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Originally Posted by boo boo
Does anyone dispute that Motorhead are metal even though Lemmy claims they are not?
If 100% objective criterias for genres exist that would be true. But they don't.
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To clarify, I don't mean to say that criterias need to be 100% objective but that rather, what's important here are conventions. It is conventional and uncontroversial to refer to Motorhead as metal. It fits virtually 99.99%+ of everybody's conceptions of what metal is. It's once we start getting to the point where the line is blurry that we should be careful. Music fans in the main would find it extremely controversial to group Radiohead, for example, under "prog". Putting them under "rock", however, is conventionally acceptable.
To me, conventional usage and application is the most important thing in genre classification.
EDIT: I thought your article was very good and highly informative, btw.
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