I'm sure a lot of you will write about music, and if not you must read about it a lot – if not, what the hell are you doing here?
I would like you in-the-know people's help.
I write a blog about music, echoisaacashe.blogspot.com, and when describing musicians of certain genres I have come across a problem.
If you write rock songs, you are a rocker, if you play metal you are a metaller, if you write folk, you are a folkie, etc. etc.
What are you if you make dance music? You're clearly not a dancer.
And people who wrote indie music surely aren't indians...

Dance artists and indie rockers? DJs? Producers? I don't think I've ever heard someone say "metaller" honestly, "metalhead" is more common.

Does it even matter? Use more creative terms, call Justice "squalling stompers" or something.

I thought a metalhead was a listener, same as a head is in hip hop.
While I'm there, is it hip hopper? maybe a hip hoperator?
I'm just being obtuse I know, my main query is with indie I suppose.

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Originally posted by IsaacAshe:
While I'm there, is it hip hopper? maybe a hip hoperator?

You will regret mentioning this when Jay Z logs in and reads this tomorrow morning and then uses it as the name for his next album.

They have refered to them as "indiots" before, but that was prolly just in these boards. Never heard metaller before.
Hip-hop and dance producers are just called producers.
Really, such labels are fluid and only hold as much meaning as the person using them understands.

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And people who wrote indie music surely aren't indians..

Firstly, there is no such animal as 'indie' music, and secondly, I would hope that music writing hasn't sunk to such a low that every description of a songwriter is reduced to meaningless shorthand, rather than the scribe composing literate sentences which provide far greater critical insight.

Dork makes an excellent point. Be creative.

I understand your point, and obviously when I write I try to put more than just a one word description of what I'm writing about.
However at the same time, these pigeonholes DO exist, and can even be useful when brevity is required.
For example...
A: "What you listening to?"
B: "Oh, just some squalling stompers."
A: ".....prat."
I was merely pointing out that while most genres there is a shorthand term, this seems to be missing for indie
Which does exist, I'm sure of it

Now I sound like a blustering prat.
Consider this thread closed, I feel ashamed of myself.

I love the self-deprecation of the English.

self-depreciate yo' self