What's a song you could never stand hearing?

There's entire genres that I don't like such as country or Christmas music. Specific songs have to be Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney and I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston. Wonderful Christmastime I already don't like because it's a Christmas song and almost all of those feel preachy and disingenuous, but a friend described the song as Paul trying out every button and knob on a synth and I can't unheard that now. I Will Always Love You I just don't like. The instrumental is there, but that's all I can say about it since nothing seems to stand out and it just kinda sounds like background noise. And I understand that her vocal work is impressive, but that doesn't make it a good song. Honestly, the song feels like I'm being yelled at for 4 and a half minutes

whole genres. Like a ton of country/western and rap but especially m&m. that friday song but like 99% of people can't stand that.

Bittersweet Symphony. Not entirely sure why, but the repetitive strings grate me pretty quick.

Outside of that, any country song from the past 40 years. I can tolerate older folk-country stuff. But newer country? Absolutely not. I hate that I can’t open my mind to it, because there are very few genres that I avoid, but country is simply repulsive to me.

Any RHCP song

Just here to comment that there are so many songs listed in this thread that I like: Black Hole Sun, Rooster, No Rain, Wonderful Christmastime, Born to Run, Bohemian Rhapsody, etc.

None of these are my favorite songs or bands, but I like them.

Shiny happy people by R.E.M

(Black Hole Sun is a personal favorite though! lol)

Bohemian Rhapsody.

It's some goofball pastiche of bad musical ideas. People love it, and every few years it's "rediscovered" and I have to endure more.

Dopesmoker. As much as I love Sleep and Stoner Doom, that song just blows.

ANYTHING by Jimmy Buffet

Piano man. And most of billy joel

Blind melon's No Rain. Anything country. Braddah Iz's Somewhere Over The Rainbow...don't get me wrong, he's a great singer, and there's a lot of other songs he sings. I was still living in Hawaii at the time he passed away, and all the local stations played the shit out of that song for a month. Shit, EVERYONE was playing that song non-stop! So much to the point that it drives me crazy whenever I hear it.

Again, love Iz, can't stand that song.

Anything by Pink or Katy Perry or Vance Joy.

I believe that if there was a time anomaly and we lost all pop music from the early 2010's we would be better off as a species.

Such a dark time for music that was.

Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

It's just banal, saccharine, faux-folksy bullshit.

And my sister absolutely played it to death when it came out.

You're so Vain by Carly Simon - it played two or three times a shift when I worked for a thrift store in high school...for some reason, it's really the only song from those repetitive years I can't stand, as that job helped me discover works by the Carpenters and I always generally liked "Oldies" anyway, but....goddamn, that song just grates my gears

Fireflies by Owl City

Anything by Pitbull

Also, unpopular opinion, but I'm oddly adverse to anything by Ed Sheeran.

I made an offhanded comment about not liking Akon's part in Gewn Stafani's Sweet Escape to my friend. He then proceeds to play the song around me every chance he got for weeks and have Pavlov'd me into having a negative reaction to the song. I have also developed an uncanny (according to my SO) ability to recognise Gwen Stafani's voice even though I have never put on one of her songs on my own.

dont stop believing. makes my ears bleed

Born to Run

Mariah Carey's christmas fucking song and also Wham's, just shoot me. I love Black Hole Sun btw.

Superstition, Stevie Wonder. Ugh... He has other songs! In the context of the album, fine. As a track that plays on SO many playlists I just don't want to hear it again.

I can’t stand anything by Crosby Stills & Nash or by Cat Stevens. It all sounds like horrifically depressing heroin addict music to me.

My deceased father in law loved listening to them, and it drove me nuts.

Anything by Jimmy Buffett or Meatloaf or Joe Cocker.

Honestly, I tend to be pretty capable of tolerating songs I don't like. It's artists and a small range of genres that give me trouble.

About the only song I can think of that comes close was that first backstreet boys song. Can't remember the name, but it was the one that was all over the radio from their first album.

I liked other songs, but that one was such a generic pile of dreck that it came close to being intolerable from the beginning, and eventually got there. But even that, at first, it was just something I didn't like and disliked strongly, but I could sit through it if necessary. It took a week or two before it reached nails-on-chalkboard levels.

Now, genre wise, contemporary christian just grates on me. Even the songs that are otherwise almost listenable suffer from the bland composition and empty lyrics that make them annoying. Since I've also dealt with people in the industry around the genre, including performers, knowing that those lyrics are utter bullshit to the vast majority of the idiots singing them makes it a very unpleasant thing.

CC suffers from the same cookie cutter writing that Nashville country does, but lacks the redeeming qualities of at least being catchy if you don't pay attention to the lyrics.

Which, cookie cutter country isn't something I can handle a lot of at once. But I can tolerate it.

Then again, I listen to death and black metal regularly, so I know damn good and well that what one person can enjoy is abrasive to others, and vice versa. So I tend not to judge the listener by what they listen to.

Allstar by fucking smashmouth

Our House by Madness

It Takes Two by Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock

A lot of R&B feels painfully slow. Like nothing really is going wrong, but I'm almost immediately bored. I sometimes like other painfully slow things, but haven't found a good entry point for this genre.

I don't care what anyone says that song blows chunks. So boring. However I could/can never get why Nirvana are so popular. But I like Layne years Alice and 90's Pearl Jam so 50% of the Big 4 ain't bad.

Killing Me Softly With His Song