Originally Posted by enemyat_thesix

i draw the line at two words. besides, 'groove', 'tech', 'synth', and 'dance' are being used as adjectives rather than hardline genres in those cases.

the point is that when I want to listen to Electro I don't want something like Ratatat coming up: they're not Electro. this would be impossible if I just tagged anything and everything that uses synths as 'Electronica', a genre which doesn't even exist. when I want to listen to tough guy I don't want to hear As I Lay Dying come on, but this would be impossible if I tagged it all as metalcore.

the truth is, subgenres are not things people pull out of their asses to sound pretentious. There is a distinct difference between brutal death metal and melodic death metal, between hardcore and punk, between electroclash and electro.