a fantasy novel 3. John Mark McMillan - wrote the biggest CCM hit ever (How He Loves) and then stepped away to make lots of ambient rock CCM 4. Audrey Assad - beautiful piano CCM (edit for clarity: these ^ are CCM recs, not hates) I play at church once a week. Some CCM is my favorite music ever. Some CCM is my least favorite ever. The love/hate advice is so true.

Yes, I resonated with the idea that love and hate is not indifference. I am indifferent to a lot of music, but not at a genre level. I’m more into what I hear, specifically before I know anything about the performer. White Stripes, David Bowie, Sound Garden, Ella Fitzgerald... no genre, per se. Great video on ‘Girl from Ipanema’. Love that song too-definitely better with the blues line mixed in. Learning from you...

Been a while since I listened to that genre regularly, ccm but I do remember Jars of Clay, a band I liked because in my teenaged opinion they didn’t feel or sound hollow. Today I’d listen to Lecrae probably. I like the bass 🖤

I hate the song “Christmas Shoes” with a burning passion

Actually, that guy has a good point, it’s so disappointing when a song builds to the chorus just to then just squander it. It’s such a let down :(

I can’t think about a genre I hate, but I HATE when I hear that people play for there one good and not for the sake of the music. Especially drummers (I’m a drummer myself). Idk if it makes sense, it’s a bit hard to explain, but when you don’t play for the music, but just use it as a opportunity to shine

Adam, I agree with your take on this. I too dislike this music, but I'm often mixing it as a live sound engineer. I couldn't stand listening to it in my garage, for example. But in the right setting its just what it needs to be, and I can live with that. I might not like over-produced pop-hip-hop these days, but in a bar or club scene it makes sense. I could never listen to that junk on my own time, however. Music often has a purpose, and when taken out of the purpose's context, that's when it might suck the most.

Paul Davids just pulled off the greatest impression of Dutch carnival music I have ever seen

I am convinced that any “Imagine Dragons Fan” is a sleeper agent.

That was one of your best videos I've seen, thank you. (yes, I am Canadian)

With you on the ccm...It has been hard to find a church over the years that does not use music I detest...

The music I can’t stand and makes me want to punch something is the cheap ukulele music from like diy and craft videos or like those “yummy” cooking videos on Instagram it’s just sounds so algorithmic like you chose a key and a computer just spit out a 30 second clip of music that theoretically sounds good together but in reality just ends up sounding so lifeless and gross and empty

I'm a Christian who played in a worship band a few years ago and I completely agree with your hatred for CCM, especially Bethel music and Hillsong. They are not just melodically and lyrically shallow but theologically shallow.

I just stumbled upon your channel. It's so interesting! thank you.

this actually made me notice something abt me cuz like i actually LOVE catchy upbeat songs maybe with "dark" or "vague" lyrics but not when its done by a big celebrity cuz with celebrities it feels like theyre stripping this type of music down to make it more "marketable" or "palatable" and in trying to appeal to everyone, they appeal to no one, because they lack any sort of substance (to me)

Adam: Does a video on "Music you hate" Also Adam: Trolls the viewers by wearing an Antares Autotune lanyard for the duration of the video

No one: Adam Neely in the thumbnail: 👺

At 2:16, is that Rotem Sivan walking behind Adam?

4:15 this guy NAILED it!!!

“Our God is an awesome God He reigns from heaven above With wisdom, power and love Our God is an awesome God” x Repeat ad nauseum

Who else was waiting for the Vsauce music when he said “uncanny valley.”

2:22 cougher made my day

For awhile I didn’t like hip hop, and I though it was just kinda a fad, but then my brother got into hip hop and literally everyone around me and I learned to like it, or at least tolerate most of it. There is some of it I truly like tho.