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My sound is a mix between pop, hip-hop, and R&B. It's a good collaborative effort of all three.

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.

I really just blend like rock, R&B and rap together to create a sub-genre, but it's very versatile.

A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there's a lot of indie as well. But you can't really say I'm pop-blues, because that's insulting to blues. It just can't exist.

My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but I never went all the way with any of those genres.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.

I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.

I guess one thing that makes my music stand out is that it is quite hard to determine what genre it is.

There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I'll always have those on my albums. And then I'll have fun stuff that gets people up and dancing that some people may want to say, 'Well that sounds real pop-y!' but I don't really think it does, I just think it's what's going on.

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

Rock and ambient music might as well reside on opposite sides of the galaxy, so it's almost shocking when a band like Deerhunter melds the two so effectively.

I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is very experimental. It's pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.

I like the idea of blending genres.

When we started Poco, we were too country for rock, and we were too rock for country.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.