Scandinavian Girls 2.0

I'm amazed by the idea to have the genre on the list of all artists and look with joy forward on the long discussions about the correct genres. ;)
I suppose a lot of people will have to say about the correctness of the "tags" but there won't be problems as long as the discussions will be constructive :)


I love the Artists that joined our group as it looks now. How about creating a journal article with the current format and linking it from the

Artists That Joined Us! (8)

plus your shortened list but without the spotlight?
I'd be more than happy to create a journal about the artists who joined the group, it is a good idea! The new layout will be something similar to the one showed above but I still think we should have a spotlight, maybe as a simple "thank you" towards the artist :)

Please go ahead! Your points are perfect!
Oh well, thanks :)

Thank you ikpts! The new layout for the artists who joined us will go live later on but the journal will be created tomorrow ;)

Looks great! You're so diligent :)

Okay okay... I carefully valued the idea of adding genre next to each artist but I soon realized it would be too laborious and exhausting. But don't disparate! I thought to a more immediate and simple solution: different tags.

I have already created some...

scandinavian girls: pop
scandinavian girls: jazz
scandinavian girls: electronic
scandinavian girls: singer-songwriter
scandinavian girls: acoustic
scandinavian girls: rock
scandinavian girls: symphonic metal
scandinavian girls: dance
scandinavian girls: sweden
scandinavian girls: denmark
scandinavian girls: norway
scandinavian girls: finland
scandinavian girls: faroe islands
scandinavian girls: iceland
scandinavian girls: indie
scandinavian girls: folk
scandinavian girls: metal
scandinavian girls: 70s (new)
scandinavian girls: 80s (new)
scandinavian girls: 90s (new)
scandinavian girls: 00s (new)
scandinavian girls: 10s (new)

...please feel free to create yours, as long as you follow this mask:

scandinavian girls: + genre
(please be sure to leave a space after the punctuation mark)

Please remember...

• Needless to say, an artist can fall into more categories.
  
• A tag goes live in a couple of days after it has been used by more than one person.
  
• To reply to this post to inform me of the new tags you created.

Thank you Sparkrin! :)

I didn't know it.... thank you for this :)

Let's see if we can find something polka :D

Thank you for the heads-up, mvordeme! Furious fans is certainly what we don't want ;)

I'm still so untaught regarding genres/styles. As I got a reco of Liechenstein today I was about to tag them scandinavian girls: chilling-folk-retro-pop-rock as this was the only matching description I found.

The advantage of tags is that you can attach any number of them to anything. It does not do any good to tag an artist with chilling-folk-retro-pop-rock because you will never be able to play that tag radio for more than five minutes. As Steve already said, you should rather attach several tags that fit the artist's style, so the artist will appear on several tag radios. This will also avoid arguments about which of the tags a specific artist belongs to.

The question is whether you would want to hear the odd track of Liechtenstein when listening to the pop tag radio.

You get a lot of these discussions in the metal groups. I always try to fix a tag to a certain characteristic of the music. There are for example black metal and power metal. Black metal features distorted vocals and power metal clean vocals (to simplify it). There is symphonic metal, too, which features the use of symphonic elements. You can distinguish symphonic black metal and symphonic power metal if you like, but you don't have to. If you don't care about vocals and just want the violins, you listen to symphonic metal. On top of that there are genres like Christian and national socialist metal which are mainly distinguished based on the lyrics. Although Christian metal is often power metal and national socialist metal mainly black, this is not necessarily the case.

In the end you will make the tags more specific when you add more attributes, but that will as well reduce the number of artists available on the tag radio. If a tag is too small it will run out of music to play. Plus you will end up with thousands of different tags this way.

As for indie: I always thought that indie marks bands that don't have a contract with one of the major labels so theoretically, it could be completely independent (haha) of musical style.

Which of them? ;-)