https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/xdtcr/what_makes_bad_music_bad/
Unnecessary repetition like that, which exists only to fill the standard three minute requirement, makes a song bad. Along the same lines, songs which are structured only to fit into a prescribed formula are bad. Some songs can be formulaic and good, but that's because they exploit the formula.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-musical-self/202009/6-ways-music-can-be-damaging
The Harm. In this model, the authors identified seven possible types of harm: affective, behavioral, cognitive, identity, interpersonal, physical, and spiritual. Now, imagine you're experiencing

https://daily.jstor.org/good-times-with-bad-music/
In a paper presented in 1891 at the Proceedings of the Musical Association, teacher and composer Henry Charles Banister argues that enjoying music is a matter of taste: if it makes you happy, by all means, listen to it. That's taste. But judgment, he writes, is different. Music, like any other art form, has its standards, its "principles or

https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/fy9lg5/what_separates_good_music_from_bad_music_what/
It shows us why bad music is bad. Bad music isn't music whose language or values we misunderstand. Bad music is music that bettays its own values. Music that is dishonest with its message, misleading in its emotionality, cloying in its musicality, or in some other way sells itself for something other than it is.

https://www.du.edu/news/just-what-good-music-and-who-gets-decide
In "Good Music," John Sheinbaum explores the artistic core of a variety of works. With his new book, " Good Music: What It Is & Who Gets to Decide " (University of Chicago Press, 2019) Sheinbaum does some reflecting of his own. In the process, he challenges the idea that good music has to be "good for you" — in other words, that it

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/your-musical-self/202009/6-ways-music-can-be-damaging
The Harm. In this model, the authors identified seven possible types of harm: affective, behavioral, cognitive, identity, interpersonal, physical, and spiritual. Now, imagine you're experiencing

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-proves-pop-music-has-actually-gotten-worse-8173368/
Science confirms what you've always suspected: music these days is worse than it used to be. Your pop music is probably too loud. Image: matthijs. If there's one thing everyone can agree on

https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/2431/
Musical Badness (MB) quantified is this: the proportion of the time a length of music is devoted to repetitiveness. MB is thus a number between 0 and 1. Consider our three examples: the endless tone has a melodic MB of precisely 1 because the repetition is exact however long the "piece" lasts; the harmonic MB is also 1 and for the same

https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/courses/1011S/PHIL/PHIL-67-1011S/goodbadmusic
To think that music has a purpose and that any music that fails to reach that goal is "bad" and any music that succeeds is "good" (and that there are varying degrees of goodness and badness depending on how close or far it is from that goal). For instance, a chair that has no sitting surface is a bad chair. But what would such a telos be for music?

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203309049-5/bad-music-simon-frith
I decided not to for two reasons. First, what intrigues me is not music I don't like (and other people might) but music I do like (and other people don't).2 Day-to-day bad music is music that my family and friends beg me to take off or turn down, to stop playing because it is so ugly or dull or incompetent.3 Second, there is no point in

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/can-too-much-music-be-bad-for-your-mental-health/ar-AA1giJb2
Stinson told the Deseret News that music is powerful — capable of influencing your thoughts and feelings in any setting, whether it's in a crowded venue singing your favorite song with a bunch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/f6e9725f-ed1a-41a3-b4ec-77a0a59d5eab
Landau ended: "The result is, relative to a group's established level of performance, the worst album I have ever heard from a major rock band." So, an album that John intended to be bad, you

https://medium.com/@grindcoreguy/nobadmusic-8c3ccba9ad25
When music evokes an emotional response from the listener, whether intended or not, you can argue the piece has "done it's job" and is a "good" piece of art. Now, we can bicker about a

https://theconversation.com/is-there-such-a-thing-as-an-objectively-bad-song-98960
In the wider world of music, acoustic characteristics seem to have little impact on whether a piece classes as music at all, let alone whether or not it is successful. ... Bad songs are not those

https://bigthink.com/articles/why-your-opinion-about-music-can-be-wrong/
To that end, subjective preferences in music are real and they cannot be "right," "wrong," "good" or "bad". But someone can be wrong about what sounds the brain finds intrinsically

https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/5bummu/what_are_the_defining_characteristics_of_a_bad/
For me, laziness and a lack of creativity are the biggest red flags. If a song conforms to generic structure, is in 4/4 time, and generally comes across as "typical," to the point that I can predict what I'm about to hear the first time I listen to it, that's bad. I'd prefer a tried and failed attempt at something new over a relatively decent

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/can_music_really_be_bad_here_are_7_reasons_why_some_of_it_might-83424
Certain musicians can get blamed for making bad music if they're radically changing the standards everyone was so used to. This can even be said about whole genres. Some musicians just don't like

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-musical-self/201408/5-problems-music-can-create
5) Anxiety. Music is not a one-size-fits-all experience. Not everyone likes music. And very few people like every type of music. In fact, most people I have talked with have certain genres, songs

https://www.healthline.com/health/addicted-to-music
Music can help make challenging or unpleasant tasks more tolerable. You might turn up the radio in bad traffic , jam out to high-energy songs while housecleaning, or listen to soothing music when

https://www.embarkbh.com/blog/mental-health/negative-and-positive-effects-of-music/
The music you listen to can impact your mood. Not just for now, for an hour, or a day, but long-term. Music can make you more depressed or anxious, or it can help alleviate some of your depression or anxiety. It is your choice. You can be picky about what you put in your mind, just like you can be picky about what you put in your body.

https://medium.com/behavior-design/can-music-have-negative-effects-on-people-fa1a4d59144f
Listening to music that makes you feel worse can be quite dangerous. More so if you don't even realize that it's bad for you. And we do listen to a lot of music.

https://pudding.cool/2021/10/judge-my-music/
This is a satirical project and does not use real artificial intelligence, but a faux pretentious music-loving AI. The code creates a custom blend of jokes from our database paired with the insights found in the artist, album, genre, and track data from your Spotify or Apple Music. This project does not save any Spotify or Apple Music data.

https://time.com/6994061/will-smith-bet-awards-you-can-make-it-music-comeback/
"The harder you fall, the higher you soar," Smith rapped. "Just because I'm stuck on a bad chapter, it doesn't mean, in my life, I've got to throw away the whole book," Franklin added.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/28/business/cdk-massive-car-dealership-outage/index.html
CDK Global is still down heading into the brisk car-selling Fourth of July holiday next week. Auto dealerships use its software to manage everything from scheduling to records, and the mass outage

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/joe-bidens-disastrous-debate-blamed-bad-preparation-exhaustion-2024-06-30/
Biden's debate strategy was signed off on by campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon, who helped him win in 2020. Anita Dunn, a longtime Biden aide and former Barack Obama campaign strategist, backed

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/28/us/trump-biden-debate
And bad nights end. "To say they've been in foxholes together doesn't even begin to explain their bond," said Elizabeth Alexander, the first lady's communications director, who has been

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/01/politics/immunity-case-donald-trump-scotus/index.html
The biggest question now that the Supreme Court has decided Donald Trump is entitled to some immunity from prosecution: What happens next in special counsel Jack Smith's election interference

https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/1amgky6/how_to_understand_why_bad_music_is_bad/
But I have no idea what makes these things bad. I look for three things in a song. Good lyrics, good hook, good instrumental/beat. Other than that I don't know what exactly makes a song bad or not. Though I suspect my teenage years of liking nu metal have probably ruined my ears as well. Especially since even at the the age of 28 I haven't

https://variety.com/2024/music/reviews/james-blake-lil-yachty-bad-cameo-album-review-1236049988/#!
'Bad Cameo,' a collaboration between British avant artist James Blake and psychedelic rapper Lil Yachty, is an unlikely but surprisingly strong album.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2024/06/30/nascar-nashville-live-updates/74259329007/
While trying to make a move back toward the front Busch spun out on Turn 1 and slid into the wall. Later in the race Busch got bunched up with several drivers on turn 2, spun out and hit the