# Talk:Warriors (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis album)

Is anybody working on listing all the different genres, Hip-Hop, Metal, Skaa, Neo-Soul etc.? Thetechhelper (talk) 05:33, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for raising! I kept a note of what I encountered while putting together the "critical response" section, but wasn't sure where to start with adding them to the article, given its proliferation of genres.
I found some good advice at Template:Infobox album#genre and WP:GENREWAR. In particular, the latter's WP:EXPLICITGENRES seems relevant here: "When classifying music, sources must explicitly attribute the genre to the work or artist as a whole."
So on that basis, I suggest we include fairly high-level genres in the infobox, but in a "style" section of the body or similar we can go into depth on what sources say about individual tracks or non-definitive classifications.
The album as a whole:
Associated Press: "an album that has deployed musical talent brilliantly to tell another story of going home, at the intersection of musical theater and popular music."
Elements of the album:
The Guardian: "Hamilton’s blend of combative rap, beatboxing, melodic sweep and plangent balladry is here spiked with ska, metal and salsa in a sprawling set of 26 songs."
New York Times: "features an array of genres: rap and hip-hop, salsa and merengue, ska and sounds from ballroom culture, R&B and funk. The boy band inspired gang has some KPOP mixed in. The first words on the album come from the dancehall performer Shenseea, a nod to the Jamaican roots of hip-hop; she plays a DJ who has a bit of a narrator-like role in the film and on the album. There’s even a bit of metal, for Luther, who is voiced by Kim Dracula."
Billboard: "genre-hopping"
Playbill: "not afraid to dip into the sound of punk rock, heavy metal, rap, Fania, and even contemporary musical theatre"
The Billboard piece above, and this Time Out one have some good quotes from Miranda on how some of the genres apply to the specific tracks, and why that's relevant/important. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 08:31, 20 October 2024 (UTC)