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View Poll Results: Which has the most ridiculous subgenres? | |||
Metal | 30 | 73.17% | |
Electronica | 4 | 9.76% | |
Other | 1 | 2.44% | |
Don't have a cow man | 2 | 4.88% | |
Cool story bro | 4 | 9.76% | |
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12-28-2009, 05:32 AM | #25 (permalink) | ||
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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There's so too many redundant subgenres already. I gave up on keeping track of musical category creep a long time ago. In the future every band will have it's own unique subgenre. Do I really need to know what "Symphonic Black Metal" is to be informed about music? According to genre obsessed folks at AMG:
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Hard Rock has largest amonunt of category creep of all the genres with 32 different subgenres: Quote:
There's only 11 basic genres of music and the hundreds of subgenres and sub-sub genres are more information than anyone needs. I'm musical pluralist who opposes any and all category creep in music because it's an elitist trend and it kills joy of music. Category creep transforms recorded music into just another capitalist product with an appropriate marketing strategy designed to appeal to a certain "hip" demographic of people who want to follow the most fashionable music trends. Trust me on this...Those opinion makers of "the hip demographic" are painfully unaware of hipness because all of the great indie labels like Sun Records, Stax, Rough Trade, Chess, Rounder or Slash don't have the big advertising budgets to market their music to the self-appointed hipsters who know what Emo or Twee music is. I really don't know what Emo or Twee music is and I really don't want to know what Emo or Twee music is. I don't need to have a knowledge of Emo or Twee to appreciate music. For all I know, I could have several Emo or Twee selections in my music collection. Category creep makes music critics feel important and assists megamusic corporations to market music by demographic groups but there are 11 basic genres of music and all the other hundreds of subgenres are categorical overkill that are subjective creations of the musical establishment. |
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