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Stoneman
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12/7/2017 5:17:47 PM
Genre Purity? Is there even such a thing?
Was talking one of my publishers yesterday and he said to me :Stoneman, be careful that you maintain genre purity in your new releases. Kind of pissed me off because I don't believe in such a thing. I am a genre whore. I go from one thing to the next and I don't see anything wrong with that. I mean, to me it is all Stoneman music. I only call it a genre because the world wants it to be one. But I could care less about some stupid genre purity. If I do country it sounds like me doing country. Reggae? Me doing Reggae. Etc etc. What do you think? Is genre purity an important thing to you? I believe that as an artist I should feel free to write and produce whatever kind of music creatively comes to me. It bothers some people that I like to do Rock and Pop also. But you know what? I don't give a fuck! They can take their genre purity and stick up you know where!
Stoneman
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Bryon Tosoff
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12/7/2017 5:23:22 PM
I dont think there is Genre Purity for an artist, especially a minor indie, but a major indie, or established artist. well those who are with labels probably have their music sussed out and assessed if it dont make the labels evaluation of what they signed up to do .
if you are able to do most anything, then that is awesome. Being in your position as a multi-faceted artist doing so many different styles, then you can probably dictate to your people what you are going to do,
as for me, I have my specialties and sometimes go outside of them, although prefer to stick to what I can do well
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Larree
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12/8/2017 9:36:37 AM
That is the problem with industry sanctioned music today. It's all cookie cutter bullshit. Fuck genre purity.
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Duane Flock
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12/8/2017 10:37:24 AM
I tend to put different styles and genres on the same CD so that it pleases a broader range of listeners. I still call it Rock/Progressive Rock for general purpose.
Stoneman is right. Its just an artist expressing themselves and only proves the grander versatality and abilities of that ARTIST.
Larree's point is well taken. (ie:) My nephews listen to the first minute of any song and move on when they get bored with it.
D
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Shoe City Sound
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12/9/2017 11:55:32 AM
"Genre Purity" - I guess I never heard that term before - not liking it haha. I get that categorizing music into genres is useful to people buying and selling music. I search by genre when I'm looking for music to download, but it's pretty upside-down to ask the musicians to stay within those guidelines. In reality they don't exist.
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Bryon Tosoff
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12/9/2017 12:03:40 PM
Bare naked ladies Is a prime example of a label controlling artists creativity .before they got discovered and signed they had a great sound and were so creative unique unusual and interesting. Multi faceted
Then the label f@@ked them over changed their look and directed the sound they wanted .did not work
Better to be indie then an android
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Lars Mars
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12/9/2017 9:33:46 PM
Geez Stoneman, it can't be my eyes, because I just got a new prescription.
But I read Gene Pitney, is there even such a thing?
Same thing happens when I read Martial Arts. I always read it as Marital Arts.
I suppose the only way to stay pure is if you constantly rewrite the same song over and over. It hasn't hurt U2, but I would get the lyrics mixed up all the time.
Glenn
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Psyche's Muse
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12/10/2017 6:11:40 AM
GENRE PURITY?
Nah! (...sounds rather "racist" to me in a way.)
"Cross-Over Songs" are the "glue" which holds this house of cards "TOGETHER"... making it easier to "Share" our "Love Of Music" with others (in differing genres).
-M-
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Bryon Tosoff
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12/10/2017 5:44:15 PM
I saw Gene Pitney too Glenn. right off, and had to look twice to confirm otherwise
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