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Post by loukessler on Aug 19, 2015 20:19:01 GMT
I feel like as soon as you start naming micro genres they seem to die. (see: whitchhouse, vaporwave, seapunk, healthgoth, etc...) But whatever. I've always just called it dance-pop. But maybe it's too idiosyncratic for that? Not a super interesting/important topic of discussion IMO.
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Post by aphextwink on Aug 19, 2015 20:39:55 GMT
i'm legitimately curious, but what health goth ever a genre? i thought it was just a look that some brands tried to push
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Post by conor on Aug 19, 2015 22:12:08 GMT
kinda like how lotsa nightcore goes by NXC, we could just call it BGB or something?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 22:12:29 GMT
witch house and vaporwave seem to really fit for me. it's like, "slowed and pitched down songs that somehow make you want to dance" and "diana ross really slowed down witch some fl-studio fx" and/or "pop songs that you grandma would like".
somehow i never got seapunk though. i don't even know a solid example to give.
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Post by conor on Aug 19, 2015 22:13:02 GMT
I feel like as soon as you start naming micro genres they seem to die. (see: whitchhouse, vaporwave, seapunk, healthgoth, etc...) But whatever. I've always just called it dance-pop. But maybe it's too idiosyncratic for that? Not a super interesting/important topic of discussion IMO. those died because the genres were too constrained. That is why I like softcore because I don't feel like it does that. Bubble Gum Bass doesnt need to have bass... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 22:15:01 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 23:10:28 GMT
probably i'll just go to the artist's wikipedia page and put what's there. or leave it forever as "-". i'm so lazy
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Post by a_M on Aug 19, 2015 23:16:28 GMT
just out of interest, are we differentiating between terms used online and terms used IRL? not sure I would actually say "bubblegum bass" out loud but I have used "PC Music" to describe non-PC music (Manicure, Activia Benz, etc.)
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Post by ¬ on Aug 19, 2015 23:28:22 GMT
irl, I just say "PC Music" or "PC Music-esque", depending  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 23:32:47 GMT
"- what kind of music do you listen to?"
"- do you have like a free weekend or something?"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 23:43:46 GMT
somehow i never got seapunk though. i don't even know a solid example to give. Seapunk's visual aesthetic has a lot of similarities with vaporwave's, but with more emphasis on early-WWW and ocean-related things like dolphins and palm trees and shit. Like most aesthetic-heavy internet subcultures, the music itself is less important. It's basically this, I guess: i know about the aesthetics, but i mean ~musically~. i think i got your point, though (horrible song, btw). they're both very closely related, like one is a sub-genre of the other or something like that. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 23:46:01 GMT
(that had nothing "punk" about it, btw)
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Post by friopi on Aug 20, 2015 0:14:22 GMT
I don't really use genres for my music library or anything, but IRL I will just say something like "have you heard of PC Music?" because it's the name I feel people are more likely to be familiar with, like if they haven't heard of PC Music they have probably never heard the term bubblegum bass.
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Post by ignatz on Aug 20, 2015 1:43:34 GMT
Fisher-Price Grime is my personal favourite thus far. Nursery Grime |
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Post by loukessler on Aug 20, 2015 2:00:00 GMT
i'm legitimately curious, but what health goth ever a genre? i thought it was just a look that some brands tried to push Health goth was a real thing - but the music wasn't. Health goth was more like an online community, and there was music that fit the health goth aesthetic, but health goth wasn't a genre in itself. Genre is important though. Music needs language to describe it - it helps subcultures develop, it marks things out from the old to the new. I am sure I'm not the only one who felt the music landscape has been very hard to navigate in the years since 2011 when everyone decided they were 'over' genre. The crop of post-PC producers making fun, colourful club music that runs against classic coolness (masculine, dark, for the 'heads', etc.) is a real thing, so it'd be good to be able to group some of these artists together not as a genre, but to say they share similar outlooks. 'Bubblegum Bass' never felt adequate as a name to me. However labels do sometimes ruin the fun, so maybe it should just be named retrospectively. This is very true but I feel like in the post-everything world coming up with genre names is kind of just semantics. Wonky is hip hop. IDM is electronic music. BB is dance pop for the most part. I would just say "PC music's brand of dance pop" if I really wanted to get specific. |
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