That's not a popular assessment I know. I used to work in shops where I had to listen to Coldplay and the like all day and it made me pretty antagonistic towards mainstream music. Again, there is great popular music. But the vast majority of it is shit. Exceptions to the rule and all that.

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I don't see why my statement caused that much controversy. It's plain to see. Most new genres are male dominated scenes. Particularly abbrassive or aggressive music like grime, drum and base or heavy metal. As the music becomes more mainstream and danceable the ratio of women at gigs rises.

As I ...

Anyway if I want to make broad generalisations (I know a few women studying music so this doesn't apply to them) the more women there are at a gig the worse the music is. That's usually the most accurate way to determine if the music is actually shit.

I have a girlfriend so I can't really chase gash. That said, there were lots of attractive women out there so no complaints on that part. Personally I'd find it easier to pull women at a bad gig because they'd all be out in the smoking area where you can chat them up without having to roar into ...

I used to listen to alot of dubstep a couple of years ago when it was going through it's really minimal techno kind of phase. Then I sort of stopped paying attention for a bit.

Went to see Benga last night (in Cork, Ireland) and it was awful. All the tracks got straight into the heavy metal ...