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hate, I can't understand, but I can see why the utter soul-shattering awesomeness of some of their songs falls on deaf ears.

 

I sometimes have a hard time getting into new-ish music myself, because I formed such an emotional attachment to a handful of bands & composers when I was a teen, so if I were introduced to Muse today, rather than 7 years ago, I might not love them nearly as much. I dunno whether it works that way for other people or what.

 

If I like the way I feel when I hear a song, I like the song. Muse makes me feel myriad intense things and I obviously enjoy that. But I can hear very, very good music by other groups and not really like it much, simply because it doesn't "grab" me, emotionally.

 

I don't think this is narrow-minded. I'm quite similar, and actually I think it's a fairly open-minded view to be able to listen to something and say "This is very good even it doesn't grab me." Most people, if something doesn't grab them, will say it's rubbish ... that's narrow-minded. I tend to be very inclined toward a small selection of artists, not because I think they're the only artists worth listening to, but because they move me in a particular way. Music taste, to me and a lot of people, is a very gut-based matter ... I don't force myself to listen to things just because others tell me I should (although I do usually give artists and albums a chance, especially if they're important to my friends).

All that said, I also don't hold it against my friends for saying that Muse just doesn't "do it" for them. I have a problem if they make up a dumb reason for hating Muse. But I can understand it if they don't feel the same things I feel when I listen to it, and likewise I understand that they feel things I don't feel when they listen to their music.

I don't think that's shallow, and I don't think namey's post was either.

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I actually kinda agree with this. Though I tend to like new music, it takes a really long time to really embrace something completely new. It gets harder as I get older as well as my tastes get more solidified. At the same time I try to make the effort to keep an open mind.

 

That being said, I really don't understand people that *hate* Muse. I can rationalize dislike of them but I can't see hating them at all. I wonder if it's because I'm such a huge Muse fan. :erm:

 

I actually have a hard time understanding why people take the time to hate with a passion any band. I mean, honestly, if you don't like it, shut it off or change the channel. I don't care for Justin Beiber, but I wouldn't say I hate him ... it's not like he comes to my house and sings at 3 a.m. every morning. I could list off artists that annoy the hell out of me for half a page, but why would I waste my time doing that? I focus more on the stuff I like.

Although I guess in all fairness my friends probably hate Muse because I talk so enthusiastically about them quite often. I do try to rein it in, but they don't want to hear a word. Although I'm happy to listen to them talk about Spoon or Wilco, even though I'm not wild about those bands ... I kind of enjoy seeing my friends enjoy their music so much. Which is kind of what I thought friends did. Apparently not. Sorry, parenthetical rant over ... I'm really disillusioned with friendships lately and I'm not even sure why.:$

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I don't think this is narrow-minded. I'm quite similar, and actually I think it's a fairly open-minded view to be able to listen to something and say "This is very good even it doesn't grab me." Most people, if something doesn't grab them, will say it's rubbish ... that's narrow-minded. I tend to be very inclined toward a small selection of artists, not because I think they're the only artists worth listening to, but because they move me in a particular way. Music taste, to me and a lot of people, is a very gut-based matter ... I don't force myself to listen to things just because others tell me I should (although I do usually give artists and albums a chance, especially if they're important to my friends).

All that said, I also don't hold it against my friends for saying that Muse just doesn't "do it" for them. I have a problem if they make up a dumb reason for hating Muse. But I can understand it if they don't feel the same things I feel when I listen to it, and likewise I understand that they feel things I don't feel when they listen to their music.

I don't think that's shallow, and I don't think namey's post was either.

 

:happy: thanks, Triple C.

 

I guess, seeing as it's so emotion-based, I *could* see myself "hating" their music if their songs always made me feel something I couldn't stand. There's a song by James Blunt that makes me want to blow my brains out because it kept playing over and over on a particularly unpleasant day in this cafe where I used to work. That's as far as I'm willing to open my mind on this matter:LOL:

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I actually kinda agree with this. Though I tend to like new music, it takes a really long time to really embrace something completely new. It gets harder as I get older as well as my tastes get more solidified. At the same time I try to make the effort to keep an open mind.

 

That being said, I really don't understand people that *hate* Muse. I can rationalize dislike of them but I can't see hating them at all. I wonder if it's because I'm such a huge Muse fan. :erm:

 

:yesey: hate's a pretty extreme thing to feel for a group of musicians who haven't personally harmed one haha

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:happy: thanks, Triple C.

 

I guess, seeing as it's so emotion-based, I *could* see myself "hating" their music if their songs always made me feel something I couldn't stand. There's a song by James Blunt that makes me want to blow my brains out because it kept playing over and over on a particularly unpleasant day in this cafe where I used to work. That's as far as I'm willing to open my mind on this matter:LOL:

 

Is it "You're Beautiful"? Just curious ... I'm a James Blunt fan but I can see why a lot of people got to where that song made them want to jump through a 30th-story glass window, LOL.

There have actually been a few songs I couldn't listen to for a while because they reminded me of overwhelmingly sad events. Some of them have been songs I loved ... in fact one was Escape. Another was a Keane song I'm infatuated with. Over time I was able to listen to them again and actually now listen to both all the time. In fact, they've become songs that help me move on through depression, if that makes any sense.

Guess I'm digressing a little here ... :eek:

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Is it "You're Beautiful"? Just curious ... I'm a James Blunt fan but I can see why a lot of people got to where that song made them want to jump through a 30th-story glass window, LOL.

 

:LOL::LOL::LOL: it is!

 

I also have this aversion to Enya, because my mum used to play it when I was little to lull me to sleep but it just made me feel rather sad and lonely every night. I was too young to explain this properly to her and just exploded one day with "Mum, I don't like it. It's boring."

 

There have actually been a few songs I couldn't listen to for a while because they reminded me of overwhelmingly sad events. Some of them have been songs I loved ... in fact one was Escape. Another was a Keane song I'm infatuated with. Over time I was able to listen to them again and actually now listen to both all the time. In fact, they've become songs that help me move on through depression, if that makes any sense.

Guess I'm digressing a little here ... :eek:

 

 

my turn to digress:D

 

Yes to the painful associations with favourite songs thing! I also had to wait a while before I could enjoy them properly again. Sometimes I would listen to them even when they made me feel sad because...I dunno. Masochism? Or maybe just wanting to remember something more vividly, even if it didn't make me feel particularly happy. I guess it's just part of being an angsty teen, at least in my case.

 

EDIT: I think listening to songs that resonate with certain negative feelings can actually help heal said negativity. It's almost like listening to a sad or angry song is a way of *expressing* sadness or anger. But the songs that sound so sad to other people sometimes sound deliriously happy to me (Bliss is a good example). I dunno though, I'm not exactly a psychologist:$

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Yes to the painful associations with favourite songs thing! I also had to wait a while before I could enjoy them properly again. Sometimes I would listen to them even when they made me feel sad because...I dunno. Masochism? Or maybe just wanting to remember something more vividly, even if it didn't make me feel particularly happy. I guess it's just part of being an angsty teen, at least in my case.

 

I'm totally with you ... sometimes I listen to things I know will remind me of something sad just to sort of let myself wallow. I have never been able to shut out the things that trouble me, and I'm often better off to face them and even embrace whatever pains me. Escape kind of became that song for me ... I didn't listen to it at all for about a month, but then I listened to it obsessively, even though it made me cry. I guess it was nice to cry with something, even if it was just the stereo. Hyper Chondriac Music is the same way for me. Muse has something to suit whatever crisis I'm going through, actually.;)

Oh and in my case, it's part of being an angsty 28-year-old.:eek:

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There have actually been a few songs I couldn't listen to for a while because they reminded me of overwhelmingly sad events. Some of them have been songs I loved ... in fact one was Escape. Another was a Keane song I'm infatuated with. Over time I was able to listen to them again and actually now listen to both all the time. In fact, they've become songs that help me move on through depression, if that makes any sense.

Guess I'm digressing a little here ... :eek:

 

I actually found out my grandpa died while I was listening to Shine (acoustic). It's forever changed what the song means to me (even though it's an oddly appropriate song in retrospect) but somehow I find it very comforting... In fact, I'm attached to many Muse songs in the way that they help me let go of negative feelings in my life.

 

I guess I'm digressing, too. :p

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I'm totally with you ... sometimes I listen to things I know will remind me of something sad just to sort of let myself wallow. I have never been able to shut out the things that trouble me, and I'm often better off to face them and even embrace whatever pains me. Escape kind of became that song for me ... I didn't listen to it at all for about a month, but then I listened to it obsessively, even though it made me cry. I guess it was nice to cry with something, even if it was just the stereo. Hyper Chondriac Music is the same way for me. Muse has something to suit whatever crisis I'm going through, actually.;)

Oh and in my case, it's part of being an angsty 28-year-old.:eek:

 

don't worry, I'm not a teen anymore, either! I'm 22, I was just remembering my angsty teen ways:LOL:

 

"crying with something, even if it was just the stereo" +100 to this. Exactly.

I sometimes felt like Muse was expressing everything going on within me so perfectly that I didn't need to express it myself, really, whether it was sorrow or joy or lust or anger or despair or frustration or hope or whatever.

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I actually found out my grandpa died while I was listening to Shine (acoustic). It's forever changed what the song means to me (even though it's an oddly appropriate song in retrospect) but somehow I find it very comforting... In fact, I'm attached to many Muse songs in the way that they help me let go of negative feelings in my life.

 

I guess I'm digressing, too. :p

 

oh wow, that's a very intense thing to associate with a song. *hugs*

 

You and Triple C keep saying things that resonate so completely with why I love Muse so much in the first place:eek:

 

er...bringing it back to the point of the thread, I suppose:

 

the *weirdest* reason I've heard is that they "sound too much like Radiohead" :rolleyes:

I love Radiohead, but I wouldn't mistake one band for the other. They sound totally different to me. I guess some people hear amazing, genre-straddling rock talent and a high-pitched, ethereal male voice and figure it's all the same:LOL:

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One of the funniest/weirdest one I have heard so far is that this person said they hated them because they were "emo".

 

I kinda tried to open a discussion by asking them to define this word...

They never replied or even convinced me of their hatred.

 

I usually think that every arguments needs support in order to be confirmed, but this person really didn't support his...

 

:facepalm::LOL:

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"I don't like bands that aren't famous"

... But they're famous, they have a lot of fans all over the world. Check their facebook page, they have millions of fans!

"Then how come I don't know them?. As I said I don't like bands that aren't famous."

 

:stunned: A conversation with a friend after I introduced her to Muse. I don't get her, I don't know what to say after that. Not liking a band for not being famous? (or just unknown to you?)

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"I don't like bands that aren't famous"

... But they're famous, they have a lot of fans all over the world. Check their facebook page, they have millions of fans!

"Then how come I don't know them?. As I said I don't like bands that aren't famous."

 

:stunned: A conversation with a friend after I introduced her to Muse. I don't get her, I don't know what to say after that. Not liking a band for not being famous? (or just unknown to you?)

 

Oh, that's a strange reason...

Just because someone isn't "famous" to the eyes of others doesn't mean they aren't good.

There are many bands that aren't up to "society's popularity standards", but it doesn't mean that they aren't good...

 

To me, MUSE is famous, :)

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Several years ago, I got my friend to listen to Absolution and she loved it. Listened to it all the time. Then I gave her Showbiz and Origin of Symmetry, and she decided she hated Muse and refused to listen to them from then on because "the singer's voice is way too whiny."

 

Recently she was in the car with me and I was listening to The Resistance, and she asked what it was. I told her it was Muse and she goes "oh, he doesn't sound all whiny like he usually does in this one."

 

:confused:

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There could be any number of strange reasons for someone not to like Muse. The general sentiment among Americans tends to lean towards the image represented by the band as opposed to things like talent or creativity. Just look at how successful Lady Gaga is. :rolleyes:

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Matt's voice is very unique so I can see why it would be a turnoff... It took me awhile to get used to his voice in Showbiz, admittedly...

 

"I don't like bands that aren't famous"

... But they're famous, they have a lot of fans all over the world. Check their facebook page, they have millions of fans!

"Then how come I don't know them?. As I said I don't like bands that aren't famous."

 

:stunned: A conversation with a friend after I introduced her to Muse. I don't get her, I don't know what to say after that. Not liking a band for not being famous? (or just unknown to you?)

 

This one, on the other hand, makes no sense. :stunned:

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Oh, that's a strange reason...

Just because someone isn't "famous" to the eyes of others doesn't mean they aren't good.

There are many bands that aren't up to "society's popularity standards", but it doesn't mean that they aren't good...

 

To me, MUSE is famous, :)

 

We were chatting at FB at that time and I just really couldn't respond, I just kept on thinking what to say till she gets offline. It's just...

 

This one, on the other hand, makes no sense. :stunned:

 

Yeah, it doesn't really makes sense. It just doesn't completely makes sense. Most of the people I met in school are just weird... :stunned:

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Several years ago, I got my friend to listen to Absolution and she loved it. Listened to it all the time. Then I gave her Showbiz and Origin of Symmetry, and she decided she hated Muse and refused to listen to them from then on because "the singer's voice is way too whiny."

 

Recently she was in the car with me and I was listening to The Resistance, and she asked what it was. I told her it was Muse and she goes "oh, he doesn't sound all whiny like he usually does in this one."

 

:confused:

 

Actually, I can understand that. His voice was whinier in the early daydays of Showbiz and OoS, but since then it has become much more mature.

 

 

My mom said she didn't like the jams at the end of songs like New Born and Stockholm Syndrome and HAARP because they're too long, even though that's kind of the point of a jam is that it's usually long.

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We were chatting at FB at that time and I just really couldn't respond, I just kept on thinking what to say till she gets offline. It's just...

 

 

 

Yeah, it doesn't really makes sense. It just doesn't completely makes sense. Most of the people I met in school are just weird... :stunned:

 

 

 

Oh wow, that's really bad :(

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coming from a die-hard Britney Spears fan:

'i really dislike them, expecially when i listen to the studio albums. it bugs me when you hear the singer's breath....it's like it sounds SOOOO fake!'

like :stunned:

:facepalm:

 

LOOOOOOOOL

 

that's hilarious!!

 

U kno, some of these people, whilst funny, are actually quite frightening

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