Top 10 Artists That Changed Genres
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Michael Jackson went from Disco to Funk to Blues to R'n'B, to Rock and to Pop.
And he amassed nº1's in every single of these categories.
So that puts him in the category of "not belonging to a single distinct genre."
+GabKoost Then he doesn't have a single genre he belongs to, even though he's considered the "King of Pop". Also, because he's bounced around and never returned to those genre (mainly due to Disco and Funk fading with the times and new sound), you can almost argue they were experimental as well.
edwiniseman4
I would say that DIsco and Funk was his base actually. That's where he built himself from as an artist.
GabKoost Technically, no, as his BASE would be what genre were the Jackson 5, and they were all over just as much as his solo career. Off the Wall was more disco, but Thriller and Bad are more pop, the latter being incorporating more rock themes. He has NO genre to call his own as he's made hits in ALL of them minus country.
*****
lol
No Doubt Gwen > solo Gwen
true but I like them both😬
I miss No Doubt Gwen. That band was super fun.
you're right. no doubt, lol ^^
+AZ0009999AZ me too. Dont Speak was my and still is a favorite song of mine.
+Keyarra Edwards mine too😆
Bee Gees actually sounded pretty good as soft rock
True!!! They definitely jumped on the disco bandwagon in the mid-late 70's. It put them up there close to the Beatles' status for a few years.
The BeeGees reinvented themselves more than once, it's a shame most people only know them for their songs from the disco era. They sounded good no matter what genre they were singing, including a handful of country songs (Run To Me, Come On Over). They stayed relevant with hits in all the decades since the 50s. I really liked their stuff from the late 90s (One, Alone, Still Waters Run Deep, Closer etc.) Such a shame only the oldest brother is left now.
Explains why my older brother has one of their albums.
My dad loves them
Yeah they do
How the hell did you forget about Michael Jackson, he started singing Motown, then went into disco, then into pop, HOW?!?!?!
Because it's all the same.
I think Michael Jackson changed gender more than genre...
@@peterjonas1545 Pretty sure he didn't.
@Fer Rules, He did not rape kids, he was already accused twice and was proven not guilty
Aden Coby and people still don’t believe him
Out of all, I think Gwen Stefani was the only one to be successful in both genres, ska and pop. All the other artists switched because their original sound didn't work. But Gwen was amazing in both. (I also don't think Pink Floyd is of one genre or ever has been)
2kooldancin agree 100% with your comment on gwen
I agree but skrillex switched from rock to dustep because he had vocal issues as the vocalist back in his old days
Taylor was hugely successful in Country before switching it up to Pop though. I'd say even more successful than Gwen was in Ska, but the followerships were kinda mismatched size-wise. Both moves paid off for the artistes anyway.
taylor worked in both actually
Gwen can do no wrong in my eyes, but I wish I could have my ska girl back.
10) Bob Marley: Ska & Gospel/Folk -> Reggae
9) Beastie Boys: Hardcore Punk -> Hip-Hop/Rock
8) Katy Perry: Christian & Gospel -> Pop
7) Bee Gees: Soft Rock -> Disco
6) Taylor Swift: Country -> Pop
5) Kid Rock: Rap -> Rap Rock/Country
4) Gwen Stefani: Ska (No Doubt) -> Pop
3) Pantera: Glam Rock -> Heavy Metal
2) Alanis Morrisette: Dance Pop -> Alt Rock Angst
1) Skrillex: Post Hardcore (From First to Last) -> Dubstep
Thanks now I dont have to watch the whole video!!!
Star Nunley, anytime lol
@@c.j.dandyflipper4814 The most useful comment here! Thanks. :)
Was looking for this comment... 😅
thanx a bunch
Man, I'd trade Gwen's solo for No Doubt back again any day.
Me too.
Lipsoverpoison me too
for real though. no doubt was fucking amazing
I loved No Doubt. I wish they would do more work..
"Just a Girl" was the clue. She always wanted to be "Gwen."
I really think The Cure would’ve worked well. In their early career, they made extremely depressive and sad albums and then changed to pop for a couple years and then back
Kraftwerk were Krautrock hippies before they became the grandfathers of electropop. Look up the video for their first band, Organisation, a song called "Ruckzuck" from 1969. Ralf had long hair, wore a leather jacket and specs and played an organ. Florian played an actual flute. There was a guy on actual drums and a dude going nuts on bongos. Even as Kraftwerk, they only started wearing suits, cut their hair and went fully electronic in 1976.
I thought it meant they changed the genre as a whole
yh
Rtrd
We joke
Burnt Tamale your not wrong 😁
same
I was hoping this was what they'd meant, too.
Fleetwood Mac (blues rock to soft rock)
Brian Eno (art rock to ambient)
Genesis (prog rock to pop rock)
Bob Dylan (folk to rock)
Van Morrison (blues rock to folk)
Ned D. Not absolutely massive changes tho
Bluse rock to Soft rock isn’t that much of a change as Very good music to Very shit music like Gwen Steffani
@@kurtsudheim825 Dylan's shift from folk to rock was one of the most impactful shifts in rock history
rush went from
blues hard rock-prog rock-synth rock-grunge-metal
Goo Goo Dolls (punk rock to alternative rock)
This is the only time I will forgive you for excluding Bowie because, yeah, he didn't change genres, he was his own genre.
But what the heck happened to kd lang or Michael Jackson?
Or Dolly Parton, come to that.
I'd say that even Dolly Parton's mainstream hits we're still very country and I don't think she ever made a full album of not country.
Michael went from Disco to Pop to Rock to Soul to Funk every five minutes
@@Nightcrawler6321 he was the complete,greatest artist ever..
@@Nightcrawler6321 multitalent king!
how about top ten artists who don't have a single genre?
that would be awesome
Björk pls
linkin park
+neomp5 twenty one pilots
+neomp5 nope
I like Taylor Swifts country more than all her pop songs
yeah
She's shitty and a fake
Ashley W like ur life lmao
Sammy Gucci Love my life but she a fake and she's shitty :-P
Ashley W shitty with almost 300 million dollars in her bank account while u probably have rent arrears, unpaid debts and 3 months unsettled energy bills. bubye honey. keep kissing your 'wonderful' life's ass ☕️️
The Beatles definitely experimented with a lot of genres. They went from very basic pop hits like "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You" to the more complex psychedlic tunes such as "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Helter Skelter".
Bring me the horizon the went from deathcore to pop rock
Pull The Trigger Band Should be #1 honestly
THAT explains it. I shazammed nasty stuff off XM, but then didn't like what I heard when I shuffled the discography. I was like, who dis?
Their music was good. No it sucks.
listen to "This Is What the Edge of Your
Seat Was Made For"..... they essentially just change sound with whatever sells for them at the time. probably not when they started, but i dare say by 2006-2008. that had become their main focus.
@@andrewirrvent337 or maybe their taste in music changed? First of all, if they kept doing Deathcore/ Metalcore, they would have died out long ago. But they said after the first album, they didn't like it in retrospect and made the decision to move forward. Everyone's taste in music is WAY different than 10 or 20 years ago. I don't think they changed because they saw what was popular at the time and wanted to be part of that. They changed because they didn't want to be tied down to a certain style or genre. I feel they take their art very seriously and, yeah, it's not always going to be successful, but it will always be something they're proud of.
You guys should have mentioned Depeche Mode, "Speak and Spell" their debut album was all happy go lucky synth pop which was very quickly dropped in favor for goth.
+RastaSaiyaman Exactly. Heh heh. -d'oh-
Synthpop -> electronic slowwwwwwwwwwwww music that seems a bit too weird for my ears to like v=
agreed
+RastaSaiyaman very true, although i prefer the peppy synth pop actually.
+RastaSaiyaman Goth?!? Hahahahahahah.... Clueless! x'D
+RastaSaiyaman They sucked after Vince Clarke left...
Are we not going to mention Pink ? She went from rnb to rock
It's a TOP 10
P!nk has never been rock music. She has always been pop.
Yes, she should have definitely been on this list.
P!nk is a surprise grab bag of genres that can't be defined by ONE set genre! She does IT ALL!
She almost changed gender
Robin Sparkle versus Alanis Morissette made my day.
mine too xD I had it in mind before they actually said it in the video and I am damn sure Alanis was who the writers and producers of HIMYM had in mind when they created that storyline ^^
My favorite episode of how I met your mother was the beneath the tunes robin went from pop to grunge
Change the title from "Changed genres" to "Switched genres".
... what's the difference?
So when we change our clothes we should really say that we're switching clothes?
What you're saying is simply overly-critical of the people who posted this. Writing 'switched' instead of 'changed' may provide a little bit more clarity to what the video is about, but 'changed' also carries the meaning of 'switched' in this context as well. I doubt many viewers clicked on this expecting something they didn't get.
OK grammar police. I've got a degree in English and have taught English for many years but apparently I'm an idiot.
yeah
So you thought that by "changed genres" they meant "altered genres?"
Avril Lavugne and Miley Cyrus big changes
I remember playing the punk rock girl when I was 10 because of her. Now I'm 24 and can say Lavigne is totally sh*t. It is like saying "your childhood/adolescence was a lie"
Avril Lavigne is playing the exact same genre as she always was!
Definitely Miley Cyrus!! She went from teen pop to more mainstream
Katy Perry is kinda cute with guitar and sounds like Cranberries.
she does kinda sound a bit like the cranberries. what a loss for the world when Delorous passed.
@@Cissablack708 Delores
What about Linkin Park... From Nu Metal to you-cant-define-genre
Selling out doesnt count
You-cant-define-genre = pop?
Fuck off, LP never sold out
MGSnake 12 LOL, nice joke! :D
It's 'the catalyst' for 'new divide'
Lol. “She was basically a real life Robin Sparkles.” Who do you think they based the character off of?
Tiffany
They based Robin Sparkles off of Tiffany. Tiffany actually did a Mall tour just like Robin Sparkles supposedly did. Watch Tiffany's "I think we're alone now". Very similar to Robin's video.
More like Debbie Gibson
@@1Skigutt Tiffany & Debbie had Relative Mainstream success. Alanis' career in the genre didn't expand much beyond Canada.. Thus it being an all but forgotten part of her past syncs more w/ Alanis, as Tiffany & Debbie are pretty much solely remembered FOR that work rather than In spite of it
According to Wikipedia, a producer wanted to make one of the characters make a music video. They watched a video with a younger Matt LeBlanc in an Alanis ( she just used her first name then) video.. Walk Away. I actually remember that video, and all of Alanis’s pop stuff. So she’s pretty much based off of Alain Morrisette, with a smigen of Tiffany experience and maybe Debbie Gibsons style.
So Alanis Morisette is like the reverse Avril Lavigne?
yup
Alanis Morisette has gone quieter and more spiritual nowadays since she has become a mother.
I loved Alanis when she was pop.
I have to say Madonna. She constantly changed genres to stay with the times, going from pop to electronica to country, all over the place.
"to stay with the times" - EXACTLY - Madge sticks to whatever is popular, hence she's a pop star.
Yeah but that new song of hers "bitch I'm Madonna". Lmfao that was a hilariously cringy attempt at staying hip. She's like 65 singing and dancing around like she is 20😂😂 it was fucking hilarious though
Danny Elfman anyone? From alt rock Oingo Boingo (remember weird science) to movie score composer (batman).
new wave*
We can say the same about Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo. He wound up doing music for the cartoon Rugrats.
i'd take No Doubt over her solo any day. that band was fucking perfection
Avenged Sevenfold: they first started as a metalcore band, but when they signed with Warner Bros they became more like a heavy metal band since M Shadows sang more than he used to scream.
Disturbed: they started as a nu metal band but then progressively became a more traditional heavy metal band.
They changed on subgenres, not actually genres like from metal to hiphop.
M. Shadows had to stop with the screaming.
- those are subgenre changes (as mentioned above)
- almost every Nu metal band changed to something else
yup ... these don't count ... still metal ... these are intricate changes that only a metal listener will notice... subgenre change happens with like 80 % of bands in rock/metal ...
An artist that should have been here is P!nk. She had 2 R&B albums in the early 2000s, "Can't Take Me Home" and "M!ssundaztood". Many people are unaware of this, and P!nk herself said in an interview that she does not like to talk about her R&B work since it was not how she wanted to debut; but rather her label forced her to. I LOVE her R&B work. P!nk has amazing vocals. I also love her ROCK music. She is just an amazing artist all-around.
I liked the slow songs by the BeeGees better. I liked the "Teardrops on My Guitar" Taylor Swift; don't like anything she puts out now. NoDoubt Gwen was better. I guess I appreciate artists at their debut level.
Norman Cook: From the Housemartins to Fatboy Slim
Peter Gabriel: From the Original Genesis to making World music
Good choices. Joy Division reference in your username too?
yup, best band IMO. Iwas wondering if New Order could be included?
+Stiffkittens
Peter Gabriel makes "World music"? More like "cheap plastic souvenir music".
I have no idea what you are referring to, but you obviously have not heard his score to The Last Temptation of Christ, not to mention that he co-founded the WOMAD festival
Stiffkittens
I'm yet to check his soundtrack material, but the way he appropriates phony "ethnic" elements into his industrialised, pseudo-experimental pop music (especially in his fourth solo LP) is *execrable*. I admired him in Genesis and his first solo records, but after the third one, it just sickens me. And his involvement with "World music", for me, is exemplified when he chose XTC's "It's Nearly Africa" for a WOMAD compilation, a song that uses Africa as a metaphor *for the collapse of civilisation*. Like Andy Partridge himself said, Gabriel must have chosen the song "because it had Africa on the title".
Michael Bolton started as a metal singer
Neil Diamond started out as a rock artist
Genisis went from long rock songs to pop
Chicago went from a rock band with horns to power ballad - pop rock when David Foster took over.
Joni Mitchell: Folk -> Rock -> Jazz -> Poprock.
Bob Dylan: Folk -> Rock -> Christian Rock
Joe Tex: Gospel -> Smooth Soul -> Funk
Beatles: Skiffle -> Beat -> ProgRock -> Orchestral Pop
...
Genesis was in the progressive genre at first.
Michael Bolton had to switch, he had no hits as a metal singer. Neil Diamond was always a soft rock artist, he didn't really switch that much. He always had softer songs and some that were a little harder, and he continued playing all his songs in concert even into his old age. Genesis switched when Peter Gabriel left. Chicago switched when Terry Kath died; he was the one keeping them more in the rock/prog rock mode. Peter Cetera and others in the band always wanted to go soft pop; it was a good move for them financially but it ruined Chicago, oh well the LPs with Terry Kath are still available.
He auditioned for Black Sabbath.
Let that sink in
Black Eyed Peas? They turned into electroshit
+Bender B. Rodriguez It's still Hip Hop though.
Fuck you
+uztre6789 no it's not
+uztre6789 no it aint for shit
+uztre6789 noooooo.
I wonder if Skrillex's voice issues had anything to do with the screamo.
Gwen Stefani is still a queen tho, No Doubt is one of my favorite bands and a lot of her solo pop songs are iconic. What a queen.
Last Hope yes
Don't speak (more) 😭❤️
started out great, loved her...
morphed into a slimy pop diva
@@SirWrecksy I think she lost it with her last solo album, bit too generic/poppy
I like a lot of her solo songs but I loooved No Doubt when I was in Jr. High
Eric Clapton. Blues - Rock - MOR - AOR. The Beatles. Rock and Roll - Pop - Psychedelia.
I honestly prefer no doubt
Never knew Beastie Boys used to play Hardcore Punk.
You've never heard Heart Attack Man or Tough Guy?
So MCA was my uncle, and when he was still alive I was too young to understand how famous he was. But now, it's crazy thinking of him as such a famous bad boy. I only ever saw his family side, and in his music and videos he seems like such a different person.
+Sophia Josephson MCA? who?
+kcrsAurora2013 one of the beastie boys
Oh I seeee
that's cool. usually celebs tend to keep their normal lives and and stage personas separate so I can see why you never exactly knew. But now you know how inspirational he was and the great music he made and I'm happy at the fact I am alive to listen to listen to the legacy he left behind. I still have my Beastie Boy shirts and my friend is a huge fan too. We both cried like babies to hear about his passing and I'm sure it was harder on you guys as a family. 👍
What about Fall Out Boys who are now uses drum machine and rarely guitars
Or Brendon Urie who went from emo rock music to Frank Sinatra inspired pop? Which he strangely pulled off well. Lol
lol “fall out boys” yeah that is sad though their newest album isn’t that good
Gabrielle Rockhill
Panic! At The Disco basically just changed genres in every album. Have you listened to Pretty. Odd. ? Lol
Switching from pop punk to pop is not that big of a change. Many artists did it, not just emo artists
@@Goblin_Ghost39 P!ATD was never emo
Panic! At The Disco changed genre every album haha
Too bad there were absolute trash and ruined radio for me in high school along with Fall Out Boy.
voodoochild346 go be a music snob somewhere else
@@jasminef4088 No. Fuck you and Panic at the Disco. If you can't take opinions then stay your sensitive, sheltered ass off the internet.
@@vaudou_ touché
Dan thebatpup the truest think I’ve heard all day😂
I miss Tay's country sound. I prefer it over the hip hop/rap thing she's got going on with her new album. Let's bring it back to the days she used to sing Love Story, Mean, Teardrops on my Guitar, You Belong With Me, Fifteen, Tim McGraw, and White Horse. I really loved her country vibe and curly hair, and I'm only 14 so it's not like young people these days don't miss her old sound.
I'm literally screaming there is no hip hop influence whatsoever on 1989 like did we hear the same album
What about we are never ever getting together.
nah
WHAT THE FUCK SHE DOESNT NOT FUCKING RAP SHE DOES POP MUSIC
+Amaan Ahmed she did do one rap song w/ t-pain
Man, No Doubt was awesome. Bad move, Gwen.
cws480 They were!
Yes. I don't understand why she wanted to change like that. No Doubt>Gwen's solo career.
cws480 but both her no doubt career and solo career were amazing!!
GaLimotion yo are referencing the sweet escape right?
cws480 No Doubt surely was better, but she did have good songs as a solo artist.
No one is going to talk about Radiohead?! Their first album was more rock and indie while their new albums are more electronic!
First listen to Pablo Honey(their first album) and then the In Rainbows(one of the newest) and you'll hear the difference
Pink Floyd made a pretty big change when Sid went cookoo!
I wouldn't put pink floyd in a genre
Yep, Pink Floyd is their own genre... Just that good.
cockoo for coco puffs
I agree, you really can't call Pink Floyd one particular genre, thus breaking the rule WatchMojo used for this video.
CUCKOO CUCOON
I think the Joy Division transition to New Order was pretty successful.
Mar Zea Good point! NO started as a sequel to JD and then changed. Both bands are great!
Yea ian curtus died. Had to spin off the band as something else.
Danny Elfman? From lead singer of Oingo Boingo to composing movie music.
Exactly what I was thinking, but you mentioned him first.
Danny Elfman has always been a composer...
Also Paramore, Miley, Phil Collins, and Fleetwood Mac
Don't know if someone mentioned him, but I think in Gerard Way. He jumped from an amazing something-rock band to his really cool solo career with a compleately different stile.
I thought Nelly Furtado would've been on here for sure!
modern artists have all changed to this electro-pop shite to stay relevant
not all artist, but I get what you mean
+Carson S tHANKS
+lolzor_phan 666 Yes all! each and every one. Kidding.
electropop isnt shit
yeah, whatever keeps them afloat.
When I first read the title, I thought about artists that changed one specific genre by there style as a revolutionary thing. Maybe you make a list like that one day, would be really interesting!
Fleetwood Mac completely changed from its beginnings
True. I forgot about that
Yeah. Very true. But they've always been great.
They're like David Bowie you cannot say that because each album is different
Well, not really. There are two distinctive transitions: one because of the lineup change and one to adapt to the 80's sound. It's the main problem for all artists from the 60's/70's/80's, styles were blending over in these era's like crazy, so a change in sound was expected. But if Marley and the Bee Gees are included (and in the latter case rightly so), Fleetwood Mac should be as well. More for the Tusk/Rumours -> Tango in the Night change than for the Green -> Buckingham change though, because I view the latter as two different bands under the same flag.
They went from being a rhythm and blues band from the British blues scene into a more Anglo-American pop/rock band.
Fatboy Slim, who as Norman Cook was bassist for the well known 1980's British guitar band The Housemartins before becoming a famous producer and artist of dance and electronica in the 1990's, should definitely be on this list.
Funny how parents not liking Beastie Boys is a stereotype. My mom LOVES The Beastie Boys.
I grew up listening to heavy metal and screamo.
+KyoMato It's just a holdover from the 80's/90's. A lot of people's parents grew up on BB these days so that's a whole different story.
+KyoMato This all depends on the age of your parents. If they grew up in the 80's then of course they love The Beastie Boys. They grew up listening to them. But if they were parents in the 80's they probably weren't huge fans.
+KyoMato only myself and my friend are the only people I know who like them, everyone else just likes sabotage and sure shot.
+KyoMato ikr
I like almost all kinds of music, which is why the Bee Gees is one of my favorite music groups. They sing and write all kinds of music. They have done country, pop, rock, soul, and other types of music. Besides there own recordings, they wrote songs for Otis Redding, Evone Elliman, Samantha Sang, Barbra Striesand, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, and others. And there are covers, not only in English, but French, Spanish, and other languages.
Also, I listen to Bob Marley and reggae, but I have never smoked marijuana. I don't want to dull my senses when listening to great music.
Seriously radiohead from punk or rock to experimental strange elctronic music
I thought it would be number 1
+Laurent Duvall "strange"
maybe but not entirely, k?
+Imagination Abused by IAMSIX have you listened to The King of Limbs? I think it's fair to call it strange.
***** Well I did, one song at least... lol, it's indeed fairly "strange".
Imagination Abused by IAMSIX :P. Great album nonetheless.
Katy Perry a Christian? that's some new info
Has everyone forgotten about Ministry? Al Jourgensen even morphed his name into "Alien"
Right? When I show "Work for Love" to metalheads, they get visibly angry.
Who else got a little happy when they brought up From First To Last?
Mary Edwards I still love "Note to Self"
Invisible Pink Unicorn Right Behind You! Same! I was surprised when I found out he was Skrillex and was doing dubstep.
I was hoping they’d use “The Latest Plague” as their FFTL example cuz it’s my fav :)
Madonna should be in here. She’s changed her style of music each year
I misread "genre" as "gender" and thought this was a video about transgender artists for most of the time 😂😂
Me too 😂😂😂😂
Same here.
You're not alone...
me 2
same
What about P!nk?
Douglas Marshall haha what ?
Bero Rery she use to be R&B
Pink switched from R&B to Pop-Rock, she should be.
Yep... If you listen to the first single she made she sounds sooo different. There You Go was nice
Yes! I'm really surprised she wasn't included.
wad about Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, My Chemical Romance, Avril Lavigne
The difference between alternative rock and pop has become increasingly blurred in my opinion. These bands didn't necessarily change genres, they just gradually changed with the genre they were originally in.
Collin Parsons actually Panic! At The Disco do change their genres every album it went emo/pop punk ~ the Beatles on even more drugs (I know it sounds impossible but it’s true) ~ aesthetic (Idk how to describe v&v other than that) ~ to mostly pop
Fall Out Boy were pop punk/ emo and then went on hiatus and when they came back they did like sort of rock/ pop and now they are sort of electric pop/ rock
My Chemical Romance was always emo just became a bit more pop during the end but mostly stayed sort of the same
So....
Well you named 4 bands and a Canadien hottie that all suck.
@@samtwitchen9564 leave my bands out of this
@@alexistorres7050 whatever you want
I thought it was about single artists that changed how their own genre sounds like. Like beatles and what came before, and how black sabbath changed rock
Genevieve lmao you realize that Hip Hop is one of the Genres that has been changed the most through innovative acts?
Ministry should be on this list. Compare "Everyday is Halloween." to "Stigmata"
Yeah, Al Jourgensen originally started Ministry as a new wave/synth pop group (e.g. Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Howard Jones, A Flock Of Seagulls, Tears For Fears, Thompson Twins, Soft Cell, etc.) in the early 1980s before helping pioneer industrial metal as the decade went on.
I don't think Kenny Loggins can be judged only by his movie soundtrack-making days. You can't judge a late '70s movie hit with a late '80s one. But you can say he changed a lot by going from Loggins & Messina singer-songwriter soft rock/folk rock to making some of the best movie pop soundtracks.
1:22 smoking pot in highschool....yeah....we all did drugs in highschool...
Hell yeah we did sin....
Such exaggeration
+Sin I was 27 the first time I smoked up so I was incredibly amused to find out that some people thought I was a pothead in high school.
IM DOING IT RIGHT NOW
When Americans associate Jamaica with drugs 😒
"She was a real life Robin Sparkles!"
...over your head, that went huh
HIMYM
What abt the Beatles (pop rock to physcadelic rock)
ADC Vlogs exactly what I was thinking
They still did pop rock later on
Yeah
Beatles were my first thought. When the concept album Sgt Pepper came out, that seemed like a seismic shift in music industry, and almost over night psychedelic rock was born.
@@carlnewell3682 Except that Pepper predated their now famous drug use. Pepper wasn't really psychedelic. It was a circus with Alice in Wonderland themes. Yeah, I know Alice was an acid trip. But you get my point.
David Bowie better be number one. He practically did that with every album he released.
was he
+HAHA HAHA LMAO like thirty seconds into the video he said that Bowie wouldn't be included.
+Rudy Simmons bro don't say that
+TalkShitGetHit666420 SaggyTitties You, my friend, are very stupid.
+HAHA HAHA If he would have been on the list, he would be number one.
Linkin Park? From Nu Metal to Pop?
+FreshWhity Exactly!
+FreshWhity Not pop
+FreshWhity Lol Yes, because their newest album totally sounds like pop. Do you know music?
If you mean pop as in popular, yes, they have always been popular. :P
+FreshWhity What song of theirs is supposedly Pop?
Abdulmajeed AHM The dude was being sarcastic...
I wouldn't put Bob Marley on here. Ska reggae and rock steady are all very linked. It could all just be called Carribean or Jamaican. Came from Mento and Calypso.
that's much like claiming that rock, country, surf, punk, and metal are all the same because they're all american
@@sidarthur8706 well, I didn't say the same. I said linked. You can not argue that ska reggae and rock steady aren't linked. Because they clearly are. And punk is in fact linked to rock. And it isn't so much about a particular state but culture and origins and musical expansion and influence. If my neighbor is making one kind of music and I am on my own making a totally different kind independently of what he is doing they are not linked. But let's say my neighbor was 20 years older than me, and I grew up hearing him playing music from his garage as a toddler on, and thought it was cool so that I wanted to make my own music and as a starting point I tried to emulate what he was doing. But I've heard him do it for a couple decades now and now that I'm doing it too it is losing it's same excitement that it used to bring me. And I kind of want my own style. but i still love his music and it's all that I know so I'm just going to build off it. Maybe slow it down at parts, speed it up at parts. Add different instruments here and there but still same foundation or was my original inspiration. Well that makes my music linked to his. Reggae is a cultural blend of American rock n roll, blues, jazz, Caribbean music like Mento and Calypso, African music, native music from Jamaica perhaps (at least of been told) and it's Jamaican precursors ska and rock steady. So people have categorized Mento, calypso, soca, ska, rocksteady and reggae under an umbrella category of Carribean music. And specifically ska rocksteady and reggae under a smaller subcategory of Jamaican music which is still an umbrella term that includes those three genres. Then you can break reggae down into further sub genres like roots, sunshine, dancehall, dub, raggamuffin, reggaeton perhaps. Alot of music is linked across different races, generations, cultures and genres. But not the same.
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If you watch this quick 1 min 23 sec. video Bob Marley explains the link a little bit. Perhaps you already know all of this. But this is why I don't like them saying they changed genres in the same sense that Taylor swift or Katey Perry did. It was a evolutionary process that includes alot of musical history, culture and expansion and experimenting. It's nothing like an artist who was doing punk music, then failed and then attempted hip hop and found success. It's much more nuanced than that. Like Taylor swift doing the teen boppy country like Romeo and Juliet songs to darker pop like the song about the blank space tattoo. More sudden and probably more marketing strategy. Same like Perry doing the Christian thing to the sexual pop thing. Thats just a complete genre change. Less nuanced.
Im not trying to argue or debate or say you're wrong. I just don't like when they say "for this list we're looking at artists who DRASTICALLY changed from one DISTINCT GENRE to another. The wailers didn't do that. It was never distinct. Blurred lines. And it wasn't drastic. It was over a long period of time.
Genesis (Prog to Pop), as well as Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel individually
U2 (Post-Punk to Alternative and Pop Rock)
ZZ Top (Blues Rock to Synthpop and back)
Richie Blackmore (Hard Rock in Deep Purple to Folk in Blackmore's Night)
Chris Cornell (Grunge and Metal in Soundgarden to Alternative in Audioslave and to Electronic on his solo career)
Jonny Greenwood (Hard Rock and Alternative to Electronic in Radiohead and Classical on his solo career)
The Beatles (Rock and Roll to Psychedelic)
Faith No More (They did absolutely everything)
Gary Moore (Blues to Metal through Dance and Fusion)
AC/DC (Avant-Garde Jazz to Grindcore through Trip-Hop and Delta Blues, jk of course)
+Yann Selka - I've read through many of the comments yet no one has mentioned Linda Ronstadt, who was very successful at switching genres. IMHO no one even comes close to her with the versatility of singing she gave to the world.
+Yann Selka Also Corey Taylor: if you want to see something ridiculous, check out his "acoustic" version of Spit It Out.
+Yann Selka When did Gary Moore shift to dance music?
+Yann Selka The Beatles musical evolution wasn't that black and white. They continued to do some Rock and Roll or rock up to their last album . And their early 60s stuff wasn't all R&R. I would say their most psychedelic period was in the middle 66-67 ..Tomorrow Never Knows , I am the Walrus, Strawberry Fields and the Sgt Pepper album we're in that period..and of course Number 9 on the White album..68' The last three albums, Hey Jude, Abby Road and Let it Be, weren't very psychedelic..But, of course, it is true that they they changed their sound many times more than any band so they should have been on the list
What about Madonna? Compare "Like a Virgin" to "Erotica", "Bedtime Stories", "Ray of Light", "American Life", "Confessions", "Hard Candy" and "Rebel Heart", it's like she's a new artist everytime.
+Alex Hulubas though we all kinda know she's one of those dance artists anyway. no matter what, 80's bubblegum dance pop, electronica/trip hop, disco pop - still can be danceable to. Somehow.
danceable in her way, let me correct myself
If she changed that often, she would belong in the "no set genre" group with David Bowie, not that they are otherwise in the same league.
+Alex Hulubas She's always been a new artist with each song she puts out. At least she goes with the times and isn't stuck in one style of music.
+Alex Hulubas IKR!! she should be in the top 5.
I seriously thought P!nk would be on this list at least.
She did go from Rap to R&B to Rock and Pop
true
She kinda went from pop rock to plain pop.
More like R&B flavored pop to pop-rock.
So glad for all of Darius Rucker’s country songs! Majorly love him!!
It was a mistake for Jewel to abandon folk for an over saturated pop scene
idk ... i like her dance pop too.
That album was literally done as a parody/ just for the fun of it
@@amillionbees No. That whole pop album was her attempting to sell out. It obviously didn't work, and so you know what she did afterwards? Backpedal. Damage Control. Which also failed. Although I suppose not completely if you believe her bullshit.
@Metorajetta haha sounds like you really hate Jewel 😂 what did she do to you??
@@amillionbees I don't hate Jewel. While I do believe her music can be pretentious at the best of times, she does maintain an interesting style. There is one thing however. I cannot stand when someone attempts (whether jokingly or not) to defend that horrible pop album. It truly was awful.
Top 10 sellout music artist
+NabIL Haddad why is changing genres considered selling out? ike really? most of these artists had explored their original genres and were probably looking to do something new artistically. look at taylor swift, she was one of the best selling female country artists of all time. had the biggest selling album of 2009, won album of the year at the grammys, had the highest grossing tour for a country artist of ALL TIME, had 2 albums debut with over a million copies, had a sting of top 10 hits. sold millions of album in a time when album sales are falling HARD. The reason she changed is because she was bored with country music and wanted to go in a new direction with her music, even though many of her friends and her record label told her that it probably wouldnt work.
+NabIL Haddad how many acconts do you have?
Everyone but Pantera they just got heavy
Basically
+NabIL Haddad lol didn't they just do it?
I don't think Marley really belongs on this list. Changing from Ska to Reggae is more evolution than revolution. Ska is part of the roots of Rock Steady and Reggae.
Couldn't agree more - those two genres sound similar
Well, ska and reggae are still different genres, like rock and metal or funk and jazz
A lot of these were just natural progressions, as the artists grew as musicians, and/or as public interest and popular genres changed over the years.
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+EPL I said that too lol
+EPL LMFAO I almost spewed my drink.
life is so much better when you stop hating pop music for no reason
Not really but everyone is entitled to their wrong opinions.
+LarryxNiamxLove i personally dont like pop music because its overplayed and annoying to me, but that doesnt mean that nobody else is allowed to like it.
So you, with out a doubt, like every single music genre? 80's new wave, indie, folk, country, screamo, metal, soft jazz, pop, dream pop, rap, whiny emo punk, surfer punk, hip hop? People do have a reason to not like pop music, they don't like the way it sounds. Just like some people have a reason to like it, they do like the way it sounds. If someone doesn't like a certain style of music, they are allowed to have an opinion. And just because you might not agree with it, it doesn't just cancel out their opinion.
i cant +1 this comment enough. Finally, some logic in youtube comments. It seems like now you have to like pop music or people will accuse you of being edgy and hating mainstream things when you really dont care.
+LarryxNiamxLove Right now almost every pop song on the radio is about the opposite gender of the singer. It's really sad to see that the pop artists that are making millions can't write material that isn't just another clever way to say i love you. What I really hate the most is that pop artists don't write their own background beats, which gives light to the entire song. If they don't end up using computers to do background beats, then they will most likely have someone play guitar, drums, bass, violin, piano/keyboards for them, and then in the end pop artists don't give any credit to the people that give meaningless lyrics something to fall on. But yet the people making the beats/riffs are making nothing compared to the artist that they are doing it for. It takes years and years of practicing and appreciation to be able to play an instrument, but the big pop artists are being carried by people doing the work for them.
Some very popular bands that are playing huge rock and metal shows/festivals with lyrical gold live in regular houses or I have seen that some bands don't even own homes and lives in cars. These true artists can easily go and get a normal job if they wanted to but they don't, because they believe in what they write and play. When pop artists get the time to do interviews, the will usually talk about things that normal people shouldn't give a single shit about, when they have the power to say something that really matters, and make a difference in someones life. But nope they want people to know who they are dating, how much they are making, how much they paid for things, and other things that people shouldn't care about. Another thing is that pop artists don't respect other artists in the OWN music genre. It really kills me to see that.
I think that pop music is totally overlooked by how some lyrics are. Most of the topics as I said opposite gender, sex, drinking, and even drugs. But Parents are letting their kids listen to it.
Skrillex used to make actual music? Interesting.
Yes. Sonny was amazing. I loved from first to last. But skrillex is trash
Ahahah
from first to last
welllllllll
He still does...
The Bee Gees' non-disco stuff is absolutely amazing. I'm not getting down on their disco by any means (You Should Be Dancin and Jive Talkin are both greats) but I encourage y'all to check out their other stuff.
No Pink Floyd? Pink Floyd went from uber-psychedelic rock to more progressive to harder rock then back to progressive rock again!
They didn't really switch genres. They stayed within the Rock genre. Those are all subgenres of Rock N Roll. I think the list meant going to a completely random genre and rolling with it.
well, this is just what I think
Miles Davis went from traditional jazz to spaced out fusion jazz rock with Bitches Brew & everything after, but this list said defined gernes not creating or own gerne like Miles Davis change completely, but a lot of old timer jazz heads thought he was just making noise druggie music. Lol. It's actually my favorite era of Miles Davis. Hendrix started off playing blues then went to rock.
Yeah he did blues before going to rock (If you have a U.K. pressing of Are You Experienced, you get a taste of his bluesy root from listening to Red House.)
+Air tempest
What about My Chemical Romance, and I have been listening to Pink Floyd sense I was Three!
I was sure Linkin Park would have made this list.
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I agree to be honest, they were more metally at first (One Step Closer) but then went into a more alternative rock style.
me too, although I still lobe their music
BIlly the SMall Bong thorton from india They still are popular.
End Limp Bizkit.
I just clicked on this video and if Bowie is not number one i will scream
wow the first thing they said is that he wont be included k
+Phoebe Dowling Hey nice name
+Phoebe Dowling Only because of the bizarre criteria of "no distinct genre" -- which applies to most any artist that lives/works long enough to experiment. I found the inclusion of Paul McCartney instead of Danny Elfman (for the similar type of transition) to be hilarious. :) In my mind, Bowie would still be top of this list. :D
+Layne Benofsky I agree with you. I expected Beck and David Bowie then I saw the beginning-
Oh.
I can see a reason for that.
I kinda agree with the rules in the beginning, David Bowie, Beck don't have categories.
But then a bigger chameleon than either one would be Elvis Costello. Dudes done EVERYTHING!
Not to mention Elton John (rock, country, blues, rap, classical etc.), Billy Joel (started off doing piano bar songs onto rock and pop), Boobie Brothers (rock, country, R&B), or such.
No Doubt > Gwen Stafani.
Radiohead, anyone? Quite the leap from OK Computer to Kid A
Amnesiac I feel like Radiohead has never switched from in genre to another.... They've always done their own thing. Radiohead is a genre unto themselves.
Amnesiac I'm not sure if you understand the premise of the list, then.
Damon Albarn too...from 90s britpop with Blur to alternative electronica hip hop or whatever Gorillaz are...
Kenny Loggins.....regardless of the style, he was all over in the 80's
Yes.
I would like to point out that the bee gees are not Australian, they were born and raised on the Isle of Man one of the British isles. They traveled a lot and lived in places from Manchester to Australia but were very proud of their Manx heritage releasing the song “Ellan Vannin” about the small island which has become the unofficial Manx anthem and is loved by many.
Ravenstarcat I didn’t know that. Thanks!
Also, no mention of Ministry? They did such a huge jump after there first album
Yes! It always surprises people familiar with Ministry when I play then songs from their early album, "With Sympathy."
Christina Mills exactly! Hell I was surprised when I found out they song "everyday is halloween" - way softer than the rest of their stuff
I was thinking the same thing. In fact none of the bands featured on this video had as big of a change as Ministry did.
Sean Dewar I was looking for this. Not even an honorable mention?
Patrick stump. He went from alternative to pop to whatever genre his solo album was back to alternative then to pop.
P!nk's not even in the honorable mentions?
I thought for sure she was going to be in here!? she was actually the 1st artist I thought of when I saw the title! Lol still love her
Probably for the same reason they didn't include Bowie or Beck. First album notwithstanding, she really doesn't fit neatly into one genre. Her subsequent albums have mixed genres from one track to the next, and sometimes even within one song.
I was thinking of Pink! too
Yeah I was waiting for her to be on the list too! Her and Taylor I thought for sure would make this list.
Couldn't agree more. She was the first person I thought of.
E-Pro is one of my favorite doin songs ever recorded. Just passing through to say that. Everyone stay healthy. See you all around.
This list actually ain't bad.
+Anthony Schaff Should've waited until the video ended. The Beatles aren't #1? I call bullshit. Their musical style COMPLETELY changed over the years.
+Anthony Schaff no it didn't...
+Anthony Schaff
Ikr they did.
+Dan Grant Are you serious? The Beatles drastically changed as they got older.
+Dan Grant They went from pop rock to pioneers of psychedelic rock and experimental rock. From simplistic love songs to taught provoking masterpieces.
Linkin Park definitely has changed over the years too.
Selling out doesnt count
when you don't see P!ATD or Michael Jackson
Panic has really been evolving with each album. While Brendon is currently drawing more from V&V and TWTLTRTD, I think the style change between the first and second album disqualifies the group.
jose gomez Ikr wtf no MJ?
That was what i said about MJ
MJ went from disco to pop. (or a mix of everything) or maybe that's the reason he isn't here. He doesn't have a distinct genre.
Honestly Taylor Swift was better before she started selling out to get money
Genevieve oh boo hoo
That's your opinion
@Genevieve She should've been pop in the first place. Yes! Mean and songs from the Fearless album was pretty good BUT I prefer the songs like Style, Bad blood, etc
@Genevieve u guys are dragging her for not showing her political views and now you guys dragging her for showing it huh well she right when she said "whatever you do it's not right" bc you guys always dragg her for nothing
She was getting more money for her country albums than her pop albums 💀