My Genre

My chosen genre is alternative rock, it’s a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s. At times, "alternative" has been used as a catch-all description for music from underground rock artists that receives mainstream recognition, or for any music, whether rock or not, that is seen to be descended from punk rock.

Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. It has subgenres such as gothic rock, jangle pop, noise pop, C86, Madchester, industrial rock, and shoegazing. Shoegazing is the subgenre for my sound track,  shoegazing is named this because the musicians in these bands stood relatively still during live performances in a detached, introspective, non-confrontational state, hence the idea that they were gazing at their shoes. Shoegazing is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s by bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Ride. Having resurgence in the early 2010’s, therefore my sound track was released in America 2012 then hitting the charts in spring 2013 in Europe.