pazz & jop 2011

90% one genre, whether that's rap or techno or indie, i always think, um, do you listen to other genres? there is so much good music out there and it is (almost) everywhere.

― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 30 December 2011

Kind of an interesting one this. Definitely 90%+ of..newly released music I listen to is broadly house music related. But this probably drops to about maybe 60% of all music old or new. When it comes to older music (both new to me and already known to me) the spectrum is a lot wider. I'm not all that sure why it should be so narrow in one aspect and so wide in another - perhaps could make a possibly spurious argument that the period of "old music" is a larger and wider time period than the period of 2011 which is just one year - not sure

so wait, deej if 90% of the new music you listen to isn't rap, what is the percentage? srs question

at the beginning of the year it seemed like a foregone conclusion that the Tyler, The Creator album would do well in year-end lists and that seems to has pretty much dissolved, but "Yonkers" is still a lock to be maybe the highest rap song on the singles poll right?

no doubt

so wait, deej if 90% of the new music you listen to isn't rap, what is the percentage? srs question

― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, December 30, 2011 6:59 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

this year it was probably close to that. in years previous, dance music & R&B probably made up a combined 40%

single genre ballots are the best ones this shld be obv

yeah they're more fun/useful to look at, like the genre lists spin did this year were cool

i last year & this year i've make my ilx trax ballot exclusively charting singles & notable rap youtubes. i find that otherwise the process is too intellectually jarring & the result not as satisfying