I’m talking about artists who completely changed genre or otherwise became unrecognisable. Share some that you know of!
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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.
…Remember Snoop Lion?
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)
David Bowie. The man has had a handful of completely different musical careers, essentially.
Childish Gambino had his Prince phase
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”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have been changing their sound constantly since they began as a a band, to the point where this variety is one of the defining attributes of the band.
First album they released was garage/surf rock. To prevent being typecast as a garage rock band their next album was a narrated, spaghetti-western style story album. Since then, they have done psychedelic and progressive rock, thrash metal, acoustic folk, synthpop/dream pop, jazz fusion, microtonal/Turkish rock, two Beastie Boys style tracks, sludge/doom metal, boogie rock, krautrock, and more.
Once you’ve explored enough of their music and get a sense of their sound you start to notice common styles and characteristics, but it can still be hard sometimes to believe their entire discography is one band.
Anyone ever listen to the Bee Gees earlier stuff, before the disco days? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QTQdAKUZmA
Dir En Grey started as J Pop, then one day appeared on a talk show and were from then on Gothic Death Metal.
Gg allin went from screaming to country. He also had a split album with tiny tim.
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
Katy Perry was a riot-grrl indie-rocker before she became a pop diva.
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.
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 :/
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 💙
Ulver went from black metal to synth-pop, and did it well.
Anathema started as a death-doom band touring with Cannibal Corpse and ended up as a post-prog art rock band.
Linkin Park went from nu metal to alternative, pop rock etc (I’m not really sure).
