Michael from Germany somewhere in Germany Jul 13 2016 5:26 AM

Hi everyone First and most important: This comment is NOT meant to be taken offensive or personal! (only continue reading if you understand this) I was like aimless surfing the internet looking for some silly genre titles. And I always find someone giving me what I come for. That is how I came across this article here. And to my expectation it did not disappoint. I found some crazy genre names first only to be confronted with music that already exists with already existing genre names for quite a while. So nothing new. But let me give you all some ideas why these pieces of music presented here are far from new and do not need a new genre name. Your example for BASS MUSIC is just a lazy genre name invented for no reason. This piece of music there is like Depeche Mode from the 80s combined with some dubstep. Sounds exactly like some slow going new wave with some dubstep thrown in. Hence it is a more raw electronic form of New Wave. Progressive Heavy Electro Rock Air Pop? I bet this popped up because someone did not enough research for all the genres that already exist and to do a close inspection based on what is there. You can change the sound here and there. But when I hear New Wave music I can't be fooled. And you know New Wave is not really 2016. It is so8os! Glitch Souljazz. Alright. Glitch as is has never been a fully accepted/integrated genre. It was maybe an idea once that however never made it to be fully developed into its own full genre definition. No nerdgasms please. And just fyi, the name Parov Stelar should ring a bell here. He did this kind of music already several years ago and is still doing that kind of stuff. It went under the monicker 'electro swing' and 'electro jazz'. One of the songs hitting this type of music you posted up there is 'Let's Roll' (Parov Stelar) or songs like 'Princess'. Forget about words like glitch. And we all know that electro swing is based on modern hip hop beats, soul and classic swing music. So no need to include the words hip or hop, soul, or whatever in any way. And definitely not glitch. That never made sense. Pitbull and COUNTRY DANCE? Come on. Madonna did this in 200 with her album MUSIC. Or Taylor Swift may ring a bell. So you are too late in here again to invent something new because it is that old to stumble over its own beard. And we know that Country Dance is not the proper genre name. Back in the 90s nobody, and I mean really not one person ever, called REDNEX' Cotton Eye Joe 'High Energy Rave Country' or something like 'Electro Banjo Redneck Rave'. But the last one really did me for good. ORCHESTRAL IDM? PLEASE? First let me get clear on this IDM thing. There is no "intelligent dance music" to begin with. And what I heard as examples of IDM is neither intelligent nor can I dance to it. And yes it might account for music. But I give you this serious advice as to listen to a lot of works from one particular guy -> Jean-Michel Jarre. I bet this type(s) of music makes your genre inventing brain explode in sheer disbelief. I bet an inexperienced person with a hyperladden mind would call it "Symphonic Space Opera Trance Ambient NeoClassical'. Do you see already how silly this new wave of genre name inventing without any good reason is? I understand you new youngsters need your own playground and you want to redefine the rules and reinvent like everything, giving even the most useless stuff new names. But this is not how reality works out. So please. Before you happy young people out there invent genre names for no good, do serious research beforehand. It might spare you some unnecessary nerdy genre talks in public. There is not need to try to separate yourself from previous generations that makes you simple rename already existing genres. What is important is to know what genre in each piece of music dominates and what other genres were blended into it or simply mixed in for only specific parts. Unfortunately a lot of none existing genres were slapped around the internet and new none existing genres are born out of these already none existing other genres, making genre talk all useless and giving rise to people who like to denounce genres as useless classifications because a lot of people are overdoing it on purpose or based on sheer lack of experience and knowledge on the existing. Sure new genres are born. But it has to make sense. Like this nonsense genres Shoe Gaze or Crab Core makes no sense other than being a sort of rock music. How the musicians behave, what they wear on stage or where or how they gaze around does not attribute to the music itself, that is why these things do not belong in genre names. Gazing down the floor or holding a position as if you pretend to take a shit does not describe the type of music these guys are displaying. Greetings from Germany