- Rock began with Rock & Roll, which was Country Music meets R&B meets the Blues.
- Italo Disco is Disco meets 80s Synth-Pop in a Milan dance club.
- Italo house is Italo Disco meets "diva" Disconote meets old-school Hip-Hop.
- Power Pop is Pop Rock meets Garage Rock.
- New Wave Music is Progressive Rock meets Post-Punk meets Disco meets Power Pop.
- Post-Punk is Punk Rock meets an arty mashup of different genres.
- Alternative Rock is Post-Punk meets Garage Rock with Punk Rock's DIY ethos.
- Jangle Pop is Power Pop meets Folk Rock and/or Psychedelic Rock.
- Baroque Pop is Rock & Roll meets Baroque Music.
- Hip-Hop is Spoken Word meets Funk meets Sampling.
- Battle Rapping is Hip-Hop meets Comedy Roasts.
- Alternative Hip Hop is Hip-Hop meets Alternative Rock.
- Gangsta Rap is Hip-Hop meets tales of organized crime and life in the ghetto.
- Horrorcore is Gangsta Rap meets Horror.
- Crunk is Miami Bass meets Dirty Rap.
- Trap Music is Gangsta Rap meets 2000s snap and crunk.
- G-Funk is Gangsta Rap meets 70s Disco, Soul and Funk.
- Dream Pop is Psychedelic Rock meets Alternative Rock.
- Dubstep is Techno meets Big Beat meets Harsh Noise.
- Disco polo
is Italo Disco meets traditional Polish drinking songs. - Grindcore is best described as Hardcore Punk, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, and Noise Rock having a head-on collision with each other while Post-Punk and Industrial watch from the sidelines and take photographs.
- Acid Rock is Garage Rock meets Psychedelic Rock.
- Trance is Electronic Music made with the song structure and grandeur of Classical Music.
- Or Electronic Music meets Progressive Rock.
- Latin freestyle is Italo Disco meets Synth-Pop at a Hispanic block party.
- Disco is Soul meets Funk meets Psychedelic Rock meets early Electronic Music meets Latin rhythms.
- Folk punk bands are inevitably described as "The Pogues meets [whatever punk band seems most appropriate]". Given that The Pogues are the Ur-Example of the genre, this can seem a little redundant.
- Funk is Soul meets African Rhythms.
- Soul is Gospel Music meets R&B.
- Heavy Metal originally was Blues Rock meets Psychedelic Rock.
- Speed Metal is Heavy Metal meets Hardcore Punk.
- Thrash Metal is Speed Metal meets New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
- Black Metal is Thrash Metal meets Satanism, environmentalism, anti-religious rants, and/or fantasy.
- Death Metal is Thrash Metal meets Black Metal.
- Hair Metal is Heavy Metal meets Power Pop meets Glam Rock with Arena Rock energy.
- Rap Metal is Heavy Metal meets Rap Rock.
- Nu Metal is Groove Metal meets Hip-Hop.
- Crossover Thrash is Thrash Metal meets Hardcore Punk. Even the name mentions the combination of genres.
- Alternative Metal is Alternative Rock meets Heavy Metal (many metal subgenres listed here that emphasize genre experimentation over raw decibels and/or technical prowess may fall under here, though there is still room for overlap).
- Power Metal is Speed Metal meets Arena Rock meets Progressive Rock.
- Symphonic Metal is Power Metal meets Classical Music meets Gothic Metal.
- Funk Metal is Heavy Metal meets Funk Rock (or, take a R&B/funk band and replace the horn section with stereotypical Hair Metal guitarists)
- Melodic Death Metal is Death Metal meets Power Metal.
- Metalcore is Hardcore Punk meets Thrash Metal and Groove Metal, Melodic Metalcore is Metalcore meets Melodic Death Metal, Deathcore is Metalcore meets Death Metal and Grindcore, and Mathcore is Metalcore meets Progressive Metal and Noise Rock.
- New Wave of British Heavy Metal (or NWOBHM) was punk energy with Heavy Metal musicianship.
- In turn, Hardcore Punk is NWOBHM meets Punk Rock, and Melodic Death Metal is NWOBHM meets Death Metal.
- Djent is Metalcore meets Jazz
- The psychobilly genre is basically 1950s rockabilly meets a Zombie Apocalypse.
- Alternatively, 50s Rock'n Roll meets 70s Punk Rock.
- This is essentially the entire point of 'mash-ups', where you take two songs and mesh them into one. The quality of these mash-ups, however, tends to vary.
- Vaporwave is 80s/90s muzak or Adult Contemporary music meets Chop And Screw, ambient, Trap Music, and even the Earthbound OST. Or all of that meets cyberpunk.
- Future Funk is Disco/French/Filter House or occasionally Instrumental Hip Hop meets Vaporwave imagery. Basically, think Discovery-era Daft Punk listening to J-Pop while on a shopping spree in 1980s Shibuya.
- Liquid funk is Drum 'n' Bass meets Jazz.
- Electro House is House Music meets Techno.
- Harder Dubstep (sometimes called "Brostep") is Electronic Music mixed with the hardness and atmosphere of Rock and Metal music.
- Grime is Gangsta Rap meets UK garage, chiptune and jungle, with some reggae on the side.
- Progressive Rock is Rock & Roll meets Classical Music. And Jazz. And Folk Music.
- Post-Punk is Punk Rock meets Krautrock.
- Goth Rock is Post-Punk meets Darker and Edgier.
- Americana is Country Music meets Folk Music.
- Reggae is Ska meets Funk.
- Dancehall is Reggae meets Hip-Hop.
- Synth-Pop is New Wave meets Electronic Music.
- Dark Wave is Synth-Pop meets Goth Rock.
- Synthwave is Synth-Pop or New Wave Music meets Cyberpunk.
- In turn, Darksynth is Synthwave meets EBM.
- Eurodance is Disco meets House Music.
- Eurobeat is Italo Disco meets Happy Hardcore meets Japanese Pop Music.
- Electro Funk is Exactly What It Says on the Tin; Electro meets funk. Or alternatively, take a R&B/Funk band and replace the horn section with synthesizers.
- Grunge is Alternative Rock meets Heavy Metal (and/or Hard Rock) with (Punk and/or Garage Rock) energy.
- City Pop is Disco meets Japanese Pop Music. In turn, Future Funk is City Pop meets Vaporwave.
- Any European Power Metal or Symphonic Metal band that gains attention in the U.S. is inevitably described as "[whatever rock/metal band seems most appropriate] meets Nightwish". This can seem a little redundant, as Nightwish are one of the Ur-Examples of the genre.
- Country and Irish is American Country Music meets traditional Irish folk music.
- Bro-Country is Country Music meets Rap Rock.
- Pop Punk is a Lighter and Softer Punk Rock meets Power Pop.
- Funk Rock is Funk meets Hard Rock (or, take a R&B/funk band and replace the horn section with guitarists).
- Southern Rock is Country Music meets Hard Rock, with a dash each of Gospel Music and the Blues thrown in for good measure.
- Heartland Rock is best described as Arena Rock, the Blues, Americana, and Southern Rock having a head-on collision with each other while Country Music watches from the sidelines and take photographs.
- Ska Punk is Ska meets Pop Punk.
- Trip Hop is Indie Rock meets House Music meets Hip-Hop.
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