Top 20 Music Genres That Died

These musical genres did not stand the test of time. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most prominent music genres that fell off in popularity. Our countdown of the music genres that died includes Gangsta Rap, Easy Listening, Pub Rock, Hair Metal, Disco, and more! How many of these musical genres did you live through? Let us know in the comments!
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[@marcoantoniomolina]

Nu Metal is Not Dead Nu Metal has been resurge From The Flame as the Phoenix. 😎

[@whitleysdollhouse877]

All of them

[@TheCambias]

Fake news Disco continues in the form of dance music

[@TimLoyalToWifeHaterFreeZoneA]

Love It WatchMojo.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

I love classical music. Among my favorite pieces are the first movement of Bach’s _Brandenburg Concerto No. 5,_ Gustav Holst’s two military band suites, and “March of the Swiss Soldiers,” the finale of Rossini’s _William Tell Overture._

[@jjuice2412]

No genre really dies, it just falls out of the mainstream.

[@knightwolf9863]

Amen, amigo.

[@romainsavioz5466]

Exactly

[@b_f_d_d]

so true though

[@boycottactivision]

Tell em bro, we're stuck with like 2 mainstream Genre's Pop & Mumble Rap.

[@notacreativehandle]

@@_dr.greenthumb_ Why are you ousting yourself?

[@Spikes01k]

Goth music isn't dead. It's undead.

[@ryanmorgan7170]

Finally! Someone else who understands.

[@k_ir3868]

undead undead undead

[@Beavetowski]

I see what you did there

[@julianaylor4351]

My older brother is a first generation Goth.

[@moxy4926]

@@k_ir3868 White on white translucent black capes Back on the rack Bela Lugosi's dead

[@TheCMGiordano]

Why am I not surprised to find out WatchMojo knows nothing about music?

[@iaclassic]

yes, what a stupid title

[@davidpalmeri3237]

Actually, I hated this watch mojo video the least of all. But why do I even click? WHY?

[@garypautard1069]

I cannot understand how much kudos is attached to Rap. No matter which quickly forgotten form it takes it is just a bunch of non-musicians talking to a computer programme and flapping their arms like a wounded pigeon. Personally I think black music hit the bottom after Disco ,at least disco artists (especially funk) played actual real instruments . My generation fell in love with black music from Motown to Soul to 60s Ska and even Blues. Most of what we hear now is just bland Supermarket Music.

[@TheRealMarxz]

hence why WatchMojoUK is the superior channel they take the piss out of themselves and their videos rather than coming across as smuggly superior twats

[@flashiereagle2213]

@@garypautard1069Tell me you’re out of touch without telling me you’re out of touch

[@marko22th]

The way you see how music dies could be the same if we say this channel is dead. Not as popular as it was once, but from time to time we come to see your repetitive lists and some people are still discovering you. I'd say: no. You're not dead WatchMojo. Neither these music genres.

[@vaderladyl]

Perfect analogy.

[@MarquisDeSacks]

Classical music won't be dead until the last concert hall, opera house, movie studio, T.V. production company, video game developer, advertising agency, church, synagogue, mosque, university, music festival, record label, Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway theater is closed down.

[@hl1947]

True, it's called Classical because it's timeless. It was not term given when it came up

[@charlottehardy822]

And every musical instrument is gone, so long as people continue to learn any type of orchestral instruments classical music will endure.

[@martinwakefield8138]

Yeah they were really reaching for that one...

[@adrianok4266]

Well said. Classical music shall be enjoyed for as long as we will be around as a species: many timeless masterpieces from classical music have been ingrained in culture

[@rexerexer66]

True but I say it would NEVER be dead

[@svenblubber5448]

Classical Music is still way bigger than sea punk ever was, so either classical isn't dead, or sea punk never lived!

[@amfortas]

Seapunk was a meme born out of vaporwave tbf

[@Denbrr]

Classical music being dead is like saying everyone put down your instruments.

[@Eughwwww]

Also feel like there are so many good neoclassical and postrock bands/quartets etc. I think music taste is just very diversified these days. I listened to a lot of Indie music in the 2010s that never hit mainstream, I listen to a lot of instrumental music and when I want to get lit I pull out Eurotrance and 80s music

[@shizukagozen777]

Sea punk never lived, let's be honest.

[@GeeEm1313]

Wtf is seapunk

[@sbriley79tx]

Nah, WatchMojo was just redoing their Zune playlists and said, “…hey, we can make this into another seemingly authoritative, yet completely out of touch video!” 😑

[@Radi0ActivSquid]

I think this might be the video that makes me never watch a WatchMojo video again.

[@charlotte241000]

None of these genres have died out it just depends on you taste

[@notacreativehandle]

@@_dr.greenthumb_ Have you found other bots like yourself?

[@heath1948]

​​@@_dr.greenthumb_I listen to several types of music on this list I never have stopped. I still listen to kid Rock I still listen to limp Bizkit. I listen to Dr Dre and 2pac. I love listening to Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson.

[@heath1948]

My 12 year old son just now is starting to listening to Frank Sinatra.

[@highlandave8507]

​@@heath1948 Kid Rock? Ew 🤢

[@highlandave8507]

And who's out here listening to any of these music genres? And how much of these genres have to greatly piggy back off of a more popular and much longer lasting sound today in small spurts? They all died

[@michaelmonthey5974]

Classical music is NOT dead. As long as people continue to play it, it won’t be dead.

[@cl5619]

It should never share a list with Emo, Gangsta Rap, or Euro Trance

[@ludwigthestrange]

Hell yeah!

[@skipads5141]

People play disco too, but....

[@blenderfox]

I actually still listen to Classical. It helps me focus at work. No lyrics means there's nothing for my mind to lock onto and get distracted

[@denimdan908]

I love 90s music with a passion. Everything from hip hop to grunge to country to ska, man i loved it all. Everything about that decade holds a special place in my heart.

[@sophiepooks2174]

Most never mention hardcore techno/jungle /garage house/electronic Dub when talking about the 90's music? When it was very big in Europe and UK.

[@bradleyp3655]

"Rock and Roll will never die." - AC/DC

[@lp-xl9ld]

Also said by The Who (in "Another Tricky Day")

[@dicksonfranssen]

Neil Young Hey hey, my my. Rock and roll can never die, There's more to the picture than meets the eye

[@sisterhoney61]

And Neil Young, too.

[@KevinZachairuby]

" Rock and roll will never die but you fuckers will." - John Lydon on Ozzy Osbourne, Courtney Love, Axl Rose, and Neil Young.

[@kreepermini7205]

ooooooooooo let there be rock

[@imsomewhatcertain1024]

The Disco movement might’ve died, but many elements of the genre still live on. Many post disco era artists and bands (Daft Punk, Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Michael Jackson, etc.) have included disco elements into their music. House/electronic music emerged thanks to disco’s downfall, but it retained many of disco’s attributes.

[@manchesterunitedno7]

Disco died, but like Phoenix, it arise, and birthed House, Techno, Acid, Jungle, Breakbeat, all sort of Electronic musics and rave culture that still going strong to this day.

[@wendiwonderly1419]

Dance music never went away. The disco lifestyle fell out of favor with drugs and unsafe sex. Anything that over the top will have a very short shelf life

[@Echo-nn8dt]

Oh you think drugs and unsafe sex went out of style? Lol

[@chromicapop4595]

yes!

[@Nancy-iu6ow]

Needs better choreography on the dancing part, otherwise I don't mind listening to disco for hours and hours.

[@ingsoc64]

I’m amazed that Industrial didn’t make this list! Even though I was and still am a huge fan of the genre, I have to admit that it pretty much died shortly after the 90’s.

[@Aiwendil99]

Good call. I'm 56 and still enjoy the occasional Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, or NIN song.

[@vaderladyl]

It lives in your mind and your playlist, as it is for others.

[@scotttigers]

Hard Rock, Arena Rock, Metal & Heavy Metal is still really huge in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Finland, Germany, Greece, Japan, Norway and Sweden. And it is still alive in the United Kingdom, and it is making a huge massive resurgence in the United States, and expanding big time.

[@col.strayga1389]

It's hard to get European bands to come here. We really don't have an American alternative to European Symphonic Metal.

[@vaderladyl]

Yes they are!

[@olganesterowicz2112]

In Poland it's dead, basically.

[@lagofala]

By Watchmojo's definition, every musical genre has died out. LOL

[@ImaginaryEnemies42]

Classical music stars. Ever heard of John Williams? Or Howard Shore? How about Danny Elfman? These are not unknown classical artists. Their concerts sell out and most people know their music, especially if you are into classical music. John Williams, in particular, is very famous and still produces excellent classical pieces to this day, worthy of Oscar nominations. And concerts showcasing video games music also sell out. People buy the scores when they purchase the games. If you are into classical music, you know the contemporary artists. Nobuo Uematsu and Kojo Kondo to name two in video games. If anything, with the rise of video games, classical music is experiencing a new Renaissance and not a death nell.

[@dicksonfranssen]

People have to hear & see it in the right venue. Lucky me, it was a mandatory field trip at a public school in 1970. My parents came here right off the boat 1954, first big purchase was not a TV, it was a piano.

[@JamesDavy2009]

The video game _Cuphead_ brought two popular genres into the spotlight: swing and barbershop.

[@clarky23]

I was going to say, 200 years from now in music appreciation classes the name Williams will be mentioned in the same breath of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Tchaikovsky just to name a few.

[@war.neverchanges]

If you look beyond those people and into younger folks. There’s a producer named “Dev stacks” listen to his beats; it’s orchestra driven and it’s so fucking hard n beautiful.

[@ImaginaryEnemies42]

@@war.neverchanges Thanks for the recommendation.

[@OutOfAmmoOutOfTime]

I’d like to give a shout out to trip hop, a 90s genre that originated in Bristol and melded elements of hip hop, electronica, movie music and jazz…..it was so influential for a while that no gritty british crime drama was without a trip hop track…massive attack and portishead are the giants of the genre and it still feels fresh and different today…i think the genre label is a bit misleading in some ways…..

[@XylenRoberts]

love trip hop. Have Endtroducing... and Mezzanine on vinyl, and a cd of PSyence Fiction somewhere around here. And I like all the other ones too.

[@whatwedointheshadows3349]

i'm starting to hear it at clubs again.

[@whssy]

In a world where everything is available to stream, no genre ever truly dies.

[@MrJacobrezac]

Emo is far from dead. A lot younger generations are finding it and starting their own bands.

[@nattieot7620]

My daughter is 6 and MCR is her favorite group

[@Shadow-hw3kn]

Nice

[@waddledoo2you13]

Yeah i kinda wish they didn’t with what they are doing with it 😂 at least they ain’t fucking killing or cutting themselves like gen one and wave two.

[@alexkunce2002]

Emo is totally alive. FOB has a new album out and it is sick and very emo!

[@AntonXul]

@@alexkunce2002 Releasing new albums doesn’t mean it isn’t dead. Emo is no longer relevant, therefore dead. A lot of bands & artists still release albums despite their heyday being long gone. Rock in general is dead, but old acts are still releasing records. Uriah Heep released a record in 2023, yet young people probably don’t even know who they are! I barely discovered them in 2020 and are an awesome band, but they are way past their prime and unfortunately no longer relevant.

[@MrUrklasd]

Wtf is seapunk???

[@marcgordon9258]

That's what I wanted to no ?!?

[@michael56521]

Punk music in beaches maybe?

[@Thena_the_Grey]

Literally never heard the term before this video

[@waynechapman9823]

Yeah, I remember the Surf Punks, but apparently that's not what they're talking about.

[@GeeEm1313]

It sounds like shit.

[@mathewwallis2863]

It's TRULY a phenomenon how you guys can simultaneously be so spot-on and COMPLETELY out of touch!!!!

[@SPAnComCat]

A Genre can never Truly die, It can only fall from Popularity and the Mainstream as well as other Factors at play.

[@boogakahooga7472]

4:10 Almost as if there is a person named Hans zimmer

[@mattsipe4755]

YUP. Zimmer immediately came to mind.

[@ellenwuzhere]

​@@mattsipe4755 Same.

[@RaymondHng]

@@ellenwuzhere Williams, Shore, Elfman, Zimmer, and Herrmann composed music specifically for film scores. Twentieth century classical music composers that composed music for the concert hall are: Samuel Adler Louis Andriessen Béla Bartók Havergal Brian Elliott Carter Carlos Chávez Edward Elgar George Enescu Gabriel Fauré Morton Feldman Brian Ferneyhough Alberto Ginastera Henryk Górecki Sofia Gubaidulina Alan Hovhaness György Ligeti Witold Lutosławski Bruno Maderna Bohuslav Martinů Carl Nielsen Krzysztof Penderecki Francis Poulenc Giacomo Puccini Sergei Rachmaninoff Alfred Schnittke Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Patric Standford Mikis Theodorakis Michael Tippett Joan Tower Ralph Vaughan Williams Heitor Villa-Lobos William Walton Judith Weir Iannis Xenakis Malcolm Arnold Leonard Bernstein Marc Blitzstein Aaron Copland George Gershwin Nikolai Kapustin Constant Lambert Darius Milhaud Maurice Ravel Gunther Schuller John Serry Sr. Dmitri Shostakovich Karlheinz Stockhausen Igor Stravinsky

[@heru-deshet359]

Easy Listening, Swing/Big Band and Disco are still alive and well. Young people are discovering it again and not only enjoying it, but making their own contributions to them. Look up groups that have been formed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for example.

[@BrainDamage922]

Swing/Big Band made a HUGE comeback in the 90's!!!

[@rickyrosay33977]

That's partially to the mask's soundtrack

[@brandonavery133]

Classical music isn't dead. When I worked for the Los Angeles Philharmonic (as recently as 2014), we could easily bring in 4,000 to 10,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl performances every weekend throughout the summer.

[@theylied1776]

Okay, "NewWave" was first used to describe PUNK bands because radio program directors would not play PUNK music. But once record companies started inserting the term "NewWave" instead of PUNK, several bands started to get radio play.

[@DavidB.Rockin]

True

[@henryscafe8364]

In a documentary, a guy said "NewWave doesn`t exist it`s a term used by people who are afraid to admit they like Punk Rock."

[@thereagauze]

@@henryscafe8364 Claude Bessy/Kickboy Face in Decline of Western Civilization and it was more like "you were afraid to get kicked out of the party with the good coke"

[@tijsfrederickx5776]

Emo didn't die, it's still alive, just not commercial.

[@nestorsifuentesaguirre2722]

Is nobody gonna talk about the most Underrated mojo narrator Ryan coming back??

[@stuartwalker9597]

Can say that about any genre

[@AshParth560]

Especially in our playlists 🤭

[@jodiemills788]

Okay boomer

[@Alvaricokemaureira]

Nones cares

[@OstblockLatina]

Those genres aren't dead, they're just not played on the radio anymore. I like most of them more than anything that is mainstream nowadays.

[@user-vu1hh2yq7p]

You just reminded me how awesome most of these genres were!

[@vaderladyl]

Are, they still are.

[@loboblanco4426]

None of these died, they evolved.

[@jimbo9208]

name 5 songs from each genre in this century

[@paulhilton6426]

Hair metal evolved? Into what? Even the metal world wants nothing to do with it. It was absolutely pitiful musically and lyrically, and it died because it's fan base grew up and grew brains/taste.

[@kenchristie9214]

Don't you mean devolved? Today's amorphous unimaginative no-talents rely on autotune and digitalised crap. Hearing a new song that is anywhere near worth listening to is akin to searching for a diamond in a sewer.

[@XylenRoberts]

lol well for starters, several of these genres were 21st century genre creations to begin with ('emo', 'seapunk', and 'brostep' from immediate memory). As for the rest: a.) Classical: Pretty much any Hans Zimmer song, pretty much any of Tyondai Braxton's solo work, those are just 2 examples, look them up for specific songs b.) New Wave had a HUGE revival in the 00s (often intertwined with Indie and numerous other subgenrees). Some songs include 'Apply Some Pressure' by Maximo Park, 'Mr. You're On Fire' by Liars, 'House of Jealous Lovers' by Rapture, 'A Punk' by Vampire Weekend and 'Strange Overtone's by David Byrne c.) Post Grunge or Grunge Revival? The latter would include Dope Body's 2015 grunge inspired album Lifer (song specific: 'Repo Man'); the former lets just go with pretty much ANY Nickelback song released in the last 20 years so any of those cover your remaining 4 songs. d.) Seapunk was created in the early 2010s, go Wiki it, so EVERY SEAPUNK SONG EVER e.) Mainstream Emo had its heyday in the 00s, Wiki it, so EVERY EMO SONG EVER (excluding 80s/90s first wave midwest emo) f.) Both first wave dubstep (Burial its chief known innovator) and its more popular son brostep (including Skrillex) were 21st century creations so EVERY DUBSTEP SONG EVER, once again, wiki it. And so on and so forth. And let's not forget all the independent grassroots musicians out there. Proof? Go to Soundcloud or Bandcamp and type in LITERALLY ANY GENRE OR SUBGENRE and you will come up with hundreds if not thousands of results. Have I made my point yet, Jimbob, muh boy? @@jimbo9208

[@rhiamonday456]

🎉Totally agree!

[@EfrenDNa]

Classical music, you mostly hear it in movies or operas. It's not mainstream, but it's still alive, and well. most of these genres are more underground.

[@EfrenDNa]

@_dr.greenthumb_ cool story bro

[@notacreativehandle]

@@_dr.greenthumb_ Where are the other bots like yourself?

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@EfrenDNa report him. He is spam replying others in multiple comments.

[@victorfergn]

I think video games have accomplished some kind of classical music revival

[@gryphonofmight]

You hear classical in the movies all the time. John Williams, Hans Zimmer etc, are classical composers

[@shawnhuff3920]

Johnny Cash has been outlaw County since the release of his first album in the 50's folsom prison is the first outlaw County song 🎵

[@user-ut3uo7lp7r]

Musical genres will never be dead, simply resting and biting their time like a vampire sleeping in a coffin. One day they will rise from their slumber to walk the earth once again...

[@DragonGoddess18]

I don't think music genres really "die" It's just not popular/mainstream

[@notacreativehandle]

@@_dr.greenthumb_ So you have no friends?

[@Friendlytaurus]

how did we go from gangsta rap to mumble rap 😭

[@Denbrr]

Auto-tune. Made people really lazy.

[@gussfish8670]

And mumble metal

[@marcusnolte7476]

Drugs...

[@rickyrosay33977]

This is the reason I gave up on mainstream music by 2015 that was the year that garbage started taking over

[@JP_Wu]

You added Eurotrance but forgot Eurodance? Eurodance had such a big impact in the early 90s around the world (except USA lol), the genre marked an era but then got discontinued.

[@OwenAlexander35]

Emo was still very much alive after 2010. It’s still alive now. Just because certain bands aren’t at the front of the scene doesn’t mean there aren’t other artists working just as hard to play some sick songs.

[@thundercrackrfivefour8648]

Emo is thriving more than ever. It transcended a bunch of genres.

[@b_f_d_d]

facts

[@notacreativehandle]

@@_dr.greenthumb_ You are your own friend huh?

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@notacreativehandle that kid is such a sad individual. Imagine spam replying multiple comments for attention. Also what's crazy, I have seen him spam immature comments as well. I just wish he would grow up or get banned for it .

[@konanamegakure4342]

Mcr reunited 🥰

[@Reaperguy67]

@@p-__ go away kid

[@abrahamesparza01]

It wasnt called Yacht Rock then.

[@nycbklynrmp]

yep, lounge

[@elgringolocoMaldonado]

Honestly I've never heard that term ever used. News to me 🤷‍♂️

[@macdreezy794]

Yea, it shouldn't have been included on here, its not even a SubGenre

[@ruthdubb3274]

True. It was called Adult Contemporary.

[@BenjiSun]

@@ruthdubb3274 yep. 103.5 Kiss FM

[@zakktaylor9431]

I gotta stop you right there. Gangsta rap isn't dead, it's just busy trappin

[@mikenixon2401]

Very interesting. I lost count of the ones I had never heard. Some I am glad I didn't know. In all fairness I date back to Sinatra, then came to classic rock-n-roll, classic jazz, outlaw country and Tejano. Now, I am old enough to mix my genres.

[@ShayTheValiant]

I'm only 22, but I definitely think some of these genres are better than whatever is going on with today's music.

[@Skycladatdusk78]

Easily!

[@madeleinep.828]

Didn't think I'd see an unironic "wrong generation" comment in 2024

[@jamesmars9767]

@@madeleinep.828 More like one of many people realizing that the stuff playing on radios and being heavily promoted on other media is just kinda trash. If we didn't get saturated with it at stores and in various media sources, it wouldn't be so bad. Good thing we have the internet to find some of good the tons of good stuff out there, both old and new

[@skylined5534]

​@@madeleinep.828 I'll leave you to your drill music.

[@RalfOtte]

Todays Music is influenced by the inability of the people to stay longer than 7 Minutes by one and the same thing.

[@Trix897]

None of these genres are dead. There’s a lot of people that listen to all of them still… I’m one of them. And if swing is dead, how come there are so many West Coast Swing competitions and videos showing the type of dance?

[@thefamouspeopleus]

Agree with you

[@davepoole9520]

Some of these genres are so before everyone's time that I'm surprised barber shop quartets, ragtime and madrigal choirs weren't mentioned.

[@aaronconner6562]

I'm surprised they didn't mention funk genres

[@shizukagozen777]

I just hate how hip hop has replaced everything...

[@rockzhard2009]

say it louder please

[@jamescurran9002]

I think Hip Hop might have outgrown it's boundaries, the thing to look for is "New Jazz" coming from London, South America, and Africa. It comes from where Amy Winehouse was trying to explore. I'm telling everyone, New Jazz is happening

[@garretth8224]

You are looking in the wrong place then.

[@victorfergn]

hmmm rap, not hip hop

[@paulhilton6426]

That's easily fixed. Stop listening to the radio.

[@mariloustarr5972]

Goth and Emo started in the 80’s. We had The Cure, and Depeche Mode amongst others. Maybe they were called something else back then, but I was definitely rocking the goth look back then.

[@Hellwyck]

Goth started in the 1970s with post punk and Joy Division.

[@davepoole9520]

Well, a lot of the goth genre came straight from the imagery and music from punk bands like The Damned and Siouxsie and the Banshees and post-punk like Bauhaus.

[@brittanycrawford4382]

Kanye west was never a gangsta rap artist.

[@ladymacbethofmtensk896]

Classical still lives in certain countries like Russia, Armenia, and Latvia, which have produced such living talents as Alla Pavlova, Imants Kalniņš, and Tigran Mansuryan.

[@anthonydaniel1727]

Classical Music is the incorrect term given to Art Music (as opposed to Folk and Popular Music). The true Classical Music was from the time period of the 1750s to the early 1820s. You mention Tchaikovsky, yet he would be of the Romantic Music era. Elena Ruehr is a very talented contemporary Art Music composer. Least we forget Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, John Williams, and Danny Elfman, among many other composers who work in film. Even pop stars like Joe Jackson and Paul McCartney have dabbled in Art Music. I think you have forgotten that it was never music for the masses. The common folk of the composers own time periods could not have told you who Bach, Beethoven, or Mozart were, nor have heard thier music.

[@RaymondHng]

Williams, Shore, Elfman, Zimmer, and Herrmann composed music specifically for film scores. Twentieth century classical music composers that composed Art Music for the concert hall are: Samuel Adler Louis Andriessen Béla Bartók Havergal Brian Elliott Carter Carlos Chávez Edward Elgar George Enescu Gabriel Fauré Morton Feldman Brian Ferneyhough Alberto Ginastera Henryk Górecki Sofia Gubaidulina Alan Hovhaness György Ligeti Witold Lutosławski Bruno Maderna Bohuslav Martinů Carl Nielsen Krzysztof Penderecki Francis Poulenc Giacomo Puccini Sergei Rachmaninoff Alfred Schnittke Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Patric Standford Mikis Theodorakis Michael Tippett Joan Tower Ralph Vaughan Williams Heitor Villa-Lobos William Walton Judith Weir Iannis Xenakis Malcolm Arnold Leonard Bernstein Marc Blitzstein Aaron Copland George Gershwin Nikolai Kapustin Constant Lambert Darius Milhaud Maurice Ravel Gunther Schuller John Serry Sr. Dmitri Shostakovich Karlheinz Stockhausen Igor Stravinsky

[@luke_1234]

Jamiroquai, Brand New Heavies, and Morcheeba for Acid Jazz are amazing

[@josku5]

Jazz is very much alive and well today

[@rafelrosellsagrera9419]

Don't forget Incognito and JTQ

[@Sharky_0456]

dubstep/brostep is the saddest one for me but luckily there are still some songs out there if you look hard enough and you can always go back to the past and find songs you missed during its peak

[@sophiepooks2174]

But there will always be Ylvis - Someone Like Me 😂

[@trentpeterson1354]

What an epic duo. @JablinskiGames just rocking it completely for this very special appearance.

[@crawfordbergl6437]

genres never die

[@harumskarum3481]

None of these genres died for me. They are still very much alive in my heart❤

[@pickleballer1729]

I was hoping you'd mention Swing. I have a playlist of about 150 songs from many genres, and two of my favorites are "Hunkadola" and "Back Goes to Town" by Benny Goodman. Great stuff. I have enjoyed at least a few songs from virtually every genre there is. (Except maybe Rap and Opera.) As many have said below, none of these genres are dead, just evolved or fallen out of mainstream popularity.

[@YourHalfSister]

3:30 I throw on Africa REGULARLY. I love the song. When I was in concert band in 9th grade (1986) we played it. Toto is a great band all the way around. So is Steely Dan. I guess I’m a yacht rocker chick.

[@corymorimacori1059]

“Your music is like the soundtrack to a vasectomy!” Freddie Mercury

[@ramonribascasasayas7877]

That's from Epic Rap Battles of History! Freddie Mercury vs. Frank Sinatra

[@jonbourgoin182]

Of course WatchMojo would confuse Pop/Punk with Emo

[@alexanderarmstrong5306]

Both Genres are Resurrected!!!!!

[@kreuzrittergottes9336]

basically Goth...

[@404sVHSCollection]

both pop punk and emo are alive and possibly bigger than ever lol

[@Posit_Zero_Blue]

Emo and emotional hardcore are 2 separate genres at this point. Emo being the commercialization and popification of the former. I don't know where assholes goths came in as emotional hardcore traces roots back to punk. Nor do I care. Fuck your affectations.

[@thegermslayer1836]

Nope, goth is a completely different thing. Try listening to The Cure, Bauhaus or Sisters of Mercy- nothing like Emo.

[@J_Sunn]

was some of the entries just word for word from the previous video about music genres that died out in just noticed

[@LovSven2011]

At 3. entry in the list I decided to ignore illogical hype title (genres that died?!?) and enjoy some good music, see where some known song/artist formally belongs and learn some new names. GOOD video overall with a little too much talking over music! 👍

[@gabrielstafford5174]

Mathcore deserves an honorable mention. It may not had gotten a ton of airplay but Bands like Converge, Botch, and The Dillinger Escape Plan had made cult followings in that field.

[@babalonkie]

"Can you name one classical composer from the 21st century?" James Horner. John Williams. Hans Zimmer. Alan Silvestri. Jerry Goldsmith. That's just off the top of my head. Classical music never died... It Evolved.

[@GAC913]

I was thinking the same. It's called classical music for a reason, it's classic. It never dies. I can't believe these music wannabes put it on the list😂

[@ImaginaryEnemies42]

Exactly!!! I wrote a similar post. This is a popular genre. Movie and game music concerts sell out. Most people can probably recognize at least one theme from a popular composer or movie or video game scores. I would say that classical music is experiencing a Renaissance not a death nell.

[@deshi9136]

Don't forget Ennio Morricone

[@kylebroflovski2917]

Jóhann Jóhannson🇮🇸

[@RaymondHng]

Williams, Shore, Elfman, Zimmer, and Herrmann composed music specifically for film scores. Twentieth century classical music composers that composed music for the concert hall are: Samuel Adler Louis Andriessen Béla Bartók Havergal Brian Elliott Carter Carlos Chávez Edward Elgar George Enescu Gabriel Fauré Morton Feldman Brian Ferneyhough Alberto Ginastera Henryk Górecki Sofia Gubaidulina Alan Hovhaness György Ligeti Witold Lutosławski Bruno Maderna Bohuslav Martinů Carl Nielsen Krzysztof Penderecki Francis Poulenc Giacomo Puccini Sergei Rachmaninoff Alfred Schnittke Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Patric Standford Mikis Theodorakis Michael Tippett Joan Tower Ralph Vaughan Williams Heitor Villa-Lobos William Walton Judith Weir Iannis Xenakis Malcolm Arnold Leonard Bernstein Marc Blitzstein Aaron Copland George Gershwin Nikolai Kapustin Constant Lambert Darius Milhaud Maurice Ravel Gunther Schuller John Serry Sr. Dmitri Shostakovich Karlheinz Stockhausen Igor Stravinsky

[@user-dc9zo7ek5j]

I still listen to eurorap (which has classical pieces into it), eurotrance, as well as dub/ska. Although there are no new artists for the euro- genres, they are still played and actively listened on the local radio station by many.

[@zanight]

The most of those music genres are still alive on my playlist, specially big beat, which was not mentioned.

[@joeb.evrythngEclectic5571]

20 genres that died out but are still loved!

[@mspc7401]

Exactly

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

i don't think any music genre here or at all ever truly dies. they merely rest, for the era in which they shall return to popular mainstream media.

[@LivingDead77]

Can someone please recommend some Swing songs to me? I've been chasing that sound since i first discovered A Tap Dancer's Dilemma by Diablo Swing Orchestra and Zoot Suit Riot 🙏🏿

[@SkinnyEMedia]

I miss greatly acid jazz and Eurotrance. Reminds me of my adolescence and tween years in Essex and Hertfordshire, UK!

[@ArataShizunai]

Dubstep didn’t really die. Its still on festivals btw, but not so much.

[@cheyenneray9115]

Disco never dies!!

[@arhamsayeed319]

YES RIGHT

[@gussfish8670]

It's dead

[@skylined5534]

​@@gussfish8670 Nope.

[@geoffchurchill5492]

that definition of easy listening is really Crooning / Lounge AOR iseffectively Easy Listening

[@DanielCoe]

The Brendan Fraser references at 12:17 are on point.

[@Jontor11]

And yet many of these genres are more interesting than the generic dross we listen to these days.

[@TwangGuru]

... or DON'T listen to!

[@dcpunisher4781]

Especially Grunge. Nirvana was THE band that got me into "Rock music" in 1999 when I was 12 years old and most Rock enthusiasts agree the 90's was the last great Rock decade.

[@skylined5534]

I hate how everything from the latest big thing to adverts for electronics and food delivery services uses some vile variant of rap/drill/hip hop shite. It's about time it was flushed away like the turd it is.

[@saymyname8925]

Eurotrance is amazing

[@svenllr]

Don't tell Brian Setzer Orchestra, Speedswing, or the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy that swing is dead.

[@andybiz4273]

-I feel like Emo is having a revival of sorts -Yacht Rock Radio is my favorite Sirius/XM channel, especially sitting by the fire when it's nice out (I don't have a boat lol) -I would love to see disco make a comeback of sorts!

[@justin271995]

Music genres that died? ALL OF THE GOOD ONES.

[@anthonydaniel1727]

Technically, the Bee Gees, Donna Summer, and Chic were not "pure" Disco artists, they were artists that mined multiple genres and happened to make some songs that fit into the then contemporary dance music style.

[@julianaylor4351]

The Bees Gees started out as a pop band in the late sixties, then they got the funk, with Jive Talking and the rest was history.

[@vickyabramowitz2885]

I thought that Donna Summer was the best female Disco solo artist. I was sad to hear when she passed away from lung cancer at age 65. She was a lifelong nonsmoker.

[@julianaylor4351]

@@vickyabramowitz2885 Passive smoking, that is inhaling other people's smoke, is a very common problem for people in the music business. Smoke in venues. Very sad.

[@tonialston1968]

I forget which documentary it wss, but remember it saying Hip Hop got started with the end of the Disco movement. Records were easy to find and cheaper for the DJs to mix with for house parties. Thought that was cool

[@williswameyo5737]

In Kenya, 🇰🇪 we also have our own version of Drill music, it also has some elements of Gangster rap amd urban slang

[@ghouliesgrave]

Goth, numetel and emo is still very much alive lmao

[@kevinbuckley9209]

Hell yeah it is

[@nestorsifuentesaguirre2722]

Heavy metal has been given immortality by the Dragon Balls

[@Reaperguy67]

@@_dr.greenthumb_ you have no friends kid

[@notacreativehandle]

@@_dr.greenthumb_ That’s a strange solitary life

[@lordprotector3367]

Who?

[@kestis01able]

It’s almost like as soon as corporate over saturation hits a genre, it gets stale and dies.

[@scotttigers]

Yeah too many bands sounding the same made the metal seen fall out of pop culture in the early 90’s and then grunge hit. But Metal is back from the smoke filled bars baby…huger than ever. Long live rock n’ roll.

[@angelhurtado55]

grunge, glam rock, big band/swing, and eas listening gotta nake a comeback

[@danachappell9783]

Glam Rock has made a sort of comeback. At least with pseudo Glam Rock bands like Maneskin, Foxy Shazam, Yves Tumor and The Struts. If by Glam Rock you meant Hair Metal/Glam Metal, though, it’s still alive and well with stuff like Crashdiet, Reckless Love, Crazy Lixx, Hardcore Superstar, and a ton of other bands. Primarily from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, etc.

[@paulhilton6426]

It said hair metal, not glam rock. And while stylistically hair metal stole it's image from glam rock, there was a BIG difference in quality of output. Glam rock is not mentioned in the above because it never really has gone away. Hair metal on the other hand, died a spectacularly rapid death, for which may we be eternally grateful.

[@aggierev]

Arguably classical music has found a new home in movie soundtracks.

[@Neanderthal75]

And video games. Most epic games have classical music with an orchestra playing.

[@skylined5534]

New?

[@Gamer2k4]

Classical music was the original soundtrack. Ever heard of an opera?

[@aggierev]

@@Gamer2k4Nope, never heard of it. 🙄 If it has a new home that means it had an old one.

[@RaymondHng]

@@Gamer2k4 Williams, Shore, Elfman, Zimmer, and Herrmann composed music specifically for film scores. The composition is driven by the film plot. Twentieth century classical music composers that composed Art Music that is not film plot-driven are: Samuel Adler Louis Andriessen Béla Bartók Havergal Brian Elliott Carter Carlos Chávez Edward Elgar George Enescu Gabriel Fauré Morton Feldman Brian Ferneyhough Alberto Ginastera Henryk Górecki Sofia Gubaidulina Alan Hovhaness György Ligeti Witold Lutosławski Bruno Maderna Bohuslav Martinů Carl Nielsen Krzysztof Penderecki Francis Poulenc Giacomo Puccini Sergei Rachmaninoff Alfred Schnittke Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Patric Standford Mikis Theodorakis Michael Tippett Joan Tower Ralph Vaughan Williams Heitor Villa-Lobos William Walton Judith Weir Iannis Xenakis Malcolm Arnold Leonard Bernstein Marc Blitzstein Aaron Copland George Gershwin Nikolai Kapustin Constant Lambert Darius Milhaud Maurice Ravel Gunther Schuller John Serry Sr. Dmitri Shostakovich Karlheinz Stockhausen Igor Stravinsky

[@jackbpace]

Max Richter is a 21st century classical (western art music) composer, and when his works are performed it sells out music venues. He has several albums and has over a billion streams of his music online. He has also won numerous awards. He is one of a number of rather popular classical composers. Some others are: Ludovico Einaudi, Hildur Guðnadóttir. Eric Whitacre, Hans Zimmer, Yoko Shimomura, and the prodigy Alma Deutscher who is currently only 19 years old and began composing piano music at age 5. Just because paparazzi don't follow classical composers around doesn't mean the genre is dead. I challenge you to look up some of these composers (they are all here on youtube) if you want to hear some truly beautiful music.

[@TheRealMarxz]

as someone who's obsessed over Susumu Hirasawa music since he was in the psychedelic electro pop punk band "P-Model" through to his film scores for Satoshi Kon and games like Sword of the Berserk I know that somewhere Neo Classical will live on

[@Armadillo312]

I'm surprised Big Beat (Fatboy Slim / Prodigy etc.) didn't make the list.

[@phantomrequim]

Classic music's become a little bit popular by being in video games, like God of War, Assassin's Creed, Dragonborn, etc.

[@williswameyo5737]

Sentimental lady by Bob Welch is also an example of Yacht Rock , in the 70s, this song is still iconic with the melodic rhythms

[@jimmy500]

Dua Lipa was nobody's idea of disco at any point ever.

[@CMStrawbridge]

You can definitely hear disco being ripped off in a few of her songs

[@DragonKazooie89]

I will always associate Yacht Rock with lounging by the pool during summer vacation

[@ZayOsirisGaming]

Basically just adding all of these to my playlist

[@kkhdfbbnhy]

Link please

[@GusAndTheControllers]

Sounds evolve and build off of previous influences, and then eventually come back around. Nothing GOES away, it just GIVES way to new sounds.

[@Jimmy-xo3ld]

Anyone remember the name of dubstep song/video with the guy walking around town dancing in a bunny onesie?