NPR Music launched a new series today called “You Must Hear This” that has artists talking about the bands or records that influenced them the most. Or, in the case of Maroon 5′s Adam Levine, reading about Prince’s “Purple Rain”. There’s no question that Prince is insanely talented and influential, but poor Adam didn’t seem [...]
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Classify the genre dictionary under half-assed
People like to classify things. Conservative, liberal, girl, boy, good, bad, etc. If I remember freshman sociology correctly, when something is not easily classified, people will create parameters with which to classify. This behavior is extremely common with music. There’s a listicle on Monitor Mix today by Lars Gotrich (which can’t possibly be his real [...]