Things you're supposed to like, but don't

[Edwardo Piet]

Taylor Swift. I'm the right demographic to have grown up liking her music, and I like at least some of the music by other modern pop singers, but I can't stand her songs. I just can't hear them as music; they usually sound more like a cacophony of unmelodic instruments to me.  

Oh! You just reminded me of one of my definite "supposed to like" but don't things. More general than Taylor Swift.

And that is: pop music in general.

Or pretty much anything non-prog. Now, I mean progressive, not prog rock. A lot of my favorite music is more progressive techno. All genres can be progressive, and I tend to find that no matter what the genre is, if it's good music and it's progressive... I like it.

I mean, I even like prog-pop if done right. But I still think that by being proggy... that in itself makes it "more than pop".

This being an example:





Kind of too long (at almost 7 minutes) and sophisticated for your standard pop song... but still catchy and pop rocky as fuck.