If you’ve browsed around MySpace looking at music profiles you might have noticed the genre designation “Melodramatic Popular Song” adorning the odd profile. It’s one of my favorite made-up genre-names because it sets up huge expectations of what the band sounds like. The phrase “Melodramatic Popular Song” conjures up all sorts of images, and it […]
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