Why is the music app so awful

I probably just dont know how to use it and there arent any settings that I can find, but the tile switching thing it does drives me crazy! Why is that something that I cannot turn off?
When listening to music, the phone goes to this tile thing that shows a bunch of albums, but there isnt any easy way I can find to get back to what is playing. There arent any buttons or swipes I have been able to find to get back to it, then if I set down and pick it up it start this portrait to landscape switching thing where I turn it one way and it moves another and so on. The only way to get back to something normal is to back out and restart music, which is the opposite of easy and intuitive.
What am I doing wrong, there are so many things with this phone that are just hard to use that Im not sure what the hype about Apple designs are. I dont have time to research how to use an "intuitive" device and I have had this phone for a couple years and it is just not very good, but it is what my work hands out so it is what I have.
If anyone has any real suggestions on what to do with the music app I would really appreciate it.

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