Green Tee Readings

I know there are a lot of music genres, like latvian nasal chanting, punk-cabaret, and cookie monster metal, so I get that some disagreement of where a particular album might best be categorized. Edge cases are, by definition, hard to slot into specific categories.

“Rock” is a pretty broad genre, probably used by the more hierarchally obsessed as a catch-all for works that bend/cross genre. It is not a genre that really fits with If You’re Feeling Sinister era Belle and Sebastian*, and (I’m looking directly at you for this one, eMusic) not at all a genre for Pelle Carlberg’s The Lilac Time, which I mistake for light Belle and Sebastian when I’m not paying attention. Is it because he says “fuck” and “shite” in songs? Can pop** musicians not swear? Or write songs about being more sad that a rhinoceros died than a grandmother?

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* Somehow that album, too, is tagged rock.
** I differentiate strongly between rock and pop. These are different genres, people.

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