How do you tell the difference between music genres?

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Edit: Totally redone since people seem to think I’m completely stupid or something.

How do you tell the difference between closely related genres? For example, I saw an artist listed as “pop, bubblegum pop, indie pop, pop punk, electropop” and I don’t understand how those are all different genres. Or you have rock, punk rock, grunge rock, and alternative rock. Like what themes or instruments or whatever defines these genres and makes them not the same as all the others?

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I have this same thing. My favourite band… Could not tell you what genre they are. Wikipedia says psych pop, whatever that means. I just know I like it.

Mike Falzone has a joke about this that cracks me up
[Music Genres joke](https://youtu.be/kX_OfypXeik)
Skip to 2:40 if you don’t want to watch the whole thing.

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