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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to elaborate, you can’t tell the difference between Taylor Swift and Necro Cannibalistic Vomitorium? In my opinion you just lack listening and you train it by listening🤙.

To be clear. Subtle difference of music genre are mostly about the intervals used in the arrangment. From public perspective listening is more than enough to start recognising.

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