Why is easy listening music so hard to listen to??????
One reason might be that one of the local Kansas City easy listening stations has been playing nothing but Christmas carols for 10 days now.
It has no spice.
Why is easy listening music so hard to listen to??????
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I'm sure your question is a tad tongue in cheek, but my serious as a heart attack answer is that by definiton, easy listening music means the listener doesn't actually have to really listen to it, it's just pleasant background noise.
Good music (IMHO) requires something of the listener. Those who find easy listening music hard to listen to actually have music in their souls, and as a result, actually listen to the easy listening music and find it repulsive because it doesn't have any depth to it. Did you get all that?
It's a shame that a pretty good representative of the singer songwriter tradition has been co-opted so.