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July 2019

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Blackbear (musician), without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. General Ization ^Talk 20:13, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Except, my changes are sourced. Thanks. Alexmarie (talk) 20:20, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Blackbear

Hi, we've clearly got into a bit of a conflict on Blackbear (musician), about whether to use "pop punk band" or "garage band". I'd like to state my point in an attempt to reach consensus with you, and you can feel free to rebuttal any of my points, however though discussion guidelines, the page should stay as it is while the discussion is on-going. In the source you cite (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Anqhkkygk), when he says Polaroid were a garage band, it seems to me, like that was a self-deprecating joke. Additionally if you read WP:RSPRIMARY, you'll see that on Wikipedia, secondary sources (like the Alt Press source) are preferred to primary source (like YouTube source). Obviously we can correct information based on primary sources made to correct, however a band's genre isn't entirely something an artist can determine themselves, it has to be through a secondary source, because any band that plays death metal could, if they wanted to, self-identify as a ska band. Also, there isn't even a Wikipedia page for a genre just called "garage" like you said, (there's garage rock, garage house and UK garage, but no just "garage") and it seems too ambiguous to fit Wikipedia's encyclopedic style, as it could also mean a band who rehearses in a garage (which, seems like what he meant in the interview you cite). I hope you have a nice day. Issan Sumisu (talk) 07:43, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Issan Sumisu In January 2020, the article used to say Polaroid was a rock band. This edit has remained for over a year without dispute, so if you believe the page should stay as it is while the discussion is ongoing, I think it would make more sense for it to then say "garage band" in the meantime since that is what was there.

If you listen to Polaroid, I don't believe they could be classified in any way as way pop-punk. If they were to be called anything besides a garage band, it would be rock, no pop. It honestly wouldn't surprise me in the least if someone at Alt Press didn't listen his band from 10+ years ago prior to writing 1 sentence in the article about the band. I've caught many errors in AP articles in the past that I don't rely on them much.

Many articles have called them many genres. The next most notable example being Complex, who called them a punk-rock band. https://www.complex.com/music/2018/04/rapper-and-r-and-b-singer-blackbear-is-reinvention-personified

If you type in "garage band," it automatically redirects you to the garage rock page. Coming from someone who listened to Polaroid back in 2007/2008, both definitions would have been correct for what they were (type of music as well as how they rehearsed). What about calling them a "rock garage band"?

Alexmarie (talk) 09:16, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

I don't know if "rock garage band" really makes sense, because it's stating a general then specific genre straight after it. What if it's introduced as "Florida-based rock band Polaroid" and then as a part of the same sentence as "They released one album, Paint The Town; one EP, Inside And Out; and one demo, The Cure Demo", we add something along the lines "and they have been variously described as being a pop punk,[1] punk rock[2] and garage band"? Issan Sumisu (talk) 10:50, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Issan Sumisu Yes, I think that is a good compromise!Alexmarie (talk) 20:57, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

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@FMSky I am not assuming ownership. You are simply making edits that are not necessary nor constructive. They did not add value or provide any clarity to the article. Alexmarie (talk) 08:12, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

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