Research - Music Genres

Metal
· Videos consist mainly of performance and some plotline often in a 60:40 ratio.
· Band members (excluding the drummer) will often be stood with legs wide apart in a strong stance.
· Band members will often play parts in the plotline of their videos.
· Band members will wear their own clothing often with other bands merchandise like t-shirts or hoodies.
· Band will play their own instruments and sing their own lyrics with un-enhanced voices during filming.
· Live performances are very common, often a band will spend 200 days a year on tour.
· Often completely male band, sometimes female lead singers and rarely an all female band.
· Metal has many different sub-genres such as; Heavy Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Viking Metal, Folk Metal, Pirate Metal, Reggae Metal and Trance Metal.
Rock
· Videos, similarly to Metal, will consist mainly of performance but often have a plotline within the video.
· Band members will often dress in their own way sometimes wearing other band merchandise like t-shirts or hoodies.
· Band will play their own instruments and often sing their own lyrics with un-enhanced voices during filming.
· Similarly to Metal live performances are done very often.
· Rock has many different sub-genres such as; Punk Rock, Pop Rock, Emo Rock and Electronic Rock.
Pop
· Boybands will have their dance routines choreographed by a professional and wont play their own instruments.
· Girlbands will often have their dance routines choreographed by a professional and wont play their own instruments.
· Both boy and girl bands will be objectified to create voyerism and attract their audience.
· Sometimes bands will have their voices auto-tuned post-recording to make them sound better than they really are.
· Live performances are sometimes mimed rather than actually live.
· Pop has a limited amount of sub-genres they are either boy bands, girl bands or singer/songwriters.
· Bands will be given clothing to wear to reveal them in a distasteful manor to attract the oposite sex.
Rap
· Videos often consist of provocatively dressed women generally in bikini’s, expensive looking cars, the rapper in question dancing/rapping with the previously mentioned women.
· Rappers will often write their own raps based on previous events or life experiences.
· Live performances are never mimed and a stand in band/sampler is used for the music as the artist raps.
· Each rapper usually has their own style of rapping often their style makes them famous. For example Eminem is famous for paradying numerous celebrities or acts that a certain celebrity carried out recently in some of his songs e.g. Rock Star on his Relapse album.
· Rappers always wear their own clothes, often excessively baggy football jersies or basket ball tops with equally baggy jeans or trousers.
Drum and Bass
· Videos often include some graphic visualisations added at the post-production stage.
· Videos will often be purely plotline and no performance as a lot of the performance is done post-production.
· Even though most of the music is created post-production live performances are still common for more popular performers.