I am convinced that the bizarre naming conventions are just another way to maintain exclusivity, like having a cassette tape of some indie band that barely anyone has even heard of. “Ooh, what an I listening to? Yeah I got this tape at one of the only two shows they ever did. They started their own genre, that’s how indie they are, bro. Their music is postexistentialistpostvaporwavepostemopunkelectronica. You wouldn’t know, ha.”

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A bit of that for sure. It is also useful though, in its time, to track shifts in themes/styles, but can get confusing when you try to reconcile the evolving categories over time. Philosophy is prob the worst offender