The early s saw the birth of social media, file-sharing platforms like Napster, and the introduction of the iPod, beginning to shift the musical experience from album-based listening back to a singles-oriented pop landscape. These changes culminated in the launch of Spotify in , and the dominance of music streaming today.
The new streaming economy prompted pop artists to take a cue from hip-hop and release more collaborative songs Kendrick Lamar. Social media broke down barriers and allowed musicians to interact directly with fans. And the rise of platforms like YouTube have given niche artists a better tool to reach potential fans, reducing reliance on traditional record labels and their preference for clearly defined genre categories.
Arguably, social media has had a bigger impact on music than streaming. A recent newsletter of Forbes writer Cherie Hu notes that Instagram has over a billion users, whereas Spotify has only around one-fifth of that amount. While not all consumers will pay for premium streaming memberships, anyone can theoretically sign up for an Instagram account or access a new music video on YouTube.
Messages: 16, Likes Received: 2, Any music influenced by a particular genre and sharing traits, but with a more recent approach and not of the time. Seether for instance are post grunge. They aren't grunge because grunge ended in the mid nineties, and their music is a lot more mainstream, well produced and refined.
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Messages: 3, Likes Received: I always thought, "What happened to nu-metal when it grew old or is it oeld? BigPhi84 , Mar 9, Messages: 15, Likes Received: 2, My understanding of the word Post is it basically means the genre is made more moody and atmospheric, slower with more clean passages and rawer production until it basically sounds nothing like the genre it has in it's name.
Scar Symmetry , Mar 9, When phonographs were introduced to the mass market, around , they were housed in elaborate wooden cabinets and sold in furniture stores. The records they were designed to play—fashioned from a fragile shellac compound and spun at seventy-eight revolutions per minute—were considered an added-value perk, a way to make the cabinet itself more appealing to buyers. It took a while for people to stop thinking about music as a lived, temporary, and communal experience, and to reimagine it as fixed, replicable, and private.
Once the first record labels became more established, executives who had previously worried about the sale of cabinets had to decide how to market music as a physical product. Few of the early strategies made sense. Okeh Records took a gamble on Smith. It had been erroneously presumed that Black people would not or could not buy records. Those straight-out-the-juke-joint blue notes and bends? The plan shifted. From then on, blues records were sold to Black buyers.
The idea that these marketing distinctions were somehow valid and inflexible began to take hold. Eventually, that spirit of separation seeped into the music: certain genres would be made by and for white people, and other genres would be made by and for Black people.
Race remained such an important factor in determining musical genre that new language often had to be used whenever a popular artist subverted racial expectations. Everything is timed perfectly.
The fortress is blown up and the German officer is captured. However, the trip back to the Allied lines did not go as planned. Half the men are killed, Jack is wounded, and the German officer is killed.
The Christmas holidays are near, and Suzie is persuaded to take the children to church. As the service begins, Jack walks into the church and joins Suzie and the children. The story ends happily, but with a cost. In order to give the story a more realistic feel, the protagonist is not totally successful with what he had set out to do.
The spy genre sounds like it could cross over to the previous genres already discussed. But only the setting and the plot can be standard. The setting could be the same as the war, Western, or crime genres, but it does not make it a war, Western, or crime genre.
You have to remember that the story makes the genre because it controls everything else. In the spy genre, the main character generally works under an assumed identity in order to find something or destroy something of harm controlled by a nemesis.
As in past genres, the plot is the inner conflict of the protagonist. In this situation, he or she has a strong inner conflict to succeed at what he or she is assigned to act upon.
Thus, if the movie has any of the aforementioned characteristics but takes place during World War II, the movie is primarily a spy movie rather than a war movie. Remember, the setting does not determine the genre but the story does. The story is interconnected to the characters and the plot. The setting helps add the must-needed background and specificity to the movie, but it is not as interconnected as the other three genres.
In recent times, a male of the strong virile type plays the protagonist spy. So, we will demonstrate that this does not always have to be that way in a movie. We will take a woman, named Suzie, who is the spy protagonist.
We will set the example during World War II. Unlike Jack in the war genre discussion, Suzie is chosen because of her background in languages and her photographic memory, giving her the ability to memorize lists of facts immediately.
She is requested to go behind enemy lines as a civilian and obtain data that will debilitate the enemy thus giving the Allies the advantage and shortening the war by possibly years. In order to be able to do this, and to prepare her mentally for the task, she is set to train for three weeks with an Army officer named Jack.
Jack is very skeptical that Suzie will be able to pull the task off. Jack states that it is not because she is a woman, but the movie viewers know that her being a woman is exactly the reason. Jack begins a rigorous training program just to say that he told her so.
However, Suzie really masters everything Jack throws at her. After about a week, Jack sees this and starts to admire her strength and fortitude. Jack makes the training less rigorous because he only trains her to get behind enemy lines, get back to the Allied lines, and how to mentally survive torture.
By the end of the three weeks, they begin to fall in love with each other, and Jack feels he should accompany her, but his command says that is impossible. The time has arrived for Suzie to go. The French underground has managed to get her a clerical job where she can do some travelling including going to Normandy. Rather abruptly, Suzie plans a trip to Normandy. She studies the land and is able to secretly catch a glimpse of German maps showing where their military strength is in and around Normandy.
Suzie rushes and gets the information off to the Allies before she is captured by the Germans. The Germans find her guilty of being a spy and she is executed. Can you see the difference between this example and the war genre example? Both have the same setting of World War II, but the spy genre example has a non-soldier searching for secret information, while the war genre had a group of soldiers going on a mission that was not secret.
The war mission was behind enemy lines and in the war zone where the fighting was occurring. The spy genre does not occur in the war zone where there was fighting. The spy story has a lot less emotion and love between the main characters. The spy story has more suspense as Suzie is hunting for information. She is becoming involved in several tight situations where she barely misses getting caught by the Nazis. The war genre story has the one climatic battle that the whole conflict was moving toward.
Most of the time these two genres do not become this similar but these two examples make it easier to see the differences in the two genres. Both the adventure and spy genres can have exotic settings.
The stories are normally about a person or group of people searching for something. During the journey of searching, dangerous situations are overcome by the main characters.
The protagonist may end up getting involved in fighting to overcome social or moral injustices in the exotic location where he or she has journeyed.
The difference between this genre and the spy genre is, once again, the story. The spy genre has a story where something is searched for secretively, and the information itself contains secret information. This story has suspense based on timing and near misses.
The protagonist is an adventurer rather than a government employee. Being bigger than life, the adventure genre contains a lot of explosive action throughout the movie. Remember that the story treatment, character background, and character development are big differentiations and distinctions that separate genres.
The plot and the setting are also different between genres, and are reflective of the story and the types of characters. Science fiction is linked to the previous genres of crime, Westerns, war, spy, and adventure by the basic theme. However, the genre elements are totally different. Quite often, science fiction has a setting that takes place in the future.
In this way, if the producer wants to comment on a particular problem in current society, the producer can set the problem in the future. The producer appears critical about the problem but not about the current society. The outcome of that problem, if it continues, shows how the future will look. For science fiction, we can still stay with the plot of inner conflict, which can always be the plot, because a conflict is needed.
The characters and the story can be the same as any other genre with variations, as we will demonstrate in the example. In our example, Jack and Suzie, along with several hundred other people, are fed up with the crime and violence that exists where they live.
No specific location is mentioned, so it can be anywhere in the world or universe. Researchers in this group toil endlessly to find a new galaxy that is livable for humans. Together they all dream of pioneering and developing this new world so there is no violence and everyone can live in harmony. The space ships are finally finished and they are sent off. They find and arrive in the new world that is named New Earth. The people set up a colony and draft laws so there is no anarchy.
Everything is great for two generations. The people live in harmony and enjoy each day to the utmost. However, one day, someone is found dead and robbed. Everyone is left shocked. Because so much time has passed without violence, the police are unprepared.
But they review the crime scene, and conclude that it was murder. Since they have never investigated a murder, they are unsure what should they do to find the murderer and how should they to go about doing it. They arrive at a procedure and find the murderer. The murder was an accident. The murderer was surprised as everyone else.
The people realize a murder or accidental death can always happen, so the society has to be prepared and set up to handle it. Even though the story is fantastical in many ways, it can still make comments and raise questions about society and morality. Science fiction genre, like any genre, can cross over at some point or points to another genre.
This example crossed over to the crime genre. However, to determine the main genre, review the story, characters, plot, and setting together. In this situation, these elements are most geared toward the science fiction genre. In other words, a fantasy movie has no limits. The setting could be anywhere at any time with characters who appear and act in any way the script writer wants.
The story could be about anything. The plot will be inner conflict. According to Wikipedia, fantasy stays away from scientific and macabre story aspects, so it does not become a piece of science fiction or horror. You can see how all three genres: science fiction, fantasy, and horror are similar but different. A group of misfits are given a task by a wizard to find the perfect person.
They must do this in order to save their friend, who is terminally ill and will die shortly. The wizard tells them that their friend is not terminally ill but under an evil spell that he can break. The characters are Jack, Suzie, and Alec, who are misfits because they are the outcasts from their home village, which is in a fictional country. The wizard gives them a clue to look where no one has looked or would think of looking.
Jack, Suzie, and Alec think that the perfect place to find the perfect person is in a graveyard because nobody would think of looking there. But how would the perfect person appear in a graveyard? After searching through several cemeteries, they become frustrated because they find nothing unusual and do not know what the wizard was talking about. They finally find a cemetery where they can enter a new world that is built upon their imaginations.
Using their imaginations mean, as they discuss a trait or physical appearance, they can build the person using their minds. What they imagine can become reality. Using their imaginations, they begin to discuss what the perfect person would look like and act. They cannot decide because the traits that they imagined as a perfect person are foreign to them. Finally, they start talking about themselves, and what they like and do not like.
After a lengthy conversation that continues for days, Suzie stands up and yells that she has the answer. She states they should make three lists of their best physical and mental traits. That will be the perfect person. The perfect person is within them as it is within all people. They compile the perfect person using their imaginations and take it to the wizard. Suzie explains to the wizard with the assistance of Jack and Alec that the perfect person was within them as it is within all people.
The wizard states that they found the answer to the clue. As such, they are also able to break the spell over their friend. The spell is broken, and the four leave and live happily ever after. The setting regarding where the movie takes place can be instrumental in a horror movie. Many times, horror movies take place in a historical area with big, old houses that hold many secrets. Secrets provide the basis of a story as the house is supposedly haunted because something gruesome happened there many years ago.
However, the setting may not be unusual, but it can be a typical small town or city just like the one where you live.
The plot, once again, is inner conflict.
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