Wolf

seriously, i am painfully hopeless @ identifying genres, so can anyone tell me what genre evanescences "call me when your sober" is?

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Symph

Genre naming is a tough thing. It's very subjective, because it changes based on what a particular era called the music of that time. Alot of artists from the 70's that are considered "pop rock" now, had completely different names for their genre in their own era. We call a whole plethera of different songs "oldies" when at the time of their conception, they had very defineable genres. Soooo, to answer your question...

I think in actuality, Evanescence's call me when your sober is kind of like a power-ballad. But the easiest thing to do is call it "Pop-Rock" because it's popular, it's rock, and that's a very all encompassing term.

Now, if the song means too much to you to give it such a title, perhaps you could call it "goth-rock", which really wouldn't be a correct genre, but to fans it would be.

Yes... yes... there is a deep science to all of this... genre naming is an art form all it's own...

Traveling Bandsman

Evanescence sounds to me like a little more subtle version of post-grunge. However, I would be one to go with Gothic Rock to describe most of that band's sound.

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Symph

I didn't even think about post grunge, that's a good genre for it too.

Trey

Strike, why do you care about what genre it is? You like the song, right? That's all that matters. Are you planning on singing that one yourself? I love the vocal melody in that song.

Wolf

its for my music report lol, i have to say genres!

and yes me and my band are going to do that one

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Trey

Good luck with the report, and song.