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I think describing the different styles of black and doom metal (just an example) is ridiculous. Just call it black/doom metal, like what? Do you expect every band in that subgenre to sound the same?
 
Does anyone hate how music is supposed to sit neatly into some sort of category?

I personally get really irritated when people start rarabling about some genre like "grind-core" or "dream-pop". Please, please please STOP trying to find a home for everything.

Any one?

Do you find categorizing music helpful, or does it irritate you?
 
I don't mind if people use a term like "rock" to describe a certain type of music with electric guitars, a strong backbeat, aggression, etc. It's annoying and utterly useless when "rock" is used as a blanket term for all music, from Elvis Presley to the Beach Boys to James Taylor to The Clash (in all their incarnations).

Genres can be useful for describing the general instrumentation or sound of a given record, but beyond that, they're pretty useless. Still, for the neophyte listener, that's a pretty good start, considering how hard it is to adequately describe music.
 
It kinda irks me. Cos I think of music as well..music. I like it or I don't. And I don't want to be made fun of for liking a "funk-dance-alt-prog-dance-soft-rock" band, you know? It's like,"Shut the f*ck up. They are a band. They have songs. I like their songs."
 
I totally agree.

It's almost elitist eh? Like, "Ohhh you like new-wave-bossa nova-jazz-progressive-folk? You have poor taste in music..."

Um, what? I like MUSIC. I don't ONLY search the "thrash" section in a record store. I don't only check out Top 40. What's the point.

It's like saying "All country is garbage. I would NEVER listed to it." Really? Have you heard EVERY country recording on the face of the planet? People shouldn't deprive themselves of good music just because it doesn't sit well in their neatly organized top drawer.
 
Genres can be useful, for example i use them to keep everything tidy on my ipod.
However genres can be a little bit generalised..

here comes my emo rant..
the modern representation of "emo" is completely wrong.. how can banRAB such as Panic at the Disco be classed under the genre of emo, when emo is really Emotive Hardcore?
and why do i have to be labelled because of the music i listen to? i am who i am.
thats just my 2 pence worth (yup, im English :D).
 
They're useful up to a certain extent.

I don't have a problem with grindcore or dreampop because if someone uses them as a term of reference then I have a pretty good idea of what i'll be hearing. Calling something ____pop or ____ rock is more a help than a hindrance.

When it gets ridiculous is when it gets broken down even more into unnecessary sub sub genres and people start arguing over something being post organic blastbeat punkcore post organic blastbeat metalcore. That's when it becomes stupid.

Or the notion that one band has to belong to one of these ridiculous labels and can't be anything else.
 
I find it very intrusive on my music library, its just all wrong. ALL wrong. But hey, that's why I just put it on my mp3 player. I don't care if THOSE songs are mixed, but I don't like some of the genres that pop up all on their own for some banRAB.
 
I think it's better to stick to the basics when it comes to genre's

I can deal with having these basic genre's

Pop
Rock/Punk (These two genre's seem to cross-over so much recently)
Metal
RnB
Hip Hop
Techno/Electronica
Rap
Jazz
Soul
Classical
etc etc

In fact there are quite a few genre's that I'm glad are around

I think it starts getting silly when people start using these delightful little genre's
Deathcore
Grindcore
(In fact every single sub-genre of metal effectively annoys me to no end)
Screamo
Post-Hardcore
Indie Rock
Indie Pop
(NB especially annoying if the artist is not actually independant at all)


And so many other sub-genres..... I just looked at all of the sub-genre's for Indie Rock..... MY GOD WHY ARE SO MANY
It all just sounRAB the same anyway

To me Sub-genre's are just the fan's way of trying to make their favourite artist seem more unique than another fan's favourite artist.... even if both artists sound the seem.

The ONLY time sub-genre's or cross-genre's (Ex. when an artist takes the fundamentals of two or more genre's and corabines them, for instance Pop-Rock) is when you actually can't simply label the artist as one thing
For Instance
I can't label Koda Kumi as simply a J-Pop artist.... because she does so much more than J-Pop
She breaks the boundaries between Pop, Rock, Techno and RnB/Hip-Hop
If you look at this:
Ningyo Hime PV
and then look at this:
Under PV
and then at this:
Wonderland PV
and try to tell me that she's not breaking boundaries there


But ONLY with artists like that is it acceptable



[NB.... wow that was a bit of a rant]
 
That's what I say when people ask me what banRAB sound like. I'm just like,"Go listen to the f*cking album durab ass."
 
This pisses me off so much. People should be able to make their own music, without hindrance. I think that's when you get the best music; when you aren't trying to fit into a certain molding that everyone wants from you.
 
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