Complaining: Dead Horse Genre

We may need a sandbox to sort this out: Dead Horse Genre.

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.)

"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

"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.

I'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.