I read these forums and kind feel this is the same thing that is reflected in the overall music business. Trying to find a fit for what you do or feel as you are writing songs.

There are sub genre's for music but only very few that are mainstream enough to bring in enough income to be viable in the market. Actually the "Genre crossover occurs when someone manages to take the existing framework and push it to a different level. That comes from the consumers acceptance of that. That is why everyone tries for the mainstream in whatever genre they are writing for.

When you sit with a publisher or a record label they are going to ask you "Where do you see your music fitting?" Because more times than not, they don't fit any specific genre or style. And you have two decisions. Create your own genre or style or conform to fit where the mainstream is.

And since each new genre takes money to create a forum for it, most people dissapear into the back ground of forgotten music, or develop their own followings. Sometimes those followings build and they can get a new format (Roots music) or just be content with their own small niche. It is the choice of the people who inhabit that world.

This forum can be thought of as the mainstream. And for the most part it is going to gravitate to that. Everything on the Internet costs someone money to create, maintain, and keep up there. Just like the music industry. It costs someone something.

So if anyone is wanting separate genres or sub genres or sub sub genres, it is within their power to create those. But they are the ones who have to pay for it, develop it and get other people to participate in it.

That is the thing about the Internet and music in general. Any one can do anything they want to. But they have to get others that feel the same way they do to participate. That is why there are billions of web sites, chat rooms, information going constantly. And why most people stay to the mainstream. Just too much effort to search out things and it is easier when people come to you. In this day and age of constantly paying bills, staying alive, time is the one thing people never have enough of.

MAB