Grandlaugh (Genre)

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Category:Quote templatesGrandlaugh is an term to describe music that embraces modern-day shitposting culture by combining and several different styles and genres of music with shitpost humor and electronic experimentation.Post by Ryder thomas in the Record Records discord server
Which has been accpected by people in it as the best definition of the genre
 Grandlaugh isn't tied to a specific genre making it more of a musical style than a genre 
It developed a scene online through Bandcamp around 2022. 
== Characteristics==
The genre is experimental alot of the time, more spefically using experimental techniques easier or only possible via DAWs such a virtual instruments playing chaotic streams of notes impossible on a real instrument, screwing around with samples, among other things. These songs have humor renunciant trying to evoke the same absurdist humor as online shitposts and memes , sometimes by referring or sampling memes or just really stupid and surreal humor. 
The experimentalism is usually meant to make the song funnier or "so bad it's good" while still trying to stand on it's own. It also often takes inspiration from different types of electronic music such as electronic dance music, noise, etc
== Difference between grandlaugh and other forms of comedy music==
Grandlaugh is a sub-genre of comedy music, however it's more than just "shitpost music". It takes inspiration from Novelty music, however isn't a sub-genre of it as it is meant to still meant to be more than just a gimmick.
Specifically the genre features more Leftfield or DIY approaches to production with different forms of experimentation; it can take the form of many different genres, but the style remains the same. 
Its a very subjective term as its hard to describe a song as just Grandlaugh let alone with no other genre behind it, grandlaugh is just supposed to be a note telling you said track or album is a mixture of grandlaugh music and whatever else the album would normally be notified as. Grandlaugh can be used as a single genre, but only commonly when its hard to tag it as another genre ontop of thatPost by the founder of record records on their discord server
 
==Origin of the term==
The term was first coined by Rosa to describe music released under Not Only Shitpost Records - the label she had founded. The term originally just started out as "Shitpost music that's meant to be real music" or "Semi Shitpost, Semi Serious music" but quickly became a more defined style as more people start making grandlaugh releases on record records. 
==Sub-genres==
=== Dancelaugh===
Music that combines grandlaugh with breakcore and/or house music. 
Examples include: GwennyLOL, Ziz, TESCO VALUE DANCE MUSIC, etc
===Old people candy===
The bottom of the barrel of shitpost. Devolving into genres that don't utilize much traditional music concepts, such as noise music, sound collages, etc. Oftentimes made to purposely annoy the listener. OPC can be from simply ear damaging Noise, to a Soundclown like audio ytp. 
Examples include: Tyder Rhomas, The Effects of Mouldy Noise, etc
===Post-Grandlaugh===
A term to describe grandlaugh artists that sound more "real" by combining the grandlaugh style with more realistic sounding instruments and less reliance on electronic elements as the main backbone of the song
====Grandrock====
A Post-grandlaugh subgenre that puts the grandlaugh style in a rock or metal context. Often taking insperation from more experimental rock genres such as noise rock 
==ProtoLaugh==
Protolaugh is a term for grandlaugh music made before the formation of Record Records and NOSR. 
====Shitpost====
Term that concludes all of the above. Both Grandlaugh, Proto-Laugh, and OPC are all Shitpost music, but they work as dividers to section off different types of shitpost. Shitpost is only really used to tag a release let alone without any of the above, when the music kinda slides into a grey area in-between OPC and Grandlaugh.
==== Shitstep====
Shitstep is, in multiple ways, the predecessor to Grandlaugh, and some of Shitpost music. Being originally coined by Zyphr & GwennyLOL, during the production of their 3 part album "Technically Music?", also known as "Shitstep Side _", Shitstep is the combination of many traits found in electronic music, and Shitstep.
==Notable Labels==
*Record Records
*Basement Recordings
*Husk Recordings
==References==
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