Zyrada

Jazz, Electronica, Metal, Hip-Hop? Granted, you could argue Electronica and Metal are ultimately subgenres of Pop and Rock, to which I would respond that Electronica definitely isn't, even if it does overlap a lot with Pop.

You could have discussions like this ad nauseum, so it seems like putting too much energy into musical genre taxonomy is kind of pointless. It's often nearly impossible to get just right and very easy to get horribly wrong, and either way, you're sacrificing some level of appreciation for the music itself by imposing arbitrary expectations and restrictions on what it can and cannot do. Genres should be used sparingly as descriptors and nothing more than that.

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