Spotify says there are more than 1300 genres of music, and each one could be an alternative of an alternative genre. Can we innovate forever or will we run out of music ideas?
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5 sats \ 2 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 13 Apr 2024
I'm sure if you asked folks in the 50s, they'd have said that "Rock'n'Roll" was the last genre people could have come up with. And then Rock split into dozens of subgenres that kept splitting more, disco and techno came along (and also split), etc. Hyperpop certainly wasn't on the radar of anyone until the last decade. Apparently Witch House has been around for 15 years, but I only heard about it a week ago.
Hell, think about how classical music has evolved, and what folks like Cage (with his Happenings) and Glass (minimalism) would have sounded like to an audience from the Baroque era.
I'm pretty sure there really is no end to how much musical innovation there is.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itermathi OP 13 Apr 2024
And there are yet other genres out there to be discovered.
Surely those who composed classical music would have been upset or amazed to see how music has evolved.
I wonder what the music of the future will sound like.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 13 Apr 2024
You are right, as I said in my post the imagination has no end, new genres will always arrive, because innovation never stops, from those 1300 genres another 1300 can come out and from those 1300 another 1300 and so on.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 13 Apr 2024
Infinity I guess. What makes a genre? It is very subjective, but I don’t know the discipline well.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @riberet19 13 Apr 2024
Perhaps there are already too many genres today, but the imagination of the human being is infinite, it has already been proven many times, and perhaps there are still 1300 more genres to be discovered.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itermathi OP 13 Apr 2024
True, as long as the desire to create something remains, the ideas will never end.
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