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Tracks on deluxe edition[edit]

Can someone who has the physical edition of the deluxe album say how are the tracks numbered on the second disc? At iTunes each EP starts from no. 1., so that's how I put it on the tracklist, but I'd like to correct that, according to the actual CD. — Mayast (talk) 18:25, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Genre[edit]

There appear to be conflicting interpretations surrounding the genre of the album. Please discuss your concerns/motivations here, so a consensus can be reached. Thanks. Karst 10:20, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Concern: the genre parameter should be referenced, per WP:V.

Motivation: All album, song, and musician genre parameters should comply with WP:V.

So let's see about this album: Matt Collar of Allmusic describes the album as "rock guitars meet dancefloor synths", and that the band shows "an instinct to blur genre lines that makes it hard to box them into one, easy to define sound". Collar says the album has "contemporary R&B with their own brand of driving, guitar-based emo-rock." Collars says that some of the songs are "anthemic '80s stadium rock".

I used all of that to call the album "Rock, contemporary R&B, emo". That's because the album project says that we should use the prose section of Allmusic, not the sidebar. Binksternet (talk) 14:29, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The 1975's self titled debut album has been described by Matt Healy himself as "experimental" which is sourced within the main page. After making the genre change to 'Experimental", my revision was undone by another user due to it being "biased" and not defined by a critic. I would like to reference Purity Ring as an example of an artist who has self identified their sound. It is disruptive, and quite frankly regressive artistically, to only allow critics to define an artists sound. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.129.143.26 (talk • contribs) 20:18, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's literally not what "disruptive" means on Wikipedia, or the dictionary definition, but you certainly are being disruptive with your edits. There is a difference between Healy saying "pretty experimental" and experimental music as a genre. We don't allow artists to self-define their sound and take their biased assessment as gospel—we prefer music critics to assess their sound. You have edit warred to restore "experimental" as a genre on multiple 1975 album articles and have restored unsourced genres on several as well, so given that you apparently will not stop after being warned, I'm requesting page protection. Ss112 22:27, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]