Genre Bending

What happens when music refuses to stay in its lane? It gets some major Stereothematica love. This week Christina and Christine talk about the artists who blur boundaries, break molds, and bend genres in ways that feel both surprising and inevitable. These are sounds shaped by curiosity, contradiction, and a refusal to be easily defined.Videos:Arthur Russell: This is How We Walk on the Moon (1994)Yellow Magic Orchestra: Simoon (1979)Extras:Psycho Killer feat. Arthur Russell playing celloWild Combination documentary"My favorite song" by Ramesh Srivastava“‘I Want to See All My Friends At Once’: Arthur Russell and the Queering of Gay Disco” Journal of Popular Music StudiesLive Version of SimoonThe Music That Shaped Haruomi HosonoCrafting the Sound of the FutureMichale Jackson cover of Behind the MaskDe La Soul Sampling YMO in Big Brother Beat Reddit - Let’s Talk Music: YMO The Amazing History of YMOYMO on Soul Train - Tighten Up cover Archie Bell and the Drells: Tighten Up YMO on Soul Train - Firecracker Firecracker Samples:Afrika Bambaataa: Death Mix IIMariah Carey: LoverboyJennifer Lopez (Featuring Ja Rule): I’m RealDe La Soul: Funky Towel2 Live Crew: Mega Mixx IIConnect with us on Instagram (to share your song picks or troll us), Spotify (for our ever-growing playlist), and Stereothematica.com (for extra fun)!If you like what you’re hearing, please subscribe, and if you love it, a five-star rating and review would send us into the exosphere of excitement.And email us at [email protected]! We will write back!