Anyone else not like music?

[Fluffycloudland77]

A lot of it actually depresses me.

I wouldn’t say I dislike music, but I’m definitely less keen on it than I was in my teens & 20s. The last concert I went to was in 2013, and if I was asked who was currently in the pop charts, I might guess Ed Sheehan or Adele, but that is the extent of my knowledge of today’s music.

I do have a pet musical hate, though. Those bloody awful radio stations, eg Smooth or Heart which play the same old, tired, boring songs over and over and over again, all day every day, week in, week out ad infinitum.

I don't really like much music either. I've never moved on from CDs and they just sit in a little pile, I don't remember the last time I ever listened to them (possibly years ago).

I don't listen to it anymore, haven't for years. In my teens and 20s I was really in to it, learnt to play the guitar to a really good standard and then for some reason I just stopped listening/playing.

I've got guitars here I haven't picked up for years. Picked one up and played it the other day and within 5 minutes, put it away, I wasn't interested.

I listen to Radio 4 in the car when travelling for work.

I don't like music much either.

I did in my teens but have preferred quiet for years.

I have radio 4 in the car sometimes but often nothing at all.

I don't even like the 'start up' tunes when an electronic device is switched on. My phone is on silent most of the time. I hate the 'boop boop boop' when searching on Netflix or Amazon Prime.

The only exception is listening to DS on the piano or DH occasionally on guitar.

For me it just gets in the way, it distracts me from other things, which might just be my thoughts. In its place its fine, I go to occasional concerts (classical nowadays rather than gigs), musicals, carol service at Christmas. But I can go days or weeks on end without it and certainly don't want it on around the house all day.

I agree with this and also as I said I like singing with other people so it isn't that I dislike music per se, sometimes it does engender joy and sadness etc, just that I find it a distraction when I am doing other things and sitting listening to music for ages, I find dull after a while

It is so good to read all these opinions. I thought I was almost the only person who felt like this.

DH would prefer to have the radio on all the time at home however we've agreed that the person who's cooking gets to choose what's on the radio in the kitchen .. which is me 5 or 6 nights a week. If we're both in the room I can tolerate a few songs but the relief when he finally turns it off is huge. Same in the car. And I find it particularly stressful if he tries to talk at the same time as it's on.

I grew up without any music in the house as my parents just weren't interested and maybe I haven't developed that part of my brain? I just find ideas more interesting and would always rather listen to the spoken word. Strangely, I can appreciate music when it accompanies ballet, maybe because there's something beautiful to watch and so it's not boring.

People do make you feel there's something lacking in you, I've found, whereas I read a lot and would never try to make someone who didn't appreciate good books feel inferior. so it's a little bit annoying that it doesn't seem to work in reverse.