One of my coworkers told me once that she gives vague answers like "I listen to everything" because she doesn't want to talk about music with people. She was like "no one knows the obscure Korean pop I'm listening to so I just don't want to go into it".

Which I kind of get. She put some thought into it and it was a tactical answer.

in the car:

"what do we wanna listen to? name a band!"

"whatever's fine"

"no seriously! just give me a name!"

"ok. goatwhore."

"what?"

"GOAT. WHORE."

"..."

"..."

"...i'm gonna put on some nice ambient electronic..."

I like metal. I don’t like discussing metal. I tell people I listen to everything, but what it literally means is I’m not offended by anything you play.

Finna change that "everything" to, "everything with a legible logo"

When I say "everything" I mean that I don't have a specific list of genres I listen to. I can listen to any kind of music as long as it's to my liking and it does not matter if it's dead metal or k-pop or classical... Every genre has a lot of stuff I like and a lot of stuff I hate.

I'm a "I listen to everything except Country and Ska" friend.

NOW! YOU! HAVE! SOMETHING! TO DIE FOR!!!!!

Me: plays metal to friend Friend: "Can we, like, turn the music off and just sit in silence."

Same friend listens to trance which just makes me fall asleep during work.

Yeah I peace out when I can't tell if it's the vocalist or the garbage disposal is making that noise

"The music is okay, I just don't like the screaming". Although that only describes a portion of the metal bands I like, to me that's like someone saying: "I like Monet paintings, but I'm not a fan of the colorful flowers."

I get this reaction from people when playing Skinny Puppy, Igorrr, Herbie Hancock ffs.... these people are sheltered, LOL!

Death metal? Pffft, that's mainstream swill.

<Puts on Shitnoise Bastards> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIpJ5Xl0PR4

I like everything if it's at least distinguishable from nails in a mixer, because that's not music to me.

I listen to almost all genres, but not everything. I get bored of one genre all the time and don't like everything in one genre.

Or something like Vatstep DSP by Hrvatski because nobody realizes they wanted to hear Stephen Hawking be the lead singer for an experimental electronic music band

I’ve tried to like it. But machine-gun drums and vomiting on the mic like you have norovirus dry heaves just don’t work for me.