I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.
I guess fusion would be the best way to describe my music. I think it also goes into the spectrum of electronic and dance with inspiration from Indian folk songs.
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.
My sound is a mix between pop, hip-hop, and R&B. It's a good collaborative effort of all three.
What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.
I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.
I really just blend like rock, R&B and rap together to create a sub-genre, but it's very versatile.
We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.
I like the idea of blending genres.
A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there's a lot of indie as well. But you can't really say I'm pop-blues, because that's insulting to blues. It just can't exist.
One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.
Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.
My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.
My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.
I have crazy, different influences in my songs. I want rap music, I want Congolese rumba, I want salsa, I want dance music, I want hip-hop music, all mixed into one!
There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.
The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences.
There's been so much fusion of genres, whether Hindi and hip or reggaeton and bhangra.
I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.
I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
