From what I can see, it just seems like a page to complain about genres and to try to save your favourite bands from the Dead Horse Genre list.
Maybe singling out certain bands or artists isn't such a good idea, too much flame and/or gush bait, but the general explanations are alright, if there's proof from more than a handful of critics.
Also, adding other mediums will just turn most of the page into complaining about stuff that the troper doesn't like.
Yeah, I meant "melodrama" as the genre of theater with Dudley Do Right rescuing a Distressed Damsel from Dastardly Whiplash and so forth. (Trying to think of at least one example beyond music.)
Hi, neighbor!"Turn the page into"? You're suggesting that it's something else now. :)
Nor do I see how adding other-medium examples like Vaudeville, Courtly Love, and Chivalric Romance is going to increase the opportunities for complaining. It's not like we're going to get a bunch of people passionately declaiming how they hate those genres; few people are likely to have strong opinions about those, because they truly are dead horse genres.
edited 30th Oct '12 11:44:08 AM by Xtifr
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee."few people are likely to have strong opinions about those, because they truly are dead horse genres."
In fact, I think that could be a litmus test in and of itself. Might not work for music because any discussion about music genres competing in any way is almost automatically flamebait, but I can see it for other media.
I have strong opinions about Commedia dell'Arte. :P
I support Jeduthun's and Xtifr's motion, though.
The Revolution Will Not Be TropeableI'm all for a page about how some genres don't appear much in works works except by way of parody, so long as it isn't a list of genres that died because they suck with a long list of sucky things.
Calling:
- Expand to other media.
- Cut out the exceptions.
Cut the exceptions and broadened the description.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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Note: Not all of these options are mutually exclusive.
We may need a sandbox to sort this out: Dead Horse Genre.
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.