Originally Posted by clutnuckle

Well to be honest, I usually think that most people who'd bother to sign up for a music forum and frequent it are a bit more than just casual listeners. Usually the people who visit music forums consider music to be a pretty important part of their overall life, and that's why seeing it in music forums/websites all over the place makes me a bit skeptical.

Yes, it's a tad more bizarre than a top 40 hit. I'll take back that it's not 'strange and offbeat', sure, but experimental is a giant stretch.

Animal Collective: My Girls - Heavy repetition, electronic samples, reverberation, verse chorus verse structure

Top 40 generic hit - Heavy repetition, electronic samples, verse chorus verse structure.

I don't want to take anything away from Animal Collective - they obviously make very special pop music, and I would never claim otherwise, but I just want to take that tag away from their overreactive fans. Animal Collective deserve a lot of things, and certain genre tags just aren't among them.