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Rant: Music Industry Genres

#21
Rune Bivrin said:
Genre, schmenre.

There's only one thing more annoying than the attribution of genres to acts, and that's the amount of butt-hurt manifested by genre purists who by themselves are tasked with gate keeping.

To me there are three genres: Stuff I like, stuff I dislike and stuff I don't understand.
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And that which I don't understand is meaningless, unimportant, esoteric BS, anyway.
 
#22
I learned long ago to just listen to the music. The only thing music is trying to sell is itself, so why worry about what some sales person disguised as a music critic thinks.

Slotting music into genres in written reviews is the 21st century equivalent of payola.
 
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#23
Look. One Direction got some guitars to play.

I watched the video on that page you linked. That was a mistake. At least the music matches the band photo at the top of the page.

In the end, I don't care what they call it, I know now that I shouldn't listen to that. I thank you for the warning about them.
 
#24
I just vomited all over my keyboard after making the mistake of googling these clowns to see what all the fuss was about. ***? Elements of punk my ass. 5SOS is bubble gum pop with elements of douche baggery and sh**. The only genre these clowns are bringing out is the New genre I'm dubbing Hipster Douche Bag Candy Pop.
 
#26
I like how two of the members make sure to be photographed as often as possible wearing Nirvana and Sex Pistols shirt respectively. sure one could argue both these bands were very commercial, really, and i'd agree, but what they had to say and where it came from was genuine (well SP was put together by Maclaren sure and vicious was a pretty faced fashion idol and Lydon was more into getting attention than anything else but i think Matlock's lyrics were genuine). They're not the first "band" to pull this poopie off but it's angering everytime. You can't claim to idolize bands like these and then play this poopie. I really don't think you can.
 
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#33
I could care less about the genre-label they have because in the end it has always been a marketing label. Punk. Pop-punk. Pop. If I had to label them, I would use the same label. If I was in the band, I would use the same label too.

Same thing happened with Grunge. Any band that happened to be from Seattle, and one from San Diego, was suddenly grunge regardless of their actual musical styles.

It's the consumer that gets used to the idea of genre. Then newer musicians tend to believe in the only way to play a certain marketing label genre is to play a certain way with certain instruments. You play metal? Is it fast? Call it Thrash Metal. Not many people can actually understand how you're singing? Death Metal. You want to add jazz chords and a bassoon? You can't. That's not metal.

5 Seconds of Summer? Good for them. They found their audience regardless of what the industry calls them. Me? I think I'll work on a death metal band with jazz chords and find a bassoon player. And realize even if it was called Pop-Death-Jazz Metal I'll still have no audience.
 
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As an appreciator of metal music, I have learned that genre classifications are nigh-on meaningless. If there was ever a more stratified, filtered, sorted, and stacked super-class than metal, I don't know it.

I heard a person, with complete sincerity, say band was a "technical-progressive-melodic-death metal" band.

Le sigh.

So...I don't pay attention to how publishers, or artists themselves, try to categorize the things they're selling.
 

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