The 00s Part 4: Variety Returns
b'Music is always evolving, mutating, and modifying itself\\u2026enough people may agree on a certain direction for a new sound to become a new sub-genre\\u2026and in time, sub-sub-genres may spring from that offshoot, multiplying things even more\\u2026\\n\\nThink about it\\u2026in the 50s, you had rock, pop, country, and R&B\\u2026most everything that was released back then could be classified under one of those four headings\\u2026today, Spotify has organized things into nearly 2,000 different categories\\u2026\\n\\nThere\\u2019s music with names like \\u201cdark psytrance\\u201d to something called \\u201cstomp and flutter\\u201d\\u2026you might be into \\u201cvapor soul\\u201d or \\u201cfussball,\\u201d \\u201cgymcore\\u201d or \\u201ccatstep,\\u201d \\u201cfootwork\\u201d or \\u201csleaz33e rock\\u201d\\u2026seriously\\u2026.these are all actual Spotify genre classifications\\u2026.\\n\\nNow let\\u2019s circle back to alt-rock in the early 2000s\\u2026after a decade of things staying fairly close to a certain set of specs, it began to mutate again\\u2026yes, guitars were still important, but not essential\\u2026and there were certain shifts in attitude and outlook, created by world-shaking global events\\u2014because as we\\u2019ve learned, the sound of an era\\u2019s music is always just a little downstream from what\\u2019s happening in society at large\\u2026\\n\\nLet\\u2019s deconstruct this concept a little further\\u2026this is alt-rock in the oughts, part four.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'