[pessimizer]

Musical genre multiplication and creation is just an internet disease where a bunch of would-be critics put original research on wikipedia and retroactively justify it by referencing one sentence in a 10 year old Slate article by some actual critic of no particular note.

Most of the people included in these genres had no idea they were in them when they created the music (because they didn't exist.) Plenty of them still have no idea, and may not have ever heard of the genre that they "typified."

edit: and since most people who are "experts" on popular music create that identity by just vacuuming up what they can find on the internet, creating a genre in Wikipedia becomes equivalent to creating a genre.

[mistrial9]

as a sound tech at a nightclub, I cornered one of the musicians on break and started listing lists of bands in grouping somehow.. unimpressed, he looked askance and replied "musicians don't talk that way"

[int_19h]

Genre multiplication, in metal at least, predates the Internet and Wikipedia.