That us a really great point. To think of music as not having genres is being very childish.Think back to when you where a kid, did you hear a song you liked and think 'oh yah that genre is so right for me' lol NO! You liked it for some magical combination of tones and lyrics of sequence of notes that worked together.Most-tolerated Genre?
It's not nuanced, it's not filtered, it lacks any level of understanding or categoization, it's just a facile "this is good, this is bad."
Sorry. That's a jerk thing to say, I realize, and I'm not just trying to be mean. but... it IS a good point. I can certainly understand the pushback against microgenres, they are usually absurd, and often there's tons of overlap, but that's only because genre, upon closer inspection, is itself an oversimplification: it might be better to think of music as having "traits" akin to "tags," but that gets tedious fast. Genres are imperfect, but they sure as hell exist and they have utility. I can dismiss whole swaths of music that i would be wasting my time trying, if i had to wade through everything WITHOUT genre.
Statistics: Posted by Introspective — Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:06 am