Originally Posted by Aaron Johnson
Hey Nigel

I dont think you can make a country tune into an electronic tune i.e. House, D&B, Underground. I also dont see how to turn a jazz song into a metal song genres made themselves we just gave them names. am I crazy?


Country becomes electronica

Electronica becomes country?

Rap meets Rock

Take Five

The last link is not a great example but does illustrate the point.

No you are not crazy. Yes, there clearly are genres and they do have musical and lyrical traits, but speaking personally if someone says ‘this is a rock song’ or this is a ‘hip-hop song’ it won’t color my judgement as to whether it is any good or not, I am not genre driven. I feel I can assess a country song as well as a show tune. If I had a number of boards to choose from I probably wouldn’t listen to any. At least with a single board there is an element of anticipation about what I might hear.

The other problem with genres is where do you draw the line? I mentioned Soundclick earlier, they must have 40 to 50 genres on there. If you come up with rock, country, folk, pop and jazz. Someone will come along and say how come we haven’t got punk, disco, classical and garage.

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