# Talk:The Black Dog (song)

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 October 2024 and 19 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Rewilliams02 (article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Rewilliams02 (talk) 05:38, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

I have no idea what on earth the single source for the 'Post-industrial' genre tag on here was thinking, but this song has got absolutely nothing to do with that genre of music. I like Taylor as much as the next person but it is blatantly inaccurate and frankly is an embarassment for a supposed "Good article". There is not a single source anywhere else on the internet which describes this song as anything close to post-industrial, and I fully believe the author of the original article was just trying to be clever and did not grasp the meaning and history behind the genre term.
I've tried editing it out but the changes have been reverted twice and I got told to read WP:GENREWARRIOR. I think that's an overreaction considering I am trying to correct a genuine factual error, but I have read it now, and I am now taking the article's advice and posting on the talk page. I genuinely don't know what I'm supposed to do - there's obviously not going to be an article explicitly saying "this is not post-industrial" because it wouldn't even occur to most people to link this song with that genre, so I cannot provide a source to directly counter the description from the 'Beats Per Minute' review. However I also think the evidence for the inclusion of this genre term is insubstantial and flimsy at best.
If someone can make a solid case as to why this is a post-industrial song, I would love to hear it. Please make sure you read up on industrial music first though. You can even start by clicking the link to the relevant article on this talk page, because utterly bizarrely this article is now within the scope of WikiProject Industrial. Hivedrops (talk) 05:23, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm sorry if anyone is offended the bite-y tone of this comment. I hope it's understandable that it comes from a place of deep frustration that just because one music journalist is talking out of his arse, this completely incorrect piece of information is now displayed on this prominent article, and I seemingly have no way to correct it without an automatic reversion because four Wikipedians decided the site seemed okay. I am genuinely just trying to help. It's embarassing. Hivedrops (talk) 05:37, 29 April 2025 (UTC)