5/19/2023 0 Comments Slow burn kacey musgravesThe vocal melody is as catchy and pop-ish as can be, but her enunciation and tonal quality really channels country stars from decades past.Ģ. You get to enjoy this track without worrying about how to classify it.ġ. So I’m still going to tag this song as “country.” But if you’ve decided that musical genres are bogus, you’re probably right, and more power to you. I guess it’s time to admit it: tagging posts by genre isn’t important, and it’s barely even useful. Kacey Musgraves knows all about this: despite winning seven CMAs, including one for the album that this song comes from, the CMA has deemd her new album too pop-like to be eligible for an award…even though one of the songs on that album is eligible on its own. This organization proudly declares on its website that it has a “commitment to inclusivity” – yet this is an organization that decided “Old Town Road” was not a country song, that the Chicks (formerly known as The Dixie Chicks) were no longer allowed in the club, and that seems to just have a problem with women generally. The de facto gatekeeper of all things Country is the Country Music Association (CMA). Some genres are so dead set on their own definitions that they end up drawing arbitrary (and often self-contradictory) lines around themselves. Try too hard to map all the genres and you end up with colour-coded madness. Except that a spectrum usually operates along a single line…so it’s more like a double spectrum with both an X and Y axis. A pop song with a banjo might wander towards the country genre. A hip hop song might get remixed and classified as techno. I guess the problem with musical genres is that they are not discrete categories. Readers might want to explore similar tracks, right? I started to suspect that tagging posts with genres was not important. What then? Tag the post with the genre of the song specifically? Or the style that the artist is more commonly known for? Or both? Occasionally, a song would come up that would be difficult to classify sometimes a song would be out-of-charater for the musician singing it, for example. When I started this blog I thought it was important to tag each post with the musical genre of the song being featured.
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