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I figure that the smallest possible number of songs you can have in a genre is two, right? And recently I've been thinking about songs that have either come out at around the same time, or have some other kind of connection (eg, where the artist originates) in addition to the very specific factor(s) that make them a 'mini-genre'.
Now, I have no idea whether this will take off, but I thought it might be fun to list a couple of examples, and then invite people to add other examples from these ridiculously specific genres, or alternatively to make up your own, with two or more examples. Don't worry too much about describing the individual songs when you list them, as long as you make sure that the description of the mini-genre tells us what we need to know... And please be creative, and try to keep it to songs you generally like, unless you have something particularly incisive to say about songs you don't.
Here's a couple to get the ball rolling:
1. Southern hip-hop songs that sound like they're influenced by Parklife-era Blur or maybe I Should Coco-era Supergrass - choppy guitars or tinkly pianos, music hall melodies, naggingly catchy "la la la" choruses, that kind of thing:
Outkast - 'The Whole World'
N.E.R.D. featuring Clipse - 'Loser'
2. Songs in which half the vocalists talk about being hetero and wanting sex, and the other half talk about being queer and wanting sex, and which achieve a weird synthesis by the end between the two, in a way that is totally subversive and radical but also cracks you up and might well piss all the right people off - bonus points if fun to dance to when fucked-up:
Avenue D featuring Cazwell - 'The Sex That I Need'
Junior Senior - 'Chicks And Dicks' |
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