Recorded answers
6,432 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the task as a timed recall sprint, not a hunt for one perfect label. Spend a minute noting every genre term you have ever seen attached to a record, from the broadest umbrella phrases down to the strangest compound you can picture, and hold back nothing at this stage. Prune afterwards, keeping only entries you can imagine sitting in the platform's catalogue. The productive route is combinatorial: take one style stem you trust and attach a region, a period, a format or an instrument, then judge which pairings read like genuine tags. Do not chase a brilliant rarity. The field is so wide and the scoring so flat that your first instinct carries as much weight as your twentieth guess, so move fast.
Get a hint
Start with scale: the catalogue holds thousands of tags, so the skill being tested is recall under time pressure. Ask how many genre terms you could list in a minute without repeating yourself.
A little more
Study how most tags are built: a style root fused with a place, a decade, a tempo figure, a technology or an instrument. Once that pattern is visible, one remembered term turns into a dozen variants.
One step further
Then push toward the far edge of the list: hyphenated micro-labels, single descriptors that barely register as genres, and tags lifted wholesale from regional scenes on other continents.
Reveal answers 6,432
- scottish indieDeep Cut85points
- scottish indie folkDeep Cut85points
- scottish indie rockDeep Cut85points
- scottish jazzDeep Cut85points
- scottish metalDeep Cut85points
- scottish new waveDeep Cut85points
- scottish rockDeep Cut85points
- scottish singer-songwriterDeep Cut85points
- scottish smallpipeDeep Cut85points
- scottish technoDeep Cut85points
- scouse rapDeep Cut85points
- scratchDeep Cut85points
- scream rapDeep Cut85points
- screamocoreDeep Cut85points
- sda a cappellaDeep Cut85points
- sda choirDeep Cut85points
- sean-nos singingDeep Cut85points
- seattle hip hopDeep Cut85points
- seattle indieDeep Cut85points
- seattle metalDeep Cut85points
- sebeneDeep Cut85points
- second lineDeep Cut85points
- seemannsliederDeep Cut85points
- SefardíDeep Cut85points
- SégaDeep Cut85points
- sega mauricienDeep Cut85points
- seggaeDeep Cut85points
- seinenDeep Cut85points
- seiyuDeep Cut85points
- semarang indieDeep Cut85points
- sembaDeep Cut85points
- senegalese traditionalDeep Cut85points
- sepedi popDeep Cut85points
- serbian alternative rockDeep Cut85points
- serbian electronicDeep Cut85points
- serbian folkDeep Cut85points
- serbian hip hopDeep Cut85points
- serbian indieDeep Cut85points
- serbian metalDeep Cut85points
- serestaDeep Cut85points
- serialismDeep Cut85points
- sertanejoDeep Cut85points
- sertanejo gospelDeep Cut85points
- sertanejo popDeep Cut85points
- sertanejo tradicionalDeep Cut85points
- sertanejo universitarioDeep Cut85points
- sesotho hip hopDeep Cut85points
- sesotho popDeep Cut85points
- sevdahDeep Cut85points
- sevilla indieDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The numbers tell a flattening story. Out of 6,431 recorded answers, 6,392 scored, and 5,962 of those sat on the same 85 points, one broad band that swallowed everything from bare one-word abstractions such as abstract to hyper-local hyphenates such as adelaide indie and technical oddities such as 8D and 432hz. Only 429 fell to 60, presumably entries the grader read as a weaker fit: a near miss, a variant spelling, or something it would not treat as a genre tag. Exactly one response, stomp and holler, reached 100. That solitary case carries the lesson. Normally the rarest legitimate pick pays best, since fewer players share the pool, but here the catalogue is so vast that rarity stopped carrying information. Obscurity bought nothing: accordion earned the same 85 as afro house angolano. Depth of recall was rewarded only up to the point of being right, and not a single point further.