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Genre question: What would you describe this tune as?
So, long discussions about genres this past week here at The Fortress, some more easier to define than others. What -to your ear- is this? Pop? Rock? Dance? What?
Moby - Southside
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I'd classify this as 'Moby' as he meshes up so many different genres
The song is however found in some Trip-Hop compilations...
Pop first and foremost. To me, regardless of genre, pop hooks are typically recognizable as such and reflect a songwriting choice during the composition process. Pop isn't necessarily a bad word. In Moby's case, consider it as "Targeting The Masses."
Always dug this track
Turkish love ballad
Deep afro latin pop... house.
Market Research
Yes - or talking heads lite...
Very fond of that record back in the day, @JohnnyGoodyear. I'm sorry to correct everyone, but this is clearly Alt-pop.
[removed wink so people don't think I'm joking]
Interesting comments (and some funny ones too!). I found this one hard to peg, but have to side with well-crafted appeal-to-em-all-alt-pop.....sorry would stay and chatter but I have to work on my Turkish love ballad...
Like the song and love the album. It is really hard to put songs like this into genres. I've cut the word pop out of my vocabuary because it has a negative meaning.
It's stigmatized, I would say the "negative meaning" is a subjective connotation.
(Sorry, the subject of stigmatized vocabulary in music has been a major interest to me lately)
Me too, as has the need to qualify things as this or that. I guess most things qualify themselves, but still...
What's wrong with u people...stop trying to be too specific about it ..
It's downtempo chill, that's all, that tag will umbrella all ur speculations and debates about "what it is" lol
Stigmatized is a better name for pop thanks. I think It's snobbery by people who have stigmatized it.
I like to go back through the Rolling Stone archive and read about what people where saying at the time about artists and album reviews. Peter Gabriel was said to sold out when he made So even though Kate Bush and Lori Anderson were on the album. Now it's a classic.
@touchconspiracy
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
(Roberto Assagioli, a psychiatrist who was was thrown into chokey in 1938 by Benito Mussolini, so he gets an extra yard etc.)
What's weird is that there's more than one answer.
Another reason I don't like the pop label just on it's own is that it's too broad. For me the definition of pop is anything that is melodic and has verses, choruses, and a bridge for its arrangement. That's like 80-90% of all music.
You can put in that category The Beatles, Willie Nelson, Todd Rungreon, The Sex Pistols,Bob Marley, Britney Spears, etc.
Mister Lydon may pick a bone with you on that one
I think the comical genre-bending/blending Flight of the Conchord guys might label this Moby tune as an "alt-trip-pop-opotamus" tune... or not. Just having fun.
I think you are right. Remember this classic picture?
Flight of the Concords rule! I wish they still had a show on HBO.
Such a mean don't care punk boy there. I don't think today any stylist would allow him to be shot holding grapes
Oldies?
Genre is basically just a commercial radio programming format, so not worth the breath to argue over its classification by us mere peasants, unless we're bored silly that is.
Some 'punk' Lydon turned out to be...
Now Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke lead shouter) - still ranting like a good 'un after all these years.
softcore death metal with arabic influences
Marcel, are you stealing my Deep Afro Latin Pop House Turkish Love Ballad idea?