The other day someone asked what kind of music I listen to and I said frank schauthiggua, they asked what genre and I said mostly cerebral catwave. It seemed like he took it seriously or he was really good at pretending to know what that is. I at least think I made those up. His reaction made me question…

I have almost no idea what any of the more specific genre tags I see on a lot of songs even mean. Has anyone already made something like a list of genres with some examples?

Edit: Thanks everyone, I’ll check those on my next break or maybe when I get home if they get on my case about headphones at work

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    This is not recently updated, but it has a go at mapping the relationships and progression of music genres over time(click a name for specific detail):

    https://m.musicmap.info/

    * There are more, find them by doing a websearch ‘music genre map’