Think you know everything there is to know about music? Prepare to be blown away as we take a look at some of the most interesting, unbelievable facts about musicians and the music industry......Music Genre's you may not know about!
1. Pirate Metal;
Pirate metal is an extremely amusing yet quality genre. The songs in this specific genre tend to be sea shanties sung or shrieked in the style of heavy metal but accompanied by folk instruments like the concertina.
2. Math Rock;
Math rock is a specific style of indie rock. The name stems from the fact that it uses complex time signatures and unusual meters. Math rock first emerged in the 1980s before peaking in the mid-1990s.
3. lowercase;
In 2001, Steven Roden created an extreme and minimalist genre of ambient music called lowercase. On his album Forms of Paper, Roden handled various types of paper, recording the sounds before amplifying, stretching, looping, and otherwise affecting them. He did this until he generated a type of ambient electronic music.
4. Folktronica;
As far as genres go, folktronica does sound pretty corny. However, it’s also a pretty accurate description. Bibio (not Bibi) is a UK artist who often blends electronic and folk or acoustic music, his music is a perfect example of folktronica music.
5.Cute Metal (Kawai Core);
If you mix heavy metal with anime and horror tropes, this weird and wonderful concoction gives you Cute Metal. A combination of metal and J-Pop (Japanese pop), Cute Metal emerged in the early 2010s. It mixes J-Pop melodies and idol personas with the darker imagery of metal.
6. Witch House;
Despite the fact it has ‘house’ in the name, there isn’t anything house-like about the Witch House genre. It was initially coined as a joke by Travis Egedy (aka, Pictureplane). The artists who got put into the Witch House box did have a unique and identifiable sound.
The genre is characterized as having slow tempo, chopped and screwed songs that embrace goth, shoegaze, hip-hop, drone, noise, and even industrial.
7. German Reggae;
Germany’s music scene has a bunch of different musical styles at the heart of it. It has had a surprising history with reggae since the late 1970s. The first German reggae artists were primarily white, middle-class youths who wanted to create a counterculture for themselves.
In the mid-90s, the genre took off after the artist Gentleman released several albums. Unlike some of the other different types of music genres on this list, German reggae still thrives today.
Weird Music History
Miley Cyrus and Sinead O’Connor
Miley Cyrus and Sinead O’Connor feuded for years, and it was such an odd battle because, at so many points, both sides were so close to supporting each other. It began when Miley cited O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” as an inspiration for her own “Wrecking Ball.” O’Connor, in typical O’Connor fashion, responded atypically.
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