@Quaeria, @tfguss, @HertzDevil, @DrCav, @Nikonani: thank you for your suggestions regarding genres over the past few months.
Below is a list of the metacritic genres (proposed above). The struck through items are the ones Hooktheory already supported. I’ve added all additional metacritic genres to Hooktheory and also updated the “genres” widget to order alphabetically - I’m embarrassed it didn’t already do that.
For the moment have not deleted any of our previous genres. But later today I will merge songs tagged as k-pop and j-pop into pop, and then remove the k-pop and j-pop genres, as suggested here Can "Folk" be added as a genre please? (unless there are huge objections). If anyone else has “genre merge” requests, please let me know.
I believe the addition of the metacritic genres has addressed most of your previous requests. If not, I’m open to suggestions.
Metacritic genres http://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/genre/date/pop. Strikethrough items were supported by Hooktheory prior to 2015-02-04
alt-country
alternative
blues
comedy
country
dance
electronic
experimental
folk
house
indie
jazz
latin
metal
pop
psychedelic
punk
rap
r&b
reggae
rock
singer-songwriter
soul
soundtrack
techno
vocal
world