Talk:All I Wanna Do (The Beach Boys song)

Do not merge.

They are completely different songs... I am going to take the notice off of the page, if no one minds. MookieZ 15:23, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Genre

This is getting a bit annoying now, people keep editing the genre information to say "Chillwave" and even "proto-shoegaze" (a term I've not heard used anywhere outside of this article). Why are these genres being assigned to the song based on what a writer for a music website decided to call the song 40 years later? These genres are not what the song was produced as as they make no sense... If you want to put these things in the article they should go in the critical reception section instead. Please can we stop editing back and forth on this and decide what to do here 185.24.232.147 (talk) 16:30, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The information is properly sourced with inline citations that you can verify for yourself. Wikipedia does not publish original research, and genres are a matter of aesthetic opinion.

If you look online, you'll see many things described as "proto-shoegaze", just as there are many acts called "proto-punk", "proto-prog", or "proto-metal". As for chillwave, there are two sources that attribute the genre to "All I Wanna Do". No sources call it a "sunshine pop" song (IMO a much more outrageous assertion than "proto-shoegaze"). --Ilovetopaint (talk) 07:48, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You're talking absolute shite. This is revisionist history 137.50.27.144 (talk) 14:53, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Are you aware that nobody had ever heard of the term "sunshine pop" until it was made up by reissue labels in the '90s? Anyone who's listened to "All I Wanna Do" knows that it sounds extraordinarily modern. Toro y Moi has even cited it as an influence. If your beef is that "chillwave" doesn't exist, then you'll just have to accept that others disagree.--Ilovetopaint (talk) 16:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]