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Choosing a genre your song fits into.

FearDVA	Date: November 29, 2007 @ 8:13 PM I was wondering... are there any techniques or processes I can go through to decide what genre my music fits into best? I sometimes have trouble with some of my songs... let me elaborate. Let's take my song "Always" for example. Well... my first thought with the piano and orchestra, it would be in classical.. but it doesn't seem to have a classical feel to it, then I think Movie Soundtrack... Well, than I think... I used an "electronic application" to create it, so it might fit into electronic... but then it usually goes into "other". What do you guys thinks about this? Do you share my frustration sometimes?
NoRentJoseph	Date: November 30, 2007 @ 2:33 AM Occam's razor Likewise I'm crap at picking Genres I guess picking the strongest influences of the song to give it it's genre.
FraDonaghy	Date: November 30, 2007 @ 8:52 AM The only reason we put labels on creative productions is because other people ask us to. If you really don't feel like putting your music into a convenient little box for the masses, you don't have to. The only downside of it being that your song won't be included in the site's charts. Alternatively, just stick it under "other" and let other people make their own minds up.
pog	Date: November 30, 2007 @ 9:23 AM I would say electronic other is a good choice, or electronic ambient. You think choosing a genre is difficult, you should have seen when the original genre choices were being initiated Before the order was applied to the chaos, it was like gee... maybe Electronic/ambient/nighttime/scary/small rodent with a hint of farm animals... is getting a little too confusing as a genre sub-classification. It's difficult to choose at the best of times what pigeon hole or round hole this square peg fits into as genre's are often as diverse as the human mind creating the artwork. I guess I'm trying to say.. try not to worry about someone else's opinion as to what box it should be kept in, as the only perfect naming system would be to allow the artist to classify their own genre by entering it in manually.. and that would make the music impossible to find supposing you are looking for new music in a particular genre.
ShadowMom	Date: November 30, 2007 @ 11:00 AM Make it fit, cram it in there, it doesn't matter if it's a square peg in a round hole... just DO IT! DO IT! ....... I got carried away again. I guess what I'm trying to say is -- your guess is as good as anyone else's.
DaveWL	Date: November 30, 2007 @ 11:58 AM I’d say If you’ve got long hair then it’s probably rock If you haven’t got a girlfriend then it’s probably electronic If your dog just died and your wife just left you then it’s probably Country If nobody listens to your music then it’s probably jazz. If you can’t get anybody to join your band then it’s probably folk Otherwise it’s pop otherwise it’s other
NickSawyer	Date: November 30, 2007 @ 6:49 PM give it eggs for breakfast. I have the same problem, though most of my stuff is electronic, so I'm usually safe with that. It's usually the sub genres that get me Screw genres though
FearDVA	Date: December 2, 2007 @ 12:43 PM Thanks, those help me a lot! And DaveWL made me laugh . I sure do love this community!