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Questions & Help Mar 27, 2026 at 3:12 AM

Tiktok might be the worst thing to happen to music

Posted by zengbob

I started getting into music back in summer 2023, Almost all of the music content I consumed was from tiktok. Over time I developed this habit of hating on popular songs just because they are popular and glazing less popular songs because they are niche, I only listened to music that is considered good by the people on tiktok, It was like I did not have a thought in my head like a npc in video game. last year I had a very busy school year so I spent way less time on social media and started listening to whatever I was feeling that day, During this period my opinion on a lot of albums/songs drastically, A lot of songs that I considered bad just because the music tiktokers said so turned out to be great songs. I also noticed that the people around me who spend a lot of time social media behave like this IT IS LIKE NO ONE HAS A BRAIN ANYMORE EVERONE HAS THE SAME OPINOIN, Not just in music they share the same opinion on every single topic (games, movies, anime.......) WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? sorry for yapping too much, But I just had to this off my chest.
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jammerfish Mar 27, 2026 +127
Tv shows also. I know someone who exclusively watches tv shows on TikTok. He just finished The Sopranos and insists that he saw all the important parts
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Dream--Brother Mar 27, 2026 +83
What the f***? How do you follow a storyline that way? Some of the best moments in classic shows are those little one or two second looks, sounds, or phrases that would probably never make it into a highlight clip.
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Regalian Mar 27, 2026 -76
That's just a shitty highlight then...
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pesthouse Mar 27, 2026 +18
God your generation is fucked beyond belief
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Poopieplatter Mar 27, 2026 +24
Lol. Brain has gone to mush
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socks_and_scotch Mar 27, 2026 +21
This is the point where I become grandpa Simpson and I just don't know what it is anymore except that it frightens me.
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RubrikCruber Mar 27, 2026 +1
Jeez old man, I bet you still wear an onion on your belt
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Wrong_Life_7647 Mar 27, 2026 +11
This physically made me ill
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zengbob Mar 27, 2026 +7
Lol
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PckMan Mar 27, 2026 +1
I remember reading about kids pretty much only using TikTok for everything. Like you'll tell them to look up something and instead of Google they'll go on TikTok.
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carson63000 Mar 27, 2026 +51
Mate, I was hating popular songs, glazing niche ones, and letting other people’s opinions dictate what I listened to.. 40 years ago. Don’t need TikTok to be influenced by the crowd. We all figure this out after a while.
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MediumTempTake Mar 27, 2026 +30
I think this is more of a personal problem…….
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AnonymousMonk7 Mar 27, 2026 +7
Didn’t you know that TikTok invented hipsters in 2023?
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VaderIsMyDaddyy Mar 27, 2026 +11
I would definitely agree this feels very Middle School "I'm not like the other people" music tastes in the sense of hating anything popular and only liking niche things. A lot of kids probably go through this phase thinking it makes them more interesting and cool
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TheMooseIsBlue Mar 27, 2026 +108
With all due respect, if you have 2 years of experience with music, you may not be qualified to judge what’s the worst thing that ever happened to it. TikTok is a cancer in general though, not just to music.
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IsThistheWord Mar 27, 2026 +30
Yes. OP clearly never heard Fergie attempt the national anthem.
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PiercedGeek Mar 27, 2026 +5
>OP clearly never heard Fergie ~~attempt the national anthem.~~ FTFY
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fondue4kill Mar 27, 2026 +10
Yeah. Things like censorship acts, Tipper Gore, music copyright lawsuits are far more harmful to music than TikTok.
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Roll_Ups Mar 27, 2026 +5
For real. What are they 3 years old? How do people just start "getting into music"? Is everyone not born "into music"???
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momlookimtrending Mar 27, 2026 +52
The real reason tiktok is bad is because everyone uses the same few seconds of any popular song, lowering the overall attention span. This is a pattern that's followed worldwide. Songwriters battle everyday to make the song be suitable for tiktok
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Hiroba Mar 27, 2026 +35
>Over time I developed this habit of hating on popular songs just because they are popular and glazing less popular songs because they are niche, I only listened to music that is considered good by the people on tiktok, It was like I did not have a thought in my head like a npc in video game. I mean to be fair, this is nothing new at all in music circles. For example in the last 10-20 years there was a huge stereotype of hipsters gatekeeping and hating on any music that Pitchfork or other indie blogs didn't push.
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eric_b0x Mar 27, 2026 +38
Music, Books, Politics, Health info, Food related info, Basic facts.. is all shit on by TikTok’s garbage content. The whole platform preys on people that lack critical thinking skills. TikTok is a cancer on society. Oh, and now it’s owned/operated by the Ellison Nazis.
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haha1222211111 Mar 27, 2026 +5
Unfortunately what this revealed to me is just how MANY people lack critical thinking skills. It straight up feels like almost everyone I stg
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LynnButterfly Mar 27, 2026 +4
In the US, outside the US it's still Chinese.
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emptycagenowcorroded Mar 27, 2026 +16
Twenty odd years ago the Arctic Monkeys sang “there’s only new music so that there’s new ringtones.” I feel this is GenZ’s version of the early Millennial ringtone music fad
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flingebunt Mar 27, 2026 +11
Young people tend to get their tastes from the collective anyway. Tiktok is just this with strangers instead of your friends. It is just the world. Though now you are more free to explore what music you like while in the past you would get music from radio, TV and your cool friends who had bought some cool music on record, tape or CD.
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Orvelo Mar 27, 2026 +9
Except with tiktok you get the same 15s - 1minute loop of the same dozen or so songs.
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flingebunt Mar 27, 2026 +2
Sure, but they are not just talking about what songs but what the social reaction [is.It](http://is.It) is less impactful for someone online to say such and such song sucks than your friends to do so.
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VaderIsMyDaddyy Mar 27, 2026 +4
This seems less about tiktok music being bad and more about the fact that you were just very impressionable and conformed to everyone else's opinions on what was good or bad. The same kind of thing can happen within friend groups as well when everyone else likes a song so you just follow along too
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Roll_Ups Mar 27, 2026 +15
Skill issue. You were just one of the people with no original opinions. Wouldn't throw stones in a glass house if I were you.
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RandomBloke2021 Mar 27, 2026 +3
*tiktok might be the worst thing to happen... Fixed it.
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donotgotoroom237 Mar 27, 2026 +8
I'm on the opposite side of the spectrum. I've discovered a lot of cool music because of Tik Tok. I can't help but compare it to Vine back in the day, I feel like back then, either only trap was blowing up or that's the only stuff I'd hear. On Tik Tok, I get exposed to abwhole host of genres and musicians.
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AmuseMeme Mar 27, 2026 +7
You just described how teenagers have acted about music since forever. Only difference is the source being Tik Tok instead of radio, tv and fellow students.
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No_Schedule2437 Mar 27, 2026 +11
tiktok basically turned music taste into a hivemind and now everyone just parrots the same 15 second opinions without actually listening to full songs
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zengbob Mar 27, 2026 -7
Fr you can not have a normal discussion about music( or any topic tbh) without hearing the same opinion over and over again.
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VaderIsMyDaddyy Mar 27, 2026 +1
This is probably because the people interacting with those music posts are seeing them because they give other tiktok videos using that music high watch time because they already really like it. The algorithm on tiktok actively creates echo Chambers within communities this way
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SheepD0g Mar 27, 2026 +13
Tiktok is mental poison and Chinese spyware. Nobody should be using it for anything.
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ConsiderationJaded14 Mar 27, 2026 +13
Tiktok is owned by a US billionaire now (has been for months) and hes changed the algorithm to be much worse in a multitude of ways.
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LynnButterfly Mar 27, 2026 +8
In the US it's owned by a joint-venture that is US-based. For the rest of the world it's still Chinese owned.
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Horizons_- Mar 27, 2026 +11
Gotta use American spyware instead! Fill that phone up with all the Meta apps.
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merkaba_462 Mar 27, 2026 -4
This.
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khalamar Mar 27, 2026 +2
Nah, it was Lara Trump.
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Good_Lettuce_2690 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Your first mistake was being on tiktok.
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faultysynapse Mar 27, 2026 +5
Tik Tok is the worst thing to happen to people under 30 just in general. It should have been banned.
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buzzkill_ed Mar 27, 2026 +3
Never used it. So I guess music hasn't been ruined for me.
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plickz Mar 27, 2026 +5
Can’t relate, don’t use TikTok.
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fancy_crisis Mar 27, 2026 +2
This isn't exactly a new phenomenon but I will concede social media has definitely exacerbated it. Hey, good job breaking free from the programming tho, now you can actually start enjoying things! 😃
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AngusLynch09 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Go to local gigs. Engage in local communities. 
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HokimaDiharRecords Mar 27, 2026 +2
Nah I mean you can hate on it but AI and late stage capitalism are definitely the worst things to happen to music. TikTok is just an algorithm. It’s been super helpful for us, just by doing little performance videos. A lot of other cool as musicians do the same it’s rad. Gives a lot of us tools that were pretty inaccessible back in the day. I mean it’s not amazing or anything but it’s far from the worst, what you’re describing is just normal music shit, radio and magazines into music videos and mtv into blogs into Spotify playlists and TikTok. It always ends up this way, if anything now is the most free and you don’t have like, an entire class of people that just identify as tool or RHCP fans.
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atomic_mermaid Mar 27, 2026 +2
Disagree. I've found so much new music from tiktok, seen the bands at festivals and been and bought tickets to their own gigs as a result of discovering them on tiktok. You're just young and following trends, almost all kids of all generations have done it.
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Friggin_Grease Mar 27, 2026 +2
Tiktok is the worst thing to happen... period.
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yousyveshughs Mar 27, 2026 +1
The ke$ha song? It’s not that bad.
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fullmoon63 Mar 27, 2026 +1
I don’t think TikTok ruined music, but it definitely sped up the ‘trend → overplay → hate’ cycle.
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In9e Mar 27, 2026 +1
Learn more about social engineering.
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mulder00 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Tik tok might be the worst thing to happen...period.
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kiplos Mar 27, 2026 +1
This is nothing new. People have been enjoying the same things since forever, i.e pop music. My advice is to stop thinking about what other people are enjoying or not enjoying. Listen to your music and form your own opinions based not on outside factors but your opinion alone. Your post comes off as a little arrogant, maybe a little feeling of superiority. Nothing wrong with that, we've all been there. But just have fun, things are not so serious.
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karmakazi_ Mar 27, 2026 +1
Counter point. I have noticed my daughters music taste expand due to tik tok. I let her play music in the car and sometimes I’ll be surprised at a song she has playing. For example she played a crystal castles song and a Fleetwood Mac tune. Choices like this stand out in comparison to the usual diet of Taylor swift and Olivia Rodrigo.
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InvaderDust Mar 27, 2026 +1
Spotify silently forcing Ai music into playlists while forcing out real artists they have to pay, needs some consideration here for real damage to music.
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jmw_0102 Mar 27, 2026
And a real music listener was born 💫 Welcome to the real world! Super stoked you came to the realization to stop listening to other peoples opinions and just lil what you like. Genuinely I’m proud of you and I don’t even know you 🤙🏼
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IanFoxOfficial Mar 27, 2026
I'm 39. When I was young I hated pop music. Now I like hearing early 2000's pop. It makes me think of my younger days and all the memories with my first girlfriend, friends, parties,... TikTok and in extension all social media is a cancer for everything. My attention span has shortened massively. I used to like trance. Tracks that even when transitioned from and to other tracks would play for 5-7 minutes. Now I want music 2-3 minutes and out.
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Samtoast Mar 27, 2026
Sorry for yapping too much? This is literally a discussion forum. It gives people exposure to music they might not have heard otherwise but, unsurprisingly being forced to listen to the radio at work will do the same thing! I'm 40 and I could not care LESS if I never hear another led zeppelin or any Canadian recording artist ever again. With such a vast history of music behind us it's very ironic that I can still hear the same f****** song 3 times in a day. Tik tok just makes the rate you don't like it faster because doomscrolling algorithm
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Ryguy6564 Mar 27, 2026 -20
https://open.spotify.com/track/4A4AY8kv5svqAMzTSMVdJF?si=bjUmhsTvTWGgAtjckvlHVQ Listen to this
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zengbob Mar 27, 2026 +5
AI music? really?
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untoldmillions Mar 27, 2026 +2
ryguy6564 is a bot...look at its comment history
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Ryguy6564 Mar 27, 2026 -14
Just the vocals :)
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