Saturday question #3: Do genres matter to you?
Written on February 21, 2009 in Saturday Questions & with 13 responses
Tags: genres, labels, music, saturday question
Welcome to the third edition of Saturday random questions.
Two weeks ago, we discussed our ideas for music videos.
One week ago we discussed animals and music.
You're still welcome to contribute to both of those topics.
This week's question was born out of a thread on the board that drifted way too far from what it was originally supposed to be. And it's a question that doesn't need explanation.
Do genres matter to you at all? Are you open to all kinds of music, do you even care what a review called it and what your digital jukebox tagged it as? Or do you just think it's plain useless to classify things and stick to any sort of a taxonomy?
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Good music should not be heard, it should be felt. I don't believe that any genre of music should be ignored because it is labeled as a certain "type". I wrote a pretty relative post about this on my blog (thoughtsandtruth.blogspot.com), but it is somewhat lengthy and I didn't want to just copy and paste it into here. I would really appreciate it if you read it though, it is the entry entitled "Spiritual Energy". I strongly believe in this topic, and I feel like this is something everyone should know. Thanks Iva, for putting up such a great question!
Genres are really just a thing to market music as, they don't really define anything.
Labels don't matter to me in the sense that they don't define what I listen to. For example, I don't think of myself as only listening to one specific genre or a limited combination of the myriad 'genres' that are out there.
This leads into my answer for the second question which is simply yes, I am open to all kinds of music. I don't want to miss out on something that I will potentially like. As my Mom (and I'm sure billions of other parents out there) always said to me when I was little: "try it, you might like it!" Of course, she said this in relation to food, but I think it is quite applicable to music.
Also, I don't really care what a review says about music - although, I am always open to reading them and finding out what other people's opinions are. However, I don't let reviews dictate my own personal thoughts/feelings about music.
Finally, I do think that classifying genres of music is useful only in the sense that it helps when discussing with others the way a certain piece of music sounds. It is much easier to say that a given piece of music sounds like funk or blues than to try to describe all of it's intricacies. It also helps me in finding albums at record stores...haha
Genres are walls to cling to, before you find your legs and run.
Hell with every genre of music apart from rock/hard rock and metal....the rest of musical categories are infinitesimal when compared to the aforesaid ones....ROCK ON!...pop music is for dogmatic people....only rock,hardcore rock,and above all:FUNKY CHILI PEPPERS ROCK!
genres are meaningless to me, the only time i use genres is when describing an artist to someone, in which case i'd use obvious stuff like "reggae" or "hiphop" or "rock". im not into the whole "AMBIENT MATH ROCK" or "ELECTRO HOUSE FUNK ACID JAZZ" thing
the people who get annoyed if you call a certain band "rock" even if they are more than just a "rock" band, but are actually an "experimental rock" band are the worst people
i blame the internet mostly for all of this genre shit
its the music that matters, not the label. thinking about music this way is basically underated, because not only are people obsessed with the genre the artist is under, theyre probably obsessed with what the band looks like or say, the bands political views OUTSIDE OF THE MUSIC... which are equally as terrible... but thats for another random question i guess
in fact i don't even care about the political views (if) in the music, and respect it usually no matter what, and would never stop listening to a band i like because of what theyre saying isn't what i think
SOUND > EVERYTHING ELSE (like genres)
holla
I don't generally go by genres when listening to music but, for example, I know I won't like any Rap or Country. There are useful means of categorizing music. If there were no genres I think we'd have a difficult time navigating around a record store.
"rap or country"
seriously, why are these two always grouped together when narrow minded people put down "bad music". im sure you would like some stuff. don't dismiss the entire genre
i think that music is very wide and you can find all kind of styles but when people tag this music as this type and that music as that type thats meaningless to me. i think that typing music and giving it a certain name dosen't matter. for example when the chili peppers started being very popular with their third record the radio stations didn't play their songs at all claiming they were too black for white radio and too white for black radio. so it's the same deal for me. now every new band is typed as a certain genre and that is stupid. if artists wants to be known as this type or that type that's their own problem. most artists do a certain kind of music because it's popular at that time and they want to be famous by doing that music like what flea said: "when people think of what the public wants and how to please them they underestimat people's intelligent and that is really unhealty for art".
I don't think genres matter much to me since I've always been the type to listen to any type of music. My only drawback was if it got on my nerves, that I wouldn't listen to it. Hardly was there a time like that. I agree with Dan in that the music should be felt. There are times where I'm in the rock phase or the orchestra phase or the jazz phase. It all depends on what's all going on in my life at those times. Even though I'm in one of those phases, I still listen to other stuff. I'm very open to listening to new music and sounds from anywhere.
i like certain genres. I'm not one of those people who say "I like all kinds of music". I usually stick to funk, funk rock, psychedelia and mixes of those with others. when i hear something that doesnt match those, I usually find it boring.
I am shcooled in Library Science, and it is from that frame work that I say that genre's and classifing media of all sorts (music, art, literature, movies ect...) is etremely imoprtant in many regards, espically if you want to catalog your collection, and be able to find things efficiently. Labelling "things" is a natural outcome of living in a society that has such diversifaction, we need words, labels so we can communicate with each other, and have some sort of common framework, or foundation to build or communicate uopn. In other words, so we know what each other is talking about. If I say Classical, you should be conditioned to automatically think of a certain type of music, and if I say Folk, you should think of a differnet type. In library classifaction, we see most music now adays, as persoanl expression, and as such would be "filed" under the artists name, not some trendy name (like grunge, pop, metal, rock, disco, independant ect). It is better for me when I go to the library to select music, to look at the whole collection of works, and not limit myself only listening to what my status is sterotyped by. I like to think that we create labels and classify things, so that we can build a wall, only to have teh joy of knocking it down, so that we are not limited.
Love is the Law.
Are you 100% sure you went to school? This is hardly readable, and I don't even speak an indo-European language as my native one.
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...some necessary corrections.