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Originally Posted by spike021
I've had a lot of trouble with that over the last few years, so I decided to start branching out into other genres. It's really helped.
I used to not like rap/hip hop at all but somehow got introduced to some more.. "underground"? style stuff, like what I just posted, so occasionally I'll dive into similar stuff.
Did similar with some more EDM-ish stuff.
Used to always be a rock/alternative/emo rock type but these days music that has that genre tends to be way too pop-y for me so it leaves me just wanting.
At the very least it sort of helps me expand my interests and find things that are different to jazz things up a bit (pun unintended lol).
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I think that "underground" has really lost most of it's meaning in the last 20+ years. It is so easy for any independent to put stuff out on youtube, or social media and catch 10's of thousands of fans and followers, most of them not even active but just click that like or follow. I actually listen to a lot of rap/hip hop, most of it small independent stuff. While I find it cleaver and amusing, a lot of those guys come up as "battle rappers" and so their songs end up as endless punchlines and that gets old after a while. It fell off, but for a long time the trend was for them to show how fast they were which ended up with most of them just spouting nonsensical lines that just contained words that rhymed together with no other meaning. Because of that there are only a couple dozen that I have stuck with over the decades as stuff I regularly listen too.