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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station
I'm not saying I'm against genre classification period, but fine-grained classifications and people getting uptight about "correct" genre classifications seem ridiculous to me. I don't need to find other artists that are playing the exact same rhythms, tempos, etc. When I want "more like this" I ideally want "something kind of in this vein, with some of these rough features, but interestingly different, too (and ideally interestingly different than anything I've heard before)," which goes against the grain of really fine-grained genre classification.
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I get what you mean dude, I've seen tons of people take it way too far, and that's coming from a genre nut. And if a genre does not allow any difference in structure as it's too specific, it becomes extremely limiting for both artists and fans and rather boring to explore. Be too vague, and it's a useless term. Genres are kinda subjective anyways, as it's just someone picking certain (though often objective) elements and deciding those combined will be called x. And hell, even if the elements are objective it's mostly not even used that strictly in the slightest, making it more subjective.