Comment on What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 hours ago
Does it play on the oldies station? Then it’s an oldie.
Does it play on the rock station. Then it’s rock.
Does it play on the pop station, and sound like the most manufactured bullshit you ever heard? Then it is most definitely pop music.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 13 hours ago
My local rock station started playing what is clearly pop music a couple of years ago. I think they still call themselves a rock station.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours ago
Pop Rock is a thing. Or was a thing, once. 🤷♂️
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Trust me, I’m not talking about tracks that could reasonably be called “pop rock”. They were already playing pop rock all the time anyway.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
You’re still doing a lot of glossing.
My parents listened to Roy Orbison, Chubby Checker, Buddy Holly, and some of the very early Elvis. Would they consider Elvis “oldies?” Probably not — he was pop music to them. Roy Orbison? Yeah; he’d be oldies.
To me, Madonna and Prince are oldies.