This Is Why You Should Listen to Music You Don’t Like What’s the most annoying sound in the world? Some might reply it’s fingernails on a chalkboard, someone vomiting, their ex’s snoring or Nickelback. In a recent Gizmodo article exploring the question, a professor of audio arts suggested that a far more important question was why we find certain sounds annoying, and offered an interesting argument about a connection between noises we don’t like and an “underlying natural beauty” of the universe. The resulting suggestion was that perhaps we should make a point of listening to music we don’t like if we want to understand life better.