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I have a friend (also a producer), who seems to think there shouldn't be subgenres of EDM. He thinks it should all be like this chart:
|——————————EDM———————————|
dub step house trap
/ \ / \ / \
J U S T E N J O Y T H E M U S I C A N D M O V E O N
So I kept giving him reasons on why this just doesn't work and no one would ever be pleased by this and it didn't work. I told him that genres exist for the purpose of not getting an electro track after your deep house track if you don't like electro. I said that genres exist to tell people what to expect from the track, and that tracks are also defined by BPM. He thinks the idea is ridiculous, and said that a Glitch Hop track can be whatever tempo it wants and still be the same hop vibe. Well, no, because now it's just a different genre.
As good as "JUST ENJOY THE MUSIC AND MOVE ON" seems, it's horribly impractical. If every Youtube video with a genre next to the track was only three different genres, it'd be pretty hard to find something you're in the mood for. Imagine if Monstercat had to condense all of it's genres under these three. Well, **** no. Not ever. Future Bass would just be shoved with trap (which is a subgenre anyways as is dubstep, which I guess he seems to think is not true), all Drum and Bass would be Dubstep (he thinks drum and bass isn't a real genre. He thinks it's just faster dubstep with more drums despite after showing him that drum and bass has been around longer than dubstep).
All deep house, glitch hop, nudisco, prog house, electro, etc. would just be house. Well, know how will I find a song I like if it's all the same genre? My Haywire doesn't sit together with Televisor! They aren't the same!
He doesn't seem to understand the concept of why genres exist and how some people don't like certain genres and crap. He even did this after saying how he didn't really like the new Knife Party album that much. Really? You want a lack of genres so you can listen to something and then go "Gosh I wish I didn't have to listen to a track like this ever again! Oh, wait, there's only three genres! Guess I'll just never click on a house track again!"
It feels really ignorant to just go and say subgenres have no place. He even stated that they should this in all other works of music. All classical should be classical, no baroque or romantic, all country is only country (even though it's true), and all of X should only be X.
Any idea to get him to see how having more genres makes logical sense?
TL;DR: Friend doesn't understand why there are genres and thinks all EDM should just be Trap, Dubstep, and House. Any idea to get him to see how having more genres makes logical sense?
I have a friend (also a producer), who seems to think there shouldn't be subgenres of EDM. He thinks it should all be like this chart:
|——————————EDM———————————|
dub step house trap
/ \ / \ / \
J U S T E N J O Y T H E M U S I C A N D M O V E O N
So I kept giving him reasons on why this just doesn't work and no one would ever be pleased by this and it didn't work. I told him that genres exist for the purpose of not getting an electro track after your deep house track if you don't like electro. I said that genres exist to tell people what to expect from the track, and that tracks are also defined by BPM. He thinks the idea is ridiculous, and said that a Glitch Hop track can be whatever tempo it wants and still be the same hop vibe. Well, no, because now it's just a different genre.
As good as "JUST ENJOY THE MUSIC AND MOVE ON" seems, it's horribly impractical. If every Youtube video with a genre next to the track was only three different genres, it'd be pretty hard to find something you're in the mood for. Imagine if Monstercat had to condense all of it's genres under these three. Well, **** no. Not ever. Future Bass would just be shoved with trap (which is a subgenre anyways as is dubstep, which I guess he seems to think is not true), all Drum and Bass would be Dubstep (he thinks drum and bass isn't a real genre. He thinks it's just faster dubstep with more drums despite after showing him that drum and bass has been around longer than dubstep).
All deep house, glitch hop, nudisco, prog house, electro, etc. would just be house. Well, know how will I find a song I like if it's all the same genre? My Haywire doesn't sit together with Televisor! They aren't the same!
He doesn't seem to understand the concept of why genres exist and how some people don't like certain genres and crap. He even did this after saying how he didn't really like the new Knife Party album that much. Really? You want a lack of genres so you can listen to something and then go "Gosh I wish I didn't have to listen to a track like this ever again! Oh, wait, there's only three genres! Guess I'll just never click on a house track again!"
It feels really ignorant to just go and say subgenres have no place. He even stated that they should this in all other works of music. All classical should be classical, no baroque or romantic, all country is only country (even though it's true), and all of X should only be X.
Any idea to get him to see how having more genres makes logical sense?
TL;DR: Friend doesn't understand why there are genres and thinks all EDM should just be Trap, Dubstep, and House. Any idea to get him to see how having more genres makes logical sense?