I spend a lot of time on wikipedia reading about music. one thing that makes that site great is the amount of random factoids you get. And the sub-genre lists! Am not talking about the “main” genres that everyone can agree on, am talking about the sub-genres. I didn’t know there was so many until i saw them on wikipedia. Which got me thinking if people just make them up or if their for real?? Music in some of these so-called subgenres are practically identical. how do they classify what subgenre a song is in when it can contain aliments of so many styles? My conclusion is a lot of these vague subgenre classifications are just marketing gimmicks
Here’s what they have for Punk
- Cowpunk
- Pop punk
- Ska punk
- 2 Tone
- Art punk
- Hardcore
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Here’s what they have for metal
- Grindcore- Nu metal
- Rapcore
- Grunge
- NWOBHM
The list for rap
- Abstract
- Bounce
- Conscious -
- Country
- Crunk
- Dirty
- Electro
- Emo
- Gangsta
- G-funk
- Hardcore
- Hyphy
- Jazz
- Latin
- Mafioso
- Merenrap
- Mobb
- Neo soul
- Nerdcore
- Pop
- Rapcore
- Ragga
- Snap
And then, some of the subgenres have subgenres.
So where does Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody fit into all this mess??
Wiki calls it Rock Opera :D
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