Thread: Do you listen to "mainstream" radio music?

I caught this on the internets the other day, and it's actually a pretty good song I think, although I was never too fond of rap/hiphop. It just goes to show that it can work, but its current form is kind of lame.

YouTube - Day9 Made Me Do It

I can't stand the music my local radio stations play resulting in me buying an auxiliary cord for my ipod. I am definitely against mainstream music only because of it's lack of creativity.

I have very eclectic tastes, listening any genre you can think of. However, I hate the radio because I find it both shallow and repetitive. To me, good music needs to be dynamic. By dynamics I mean creative and full. I think artists achieve this in many different ways, incorporating various rhythmic qualities for example. There's something to be offered from any genre but what I hear on the radio has bin flattened. I think that I may very well have a music addiction. Radio bugs me so much I have to calm myself with my own collection if I'm ever forced to listen to the radio for an extended period of time. Last December I had a nervous breakdown because my work played christmas music for 4 weeks straight. .. .. so my answer is no, I don't listen to the radio / mainstream music.
I do actively look out for new stuff however,,, but I search using internet, music shops, word of mouth, etc.

Edit: Oh and one reason I can't stand my local radio station is they play the same songs 10 times a day, every day. They might replace a song in there playlist every 2 to 3 months. This gets old fast and Ive lived in this town for 28 years. I don't see how any station could get away with having less music than the very first mp3 players could hold.

I used to despise mainstream music. Hated it with a passion. But after a while, I began to saw value in it. Listening to mainstream music is more of a social experience than anything else, something that brings people together. While I see infinitely more value in specific music I like, I find that learning to not hate mainstream music makes like more fun haha. As for autotune, I only dislike it if the artist is not forthcoming with it. Using it as an effect actually sounds pretty pleasing to me. It's the people who pretend to sing well by hiding behind it that I hate.

Strictly underground!

Rarely. I have XM, and I'm usually tuned to Alt Nation, Classic Vinyl, 90s on 9, or something similar. The only remotely mainstream station I usually ever listen to is the French "Air Musique."

Though I admit, Party Rock Anthem is a guilty pleasure of mine.

I don't like how this question is worded.

I like songs, I dislike songs. I'm not going to hate a song because it's played on the radio or because it's "mainstream".

I like radiohead, I like RHCP, I like Led Zepplin and Pearl Jam. They are all on the radio, and are (or were) extremely "mainstream". I like music that I like. I'm not going to be a non-conformist douche that hates everything on the radio for the sake of it, or that hates mainstream music just because it's mainstream. Hell, John Mayer has a few songs that I dig.

Just like the music that you like.

I listen to mainstream music

but i also listen to VGM

The only genre I dislike is hardcore dubstep.

Everything else is fine for me, though I usually only listen to a finnish rock radio station and then my own selection of (instrumental) techno/trance/dnb songs.

You all must listen to pop/ top 40. I can assure you that country music is generally not synthesized.

The problem with mainstream/alternative where I'm from is that when a genre becomes mainstream it still has a huge fanbase, but some-hipsters- leave and then go to alternative shows etc.

That's why every new rockband is indie I guess. Which is a contradictio in terminis.
For kids there's Bieber and the Jonas Brothers and such, for teens there's Bieber and Lady Gaga and for everybody older it seems to be schlager here.
Mainstream to me is the songs that are played on the radio, songs I despise. On easter and every sunday night there's metal on the radio here.

I'm a fan of most thrashmetal. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Sepultura, Channel zero...
Most of them -Metallica e g- is super popular and sell a lot of albums, but still they don't get played that often here. That's why I consider Metallica neither mainstream nor alternative

TL; DR

Noooo. I don't like how mainstream music is mostly about drugs, money and lust.

I actually like music (a lot), so no. I haven't been able to tolerate anything on the radio since.... wow I can't even remember but I'm sure there was a time... there must have been....

Some public radio is OK but anything over the commercial airwaves is garbage.