Genres you dislike due to the time period you originally listened to them
I grew up an angsty rural white kid in the 2000s, and as such listened to my fair share of post-grunge/nu-metal/emo bands. Stuff like Seether, Staind, Korn, MCR, Nine inch Nails, Disturbed or Breaking Benjamin Sometime around 14 my musical taste shifted away from that and towards alt/indie/folk (not so coincidentally around the same time I got my first girlfriend and a solid group of friends). From there I've expanded to listening to pretty much every major genre, but the one subsection of music I've never been able to get back into is the aforementioned stuff. Whenever I listen to it I feel like it takes me back to my early tween/teen years and just puts me in a very bad mood. I know I used to really enjoy all of that but I feel like the period of time when I listened to it has been like permanently fused with the music itself and I can't enjoy it any more because of that.
Which is also weird because I had a very bad few years circa 2015-2019 and I was listening to the mopiest sad boy albums and post rock stuff but I've been able to come back around and enjoy them again without feeling like they're tainted by when I predominantly found and liked them, which was objectively a "worse" period of my life.
I'm almost the opposite: As I aged, I developed an appreciation for music I despised as I was growing up. Undoubtably some of it is nostalgia, but I think it's because I'm mature enough now to recognize I was outright rejecting in part because it was popular. Backstreet Boys and Nickleback jump to the forefront. This is not universal, as The Macarena and MmmBop do not hold up. But otherwise, the pop and country from the 90s I appreciate a lot more for what it is.
Nine Inch Nails and MCR I wouldn't lump in with the rest there. Trent's sound evolved greatly, and MCR's Black Parade is far more relatable as I age. Agreed that listening to Korn is somewhat cringe-inducing now. Marilyn Manson also is unlistenable for me anymore, in part becase he turned out to be the monster they said he was.
This is an interesting question. I feel like my musical tastes have expanded for the most part. It's not that I avoid genres now, it's that I listen to even more of them. I used to avoid country and pop, and now I've selectively found ways to enjoy those genres along with my favorites (extreme metal, synthwave, synth pop, indie rock, singer/songwriter). I think as I've grown older I've grown more nuanced in my views, feelings, and preferences for music.
I've learned to enjoy and appreciate things that younger, more cynical/elitist me wouldn't, especially when it comes to things like pop (used to just dismiss it all as manufactured garbage, and while there may be some truth to that, some of the time, I realize those artists are their own people, a lot of them are talented, etc.). Whereas before, if a singer/performer wasn't a "band that could play their own instruments" I was against them, as if I couldn't realize the voice is an instrument itself.
There are some artists I just can't seem to get back into anymore that I was very into in earlier days, like Dashboard Confessional and a lot of the "bubbly" pop-punk bands. But, in nearly all genres I can find artists I like, so I don't know that I'd write off whole genres, even ones I find mostly unappealing.
Well, I suppose there is one category (wouldn't really call it a genre... since all genres have Christian bands) of music I don't listen to anymore and that is Christian music. I am no longer a Christian, and while my childhood / indoctrination / 20-25 years of being in the faith wasn't particularly traumatic, it is something I prefer to leave behind, and consider a "previous era" of life... kind of a reverse "born again". My ex-religious life feels like a completely different one. So.. while there are a couple of exceptions to this too, I've left behind 99% of Christian music (which is all I used to listen to, up to a point in life, and for a while it's all I was allowed to listen to...) because the majority of it just transports me back to an era of life that I don't want to re-live- because it's not me anymore, I could not be a more different person now.
I do cringe at certain bands/lyrics from day to day- but then on other days I really enjoy them (Slipknot, Korn, etc)- sometimes that nu metal teen angst fits my upper-30s existential dread mood I feel from time to time. Sometimes "F the world" feels good.
Similar to other comments here though, I am FAR more discerning about the people behind the music I listen to- extreme metal has a fascism problem, manson turned out to be awful, rammstein has accusations now against multiple members... etc. I never used to know or care, but that's unavoidable for me now- it's quite important.
We're a generation raised on our musical preferences.
I'm a big fan of rock and metal and spent my teens listening to it. That's continued and has accelerated through the years, as has my love of all things dance music.
I go back and listen to some of the tunes I listened to back in the early 2000s with a lot of nostalgia. Some of them are still wonderfully relevant (Inflames - Square Nothing, for example) others not so much.
There's a few tracks that do make me state fondly into the distance, a bit more down these days due to events in life since those songs. But also... Any song played in minor has that affect on our minds.
I cannot stand pop music though. It's so bubbly and cloy and makes me think of a tough upbringing where external image was all that matters to an uncaring father. Leaves me very cold when it's on around me.
Music is amazing for the emotional connections it derives.
Pop as defined by the 00s. Different eras have different genres, like the 60s with the Beatles, the 70s with Bowie, etc. The trends started in the 00s have held for a couple decades and only changed gradually over time, so it applies to recent stuff as well.
My joke is that in high school I did some serious psychic damage to myself by being an elitist neckbeard, calling this, that, and the other genre garbage and holding the line long enough that now, that teenager's lifespan later, I still can't stand these styles of music. Interestingly these stances dropped out of high school but I physically react to a lot of this music in ways that make me very uncomfortable.
There is no genre that I dislike because of the time period I listened to them in, but there are definitely songs that I hated in the past because they got far too much playtime. Thankfully it's fairly rare to hear people and businesses blasting Top 40 radio stations these days so it's not as bad as it used to be, but there were some songs that just got repeated so frequently they would practically ruin my day to hear them.
Now that I think about it, I actually used to like Journey, but then they got popular again when they kept getting covered by Glee and I haven't really recovered from that. They don't ruin my day, but I don't like listening to those songs anymore.
The sad thing is that a lot of those songs were legitimately good songs. There's a lot of country songs I would have liked around the turn of the century if they hadn't been repeated so much, and I have actually grown to like a lot of older pop songs. I actually really love Alicia Keys.
"buttcrack rock" is about the most accurate term to describe that era of music. I'd be happy to never hear buttcrack rock again.
I've typically heard/seen "butt rock." The name allegedly is because that style of music was extremely common on radio stations (remember those?) which branded themselves as "nothing but rock."
Might I ask why you call it buttcrack rock?
The music just smells like buttcracks lol.
I am exactly in the same boat as you, but I never listened to nu-metal and post-grunge or emo even at the time. I was a Classic Rock "purist" until just before Highschool when I got into Indie Rock with bands like Arcade Fire, The Temper Trap, Vampire Weekend, The Strokes and The Shins. Among others.
I cannot separate emo/nu-metal/post-grunge from cringe, but realistically I know it's a remnant of being an even more conceited person then than I am now. I have a hard time not referring to that music as the pejorative "Butt-Rock", even though I know it's an elitist term used by pretentious snobs.
I've learned that when I feel dismissive of genres, I need to just let it go and allow others to enjoy it. I'm not upset that they don't listen to the same Sad/Angry Boi music I do (indie and punk respectively lol), though I find they're often upset that I don't enjoy the music they do. But I don't want to contribute to that feedback loop of negativity.
Another genre I can't get into that I get a lot of flak for is Country, but while I grew up around it I didn't grow up with it and it was always talked about as being for lowbrow rednecks. I still have a hard time not seeing it in that light, despite knowing there is good country that isn't Bro-Country and She Thinks My Tractors Sexy.
Ween made my favorite country album.
Most 00s indie rock has kind of stopped making sense to me lately, even though I listened to it nonstop in college. In hindsight it just feels like everyone was stuck in a 'guitar, bass and drums-only' mentality, and were putting out some very artistically conservative, kind of boring songs.
Coincidentally I was in a kind of bad relationship at the time.
I can't stand reggae. I remember as a kid my parents enjoyed reggae and would play it in the car from time to time. The music was fun and I enjoyed it, we'd all sing along and such. Then I reached my teens and took a small school bus (van) to school. My seat was in the front next to the driver. He would have the radio on, same channel every day. During this time period, the country I lived in, and that channel in particular, was OBSESSED with Bob Marley. I can't tell you how many times I had to sit there listening to "Buffalo soldier", "No woman no cry", "Jamming" etc, etc. And they'd repeat the same damn songs several times a day, meaning I'd suffer both heading to and from school. I swear I have some form of PTSD from that experience.
Well, as a young kid/teen I always avoided listening to pop and dance music(and neither did I really like it, tbh), because I was in that stupid headspace of "I can't like popular/girly things" that a lot of people fall into. Years of delving into rock, electronic, and industrial later... I find I really enjoy it now. Kesha's Die Young is a certified club classic and nobody can tell me any different.