RE: Grunge the gift that keeps giving... another sub-genre of Metal is called Post Grunge [Metal Tree: 22]
Just as a side note... I watch The Voice in multiple countries. I've played in a Jazz band (in college years ago). I've played classical.
I've composed techno, industrial, country, etc...
I am into music in general... there are only TWO forms of music I tend to not get into...
RAP... I respect rap in a rap battle where the people are making up lyrics on the spot. Yet the old school rap that didn't have much other than a beat mixed with a rare other sound and was someone just rapping. That does nothing for me. I am pretty good at making up rhyming lyrics, so if I have TIME to do it that doesn't impress me a lot. When they do it live on the spot though, that is pretty damn impressive and I enjoy watching that.
Techno... I like techno, but there is one variety which the guy that was into it and forced me to listen to it called the type he was listening to Polish Techno. I am not sure why it was called Polish other than he was from Poland. Yet it literally would beat a bass drum in the same steady beat about 2 beats per measure... so like a slow marching energizer bunny rabbit beat... and maybe every 30 seconds or so you might hear a keyboard play about 3 or 4 notes as a quick little riff that lasted a couple of seconds. It annoyed me because I am pretty sure I could teach my dog to play that in order to get a treat. Maybe not exactly... but it illustrates my issue with it.
Those are really the only two things I will say I dislike.
I hated country for years in my life because in my youth my parents were both alcoholics and I'd go wander from bar to bar (small town) to find them in my early teens. I heard a lot of country then, and the sound became mentally associated for me with Alcoholism.
As I grew older that ceased to be the case, and I do respect ALL of country, and I even like quite a bit of it now.
So I am pretty open and obsessive about music. Metal just happens to be my core genre. It is the style I am into most...
Classical and Rock would vie for my second place areas of interest.
Got it, nice to know. BTW, I give you high marks for the level of interaction and detail you respond with, I definitely appreciate that.
I also admit to being a Voice show addict. It may very well be contrived with the winners chosen or otherwise picked differently than they reveal to the TV audience, but it's entertaining either way. It gives me a shiver listening to some of the performers they're so damned good.
2016 was the first year I missed it tho, didn't see a single episode. My TV antenna was hit by lightning and I still haven't replaced it. I don't miss it too much, The Voice is one of the few programs I bothered to watch regularly.
The Internet provides all my movie, entertainment and news feeds these days. I haven't found a good free, no hassle source for The Voice shows yet.
I credit Blake Shelton with getting me more interested in country, at least the modern style of it. Shania Twain started it I guess, but Shelton accelerated my interest. I lump most of his tunes into one of 2 categories: 1) playful & fun or 2) romantic / sappy. It's a simple generalization I know. I also just like the guy's sense of humor and his stuff has that melodic quality I need in all music I care for.
I'm with you 100% on your take on rap. It's rare when I take notice of tunes in that genre. Like you I also hated country, tho for totally different reasons. I just didn't like the sound, the slidey steel guitar, the superficial "poor me" lyrics. I was very close minded towards it. Conway Twitty, Willie Nelson, Whalen Jennings - shut 'em off and plug my ears, obnoxious noise to me.
Sorry to hear about your parental unit woes, that's terrible. Really man, that sucks. From what I have seen you've overcome much of the deficits that causes in people. Way to go on that score.
My parents both quit drinking cold turkey half-way through my Junior year in high school. It did shape me, but not in a bad way I think. I don't really do any drugs other than caffeine and honestly haven't touched a drop of alcohol since I was 16... over 30 years ago.
As to the voice... I prefer to torrent it. I can't vote on things, but I can then watch The Voice US, The Voice UK, The Voice Australia, The Voice Holland, etc. They each approach things differently. Holland and other non-English speaking nations the judges and comments may not be in English but often the songs themselves are. Even when they are not it is often very good stuff.