Here are five bands who quietly (or not so quietly) invented entire subgenres without ever meaning to. When we look back on ...

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While some of those descriptors — like cowboy romance — are more or less self-explanatory, if you're scratching your head at descriptors like "sad girl fiction," "afrofuturism" and "dark academia," we ...

Before diving into subgenres, it’s important to first have a complete understanding of what film genres are on a fundamental level. The easiest way to think about genre is as a category or type of ...

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Blaise Santi is a recent graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts majoring in Dramatic Writing. He's had experience writing not only for screen and stage, but also for sketch and late-night. His ...

We’re all about subgenres, but sometimes they just get weird. Don’t believe us? The following are all real ways to categorize different shades of metal. Just try explaining “pirate metal” to your ...

Super specific subgenres aren't just for bookstore shelves anymore. Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared in ...

That has also led to the rise of popularity of subgenres that might have more offline bookworms scratching their heads But as Booktok and Bookstagram aficionados know, that's just the beginning.