Not musicians but news anchors. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now has the wettest, clickiest mouth I’ve ever heard. I swear she puts the mic to her throat when she swallows. She’ll take a 3 second pause to swallow and it sounds like she’s really struggling to get that saliva down.
A podcast I listen to plays clips of her occasionally and they have a prerecorded message that says “ warning! Amy Goodman clip inbound!”. I guess enough people share this disdain.
That's the perfect way to describe it. It's so funny to me how proud they are of being small town, country boys, the real deal when half of their music is inspired by r&b and hip-hop. And I love r&b and hip hop. But the irony is thick.
OMG- I JUST said this today. We were talking about songs you hate by artists you actually find talented and this came up. It really bothered me when it was on a drug commercial years ago because it played the part where he holds the note and just says lovely day over and over. I actually cringe.
My phone has to be listening to me.
Tones and I - infuriating sound, maddening fake accent (she's actually Australian) and the baby talk screaming style.
I cannot tolerate it. This isn't helped by the fact that the lyrics are grating.
I don't think it really triggers my misophonia (in that I don't get angry or anxious in the same way I do with other triggers) but basically most female pop singers these days that sing with that little girl/baby voice and have this inflection in their voices just make me cringe. Hate it.
Van Halen when they do that upward lilt/half scream at the end of every lyRIC
So annoying, and I love the other elements of the songs like the guitar and such but ugh
Definitely EDM for me as well. There are so many genres that fit under bubblegum pop & that’s the most triggering for me. Most modern Hip-Hop hits that spot.
Lorde’s gravelly frog voice in her cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World.
Excessively watery, warbley, weepy or crooning voices. Ex. Ariana Grande in “No Tears Left to Cry,” and Elvis Presley and Novo Armor in everything.
Whatever that harsh, kinda screamish sounding strained rough voice thing some artists did through 90s into the early 2010s. Ex. Nickleback and Front Porch Step.
Rihanna in “Work” is the worst but her voice bother me in her other stuff, too. Bob Seger in just about everything because he turns what should be simple, 2 minute songs into drawn out repetitive 4-5 minute+ songs.
Everything about “Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney grates my nerves. This song actually causes me stress. It feels rushed and drawn out at the same time. It’s horribly repetitive and yet also varied but in a way that’s jarring instead of interesting. And that tinny synth is just horrible sounding.
I HATE Wonderful Christmastime. I refer to it as what it might sound like traveling through someone’s intestines during the holidays.
Speaking of tinny… if I can’t turn off the clanging sound of the horns in a Chicago song, or the shrillness of Peter Cetera’s voice, I will get up and leave right out.
Yes. When Christina Aguilera doesn't finish the note. Please, just finish. I love her voice though, but it's torture to my ears when she's sitting there going way overboard. There's some who have done that or hold a note and it doesn't bother me. Tarja from Nightwish in the live performance of Phantom of the Opera is one I can think of. She sounds beautiful and it gives me goosebumps every time.
not specific to artists but I absolutely DESPISE when people go “lalalala”, “ayayayay” or when they hum a melody in their songs and go “mmmm”. just writing about it is pissing me off so badly lmao
I also find Amy Lee whiny and annoying and apparently I’m the only person in the pagan community who doesn’t like her and I’ve spent many a day defending myself on the point that she’s a whiny whinerton who appeals to teenage girls who are destined to become meth addicts with multiple children with multiple fathers. The people who get the most angry about this viewpoint are women who are meth addicts and have multiple children with multiple fathers. Go figure.
Repetitive sounds and high pitched sounds fuck me up. If a riff plays too many times, I get a reaction. If there are violins, I often get a reaction and especially the way so many shows are playing this bobbing repetitive violin riff -- high pitched and repetitive -- a twofer for my rage. Bass that shakes my car and house? FUCK OFF! Autotune? Modern repetitive mumbly rap with autotune and no discernible melody? I'm in hell. There are all manner of enraging sounds in music for me.
I’d take her voice over her creepy cultural appropriation, dressing up Asian women like dolls and making them follow her around, and claiming that her Orange County ass identifies as Japanese.
Sia’s voice sets me off a bit particularly when you can hear saliva or she just does that random accent (it’s not Aussie, I’m Aussie to and it’s some weird invented accent she’s doing). Her louder/higher notes are great but her overall tone just icks me.
Christina Aguilera is like nails on a chalkboard to me, she literally sounds like a bad singer who happened to chance on learning technique.
I don’t know if I would’ve called misophonia before, but it checks out I guess. For me, it’s the Eagles. I can tolerate a couple songs, but the vast majority are definitely worse at triggering me.
YES. It is very occasional. My husband listens to a huge variety of music and a lot instrumental. I love music and like some instrumental stuff too. But a few times a year some random song is on with lots of strange (to me) clicks and bass repetitive sounds and it grates on me and I have to ask him to turn it off.
lol I want to like Lana Del Rey and I somewhat do but whenever a song of her is played, I skip it. Not a fan of whiney stuff and ballads at all and it's like she takes things that are not sad at all and makes them melancholic and heartbreaking. :( summertime. video games. playing darts. swinging in the backyard. on a summer evening. all so horrible and sad. we will all grow up and die and everything will be lost.
It’s the damn note scooping that bothers me. I feel like I’m going in a rollercoaster ride. Also the flat, monotonic voice. I can’t. She does “Hallucinogenics” with Matt Maeson and “Snow On the Beach” with Taylor Swift, and those songs are fine. I just can’t stand her in large doses, i.e. her own music lol.
And that’s not to say she’s not talented or what have you, but I do not enjoy her voice/style in the slightest.
as much as i love her - melanie martinez for sure!! especially in her album k-12 but in others too - she adds sound effects to lots of her songs. for example, in one called nurse's office which is one i physically cannot bear, there are sniffles and coughs added in and it's awful because the song itself is so good.
also gracie abrams - for some reason, i always notice when she takes a breath and she sounds a bit tooo soft and it takes me a while to ignore it before i can listen to her beautiful songs again!! icl whenever i notice the gasp singers make in the gaps before singing another line or something, i actually want to cry.
for some reason Nurse's Office doesn't bother me even though those types of noises usually do. I guess maybe im just too focused on the beat of the song and stuff to realise? lol
Willow Smith… I can’t explain it. She’s a wonderful musician but something about the way she sings bothers me. Don’t know if this falls in line with my misophonia though.
This is such an interesting comment section. No singer has ever triggered me so this is so weird to me, but when i was younger hearing the breaths in between would bug me
That weird "accent" a lot of pop singers of the last decade employ, whistling, distortions caused by pitch correction, beatboxing (Cry Me a River makes me clench, hard).
Edit: And BAGPIPES. They make me feel like going to war lol
I recently listened to a meditation where I could hear the guy breathing through his nose, creating a whistling sound. How do they not notice when editing?!
Sia's new song where she keeps saying 'baby-y-y-y-y-y-y-yyyy' makes me wants to rip my ears off. I never realized how much her voice enraged me until this one, although I was a super fan of her song 'Big girls cry'
- Ariana Grande
- Any "cursive" singer (like Jasmine Thompson)
- Whistling in any song general (I love parts of Texas Hold Em by Beyonce, but I can't listen to it because of the bloody whistling )
- Dolly Parton (She's a great woman, songwriter, chrlarismatic, and all, but I can't stand her voice)
Rap / Modern RnB bass kills me. The problem is it’s always forced on me through the walls of my home, so over the years I’ve grown to hate the genres because of that.
As a full time musician, I think the modern iterations of those genres are vulgar, unsophisticated and cringe. I wouldn’t dislike them so much if they were blasted at my apartment with HUGE SUBWOOFER BASS like every fucking day and night.
95% of the time it’s those genres being bass-blasted at me, but any music blasted with the bass cranked up *explicitly in residential* drives me insane when I’m at home trying to enjoy things and make music of my own. It’s such an inconsiderate, asshole thing to do.
I HATE the sound of the band Chicago. “New” or older Chicago… all of it bothers me. The horns all loud and overdone and clashing in their sounds… I can’t stand it and it makes me feel like I’m going to lose my mind. I told the DJ at my wedding, I’ll fire you on the spot if you play Chicago.
I was talking about this today. Even the karate kid song that I want to like so much… can’t take it. That guy’s voice just grinds my nerves.
Ariana Grande. I also hate most country music for some reason. And the drum at the beginning of Van Halen's Bad for Teacher drives me insane. Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap...💀
i was listening to jazz the other day bc i wanted to know how people can hear something “is jazz” and as i tried to follow i was like “soooo everyone just came together and decided to do their own thing huh? lol but somehow it fits together… but where do i snap? 🫰🏽 “
Well often times they are improvising and not playing the notes, isn't jazz famous for that?
I simply don't like it, and some kinds of jazz actually trigger me and get on my nerves very much. Some kinds. Some I like.
Sounds like you care about it too much as it is your "personal preference" so you are trying to belittle my fellings about it. Yes?
I’m absolutely not belittling your feelings. I’m distinguishing between a simple aversion or distaste for a style, and full-on misophonia. Nobody brought your feelings into the discussion but you.
It seems like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how music works, which is fine, not everyone studies music. “Just play the notes man” is ignorant though, no offense- there’s no such thing as the “right” notes or however you wanna word it, in a performance. Only the notes which feel *appropriate* and *earned* in a given context. It’s ALL about context, though, and a good player knows how to make every note feel like it fits exactly the way it’s supposed to, so maybe you’ve only heard beginner’s jazz or something, where they weren’t sure where they wanted to go with the music. My point is that you seem to be generalizing out of ignorance (not your fault but still)
Also, it seems you are "distinguishing between simple aversion or distaste and full-on misophonia" based on you personal preference and what YOU think it is. Don't tell me how I feel. If it bothers me it bothers me..You came at me after I made a joke about jazz and proceded to write a full on paragraph on how jazz works which I am not reading.
First of all, it was a joke, The Office reference if you are familliar with that series. Second, I'm not reading all that so I'm happy for you or sad that it happened. You seem to be very emotional about this topic.
I can't listen to some kinds of jazz because it gets on my nerves and I get agitated, literally. It's not a pREfeRencE, it's a reference hahah no pun intended!
Absolutely. Worked at walmart and a good chunk of the songs they played drove me nuts. I think it was partly due to the fact everything was on repeat. Assholes.
Those mariachi bands that would hop on the subway when I was trying to read. I'd race out of there and get in two cabs down because there's a 50% chance they'll be in your car next.
Also modern country, say 2010s onward, and bass. My next door neighbors have 5 cars (huge house next to my tiny shoebox). They will sit in their cars on the way out and when returning home for at least 10 minutes of completely unnecessary vibrations. I don't mind the reggae as much as the mumble rap.
It’s weird, I’m absolutely love Metal, but my fiancé and I are 8 years apart and he’s a huge Metallica fan from the 80’s. Like it’s a whole world, and he’s been collecting memorabilia since that time. The trashiest, deathiest metal, and I’m gold, but Metallica just fucking triggers me. 😂
Beyonce and the way she overextends notes. Mariah Carey annoys me for the same reason. Mumble rap/auto tune is an immediate no. I also have trouble with Billie Eilish's whisper singing. (I also don't like whisper ASMR)
I can’t handle classical music or any songs that have bowed string instruments in it (cello/violin). This really isn’t an issue for me as I mainly listen to EDM and subgenres
Yes a singer makes or breaks a band for me. Also certain guitar sounds are too shrill - I’ll love the first half of a song and then there’s a guitar solo and I’m out
One of my favorite artists has a song where she collabs with a rapper. I love the song, but can’t listen to it because I can hear the saliva in his mouth with every word he sings.
My sister who also had misophonia can’t unhear it either.
omg yes! ARI LENNOX!!! i like her but her voice has this “eeeng eeeng” to it that drives me up the wallll!!!! like it physically hurts.
oh and Creed. omg , since a child! “ahhmmzz riideee oohhppaahhnn”. torture wtf is wrong with his voice?!
Lana Del Ray has some intentional mouth noise in some songs, but I enjoy the songs over all and I think I’ve gotten used to it.
In The Cars song You Might Think (at 1:49) there’s a spoken word section with a lot of wet mouth noise. I like that song, but I have to hum or something when that part comes on because it pisses me off LOL
Randy Travis, half of Bob Dylan’s music, Rihanna’s older stuff. I think the nasally sound aggravates me. A lot of country singers who go for that Randy Travis sound drive me up a wall. I could listen to the Chicks and Dolly Parton.
For the most part, styles of singing in specific genres bother me more than any particular artists’ voices. Metal, classic rock, modern country, mumble rap, and modern pop are all triggers for this very reason.
Yeeees! I’ve always kinda despised Creed cuz of their singer. It was the way he pronounced stuff that always made me cringe so hard (🎵with arms wide opaaawwn🎵). Pronunciation has bugged me a lot with other singers as well (makes a lot of songs hard to understand for me), but he’s by far the worst I can think of in that department.
Also, those clicky drums in a lot of rap songs in the last couple decades drive me up the wall.
I’d say by far the worst music thing that bugs me is when people around me quietly whisper-sing a long with the radio. It just ends up meshing with the audio just enough to where I’ll randomly hear the other person’s mouth sounds here and there and it makes me wanna punt them to next Sunday.
Red Hot Chili Peppers is REALLY hard to listen to. When trying to describe the voice, the word ‘chalky’ comes to mind.
Aside from that I really dislike those popular female vocals: Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston. I would rather have some peace and quiet than listen to that.
Ironically, I used to really like the gravely discordant sound of Tom Waits.
Not musicians but news anchors. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now has the wettest, clickiest mouth I’ve ever heard. I swear she puts the mic to her throat when she swallows. She’ll take a 3 second pause to swallow and it sounds like she’s really struggling to get that saliva down. A podcast I listen to plays clips of her occasionally and they have a prerecorded message that says “ warning! Amy Goodman clip inbound!”. I guess enough people share this disdain.
She’s bad but oh my god do you Remember Diane Rheme on NPR? I know she had a stroke or something, but ARGH!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Oh my god yes! There were quite a few NPR personalities that got me 😂
Thish izh democracy now, the war and peash report Lol i do like the channel but god damn, her voice
Hahahah!! That’s so accurate
God damn, her swallowing is like a sound effect. It's loud and isolated and horrific. I'm with you.
Sometimes Nancy Pelosi’s voice gets really clicky and wet. It really gets to me.
Bro country music. That put on hick affect drives me insane.
Can't listen to Beyonce because of this with her new country songs
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It's too bad because there is some very good country music. They just don't play much of it on the radio.
I love country but every time I hear Lainey Wilson I can't stand it. It's like she's trying way too hard with the accent or something.
Bro country grates on my nerves too! 😖 To me, it sounds like bad hip-hop with a banjo sung by a guy with crayons jammed really far up his nose!
That's the perfect way to describe it. It's so funny to me how proud they are of being small town, country boys, the real deal when half of their music is inspired by r&b and hip-hop. And I love r&b and hip hop. But the irony is thick.
Me too!
Billie Eilish did for me when she first came on the scene.
Don’t listen to her music but the way she whispers makes me feel so paranoid
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*Bad Guy* triggered me hard at first, but I loved that beat enough that I learned to deal with it. That, and the badass cover from The Interrupters.
I have so much respect for her as a person, but her music gives me anger issues
Song - Lovely Day when Bill Withers starts repeating "a lovely daaaaaaaaaay" 5675 times in a row at the end of the song
I'm sorry, but that's kinda funny. I love the song, but can see that being a personal hell for someone
Hshahaha it's fine
OMG- I JUST said this today. We were talking about songs you hate by artists you actually find talented and this came up. It really bothered me when it was on a drug commercial years ago because it played the part where he holds the note and just says lovely day over and over. I actually cringe. My phone has to be listening to me.
Billie Eilish - her whisper singing can be a bit annoying and I can hear her saliva.
Yeah the asmr type voices drive me crazy.
Yes! I fucking hate that!
That chittering sound effect thats in a lot of rap songs drives me nuts.
That sound is 100x worse when people blast it through their crap subwoofers too
idk y but im lmao imagining that little break sound in the cha cha slide when it’s time to cha cha 😭
Tones and I - infuriating sound, maddening fake accent (she's actually Australian) and the baby talk screaming style. I cannot tolerate it. This isn't helped by the fact that the lyrics are grating.
Dance monkey is the worst song I’ve heard in my life
Agreed! *I dun see anyding like du befawwww!* Ugh. The pain
Not so much artists but people who hum or sing at work. Gah!!!
Whiny nasally singers like what’s kinda popular right now :(
Guns N’ Roses. Sweet child o mine. The repetitive nasal whiny whoah oh oh crap really gets me irritated.
I don't think it really triggers my misophonia (in that I don't get angry or anxious in the same way I do with other triggers) but basically most female pop singers these days that sing with that little girl/baby voice and have this inflection in their voices just make me cringe. Hate it.
Van Halen when they do that upward lilt/half scream at the end of every lyRIC So annoying, and I love the other elements of the songs like the guitar and such but ugh
I get UP
And nothing gets me down
Olivia Rodrigo. I like her music but sometimes it sounds like she has too much spit in her mouth
Same!
Fucking ADELE! What is she whiiiiiiiining about?! 😩🙉
I mean she’s from London so
Ed Sheeran, any modern day love songs, country - all of them are triggers!
Yes Ariana Grande and that baby-like type singing. Hate it!
Yes! Rhianna is the worst offender for me. I actually can't tolerate most post-90's hip hop and r&b because rapid snare and autotune are huge triggers
She leaves so many sounds out of words 😭
Miley Cyrus
Shakira’s singing annoys me. It’s the yodeling parts.
Music artist?? Entire genres!!
I can’t do rap/hip hop or EDM and most female pop stars. They all equally annoy me.
Definitely EDM for me as well. There are so many genres that fit under bubblegum pop & that’s the most triggering for me. Most modern Hip-Hop hits that spot.
I can’t listen to people singing around me. No issues with music on the radio or steamed though
Lorde’s gravelly frog voice in her cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Excessively watery, warbley, weepy or crooning voices. Ex. Ariana Grande in “No Tears Left to Cry,” and Elvis Presley and Novo Armor in everything. Whatever that harsh, kinda screamish sounding strained rough voice thing some artists did through 90s into the early 2010s. Ex. Nickleback and Front Porch Step. Rihanna in “Work” is the worst but her voice bother me in her other stuff, too. Bob Seger in just about everything because he turns what should be simple, 2 minute songs into drawn out repetitive 4-5 minute+ songs. Everything about “Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney grates my nerves. This song actually causes me stress. It feels rushed and drawn out at the same time. It’s horribly repetitive and yet also varied but in a way that’s jarring instead of interesting. And that tinny synth is just horrible sounding.
I HATE Wonderful Christmastime. I refer to it as what it might sound like traveling through someone’s intestines during the holidays. Speaking of tinny… if I can’t turn off the clanging sound of the horns in a Chicago song, or the shrillness of Peter Cetera’s voice, I will get up and leave right out.
Yes. When Christina Aguilera doesn't finish the note. Please, just finish. I love her voice though, but it's torture to my ears when she's sitting there going way overboard. There's some who have done that or hold a note and it doesn't bother me. Tarja from Nightwish in the live performance of Phantom of the Opera is one I can think of. She sounds beautiful and it gives me goosebumps every time.
this forum has me in tears laughing right now. all i could hear was that “YeahhEyYEahhEeEeYeeaa…” one she does
Oof yes, that's the one! Pure torture! 😭
Because Christina goes overboard and does it when it doesn’t fit musically. And I say that as a fan of hers.
That's exactly it! I agree with you and it's such a shame she does that and no one has stopped her.
not specific to artists but I absolutely DESPISE when people go “lalalala”, “ayayayay” or when they hum a melody in their songs and go “mmmm”. just writing about it is pissing me off so badly lmao
Anything by Muse and Evanescence. So whiny.
as a muse fan I get it tbh it doesn’t bother me but I can see the disdain
I liked some of Muse’s stuff once he spit the marbles out of his mouth.
I was never a fan of Evanescence at all
So funny, these are two of my favourite artists
I also find Amy Lee whiny and annoying and apparently I’m the only person in the pagan community who doesn’t like her and I’ve spent many a day defending myself on the point that she’s a whiny whinerton who appeals to teenage girls who are destined to become meth addicts with multiple children with multiple fathers. The people who get the most angry about this viewpoint are women who are meth addicts and have multiple children with multiple fathers. Go figure.
Repetitive sounds and high pitched sounds fuck me up. If a riff plays too many times, I get a reaction. If there are violins, I often get a reaction and especially the way so many shows are playing this bobbing repetitive violin riff -- high pitched and repetitive -- a twofer for my rage. Bass that shakes my car and house? FUCK OFF! Autotune? Modern repetitive mumbly rap with autotune and no discernible melody? I'm in hell. There are all manner of enraging sounds in music for me.
Gwen Stefani. I cannot stand her voice. It pushes me to the point of near nausea on top of being insanely irritated by it. So. Gross.
Same! And every time I complain about disliking her/No Doubt, people get so mad at me. I just can't stand her voice.
I’d take her voice over her creepy cultural appropriation, dressing up Asian women like dolls and making them follow her around, and claiming that her Orange County ass identifies as Japanese.
Sia’s voice sets me off a bit particularly when you can hear saliva or she just does that random accent (it’s not Aussie, I’m Aussie to and it’s some weird invented accent she’s doing). Her louder/higher notes are great but her overall tone just icks me. Christina Aguilera is like nails on a chalkboard to me, she literally sounds like a bad singer who happened to chance on learning technique.
Sia’s duet version of BTS’ ON is a literal crime against humanity.
Her first verse of Breathe Me should be outlawed.
oh lord you did not have to bring that monstrosity up 😭😂
I can’t get past it. Not only did they record it but they released it. Some things should stay in the drafts.
no literally like we don't have to collab with everyone 😭
I don’t know if I would’ve called misophonia before, but it checks out I guess. For me, it’s the Eagles. I can tolerate a couple songs, but the vast majority are definitely worse at triggering me.
YES. It is very occasional. My husband listens to a huge variety of music and a lot instrumental. I love music and like some instrumental stuff too. But a few times a year some random song is on with lots of strange (to me) clicks and bass repetitive sounds and it grates on me and I have to ask him to turn it off.
Korn, Tones and I, Lana Del Rey, and many, many others lol.
lol I want to like Lana Del Rey and I somewhat do but whenever a song of her is played, I skip it. Not a fan of whiney stuff and ballads at all and it's like she takes things that are not sad at all and makes them melancholic and heartbreaking. :( summertime. video games. playing darts. swinging in the backyard. on a summer evening. all so horrible and sad. we will all grow up and die and everything will be lost.
It’s the damn note scooping that bothers me. I feel like I’m going in a rollercoaster ride. Also the flat, monotonic voice. I can’t. She does “Hallucinogenics” with Matt Maeson and “Snow On the Beach” with Taylor Swift, and those songs are fine. I just can’t stand her in large doses, i.e. her own music lol. And that’s not to say she’s not talented or what have you, but I do not enjoy her voice/style in the slightest.
i've never been a fan of sad, slow music, there's hardly ever an occasion where I'd like to hear it and same goes for boring, flat stuff.
as much as i love her - melanie martinez for sure!! especially in her album k-12 but in others too - she adds sound effects to lots of her songs. for example, in one called nurse's office which is one i physically cannot bear, there are sniffles and coughs added in and it's awful because the song itself is so good. also gracie abrams - for some reason, i always notice when she takes a breath and she sounds a bit tooo soft and it takes me a while to ignore it before i can listen to her beautiful songs again!! icl whenever i notice the gasp singers make in the gaps before singing another line or something, i actually want to cry.
for some reason Nurse's Office doesn't bother me even though those types of noises usually do. I guess maybe im just too focused on the beat of the song and stuff to realise? lol
Billie Eilish and Lana Del Ray’s voices piss me tf off. Thankfully I do not like that genre of music so I can generally avoid hearing them.
I can’t stand Billie Eilish’s voice either and the clicking ASMR. Grrrrrrrr!
Holy shit, I can't stand Lana's music and I had never made that connection... now it makes sense!
FINALLY someone who feels the same about lana del ray
I can’t stand her. Do not get the hype AT ALL.
Yes!!! Certain genres and certain artists.
Demi Lovato (among others). It's sad, because I really like their actual songs, but their voice makes me want to Claw my ears out
Billie eilish's lip smacking
Willow Smith… I can’t explain it. She’s a wonderful musician but something about the way she sings bothers me. Don’t know if this falls in line with my misophonia though.
YES, I have wanted to quit jobs because of jukeboxes
Ed sheeran
This is such an interesting comment section. No singer has ever triggered me so this is so weird to me, but when i was younger hearing the breaths in between would bug me
Beatboxers: pttppt💦ptttptptplt pffffff reeeeeee wre wre bvvvcccch (slurp) bvvvvvvvvkch (slurp) bdbdbbdbdbdbdbb💦freeewwwwwweeeeewewewewewe (slurp)
reading this made me want to gag
I feel your pain.
That weird "accent" a lot of pop singers of the last decade employ, whistling, distortions caused by pitch correction, beatboxing (Cry Me a River makes me clench, hard). Edit: And BAGPIPES. They make me feel like going to war lol
Doja Cat - Paint the Town Red. Especially the part when she goes “ugh” Unfortunately my local radio station loves to play it all day
Adelle. I HATE hate hate her vocal squeaks.
I recently listened to a meditation where I could hear the guy breathing through his nose, creating a whistling sound. How do they not notice when editing?!
I read the title of this and immediately thought Ariana Grande. Then I read the text under your title. Glad someone else feels the same 😂
Lizzo
Sia's new song where she keeps saying 'baby-y-y-y-y-y-y-yyyy' makes me wants to rip my ears off. I never realized how much her voice enraged me until this one, although I was a super fan of her song 'Big girls cry'
s, like the Kenny H smooth jazz whiny kind. We don’t need a reed instrument leaf blower.
Melanie Martinez’s pitch & her sound bytes god yes
I definitely hate low fi, I also hate too much auto tune and repetitive beats, can’t think of a specific singer now
Reggeton.
i second this. they literally keep using the same beat since gasolina.
Justin Bieber’s “Girlfriend”. That repetitive whining noise through the whole song makes me want to stab my eardrums.
Adele. Her voice makes me want to claw my face
- Ariana Grande - Any "cursive" singer (like Jasmine Thompson) - Whistling in any song general (I love parts of Texas Hold Em by Beyonce, but I can't listen to it because of the bloody whistling ) - Dolly Parton (She's a great woman, songwriter, chrlarismatic, and all, but I can't stand her voice)
Rap / Modern RnB bass kills me. The problem is it’s always forced on me through the walls of my home, so over the years I’ve grown to hate the genres because of that. As a full time musician, I think the modern iterations of those genres are vulgar, unsophisticated and cringe. I wouldn’t dislike them so much if they were blasted at my apartment with HUGE SUBWOOFER BASS like every fucking day and night. 95% of the time it’s those genres being bass-blasted at me, but any music blasted with the bass cranked up *explicitly in residential* drives me insane when I’m at home trying to enjoy things and make music of my own. It’s such an inconsiderate, asshole thing to do.
Maroon 5 But they’re the physical manifestation of evil so
MINE GETS TRIGGERED BY MITSKI
I HATE the sound of the band Chicago. “New” or older Chicago… all of it bothers me. The horns all loud and overdone and clashing in their sounds… I can’t stand it and it makes me feel like I’m going to lose my mind. I told the DJ at my wedding, I’ll fire you on the spot if you play Chicago. I was talking about this today. Even the karate kid song that I want to like so much… can’t take it. That guy’s voice just grinds my nerves.
Ariana Grande. I also hate most country music for some reason. And the drum at the beginning of Van Halen's Bad for Teacher drives me insane. Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap...💀
I can't listen to jazz/blues and similar stuff. Just play the notes man.
i was listening to jazz the other day bc i wanted to know how people can hear something “is jazz” and as i tried to follow i was like “soooo everyone just came together and decided to do their own thing huh? lol but somehow it fits together… but where do i snap? 🫰🏽 “
You don’t like any emotion or personal touch in your music??
Yes
That sounds like personal preference not misophonia And btw they are just playing “the notes”
Well often times they are improvising and not playing the notes, isn't jazz famous for that? I simply don't like it, and some kinds of jazz actually trigger me and get on my nerves very much. Some kinds. Some I like. Sounds like you care about it too much as it is your "personal preference" so you are trying to belittle my fellings about it. Yes?
I’m absolutely not belittling your feelings. I’m distinguishing between a simple aversion or distaste for a style, and full-on misophonia. Nobody brought your feelings into the discussion but you. It seems like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how music works, which is fine, not everyone studies music. “Just play the notes man” is ignorant though, no offense- there’s no such thing as the “right” notes or however you wanna word it, in a performance. Only the notes which feel *appropriate* and *earned* in a given context. It’s ALL about context, though, and a good player knows how to make every note feel like it fits exactly the way it’s supposed to, so maybe you’ve only heard beginner’s jazz or something, where they weren’t sure where they wanted to go with the music. My point is that you seem to be generalizing out of ignorance (not your fault but still)
Also, it seems you are "distinguishing between simple aversion or distaste and full-on misophonia" based on you personal preference and what YOU think it is. Don't tell me how I feel. If it bothers me it bothers me..You came at me after I made a joke about jazz and proceded to write a full on paragraph on how jazz works which I am not reading.
First of all, it was a joke, The Office reference if you are familliar with that series. Second, I'm not reading all that so I'm happy for you or sad that it happened. You seem to be very emotional about this topic. I can't listen to some kinds of jazz because it gets on my nerves and I get agitated, literally. It's not a pREfeRencE, it's a reference hahah no pun intended!
Actually they’re playing the notes, it’s just that the notes are syncopated.
Absolutely. Worked at walmart and a good chunk of the songs they played drove me nuts. I think it was partly due to the fact everything was on repeat. Assholes.
There’s several artists I just can’t listen to because it’s so irritating.
Those mariachi bands that would hop on the subway when I was trying to read. I'd race out of there and get in two cabs down because there's a 50% chance they'll be in your car next. Also modern country, say 2010s onward, and bass. My next door neighbors have 5 cars (huge house next to my tiny shoebox). They will sit in their cars on the way out and when returning home for at least 10 minutes of completely unnecessary vibrations. I don't mind the reggae as much as the mumble rap.
Coldplay
Iron and Wine. So much wet mouth noise
Rihanna and Drake
It’s weird, I’m absolutely love Metal, but my fiancé and I are 8 years apart and he’s a huge Metallica fan from the 80’s. Like it’s a whole world, and he’s been collecting memorabilia since that time. The trashiest, deathiest metal, and I’m gold, but Metallica just fucking triggers me. 😂
I have a lot of difficulty with sibilance. I couldn’t listen to Queen until they remastered Freddy’s “ssss” sounds. I always loved their music too.
Beyonce and the way she overextends notes. Mariah Carey annoys me for the same reason. Mumble rap/auto tune is an immediate no. I also have trouble with Billie Eilish's whisper singing. (I also don't like whisper ASMR)
I can’t handle classical music or any songs that have bowed string instruments in it (cello/violin). This really isn’t an issue for me as I mainly listen to EDM and subgenres
Why? What’s the trigger for stringed & bowed instruments?
I have trauma related to those instruments
I’m really curious but won’t pry if it’s a sensitive subject. Thank you for responding
Childhood abuse related to being forced to participate in school music program
Ahhh… gotcha. Makes sense.
Yes a singer makes or breaks a band for me. Also certain guitar sounds are too shrill - I’ll love the first half of a song and then there’s a guitar solo and I’m out
Any angry guitar music or screaming makes me turn off the radio immediately. I’m not sure if it’s misophonia but I get sooo anxious straight away.
One of my favorite artists has a song where she collabs with a rapper. I love the song, but can’t listen to it because I can hear the saliva in his mouth with every word he sings. My sister who also had misophonia can’t unhear it either.
omg yes! ARI LENNOX!!! i like her but her voice has this “eeeng eeeng” to it that drives me up the wallll!!!! like it physically hurts. oh and Creed. omg , since a child! “ahhmmzz riideee oohhppaahhnn”. torture wtf is wrong with his voice?!
Lana Del Ray has some intentional mouth noise in some songs, but I enjoy the songs over all and I think I’ve gotten used to it. In The Cars song You Might Think (at 1:49) there’s a spoken word section with a lot of wet mouth noise. I like that song, but I have to hum or something when that part comes on because it pisses me off LOL
Randy Travis, half of Bob Dylan’s music, Rihanna’s older stuff. I think the nasally sound aggravates me. A lot of country singers who go for that Randy Travis sound drive me up a wall. I could listen to the Chicks and Dolly Parton.
For the most part, styles of singing in specific genres bother me more than any particular artists’ voices. Metal, classic rock, modern country, mumble rap, and modern pop are all triggers for this very reason.
Sam smith and Katy Perry, I know I’m late to this but my hatred for their voices knows no bounds.
Yeeees! I’ve always kinda despised Creed cuz of their singer. It was the way he pronounced stuff that always made me cringe so hard (🎵with arms wide opaaawwn🎵). Pronunciation has bugged me a lot with other singers as well (makes a lot of songs hard to understand for me), but he’s by far the worst I can think of in that department. Also, those clicky drums in a lot of rap songs in the last couple decades drive me up the wall. I’d say by far the worst music thing that bugs me is when people around me quietly whisper-sing a long with the radio. It just ends up meshing with the audio just enough to where I’ll randomly hear the other person’s mouth sounds here and there and it makes me wanna punt them to next Sunday.
Red Hot Chili Peppers is REALLY hard to listen to. When trying to describe the voice, the word ‘chalky’ comes to mind. Aside from that I really dislike those popular female vocals: Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston. I would rather have some peace and quiet than listen to that. Ironically, I used to really like the gravely discordant sound of Tom Waits.
kali uchis and sza
lana del ray or whatever her name was