I’m talking about artists who completely changed genre or otherwise became unrecognisable. Share some that you know of!
…Remember Snoop Lion?
Taylor swift went from super country in “Our Song” to super pop in things like “Blank Space”, " Call It What You Want", and “End Game”
Serj Tankian has been all over the place! Since System of a Down disbanded (essentially), he’s done a couple rock albums, a classical album, a jazz album, has written a few movie scores, even featured in a Tech N9ne song. He’s done it all relatively well too! Guy’s super impressive and a big inspiration to me musically.
Bring Me The Horizon went from deathcore in their early career to bubblegum pop.
WOW i’ve only ever listened to that’s the spirit and a few songs off of sempiternal, just gave some of their oldest music an ear and i never realized they sounded like that at all in the beginning!! that’s crazy
Childish Gambino had his Prince phase
The Beatles changed in the very short amount of time they existed. They put out about ten albums in 7 or 8 years and comparing the first with the last they’re almost unrecognizable. Listening with modern ears it’s clear they’re all The Beatles but that’s mostly because of the ubiquitousness of their music.
I’d also like to think that it wasn’t just a shift from A to B, it was more of a shift from A (Love Me Do / R&B Rock and Roll) to B (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds / Psych Rock) to C (Abbey Road)
Katy Perry was a riot-grrl indie-rocker before she became a pop diva.
David Bowie. The man has had a handful of completely different musical careers, essentially.
Anyone ever listen to the Bee Gees earlier stuff, before the disco days? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QTQdAKUZmA
Elvis Costello has taken so many radical departures from his musical style that that’s kind of his musical style.
Born and raised in British Pub Rock, Costello’s Almost Blue album turned country… or perhaps more accurately, in the words of a songwriter he covers on this album… “Cosmic American Music.” I have always admired this Brit’s admiration for, and understanding of, what American Music means, as a genre.
He did an album of old school pop with Burt Bacharach.
He did an album of chamber music with the Brodsky Quartet.
He did an album of… it’s not exactly jazz, in all honesty I say it’s just more cosmic American music… with Allen Toussaint.
He did Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz.
The guy digs all kinds music, and lets it show.
Gg allin went from screaming to country. He also had a split album with tiny tim.
Dir En Grey started as J Pop, then one day appeared on a talk show and were from then on Gothic Death Metal.
my chemical romance and panic at the disco. their hayday was their first, like, two albums and then they did something completely different. i hate it so much :c
also stars. they used to be my favorite band ever and then went in a completely different direction with the north album. also a very sucky change that dropped them from my favorite band.
i’m with you for patd, fever is amazing and i’m not a fan of bachelor and later, but man i’m sorry to hear you don’t like mcrs newer stuff as much as i do. as much as i do love bullets, imo their golden era is three cheers and tbp
have you listened to foundations of decay? if so, how you feel about that one? sorry for all of the questions ;) i just like taking the chance to talk about mcr with anyone who’ll listen haha
don’t get me wrong, i adore the black parade and three cheers :3 it’s everything after that that didn’t resonate anywhere near as well with me. and no worries :3 i totally understand xD tbh i haven’t listened to foundations of decay o: i’ll give it a shot, ty 💙
ahh okay i see, you said “first two” so i assumed you meant bullets and three cheers were your beloveds, while tbp and past that are all duds- tbp is definitely my favourite lol, so made me abut sad to hear at first, but i’m glad to hear it’s not the case :3 and you haven’t listed to foundations?? you’ve got to get on that! it’s a little janky compared to their other stuff, the production makes the lyrics especially difficult to make out, but it’s more like three cheers than danger days at least imo so maybe you’d like it!
also, i like your home instance :3 funny meeting another furry mcr fan, but i suppose we tend to have common interests
Fall Out Boy also changed pretty significantly around the same time as PATD. I think as they got a larger following they just followed the money. Hard to blame them for it, but they’re first 3 albums are so much better than the later stuff. I’ll absolutely still listen to it, though
good point, yeah! fall out boy was the same way. it’s a shame all these emo bands decided to do something different. they were killing it :/
Linkin Park went from nu metal to alternative, pop rock etc (I’m not really sure).
Ulver started as a Norwegian black metal band with folk and acoustic influences and starting from the fourth album they’ve been a high-qualiry electronic music project