What Music Genre Are You?

Country music is a style and genre of largely string-accompanied American popular music having roots in the folk music of the Southeast and cowboy music of the west, usually vocalized, generally simple in form and harmony, and typified by romantic or melancholy ballads. You have a joyous and romantic personality and you're dying for the world to know.

Rap was developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist. You're all about expressing your freedom of speech and aren't afraid to tick some people off in the meantime.

Jazz music was developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch. You're not afraid to stand out from the crowd as long as you're expressing your individuality.

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the Western World during the 1950s and 1960s, deriving from rock and roll. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other styles such as urban, dance, rock, Latin, and country. You're all about modern style and keeping up with what is "hip" and new in our world today, yet bring out a touch of individuality.

Musically, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar and drums. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse. You are a classic soul and walk to the beat of your own drum.

Independent music, also shortened to Indie music, is music produced independently from major commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing. You often bring our your own style in everything you do. You're the hipster of this generation but you wear it well.