What Classifies a Genre or Sub-Genre? - Music

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BrandonMeow wrote:

Lol, so? How they listen to music is their business (and they would still cling to the same sounds even if there wasn't a name for the sound), genres are helpful to us that appreciate different styles.

Also, I find that musically inexperienced people are usually fairly ignorant of genres...That is why you'll often hear them say things like "I listen to everything".

As well as disregarding genres to a ridiculous apex where they don't understand or comprehend them.

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BrandonMeow wrote:

Lol, so? How they listen to music is their business (and they would still cling to the same sounds even if there wasn't a name for the sound), genres are helpful to us that appreciate different styles.

Also, I find that musically inexperienced people are usually fairly ignorant of genres...That is why you'll often hear them say things like "I listen to everything".

I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. But one thing is absolutely certain, genres can both hurt and help people. Not having them also hurts and helps people. The solution here is almost impossible.

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genesisfoxtrot21 wrote:

That's exactly what musically-inexperienced people are doing these days. It's true. I've seen it so many times. They don't care how actually sounds, if it's labeled metal and sounds like pop, people will buy it anyway. Bam! More fucking money for the music industry.

This, along with virtually all the claims you're making, are based on a LOT of assumptions, and literally nothing empirical.
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Gowienczyk wrote:

As well as disregarding genres to a ridiculous apex where they don't understand or comprehend them.

Yes, this is what I'm referring to. Not labeling genres would get rid of that ignorance.

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Pop idols and teenagers will never change that much is clear. But what is clear is one thing:

"Genre classification threads are absolutely worthless and a pedantic plague on forums".

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genesisfoxtrot21 wrote:

Yes, this is what I'm referring to. Not labeling genres would get rid of that ignorance.

Dude that is like saying, "OH you don't understand astronomy? Let's get rid of space and help you out."

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Also, should one really consider disregarding genres as a whole just because of the habits of musically-inexperienced people? The musically naive? They'll evolve in their musical taste (most will anyways). Who doesn't act like that when they're in their mid-teens? I know I did. But as I matured, so did my musical taste.
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RockyRaccoon wrote:

Also, should one really consider disregarding genres as a whole just because of the habits of musically-inexperienced people? The musically naive? They'll evolve in their musical taste (most will anyways). Who doesn't act like that when they're in their mid-teens? I know I did. But as I matured, so did my musical taste.

BrandonMeow wrote:

Dude that is like saying, "OH you don't understand astronomy? Let's get rid of space and help you out."

The. End.

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BrandonMeow wrote:

Dude that is like saying, "OH you don't understand astronomy? Let's get rid of space and help you out."

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Gowienczyk wrote:

The. End.

Fine. This is just getting me mad. I need to calm down. I was being a bit of an asshole. I'm sorry, guys. It won't happen again. I'm not the fucking MLK of music. Laughing

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