Portmanteau?
Also, option 3 has Genre-Busting instead of Genre Mashup as the proposed name. Typo, yes?
I would prefer option 1, mashing up musical styles is quite different than matching story genres and needs an entirely different description.
Music styles are more akin to Medium Blending than Genre Mashup.
It is especially when you add in how common remixes and additional non-standard instruments to already existing songs like say Metalica's S&M album and such.
What's the way forward now? Somebody sidetracked this project by opening a thread for Genre Busting
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edited 1st May '16 1:24:59 PM by eroock
More like someone sidetracked the Genre-Busting thread by making this one.
edited 1st May '16 1:49:51 PM by shimaspawn
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x2 Broaden the trope so it's not medium-exclusive, and rename it to Genre Mashup since it's less obtuse than the current name.
edited 3rd May '16 12:57:06 AM by Karxrida
I still think we need medium specific pages for the different types of genres Gameplay, Music and Story specifically. They are all so different from each other and one work might just use one two or all three.
Like say Persona 3 has
- a soundtrack with Rock, Jazz, Rap, J-Pop Techno and full orchestra many of which are in the same song.
- While the story is a Genre Mashup of Slice of Life, Horror, Comedy, School Girl Series, etc,
- and the gameplay is Dungeon Crawler + RPG + Dating Sim
edited 4th May '16 12:44:26 PM by Memers
Because each genre type is exclusive to that, including them in a single trope would make say a Fantasy RPG with J-Pop ala Final Fantasy X 2 a Genre Mashup and it is not.
Even though it is the same word each one are completely different. It is 3 different genre types and each list needs to be kept completely separate from each other.
Obviously a game's choice of music does not a Genre Mashup make. We can distinguish between story mashups, music mashups, and gameplay mashups in the examples without resorting to separate tropes or Type Labels. No one's going to confuse "this game mixes several styles of gameplay" with "this game has music." If it's also an example of "this game has several genres of music in its soundtrack," great, that's a separate bullet.
Then you are looking at 4-5 separate bullets for a hell of a lot of works. Its going to be a disaster to format unless maybe a soft split by type or a hard split, which I was pushing for the latter.
The description is already going to be a mile long talking about what is and is not a genre, let alone making genre types clear. Then go into not actually mashing them up instead going for a rotation which is Genre Roulette. Then telling people how specific do you go, Story, Gameplay, Soundtrack, Song etc.
This trope as written is only for songs.
Whatever... getting majorly frustrated here, do whatever. It just does not make sense to me, they are all so different. It also didn't make much sense to whoever wrote this trope.
edited 5th May '16 7:40:02 AM by Memers
This seems like Genre Mashup but limited to songs, because that's the type of medium that needed a subtrope for some reason. I say redirect.
Going with option 1. Making it a redirect would make things way too messy, as Memers has already tried to explain. Hell, the artists section already stretches the page long enough as is, this with the fact that many anime and videogame soundtracks can be examples in and of themselves, it'd make most sense to make the current trope music-exclusive and Genre Mashup be a sort of supertrope for it.
Genre Mashup was a better name; the current name is unwieldy & hard to remember.
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The thing is Medium subpages do not get their own description. This needs it because it's so utterly different from the rest.
As well as the sorting of genres under 'music' will be different and possibly require its own subpages due to size. As well as soundtracks would belong under music instead of the series entry.
I've already forgotten some of the details of this one, but I think you should go ahead and make a crowner along the lines of that post for hooking.
My preferred on that list is 3. I think the name NPZR is rather not awesome and would not mind it erased. But I will be voting for any one trope option on the crowner. There are indeed three types of genre, but they all get mashed up, and there is no technical difference that I can see between the different mashups.
Not to mention I have no problem with a video game ending up with three genre mashup examples.
edited 26th Jun '16 4:02:43 PM by war877
Crown Description:
What is the best way forward to sort out the issue

Clear, Concise, and Witty in that order. The current name is long on top of being hard to remember due to the use of [insert that word that means word combinations here].