 coorpz wrote:
Who cares. Music is music. Arguing over music genres is pointless, nobody will win. That said, genres are just tags people apply to them arbitrarily. |
I agree 100%, and I have more or less given up on the myriad of genres and subgenres that reign in the contemporary music world.
But the fact that we do operate with genres based on perceived commonalities does reflect our human need to categorize everything. The interesting thing about alternative metal as a genre is that there are not that many commonalities. It's more like the trashcan, or the adverbial, of metal - a category where we place artists that we cannot fit into other genres.
But, again, I totally agree with you.
