History FandomEnragingMisconception / Music

** Vocaloid fans will also rip you a new one if you even suggest that Vocaloid is the same as generative AI voicebanks. Vocaloid voicebanks are made by having a voice provider record phenome samples, which are then strung together to form words by the user rather than just entering a prompt like in the case of generative AI.[[note]]This confusion may stem from the fact that some voicebanks starting from Vocaloid 6 incorporate an AI that makes the refines the vocals and makes them sound more realistic.[[/note]]

--> Oh by the way, which one's Pink?

** Similarly, Goths are NOT fans of having their music mistaken for black metal or emo. Goth rock as a genre is melodic post-punk and alternative rock without screaming or Satanism. Darkwave is more varied and occasionally crosses over with heavier genres, but usually is fairly low on the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness.

* Music/{{Rush}}:

** Ditto Music/{{Rush}}.

** Or [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Dr. Venture]], for that matter.

* During Music/{{Blondie}}'s peak period of popularity, fans got very upset with casual fans and other people assuming that "Blondie" was the lead singer Debbie Harry and that she was a solo artist. There were even T-shirts with the slogan "BLONDIE IS A GROUP".

* It's probably not a good idea to refer to PostGrunge bands like Music/{{Creed}}, Music/{{Nickelback}}, Music/ThreeDoorsDown, and Music/{{Daughtry}} as actual {{Grunge}} in the presence of a grunge fan. You ''might'' be able to get away with referring to the Music/FooFighters as one, due to their [[Music/{{Nirvana}} origin]] and that they're not considered to be "corporate-friendly" pop sellouts by anyone.

** Any suggestion that Ghost is tied to LeVayen Satanism or the Satanic Temple, or is part of any serious movement to promote Satan worship.

** Those who follow specific Vocaloid producers really don't like it when you credit a song (e.g. in track file metadata, or when you're posting on social media about what songs you like or are currently listening to) to just the Vocaloid used for that song and not the human(s) who did all the work behind it.

* That famous Music/LynyrdSkynyrd song with the long guitar solo? It's called "Free Bird", not "Freebird". Diehard Skynyrd fans WILL correct you.

** If you refer to him as "Slim Shady" as if it's just a nickname for the rapper (a la calling Music/LilWayne "Tunechi"), you will be laughed at -- Slim Shady is a VillainProtagonist ''character'' who Eminem plays in (many of) his songs. But if you want to ''really'' wind Stadns up, take one of the more button-pushing Slim Shady songs (the usual favourite is "Criminal") and claim it represents Eminem's literal real-life beliefs about gay people (rather than being, again, the satirical words of a HeroicComedicSociopath character).

*** Tag a song's artist as "Initial D" rather than the correct artist name at your own peril. Similarly, saying that eurobeat was made for ''Initial D'' will earn you some annoyed stares from Eurobeat enthusiasts, who will point out that it wasn't made for ''Initial D'' and predates it by ''at least'' a decade.

** Those who follow specific Vocaloid producers really don't like it when you credit a song (e.g. in song metadata, or when you're posting on social media about what songs you like or are currently listening to) to just the Vocaloid used for that song and not the human(s) who did all the work behind it.

** Those who follow specific Vocaloid producers really don't like it when you credit a song to just the Vocaloid used for that song and not the human(s) who did all the work behind it.

* Even though it's impossible for two people to agree on what emo is, if you call a band {{emo|music}} and it isn't, you're bound to catch hell for it. Special mention goes to Music/MyChemicalRomance (who the mainstream considers the codifier for {{Emo|Music}}); the fanbase and the band itself are less than happy about the implication they are comprised of StrawNihilist {{Emo Teen}}s (Gerard Way has had a major rant about this). In reality they're pretty much the opposite, albeit in a very dark way.

** Averted with several BlackMetal bands such as Gogoroth, as black metal fans would consider it as a compliment. In fact, saying that black metal is ''not'' satanic is actually seen as insulting to the genre's fandom, in which case is an example of InvertedTrope.