Help! Genre suggestions please

[Geir]

Hi
I hope someone out there can help.
This one is written from the heart but I have no idea where it might fit in.
Is there a genre for this kind of song? If so, what would it be?
Can anyone help?

https://soundcloud.com/user367024324/wh ... fe-is-over

Thanks

Geir

[Kolstad]

Hi Geir, to me this song sounded like (soft) adult contemporary, big 1990'ies ballad style a la Celine Dion, maybe Gloria Estefan with the subtle latin suggestions in the music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_contemporary_music

[johnlewitt]

Geir,

I'm getting a strong theatrical vibe from this song. To me it could be in an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical or something more modern, but similar.

Hope that helps a bit.

John

[Geir]

Thank you for your thoughts John and Kolstad. I see what you both mean, but I still feel very uncertain about how to classify this song.

Geir

[andygabrys]

Hi Geir, to me this song sounded like (soft) adult contemporary, big 1990'ies ballad style a la Celine Dion, maybe Gloria Estefan with the subtle latin suggestions in the music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_contemporary_music

yeah add to that toni braxton "unchain my heart" kind of sound.

if you are talking a TAXI submission its the second entry from the top. Adult Contemporary./

[funsongs]

Hi
I hope someone out there can help.
This one is written from the heart but I have no idea where it might fit in.
Is there a genre for this kind of song? If so, what would it be?
Can anyone help?
https://soundcloud.com/user367024324/wh ... fe-is-over
Thanks
Geir

For what it's worth: good song and well done.
I could hear this song on a playlist alongside songs by Nora Jones and Alicia Keys.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Peter R.
https://soundcloud.com/funsongs-1

[nick.moxsom]

Hey, Geir,

I concur with the consensus: adult contemporary but veering towards theatre. The phrasing and cadences are classic 80's/90's, to my ears, and I can't hear any contemporary artists doing this. Great song, though, and well written.

Nick

[Geir]

Thanks for your thoughts Andy, Pete and Nick.

The way I read you all, then this is an adult contemporary with a touch of theatre in it and with roots in the 80's and 90's.

Having little knowledge of genres I thought that adult contemporary is something that is NOW, so does bringing in the 80's and 90's make it less contemporary??
If I should submit this song to an adult contemporary listing is it then likely that I will get a return on the basis of it not being contemporary?? I know this is difficult to answer, but I'm still a little confused, so please help me.

Kolstad mentions that it sounds like a Celin Dion ballad from the 90's.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought that this next song would be more like that:

https://soundcloud.com/user367024324/th ... ave-to-pay

Am I wrong?

Geir

[rdance]

geir, very nice song. i agree with others, adult contemporary, theatrical...

to also work for r&b, just need to change out the march/plod feel with a groove and different instrumentation.

cheers

[Geir]

Thank you Richard, but now I'm really intrigued by your suggestion for this as an R&B.
That thought never crossed my mind.
Any suggestions for working the groove and the instrumentation to make it R&B??

Geir