Wellll, I actually don't have one in musical terms. I've yet to run across a genre that's totally absent of anything I can enjoy.

But that's in terms of music, the sound, the "vibe". There are some things I just don't have patience for, like most gospel. Plenty of great singers, competent instrumentalists and composition. It's just fucking boring because all of it is about one thing. Yeah, yeah, Jesus loves you and me, I've heard of a thousand times and you're using the same turns of phrase that two dozen other gospel singers have used this decade, and more before that.

If I want gospel, I go to a church, and I don't go to church. But it usually sounds great. Lots of really spectacular vocalists.

The other is for a similar reason, but it's really more about the people. While I'm the sort that art and artist aren't inherently tied to each other for my enjoyment of the art, contemporary christian music is the exception.

See, I've known way too many people in the various branches of that overarching genre. Christian rock, rap, pop, blues, and the general purpose label. The amount of them that aren't absolute pieces of shit when they think nobody is watching is ridiculous. It's the most morally bankrupt grouping of people I've ever run across. I'm not saying every performer in that branch of music is horrible. I'm just saying it's hard to find the ones that aren't.

So, since it's also the same thing as gospel, where every song is about the same thing with no room for anything fresh after decades of songs about the exact same motherfucker on a cross, I won't waste my time with it if there's even a hint that's what it is. I can usually tolerate small amounts in passing, but only small amounts.

Again, it isn't the quality of the music, or even the styles involved. But I'd rather listen to something of lower quality that I can sing along with (horribly) than listen to a bunch of hypocrites sing perfectly.

Don't sing "give peace a chance" if you're a professional soldier kinda thing.

I am, however, still picky about other genres. Nashville style pop country, I tend to get bored with fast. Same with the more experimental jazz (though I've developed a better ear for it lately). And I don't tend to get into the usual pop stuff, it's background sound only for the most part.