What's your genre?

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Progressive/Tech/Electro House, Progressive/Epic Trance, Classic Rock, Industrial Metal, Blues, Dub, Reggae, Early DnB/Jungle, Psych Rock, Classical and Qawwali, to name a few.

hip hop and reggae

Heh. Sydney Carter once had someone come up to him and insist flat out that "Lord of the Dance" (which he wrote) was an old folk song. ^^

I sing folk mostly. I've got a few short recordings - I'd hoped to start putting some stuff on YouTube but my new phone is quite disappointing in its sound recording capability. Might start using the studio at work once the holiday is out.

I'm going LRPing this weekend (first time in a long time, I'm already very stressed - will be a very small event though and I know the place and people ) and wondering about singing there - I usually end up singing while I walk around, but not to other people. Trouble is most folk songs I'd want to sing - Blackwaterside or (either) The World Turned Upside Down or Hughie Graeme, say - have fixed geographical and cultural references that don't fit in with LRP settings, and there's only a limited subset that really work a cappella and aren't so long as to bore people to tears.

Electronica, '85 and earlier rap, darkwave, gothic rock, deathrock, punk, alt country, folk, classical, some choral music (mostly sombre sounding pieces), once in a blue moon broadway.

Stuff I don't like? Jazz, heavy metal, "praise" music, nashville pop.

my genre is Irish-Celtic-Punk-Metal-Dubstep-DrumNBass-AcidHouse-Folk

My genre in writing is fantasy or horror (I really don't get the distinction, seems like piles of things are called horror when they're not at all scary, just because they have vampires or werewolves in them). I dabble into sci-fi a bit but I keep feeling scared that I'll get the facts wrong and it'll sound stupid (especially as science marches on - I can't stand old sci-fi stories) so I mostly stick to fantasy. And I can't seem to get into a story unless there's something supernatural in it. I occasionally read non-supernatural stories, but never write them myself.

I also draw sometimes, but have no clue whether art even has genres or what my stuff would be. (I guess probably similar to mangas since I read a lot of mangas.) I used to write songs until I realized I had no sense of tune, and I have no clue what genre my songs would be (there's only a few of genres I reliably recognize - country, rap, techno, Indian music and sometimes rock - almost all songs fall into a 'no definable genre' mush for me, including most of the songs I like).