Are there too many music genres?

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Are there too many music genres? Sept 14, 2023 12:22:40 GMT 1 Pipperoo and neomoxie like this

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Post by steve on Sept 14, 2023 12:22:40 GMT 1

Witch house, grime, folktronica, lowercase, math rock, splittercore, filthstep, screamo……etc.
Seriously, what the fork are all these genres & do we really need them?
Most of them sound made up. Take “time lord rock” for example (yes it’s real). FFS!
Grime is literally rap. But a little bit faster & comes from England. Isn’t German reggae just, well, reggae?
Do people invent these stupid names in an effort so sound a bit cooler or something?
Someone’s even made a forking map & it has almost 1400 different genres on it. Isn’t that a bit ridiculous?

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Are there too many music genres? Sept 14, 2023 22:45:01 GMT 1 BlueHughes likes this

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Post by neomoxie on Sept 14, 2023 22:45:01 GMT 1

I think it's become a way to get differentiation between bands on a micro level. I did a bit of sorting for the dj a while back and a lot of the sampler/promo labels would put weird categories or FFO (for fans of). Most of the categories were totally stupid, but it's seems like bands are using it as a way to catch the eyeballs of music directors/djs to at least listen.

There is just so much music out there, and nobody really has time to listen to it all. So if "rowdy redhead rockers" is a category on Bandcamp, I *may* be more likely to sample, even if I don't recognize any of the bands.

Ridiculous, but if it gets more ears to listen? Success.

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Are there too many music genres? Sept 15, 2023 1:49:43 GMT 1 neomoxie likes this

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Sept 14, 2023 22:45:01 GMT 1 neomoxie said:

I think it's become a way to get differentiation between bands on a micro level. I did a bit of sorting for the dj a while back and a lot of the sampler/promo labels would put weird categories or FFO (for fans of). Most of the categories were totally stupid, but it's seems like bands are using it as a way to catch the eyeballs of music directors/djs to at least listen.

There is just so much music out there, and nobody really has time to listen to it all. So if "rowdy redhead rockers" is a category on Bandcamp, I *may* be more likely to sample, even if I don't recognize any of the bands.

Ridiculous, but if it gets more ears to listen? Success.

I haven't been aware of this trend but I think you're onto something. It reminds me a bit of writing album reviews as a MD. We also used to write a few phrases or impressions on adhesive labels and put them on the jewel cases/sleeves so the deejays would have some frame of reference when they were looking through the new releases or albums in rotation.

I think it is largely a matter of standing out and giving people something to remember in a large field of players. Not to mention the dreaded algorithms that now enable us to lead a completely curated life. But I digress...

P.S. My poll answer would technically have to be "no" because I refuse to acknowledge what is described as actually being genres.

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Are there too many music genres? Sept 16, 2023 15:34:42 GMT 1 steve, BlueHughes, and 2 more like this

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Post by sandgrounder on Sept 16, 2023 15:34:42 GMT 1

One of my passions is 'collecting' beers. There's also a map of beers, many of which are of similar style.

As with beer, there are only two types of music....Good & everything else 🍻

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Are there too many music genres? Sept 16, 2023 17:16:17 GMT 1

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Post by BlueHughes on Sept 16, 2023 17:16:17 GMT 1

Sept 16, 2023 15:34:42 GMT 1 sandgrounder said:

One of my passions is 'collecting' beers. There's also a map of beers, many of which are of similar style.

As with beer, there are only two types of music....Good & everything else 🍻

Do you have a higher resolution version of that map?

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