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AIBU to ask them to play anything but jazz?

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NameChangedForTheDay · 22/09/2019 16:08

Light-hearted. I'm in an airport lounge. It's a newly opened one. Not very busy, only 4-5 other tables being used.

They are piping music into the place and it's proper squealing jazz, with wailing out of time saxophones and pianos that sound like they're being played by a toddler and a chimp simultaneously. It's utter noise!

Shall I ask them to change the record? 😂

I went to the loos after 45 and thought I'd get respite. Nope it's piped into there too, I can't even have a piss in peace.

How does anyone enjoy jazz? It's lost on me.

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AnalUnicorn · 22/09/2019 16:11

I feel your pain. They have changed the hold music on our teleconferencing system at work to this sort of ear-aching jazz. I don’t get it at all, it’s really stressful to have to listen to it.

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NameChangedForTheDay · 22/09/2019 16:14

@analunicorn You're right. It's making me feel stressed and anxious. It's so all over the place and such a racket. It's awful.

I love pretty much any genre if music, from folk to to heavy metal. But jazz is just horrible.

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iwishi · 22/09/2019 16:17

I hate jazz too. Not very helpful, I know but no-one understands why it gives me a headache Grin

MerryBerryCheesecake · 22/09/2019 16:19

I would rather dig my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon covered in dog shit and broken glass than listen to jazz. All jazz.

Some people like it (Americans mostly from what I have seen) but it's Marmite music and should not be played in public places without a health warning about bleeding ears and insanity inducement.

There is an abundance of gentle classical music for this purpose...or, you know, try giving people a bit of peace and quiet.

You have my condolences at being besieged by that shit.

Drabarni · 22/09/2019 16:19

It's not out of time, Jazz is played off beat. Grin
Enjoy your holiday, wish I was listening to the Jazz it's always shit pop music when I'm there.

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NameChangedForTheDay · 22/09/2019 16:32

@MerryBerryCheesecake cracking up at what you'd rather do than listen to Jazz. 😅

@Drabarni isn't 'played off beat', out of time? 😆

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NameChangedForTheDay · 22/09/2019 16:32

@iwishi it's certainly headache inducing.

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Shoutymomma · 22/09/2019 16:34

Embrace the free form, cats!

DramaAlpaca · 22/09/2019 16:36

I hate jazz too, I love music but I find jazz very stressful to listen to.

BarbedBloom · 22/09/2019 16:41

This is why I take headphones to airports. I hate jazz, it makes me feel stressed Grin

iwishi · 22/09/2019 16:46

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AIBU to ask them to play anything but jazz?
Drabarni · 22/09/2019 16:47

What sort of Jazz is it OP, I must admit to not liking some avant garde artists, and anybody considering Kenny G as a Jazz musician really needs to be certified.
My dh is a Jazz musician, hence I love the music.
Saying you don't like it is like saying you don't like Classical, or pop.
Like any genre of music there are so many different styles.

Drabarni · 22/09/2019 16:48

OP, only if you are a straighty classical player Grin or marching band.

sadeyedladyofthelowlands63 · 22/09/2019 17:13

Embrace the free form, cats!

anybody considering Kenny G as a Jazz musician really needs to be certified.

GrinGrinGrin

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NameChangedForTheDay · 22/09/2019 17:15

Not sure what type of jazz @Drabarni. It's not the sultry okay type like Sade or Ella Fitzgerald. It's that manic type with lots of tuneless piano key thumping and drawn out sax solos. 😭

I've got headphones @BarbedBloom, Slipknot would drown it out lovely, but I don't want to be unsociable to my DP.

Ooh, more people coming in now. The noise of passengers has drowned it out a bit.

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Likethebattle · 22/09/2019 17:16

I hate jazz, each time seems to goo on and on and on forever. I’ll listen to anything but jazz.

HairyPotter · 22/09/2019 17:21

I love (most) jazz music. DD1 is a jazz musician and for one of her first auditions, the manager told me that if she got in, I’d learn to love jazz. Rolled my eyes as I couldn’t stand it. 5 years on and I love it and seek out jazz bars everywhere I go.

Cherrysoup · 22/09/2019 17:32

I hate jazz. I don’t see the point of the jangly piano bits. Give me some classical any time.

Ragwort · 22/09/2019 17:36

I love jazz, including Kenny G Grin, just as well we are all different.

Monster7475 · 22/09/2019 17:56

I know tastes are subjective but I have literally met only one person in my entire life (a Canadian from 1998 if that is significant) who merely suggested we go to a jazz club, but not a single person who likes or listens to jazz. EVERYONE I have ever met openly hates Jazz.

deepflatflyer · 22/09/2019 17:58

Hairy potter - I was like that. I used to resent jazz on radio 3 on a Saturday afternoon. Now my kids have educated me. Never disliked as much as I dislike tinny, manufactured pop though.

JoxerGoesToStuttgart · 22/09/2019 18:02

Urgh!! Is it that horrendous shite Carrie in homeland listens to? That ruins the show for me.

SerenDippitty · 22/09/2019 18:04

I love jazz, most of it.

KittyMarion · 22/09/2019 18:08

I absolutely love Jazz, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk etc.

user1471453601 · 22/09/2019 18:14

My DD hates, with a passion, jazz. P!ay a tune, any tune, she shouts

I, on the other hand, love it.

DD loves amy Winehouse and Ella Fitzgerald, Both jazz singers.

Hating jazz is like hating any kind of music, you just haven't heard the kind you like.

I thought I didn't like country music, then my DD played me the Dixie chicks. Changed my mind right away.

Some jazz is shit, so is some countr y, pop or rock music.

Persevere until you find the stuff you like