Anyone who knows me can tell you how critical of a person I am of everything.
The way I see it, I'm just more particular in my tastes, while everyone else is way too lenient.

Take, for instance, music. I'm very particular in music. Although I don't have any specific genre that I collectively hate (except for Raggaeton...) I'm very picky nonetheless.
...and so with that in mind added to my inflated ego, I bring you

My 10 Commandments of Music:

1. Thou shalt not make Reggaeton music:
   If you make, listen to, dance to, or enjoy reggaeton music, then we probably have no business with each other... maybe except for you trying to sell me drugs or mugging me from time to time. It's just a very crude and headache-inducing music that breeds indecency more than Hip Hop can ever hope to accomplish.
2. Thou shalt not have random meaningless lyrics:
   It seems like these days there's less and less emphasis on songwriting. I mean as long as it's got a nice "beat", it could have some of the stupidest words in the dictionary put together but people will still dance to it and consider it an awesome song.  For example (a certain song that will remain unnamed) that they repeated play on the radio much to my chagrin: "You make me want to say oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh my god." i wonder if the songwriter had to physically write that out or just abbreviated that as "Oh X 16 + Oh my god" on paper. Either way I hope he got tarred and feathered.
3. Thou shalt not use the word "beau"
   "Beau" of more commonly spelled as "Boo" in the african-american community as well as the pRe-TeEn community means boyfriend/girlfriend or love interest.  And I utterly hate this word. If my girlfriend were ever to call me this, I would probably jump kick her like Jean Claude Van Damme.  As much as pop culture would have it, it'll never be a poetic term of endearment in my or any sane person's dictionary. It's stupid not romantic. 
                                                
4. Thou shalt not attempt a hiphop/country crossover duet:
   Duets work only sometimes. Even if both parties are very talented, it doesn't always work out because they don't compliment each other musically.  It ESPECIALLY doesn't work if one of them is a corny cliche cowboy country singer and the other is a band-aid wearing black-version-of a-007-villain rapper.  It was a catastrophe of a duet and it was called "Over and Over". Who would have thought that hiphop and country wouldn't mix at all? Uhmm apparently everyone except for Nelly and Tim McGraw.
5. Thou shalt not excessively use auto-tune:
   Simply put, it's fake singing and misleads people to think you have some semblance of vocal talent when you don't.  Using it occasionally and purely for voice effect is reasonable, but when you use it the entire length of the song disguised as your real voice, then you are good for nothing. That just tells me that you are probably not very good at singing and doesn't deserve to be paid.  At least not as a music artist. Sound technician maybe.  It's like Monet using photoshop... not real art, but imitation of art.
6. Thou shalt not pretend to be what your not:
   Yes I'm looking at you Lady Gag.  Some just like to pretend they are more transcendental then they actually are. We all realize Lady Gag is nothing but a gimmick unto her self, but amidst all those wanton acts of attention whoring, she had misled herself into thinking she's bigger or more meaningful than she is. It's kind of like if the Jonas Brothers actually considered themselves legitimate music artists.  But I'm sure they don't.  Oh wait.. they do??? It's also like Miley Cyrus trying to get away from the Hannah Montana thing and actually trying to sing and act for real.  They just need to face the harsh reality: they are NOT multi-talented... HECK they're not even single-talented.
   
   I can assume it wasn't Beyonce's idea to take a picture with Grandpa Gaga
7. Thou shalt not become famous by covering other people's songs:
   Ok, I get it, being original is hard in this day and age. But at least be famous for singing your own song, not someone else's.  It's like those countless Youtube wouldbe stars that come and go on the radio.  Like that one girl, what's-her-face (exactly my point) that sang like a guitar version of Umbrella. It was half-decent... but completely emotionless and boring.  It's nearly impossible to resing others' songs and have it continue to be popular... unless you have immense talent. And even regular-sized talent is rare in music today.
   
   a face that's not too shabby on the eyes + not so terrible cover = Record deal for this new upcoming staWAIT no she sucks, nevermind take her off the airwaves... done.
8. Thou shalt reinvent yourself:
   Nowadays, many artists and bands come and go.  No one really sticks around for the long haul, and that's because we as listeners become tired of them.  They need to reinvent themselves.  Every legendary artist/group reinvented themselves in one way or another to stay fresh, to stay current, and to stay original.  Artists like Beatles, Rolling Stones, Madonna. They all did. And as much as everyone loves to bash, they have to give credit to Kanye West for reinventing his music sometimes.  No one wants to hear you play the same old kind of music with the same old kind of lyrics 5~10 years down the road... Unless you're U2. I don't know how or why but people still love them with the mediocre and bland stuff they put out.  Honestly they haven't had an originally decent song since Sunday Bloody Sunday.  
9. Thou shalt practice your craft:
   Do artists do this anymore? In between recording sessions, brainstorming for new ideas, performing, and marketing, do musicians really honestly sit down and get to practicing music? Other than a rare rare few, I can't really think of any artists/bands that actually progressively get better as time goes on. No one is skilled at music anymore. Since when has music veered away from musicianship and into other areas? Showmanship, marketability, accessibility to masses... all these things that should be secondary factors to musicianship is now more important than the music itself.
10. Thou shalt not say your own name out loud:
    Yes I'm looking at you Jason Derulo! If you really need to remind us that you're the singer of the song, then you've already failed in your job, since we're not entertained enough to bother asking who sings that song.  And yes, I'm looking at you JayZ, with your stupid nickname hova that announce on all your songs (or technically, beats with melodies that you rhythmically talk over a.k.a. rap "song"). Yes I'm looking at you Dr.Dre and SnoopDogg with your bromance calling out each other's names... Extremely narcissistic not to mention weird...
    Could you imagine if movie actors started saying their own names during movies? It'd probably look something like this:
    

1. finding an unexpected $5 bill in your pocket
2. finding out that your boss is also running a little bit late, so he/she didn't see you come in late
3. when the car in front of you makes a mistake, ASKING to be honked at
4. when you arrive at the subway station AS the train is pulling in
5. pissing off my girlfriend (only a little bit)
6. when my boss makes a scheduling mistake so I can call her out on it.