Twenty One Pilots is a unique musical duo which incorporates 3 main distinctive genre's of music in their act. These three are indie pop, alternative hip hop and electropop. They have their similarities but at the same time they can be classifies as three completely different genres.
Indie pop is a sub genre of alternative rock and thus sharing many similar characteristics. The differences between the two is that indie pop has more of a melodic approach to their style of music and thus less abrasive tones in their music thus making it seem less aggressive when compared to alternative rock. It's origins comes from the UK during the 1980's post punk era. The term indie pop became popularized when NME's tape C86 was released in 1986. The compilation tape featured numerous individual artists with seemingly similar style of music and thus the term indie was made. People listening to indie pop has become much more generalized in the modern era as there are many indie genre's nowadays. The audiences that are incorporated with this genre tends to have a DIY type culture as they want to standout from others. The way they dress would be reasonably different from others as they would try to avoid big name products and try to experiment with their wardrobe in many different ways. Lately indie music has been quite a trend and indie pop is no different and thus billboard and many other mainstream radio stations have been playing them.
Alternative hip hop is another genre incorporated with Twenty One Pilots. Alternative hip hop is another genre that has been on the rise lately with artists such as Kanye West contributing to the genre. The term alternative hip hop can be derived from the fact that the artist does not rap along to the stereotypical rap lyrics eg, gangsta, hardcore, party, etc,. Instead they incorporate themselves with jazz or soul or electro. The movement began in the East coast of the US during the 1980's as more and more artist starts to incorporate themselves into the genre. At one point there was a slump for this genre however with Kanye West emerging onto the scene the genre revived and thrived to this very day. With the hit culture of alternative hip hop a lot of us dress like the way that usual listeners to this genre does without even knowing it. They generally wear street merchandise t-shirts with sweatpants and sneakers. They tend to at times have unnecessarily large accessories with them and to a certain extent borrows certain fashion principles from the skater community. Again as this genre has become a big thing in the modern era they are played everywhere on the radio and TV. Even on social media where they are popularized by the community.
Electropop is another genre of music that Twenty One Pilots incorporates into their act. Electropop consists of the use of electronic instruments such as the synthesizer but following the nromal melody of that of pop music. Electropop does not have that much of a history as the boom and popularity of this genre of music is rather recent. Many examples of artists that uses this style of music in their act is Kesha, Lady Ga Ga, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez. Electropop has now become something very mainstream now as it can be seen everywhere and is even used in commercials sometimes. The attires worn by the listeners of this genre consists of flashy clothing with bright neon colours. They tend to have skinny jeans and sometimes mimics the clothing of those disco era days. Because electropop has become so big major concerts can be seen everywhere featuring these artists.
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