Bwahahahaha @ all you rap-hating foolz. Seriously, dudes, if you're gonna enforce your rap opinions on people, listen to more than just the Top 40 crap before you do

My least favourite genre would be country; but I'm not gonna totally condemn that either.

People here listen to TMBG and other many underground bands.

I don't think anyone here is totally condemning their genres. For example, I like Lose Yourself by Eminem for it's cool riff and whatnot. It's not all techno and weird random electronic sounds like most other rap music.

People here don't listen to the top 40 crap.

I really don't like rap.
Like, I can tolerate Eminem, but anything heavier that rants about wanting to slap female-dogs and gardening tools is bad.

...quite as boring as R&B...

I'm sorry, but TMBG is not an "underground" band. Sure, they're not exactly mainstream anymore, but good luck finding someone that hasn't heard Particle Man or Istanbul.



I think you are a very, very confused person.

As for the rap comment, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm saying that all rap is is a guy talking with stupid electronic music in the background. They don't even use a real drumset, they set it up on the computer.

As for the rap comment, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm saying that all rap is is a guy talking with stupid electronic music in the background. They don't even use a real drumset, they set it up on the computer.

As for the rap comment, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm saying that all rap is is a guy talking with stupid electronic music in the background. They don't even use a real drumset, they set it up on the computer.

Same as above. Definitely cannot stand the tears in my beer music... What do you get when you play a country song backwards?

Hurm...you left off both "classical" and "techno/electronica" as options on the poll...not that I dislike either one of them. And aren't R&B and Blues considered to be subgenres of genres like rap and jazz (when you said "subgenres such as emo and metal don't count")?

I would consider Rap and jazz to be subgenres of R&B and Blues, if anything.
I would even go so far as to say that nearly ALL music in America right now is a subgenre of Blues.

Nah...jazz is a genre that sort of emerged from folk music, Ragtime, and Dixieland (hence why many consider Dixieland [and some consider Ragtime] to still be a form of jazz). Blues pretty much seems to have come out of that same or similar folk music that helped create jazz, but was heavily refined and taken in by jazz artists of jazz's first generation (such as Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton). The 12-bar Blues (as it's often called in the jazz world) became a foundation for a lot of jazz, but as many other subgenres of jazz broke off and evolved from it, Blues still held its own and is still around today.

R&B--Rhythm & Blues--is one of the subgenres that evolved from Blues, and was personified best (IMO) in the classic film The Blues Brothers (remember their Rhythm & Blues Revue?). How R&B evolved into a subgenre of rap is something I haven't studied...though I can't help but feel it has degraded in value by doing so.

As for ALL American music right now being a subgenre of Blues, I have to say that's impossible. Current trends in the artsy-fartsy world of "modern concert music"--trends that include minimalism, microtonality, and electronic music--spawned from a different line of musical evolution. They can be traced back to their ancestors of early 20th Century 12-tone rows and Serialism, which came out of the Romantic/Impressionist era, which was molded from the Classical era, which was forged by the Baroque era, and so on and so forth. Of course, this hasn't stopped composers of minimalism and microtonality and such from incorporating other trends such as jazz or pop or techno (I myself have some sort of jazz influence in almost all the music I write)--but the primary root still stems from a different branch of music.

Also, while current popular music may have come from a lineage tied to Blues (such as Blues-->Country-->Rock n' Roll-->Alternative-->Pop), it has gone under so many permutations that it really has no resemblance to the Blues anymore. Therefore, to claim that it's a subgenre of Blues seems erroneous, because for it to be a true subgenre, it would have to still embody the same fundamental structure and theory of Blues itself...which it doesn't.

Rap is bad, but come on people. POP. It's the stuff cheerleaders and morons listen to. It's worse.

Country's my least favorite genre. It's sleepy, twangy, whiny, and overall "cowboy emo." Not my favorite thing ever.

Rap is bad, but come on people. POP. It's the stuff cheerleaders and morons listen to. It's worse.

Ever heard of Powerpop? Not many morons and cheerleaders even know what that is funk. Pop is jsut anythign played in the top 40. POPular music. Pretty much, if they've ever had a record go gold or platinum. They're pop in some way or another, even if it's just a techincality.