People who don't like any kind of music

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I used to think that music was such a universal thing, something that humans have been making and sharing for millenia, and that liking it was part of the human condition. And with so many different types of music, from pop, classical, Venezuelan nose flutes, whistling & even tapping your fingers to a beat - there is something for everyone.

But I remember reading something about someone who just hated all and any forms of music! I couldn't really believe it. And I still don't really belive it.

I can't imagine a world without music, I think it taps into a part of our brain in a way that nothing else can.
And I'm not talking about people who just don't really listen to music much, or can take it or leave it. I'm talking about those who actively avoid music.

Is there anyone out there like this who truly hates all forms of music?

I never listen to music. It is just more noise to contend with.

Some people have a condition that means they hear all music as noise, rather than music. Must make it really intrusive and painful to hear.

I find some music really intrusive. I find hearing music when I don’t want to, really intrusive. I have left cafes and restaurants if they were playing music I didn’t like.

I actively avoid it. I have to tune it out at the gym as it's just racket. Unless it's rap then you may as well punch me repeatedly in the head.

Give me complete silence anyday. I'd love a shot of one of those chambers with water in where there is no sound. It could be bliss.

My Mum! She absolutely loves books in the way I love music and ironically my Dad is like me (but they strangely really work as a couple)
She’s very sociable and loves a night out, so has spent her life with my Dad going to gigs, festivals etc
She’s seen bands that my own dc would’ve loved to have seen, yet she can’t tell you a single thing about who’s she’s seen and has zero interest in their music.
After seeing Pulp at Glastonbury in the 90s, all she talked about was how nice the cider was 😂

Music really doesn’t touch her in anyway, I find her baffling (and hilarious!)

I don’t listen to music anymore and don’t really have any interest in it now.

Odd really considering in my younger days I was a pretty good guitarist and played in a few bands. My guitars just sit here gathering dust.

I have a very limited range that I find tolerable and the rest is agonising noise. Then there is an awful set of tunes and songdd that makes me feel like I am trapped in a terribly sad emotion.
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I know somebody like this - no interest in or enjoyment from music at all - thinks of it as noise.

They are very intellectual. A MENSA member, enjoy reading, fascinated by mechanics, physics, engineering and philosophy.

I’ve played in bands for years, not so much these days. I much prefer playing music, especially in collaboration with others, than listening to it.
When I’m on my own it just never crosses my mind to put any music on.

My own Dad didn't like music. He seemed unable to hear it properly and couldn't carry a tune in his head. Couldn't sing at all and as my mother says, accurately, he simply couldn't tell a flute from a fart. He was tone deaf in its most literal form.

There are people who simply can't hear music in the same way as others. Misophonia?

I think it’s rare, everyone I’ve ever known loves music

I listen to show like ‘chess’ war of the worlds kind of thing occasionally something else when I am at the gym. But mostly no I don’t listen to music. Never really found anything I liked.

But give me a good audiobook and I’m there. I get through about two a week of those. But no I don’t love music. My husband has it on in the car and it just annoys me. I prefer to look out the window in peace and quiet. It makes my head get overloaded when it is on too long.

Me. Don’t understand why, but there is no music I like. Wouldn’t dream of listening to music, I’d hate it.

unfortunately for me dh does love music, so I do go to occasional concerts with him but I find them monotonous. I concentrate on the theatre of it all rather than the music itself.

When everyone else in the house gets their Spotify Unwrapped I don't due to my entirely podcast listening history. I like musicals though which most people who like music don't I find.

I am totally uninterested in music, I would never choose to listen to it ... apart from mindless 'easy listening' occasionally in the car on a long journey ... only on radio stations, no idea how to 'download' music or whatever you do these days. I love quiz nights but always zone out if there is a music round. I am amazed at the detail some people know about music genres and can name every band/song from years back. Would never listen to music at home, fortunately my DH is the same and my adult son appears to also have no interest in music. None of us go to gigs, concerts or whatever.

Out of curiosity I just made myself try to listen to the Eurovision winner .... had no appeal at all and has to turn it off.

I had to spend some time in the bathroom at my last Christmas work party because there was something slightly off with the tuning or speakers and it was almost physically hurting me to listen.
It's not that I'm really musical, I actually can't sing or hold a tune at all. I don't know enough about music to say what was off.
I'm generally fine at live events by musicians I like. I dread things like bands in pubs.

My DS hates music but it’s a sensory thing for him because of his autism

I think people who don't like music at all are often completely tone deaf so just don't hear notes the same. My friend is like this. It's not something she can change at all. We went to a karaoke bar and she couldn't tell who sang well or not, I had to tell her who was good. It was eye opening to me as I'm musical and always sung and listened to music. It made me feel sorry for her.

I'm not tone deaf. I played piano and flute for years and won many a karaoke competition.

I just lost interest and now music is irritating and would rather not hear it.

Why is it so hard to understand that some people would rather not have that noise around them?

I don't understand those constantly plugged in. Always have to have music on as a background. It's weird.. sometimes silence is good for you. Are you scared of your own thoughts or something?

I love music and I studied it when younger, learnt instruments and now sing in a church choir, but I don't have music on in the house and I dislike hearing it outdoors and in shops etc. I don't have it as background noise in the house and only listen to something if I'm focusing on it.

I don't really have an understanding of music but I love it - its the vibration of the sound.

Its interesting as I've spent periods of time in very quiet places - places with no electricity, virtually no cars. In those places I've become extremely attuned to small sounds.

Then come back to UK with double glazing - that to me feels like deafening silence. There has to be some noise or I feel like something is wrong.

I think this is really interesting - I don’t dislike music exactly but rarely choose to listen to it these days because it makes me too emotional if that makes sense? Too sad, too lost, too hyper - old clubbing tunes give me severe butterflies! I prefer audio books when I’m doing chores!

having said that, I can really enjoy it - the rest of the family like playing music - but sometimes I can’t stand it.

I think the idea that some people find all music just noise is interesting and wonder if it is a more extreme version of what I feel for some of them

I don’t choose to listen to music it’s just an irritating noise in the background that I try to tune out

Can't stand most random music, I'd never listen to a radio station that has news then music, I play my own choice. Yesterday it was Coleman Hawkins and Stan Getz.
Music in shops makes me irritable, even Marks Food have it playing, one of the reasons I shop at Waitrose, silence.

All music? Does none of it give you joy, or any kind of emotional response? I’m not getting at you, I’m just fascinated. Like the OP, I thought love of music was a universal human trait.

I am tone-deaf - I can’t hear the difference across six semi-tones (I don’t even understand what that means, but I was tested as part of a study a few years ago).

My reaction to music is varied: some actually hurts to listen to; some just sounds like loud noise, maybe like you’d hear a landslide or scaffolding collapsing; anything without lyrics is an annoyance. It does not, and has never, ‘moved’ me. I don’t go out of my way to listen to music, but there is some I don’t mind - it’s mainly the music of my youth, so I think it’s familiarity rather than appreciation - my extremely musical husband says I have execrable taste.