lumad wrote:
its fine with me.

i think genres help in identifying and categorizing artists. it helps the music industry kind of be systematic. like if you want to search a certain artist you got to first know what genre they belong. it helps alot for listeners to relate to an artist if they somehow know they belong to the same genre of music they are use to listen too.

i think a problem only arises when an artist is misinterpreted or mislabelled. like an artist supposedly belong to that genre but really belongs to another. the listeners are confused, w/c doesn't help the artis at all.

but most artist nowadays like our dear Hikaru-san don't quite fit in a single genre. we got nowadays are artist that mixes sounds form alot of genres which can be quite confusing at times. but altogether creates a more freedom in the song writing process.

Genres are formed to help us identify an artist and don't stop us from listening to them coz they don't belong to the medium that we listen to. heck you can't put a good song down. listen to what you feel is good music.