Reply #29: For me, it's certain types of really awful club music. [View All]

[drumwolf]

If there's any particular style of music that I absolutely loathe, it would be the cheesy Top-40 synthesizer dance music subgenres like freestyle, Hi-NRG or godawful pop trance (and yes, there is definitely such a thing as good trance). I'm not quite sure how to describe it -- it's not really "techno" and it's not disco in the classic sense of the word. Examples would be Aqua, Alice Deejay or Vengaboys.

It's popular among certain ethnic subcultures in urban areas (like Asians in San Francisco or Italians and Hispanics in Brooklyn/Boston/north Jersey), and it's also apparently popular in northern Europe among the Ibiza set. (For example, Aqua is Danish, while Alice Deejay and Vengaboys are Dutch.)

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I should point out that there is a lot of music I love that many people would pigeonhole as "dance music" or "techno." I'm pretty rabid about certain genres like drum'n'bass, psychedelic trance, classic techno like Sven Vath, and bands like Chemical Brothers, Kruder & Dorfmeister or Paul Oakenfold. Which is why I find it frustrating sometimes to talk about the kinds of dance music I like and dislike -- too many people tend to lump all of it into a single category.