positives:
-ANYTHING JASON MOLINA (songs: ohia, jason molina, magnolia electric co.) plsplspls lmk if you're mapping anything of his
-english
-indie rock (peach pit, flipturn, the beths)
-shoegaze (sadness, Default缺省, weatherday, brave little abacus)
-all slowcore (not typically great for mapping though sadly)
-hyperpop (old glaive/ericdoa, brakence)
-experimental hip hop (jpegmafia, quadeca, injury reserve)
-JANE REMOVER (and anything similar)
-midwest emo (modern baseball <3, marietta, pinegrove)
-breakcore (7_7, watering)
-punk rock (pierce the veil, sleeping with sirens, pup)
-jazz (especially if it has saxophone)

negatives:
-pop (taylor swift, harry styles, sabrina carpenter, etc (only real exceptions are hozier/mitski/clairo?)
-"modern" country (morgan wallen, brad paisley, luke combs, etc (guys like johnny cash don't count here))
-noise on occasion if it's too excessive but normally it's fine
-electronic/rhythm game/sdvx music (stuff with a lot of synth can be cool sometimes but typically i'm not a huge fan)
-pop punk (mgk, yungblud)

but my music taste is incredibly diverse and i like a LOOOOT of stuff so if you want to request something and aren't 100% sure what i'll think, just send it in (assuming i'm open) and i'll take a look! it's better to ask and have me say no than to never know

genj (inspiration when i first started mapping & helped me out with some of my early maps)
woosungko (mandatory, ahhhh these chains is top 3 map all time)
adam (:3)
ono (improv king)
mmzz (again, mandatory)
jarvis (jarviswave is the greatest sv gimmick ever invented)
alchyr (sight noise life & the earth is my favorite map ever, also word bomb goat)
myself (because if you don't respect your own maps, why are you even making them?)

almost every song is constantly changing in intensity and form, which is why never utilizing any slider velocity makes no sense in terms of song representation. a good mapper shouldn't need slider velocity to make a good map, but they should be able to utilize it effectively to strengthen said map by using it as a tool to emphasize more intense sections. not doing this will 100% of the time feel underwhelming and make the map feel flat and visually boring, even if the map itself is very good.

barlines can and should be treated as another layer to work with, they can serve as emphasis on backing vocals or another layer you aren't mapping to notes while not negatively affecting gameplay

ranked as a status essentially means nothing when players can rank ee 30 sec anime slop and it's treated with the same weight as actual good sets with plenty of effort applied. map for fun, map for yourself, ranked is nothing more than a status. it doesn't mean you're a good mapper, it means you can talk to bns. note that this doesn't mean ranked is useless because it helps push cooler songs or maps to the public but there is no real prestige to the title of "ranked mapper" like many act like there is

improv is good and should be much more commonplace than it currently is, old maps from ~2014 era have substantially more creativity in terms of patterning than a lot of ranked maps today that spam ddkkd kkddd etc

just use a fuck ton of sv man

don't do that shit