What Have You Been Listening To?

[crazysam23]

Well shojo is just a manga target demographic, so it's more "random" than say a music genre (or genre in general), and the demographic is entirely based on what the magazine labels itself as. Which is entirely different from a genre where their actual attributes determine what they closely resemble.

True. I was just kind of making a "just because it has these things, it may not be that" comparison. For instance, no one is going to call a Western comedy targeted towards young girls "shojo", even though it shares similarity with comedy shojo shows in some ways.

I think they're kind of a weird in between genre, because they have elements of one genre, and one of another without being entirely either. 

Yeah, makes sense to me. It's just kind of silly that people try to label them as one or the other.

So while the guitar changes chords slowly or very minimally, it's still playing in alternating rhythms of 5/4 and 7/4 and the bassist is playing a counterpoint in 4/4 time. 

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Also they have thematic lyrics like how other prog bands are and can have lengthy passages, so that's why they're considered prog.

Yeah, but while these are elements of prog, those elements don't prog make. Like you said, they're kind of in a weird, in-between spot. Because of that, I don't think you can stick them into Prog. People like to, because it puts them in with all the Prog bands. But they don't really fit, as there's enough differences to make them stick out.