Mainstream Hate

So as my other half was realising about why she loves 1D so much, I figured out what i hate about mainstream music so much. I know most of you out there listen to a lot of mainstream music, (hence mainstream), but i guess i need to get is off my mind.
I used to listen to mainstream music, mum would have the radio on the Fox everyday on the way to and from school. What i remember really hating about that was the rotation of songs and artists. The world seemed to consist of a popular few bands, a handful of solo pop artists and a few other lesser known artists slotted in here and there. If there was a song people liked a lot then the song was played on high rotation to the point where even if you loved the song at first you ended up hating it. And what seemed to happen more often than not was my disliking of that song to begin with... But don't get me wrong, for the majority of my school life i listened to mainstream, had songs i loved, songs i hated from it. I think it all changed when i joined a band.
One of the members introduced me to triple J, and i have to say it took a bit of desensitising. But the more i listened to it, the more bands i found and fell in love with. There were just so many bands out there that I had never heard of, and even though triple J still had a "mainstream" of artists, my world was expanded. I think the main thing i loved was the real music feel. Music wasn't just computerised backing to a solo artist singing about how they love beautiful girls tits, getting down to the club every night and taking drugs and shots etc.
Also, the fact that mainstream radio claims to release everything first. Yes they may be first to release lady gaga and rhianas new hits, but by the time they play an indie-rock song, its not new anymore. For example Brother by Matt Corby...i was at a party a month ago and everyone was singing along with that song, thinking it was new, but it was on the top 100 songs for 2011 on tripleJ. And what got me really annoyed was that i knew that if i had of tried introducing them to that song earlier they would have probably not payed much attention to it, but because it was on fox fm and everyone was listening to it it was suddenly cool.
As a band we have recently put original material on the back-burner and scraped together some covers material, because lets face it, its easier and you get paid more for it.
But part of the whole covers deal is that you need to learn some mainstream music as well. And although we moan and groan about learning them, half the mainstream covers that we learn end up being our favourite songs to play. For example lady gagas lovegame. Why? Because when we do it our way with guitars, keyboards and real drums it is so much more fun. Another recent on was the old eurythmics song sweet dreams...
So i guess what i hate about mainstream is that it's everyone just following a trend. They don't always see music as an individual creative interest. They like it because they are told to like it, because their friends like it, they hate it because everyone else hates it. Their idea of going against the tide is hating music that teens like, hating justin beiber and 1D because they are young and sing about "naive" things like happiness and beauty rather than sluts and drugs. What they like is so much influenced by what everyone else likes, so kudos to Zo for sticking up to her one direction love, and even my BF for still loving the backstreet boys even though i laugh at him for it.