Quote Originally Posted by The Ceej View Post
EDIT: I have a solution to this problem. We just remove genres from music and all music falls under one genre. That genre is music. Then, people can no longer judge an entire group of music, but only individual songs or artists.
I find that to be a bit of a hassle. It's much easier to say 'I dislike country music, but there is a possibility there is a song or artist I MAY like' than saying 'I don't like _____, _____, _____, ______, ______, ______....' and so on.

So yes, while all of music is a genre in and of itself, that still leaves the subgenres to compare and contrast different styles of music. I could say that Metallica and IOSYS are comparable because they fall under the genre of music, but since they have absolutely no similarities otherwise (IOSYS is a Japanese doujinshi technopop group that mainly does remixes of Touhou music).They sound nothing alike. That's why genres exist-- to make things easier, which goes back to my point: it's not prejudice to dislike a style/genre of music, you just dislike it and that's all there is to it.