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{{quote|''"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."''|'''[[Alan Moore]]'''}}
|'''[[Alan Moore]]'''}}
 
[['''Genre Roulette]]''' is what the name suggests: A single work that switches between distinct genres, seemingly at random.
 
As it's hard enough to write well in ''one'' genre, [['''Genre Roulette]]''' can be hard to pull off seriously. Comedies and parodies, on the other hand, usually don't raise any eyebrows when they do this, [[Rule of Funny|provided they continue to bring the funny]].
 
Musical [['''Genre Roulette]]''' is closely related to [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]]. The difference is that a Genre Roulette album can have a country song followed by a punk song, while an NPZR album will have a song that's country ''and'' punk at the same time.
 
When applied to videogamevideo game genres (i.e. the style of gameplay), it's [[Gameplay Roulette]]. Compare/contrast with [[Genre Busting]] and [[Genre Adultery]].
 
{{examples|Examples:}}
== [[Anime]] &and [[Manga]] ==▼
 
* The ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' anime played this with pretty much every episode being a parody of a certain genre. Everything from War Movies, to Dating Sims, to Sports, to Variety Shows to Post-Apocalyptic is given a once over.
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** ''[[Excel Saga (Anime)|Excel Saga]]'' made a point of this, opening ''every episode'' with manga author Koshi Rikdo giving his (reluctant) approval to give the series a Genre Shift. The style and weirdness remained consistent enough despite this, however.
* ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. As a whole though, you can probably put it into [[Magical Realism]], though every piece has its own defined genre.
* ''[[AbenobashiMagical MahouShopping ShoutengaiArcade (Anime)|Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai]]''. It starts off with a parody of [[RPG|RPGs]]s, follows up with a sci-fi/Giant Mech parody (including a mind-boggling time paradox involving a miscolored Gurren Lagann), and keeps juggling genres from there...
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]''.
* ''[[Brigadoon Marin and Melan]]'' is a sci-fi adventure drama, but it's also a middle-school [[Slice of Life]] show, a comedy with occasional parodic elements, and a teen romance. One minute you're in the middle of a serious political discussion at an alien council, and the next minute, the aliens are trying to settle their dispute with a pie fight. Serious [[Mood Whiplash]] may result.
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' switches between distinct styles from episode to episode. One episode may focus on character drama, whereas the next may be written as a harem comedy, and then episodes that focus almost solely on giant mecha combat.
* ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]'' cycles between being a gag manga, completely serious battle manga, and heartwarming slice-of-life(well, as close as it can get in [[Alternate Universe]] historical Edo, anyways). According the [[Word of God]] each chapter is its own genre.
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' seamlessly combines the [[Space Western]], [[Film Noir]] and [[Yakuza]] genres, among others.
 
== Comics[[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[[Seven Soldiers]]'' does this deliberately with each of the miniseries exhibiting the traits of a particular style of comic genre.
** ''The Return of Bruce Wayne'' and ''Multiversity'' are also set up the same way with each issue being a different genre based on the setting (time in RoBW and the worlds in Multiversity).
* Played with a bit in [[Ronin (Comic Bookcomics)|Ronin]].
* ''[[Frank and Ernest]]'' lands in a lot of different situations.▼
* [[Aquaman]] can be this at times, while most of the iconic DC heroes have their own niche, Aquaman is constantly reinvented. At one point he went from warrior king, to exiled [[Barbarian Hero]], to [[Messianic Archetype]], to Street Level Crimefighter, to {{spoiler|mentor to}} a [[Heroic Fantasy]]-inspired [[Legacy Character]] in the span of ''30 issues''.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''God Told Me To''. What genre it thinks it is depends on what scene it happens to be.
* ''[[Man of the Year]]'' does this, shifting between comedy, thriller, drama, and mystery all the time.
* ''[[Xtro]]'', which constantly jumps all over the place.
* ''[[Brotherhood of the Wolf]]'' is a mystery, martial arts film, monster horror film, drawing room drama, spy film and historical epic depending on the scene.
* ''[[Save The Green Planet]]'' has some regular [[Mood Whiplash]], from slapstick comedy to creepy psychological horror, with the odd martial arts scene thrown in.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[GravitysGravity's Rainbow]]'', [[Historical Fiction]] overall skips between [[Science Fiction]], war, romance, pornography, family tragedy, horror and slapstick comedy.
** Pynchon does this a lot. It's even more blatant in ''Against the Day''.
* ''[[Naked Lunch]]'': [[Science Fiction]], an undercover look at drug culture, raunchy porn, biting social satire, and some hard boiled noir thrown in for good measure.
* ''[[House of Leaves]]'' is horror. No, wait, it's a satire on literary criticism. No, wait, it's incomprehensible [[True Art]]. No, wait, it's a love story...
* ''[[Cloud Atlas]]'', which skips between genres with merry abandon.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* One episode of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' keeps flipping between genres, as [[Lampshaded]] by the captions:
{{quote| TODAY IN PARLIAMENT HAS NOW BECOME THE CLASSIC SERIAL<br />
THE CLASSIC SERIAL HAS NOW BECOME THE TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY<br />
THE TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY HAS BECOME "CHILDREN'S STORY"<br />
THE CHILDREN'S STORY HAS GONE BACK INTO THE TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY<br />
NO IT HASN'T<br />
NOW IT'S BECOME A PARTY POLITICAL BROADCAST<br />
NO, SORRY, "RELIGION TODAY" }}
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' pushes the line between this trope and outright [[Genre Busting]]. It did so even more in the era of [[William Hartnell]], who played the First Doctor, before the series had quite settled into its format.
** As showrunner [[Fan Nickname|The Grand]] [[Steven Moffat|Moff]] put it: "Sometimes it's comedy, sometimes thriller, sometimes horror, sometimes children's stories, the silliest stories you've ever seen. Sometimes it's all that in the same episode". In Series Five alone we had a thriller, a dystopian rebellion, historical sci-fi with Churchill, a horror-adventure, a comedy romp with vampires, a [[Dream Within a Dream]] mystery, a political intrigue with reptile people, [[A Very Special Episode]] about Vincent Van Gogh and depression, a comedy, and a [[Wham! Episode|finale]].
** Season 6 had a conspiracy thriller, madcap pirate romp, a fantasy laden with horrors, a sinister clone saga, a [[Deconstruction]], an assassination plot, a horrifying episode about dolls, a romantic drama, a [["What Do They Fear?" Episode]], a buddy comedy and a ''wedding''! .
* ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'': that is all. I mean what genre haven't they- wait, we should just ask Abed, I bet he knows.
* ''[[Super Sentai]]'', and by association ''[[Power Rangers]]'' in its yearly theming, in addition to its [[Toku]] base genre. This also applies with the ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' series as well. Episodes can run this line in all these series.
 
== [[Music]] ==
* In [[Bjork|Björk]]'s 1995 album, ''Post'', she switches from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KxtgS2lU94 Industrial Rock], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGpLMNnhLFo Dance], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htobTBlCvUU Jazz], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP5OA0SCMZA Trip Hop], [[Chamber Pop]], [[Ambient]], and [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|other]] [[Genre Busting|genres]].
* Canadian indie band Islands' debut album ''Return to the Sea'' featured a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq3-98XJCfw ten minute epic], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRmTMjksfM synthpop], [http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=mqIHptgTam0 catchy indie-pop] and a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCxadMtJcIA rap interlude].
* [[Five Iron Frenzy]]'s album ''All the Hype that Money Can Buy'' switches between ska-punk, ska-salsa, ska-hip-hop, ska-synth-rock, and ska-[[Hair Metal]].
** And they do an even better (albeit bizzare) example at the end of the ''Quantity is Job One'' EP, with These Are Not My Pants: The Rock Opera, where every one of 8 band members sings a part, each in a different musical style. Latin, Piano ballad, Country, Rock, Jazz, Reggae, Rap, and something only described as "Weird" are all covered.
* [[The Dingees]] play [[The Clash|Clash]]-inspired punk, roots reggae, and first-wave ska songs on their first three albums.
* The band WHY? switch between alternative hip-hop, indie rock, folk, R.E.M.-inspired jangle pop and bizarre combinations of these genres. Their 2008 album ''Alopecia'' for instance, wobbled in between the band's various genres. Compare the first single, alternative rap song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ikWDmCatKA A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under]" to the third single, indie rock song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5BQfC78Q4g Fatalist Palmistry]". The second single from the album, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqcckeKtSU4 The Hollows]", is somewhat of a meeting point between the band's two main genres.
* ''Peergynt Lobogris'' switches between ambient rock, new age and jazz music.
* [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles' White Album]] switches from Surf Rock, to Acoustic, to Ska, to random banging on a piano, to [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|Bluesy Doo-Wop Hard Rock]] to Pop to Folk to Country to Hard Rock to Proto-Metal to Blues to Avant-Garde to ballad.
** The Beatles in general did this a lot over the course of their career.
* Played with by [[Reel Big Fish]] on ''Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album'' with [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|"S.R. (The Many Versions Of)"]] where they played the entire song or parts thereof several times, picking new genres after each variation and commenting on the crowd's reaction as they included ska-punk, punk rock, blues, disco, death metal, a "sensitive and tender emo song", old school rap and more. The verdict was "play more country, the people love it!"
** Also their song "Party Down" contains ska, disco, death metal, dance, reggae, and country breakdowns, all over a basic garage rock and horns structure.
* [[X Japan]]. Heavy metal and hard rock with more than a pinch of punk sensibility becomes symphonic metal becomes beautiful rock ballads AND progressive rock with a metal sound. They're all over the map and bring the same level of skill to all of it.
* [[Ween]].
* [[Beck (Musicmusician)|Beck]] almost always, although he somestimes mixes them. Country, hip-hop, jazz, anti-folk, rock, experimental, tropicalia, electronic...
* [[Frank Zappa]] played numerous genres throughout his career: rock, progressive rock, jazz, fusion, classical, experimental... the list goes on and on.
* [[Amanda Palmer]] made a career out of this. Compare her songs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZu6NWJkHw Guitar Hero], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWSLJszH70o A Campaign Of Shock And Awe], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvSuLUd0vS0 Mandy Goes To Med School], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKwLtzAvYSg Slide], and her cover of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek5ZNgw8Vdk Creep]. She's also covered songs by/from Black Sabbath, Kurt Weill (in German), Britney Spears, Sonny & Cher, ''The Sound Of Music'', ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', Tchaikovsky and Rihanna.
* [[Linkin Park|Linkin Park's]] ''[[New Sound Album|Minutes to Midnight]]'' switches from [[Alternative Metal|cathartic alt-metal]] to synth-tinged adult contemporary ballads with a [[Political Rap|political rap]] song in between.
* Scissor Shock. What makes this even more awesome is that all of those genres are [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]].
* S.C.I.E.N.C.E. album era [[Incubus (Musicband)|Incubus]] not only varied genre from song to song, but sometimes from verse to bridge to chorus. Witness 'A Certain Shade of Green', with it's funk verse, metal chorus and disco bridge.
* [[David Bowie]] is made of this trope.
* As is [[Bob Dylan]].
* This could be said of many of [[Radiohead]]'s albums, but ''Amnesiac'' fits this trope particularly well. Its tracks include the gloomy jazz of "Life in a Glasshouse," the twitchy electronic "Like Spinning Plates," the relatively straightforward rock of "Knives Out," and the indescribable "Pyramid Song."
* [[Elton John]] was known for this at the height of his popularity; ''Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'' alone switches from melodic piano ballads (the title track) to minimalistic glam-rock ("Bennie And The Jets") to Stonesy rockers ("Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting") to [[The Beatles (band)|Beatle-esque]] numbers ("Harmony") to soft rock ("Candle In The Wind") to reggae ("Jamaica Jerk-Off") to boogie blues-rock ("Dirty Little Girl") to progressive rock ("Funeral For A Friend") to proto-disco-soul ("Grey Seal") to pseudo-doo-wop ("Your Sister Can't Twist [But She Can Rock 'N Roll]") to country ("Roy Rogers"; "Social Disease") to '20's jazz ("Sweet Painted Lady") to cinematic pieces like "The Ballad Of Danny Bailey" and the [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|aptly-named]] "I've Seen That Movie Too".
* Suicide Machines go back and forth from ska punk and ska-core (Destruction by Definition, Battle Hymns) to pop punk (Suicide Machines, Steal This Record) and back to a mix of hardcore and ska punk for their last two albums (A Match and some Gasoline, War Profiteering is Killing Us All), sometimes switching back and forth from ska to hardcore every other song.
* ''[[Gorillaz (Music)|Gorillaz]]'', and just with three albums. In their first ''[[Self-titledTitled Album]]'', they managed to mix rock, alternative, dub, punk (even though is just one song, and appropriately titled 'Punk'), and hip-hop, and the last song (M1 A1) features sounds and clips from the ''[[Day of the Dead]]'' film. Demon Days, the following album, followed a similar pattern, but with a darker and somber sound, along some dance/synth (DARE), some acoustic dark tunes (El Mañana), and even a choral (Demon Days), along with another horror film sample, from the film ''[[Dawn of the Dead (Filmfilm)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' (Intro). The third album, Plastic Beach, can only be described as "crazy", what with mixing in one song the Lebanese National Orchestra for Oriental Arabic Music with hip hop, and all the album has all over sounds of soul, electro, rock, pop, and even [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|seagulls and sea sounds and a breakfast commercial]]. Of course, Damon Albarn it's clearly doing a good job, so it's not risky business.
* [[Yoko Kanno]], <s>queen</s> goddess of anime soundtracks, can write ''anything''. Compare the classic orchestral soundtrack for ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' to the power-ballad-laden ''[[WolfsWolf's Rain]]'' to the techno epics of ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' to the jazzy music in ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]''. Her work on ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' (paragon of the [[Cult Soundtrack]] that is) covers all of these ''by itself''. And then [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|she starts combining them]]...
* Iwrestledabearonce.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2zyeVRcbs Hey], [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=miley+cyrus+party+in+the+usa&aq=0 let's] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVbQxC2c3-8 fling] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JppKPPdlEy8&feature=fvst a little] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HoRTgkI3y4 Disney] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVKCOsCN60A&feature=fvst Channel] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr0Wv5DJhuk fuel] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJDC3Gg-F8w to] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RSlhNJFohI the fire], [[Miley Cyrus|shall we]]?!
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzE1mX4Px0I&ob=av2e Why] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dADaxOsjQQ&ob=av3n not] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgT_us6AsDg&ob=av3e add] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfcvO2t8Ntg just] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A6-etrlUQc a dash more] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_YR4dKArgo&ob=av2e Disney Channel] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c2ahBlTPz0&feature=fvsr fuel], [[Selena Gomez (Music)|why don't we]]?
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_8ydghbGSg&ob=av2e Sure], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjNWmIAnHBs why] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIDWjilzuSw not]? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAMDZQSfo4 Adding] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n9vOV_PF_Y Disney] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZtUA9_ID0U Channel] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJXJ5rzcHVQ&ob=av2e fuel] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n9vOV_PF_Y is] [[Demi Lovato|fun]]!
* Dir en grey. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_llwjp60XE 'Nuff] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7IXmV6A6Bk said].
* In contrast with Mr. Bungle's straight out [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]], [[Mike Patton]]'s other 90's band [[Faith No More]] were a bit more into genre roulette, especially starting with ''Angeldust''. For instance, ''King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime'' had a few of their heaviest songs, but also threw in country ("Take This Bottle"), seventies style funk/soul ("Evidence", "Star AD"), breezy Latin-flavored pop ("Caralho Voador"), and even a gospel ballad ("Just A Man").
* Cursor Miner's styles are all over the map, jumping between breakbeat, techno, electro, synthpop, IDM, trip-hop, and even industrial.
* The only genre that will definitely be on a [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] album is polka, and it'll probably be a medley; the others can be just about anything. Given that he's a prolific parody artist, this shouldn't be too surprising, but his band can play ''any'' genre well.
* [[The Clash]], especially the album ''Sandinista!'', tend to switch between genres all the time. ''Sandinista!'' contains the first ever rap song released by a rock band, as well as songs influenced by dub, reggae, and funk, a song with a children's choir, and a song with elements of twee pop. To consider them just a punk band is hardly fair.
* [[Blind Guardian (Music)|Blind Guardian]] is ostensibly a [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]] band, but their repertoire runs the gamut from [[Folk Music|Folk Songs]] to [[Heavy Mithril]] to [[Po PPop]].
** Also [[Ayreon]], in the same vein.
* [[Enter Shikari]] in general, but most notably on their second album ''Common Dreads''.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYa_Un5DrDg ''The Jester''] takes this [[Up to Eleven]] by switching between trumpet solos, the band's standard synthesizer-heavy post hardcore and a trance instrumental.
* Japanese [[Black Metal]] band [[Sigh]] does this a lot, frequently within the same song. It's particularly blatant on ''Imaginary Sonicscape'', where there are oddities like disco and dub reggae breaks thrown into the middle of almost every song. Not to mention the obligatory classical snippet overlaid with what appears to be several hundred samples of giggling babies that closes the album. Of course, Sigh frequently invoke [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]] as well. It's difficult to define exactly where their use of one trope ends and the other begins.
* [[Queen]] went from hard glam rock to pop to funk to '30's swing to power ballads to skiffle-folk to [[Progressive Rock]] over the course of an album. Or over the course of one album side.
** Queen's first few albums were fairly straightforward, fusing elements of [[Progressive Rock]] and [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]]. But their fourth album, ''A Night At The Opera'' has virtually no two songs in the same genre (and some of the genres are quite atypical for pop bands - British Music Hall style, anyone? - and most of their subsequent albums up to their 1984 album ''The Works'' (nine songs, nine genres) continued this pattern. The only real exception in this era was their score to ''[[Flash Gordon (Filmfilm)|Flash Gordon]]''.
** Queen's most famous hit, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a Genre Roulette all by itself. There are five very distinct portions, including at one point going from a slow ballad ("Mama...just killed a man") to an up-tempo ''operetta'' ("I see a little silhouetto of a man") to a powerful hard rock piece ("So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye!")
* [[Kyle Dennis]]: [[Harsh Noise]], industrial, rock, tape music, experimental, drone, even mixtapes.
* [[Gackt]] is a rock artist, but what genre of music is going to be on his albums and singles is random at best. Some songs such as Cube, Oasis, Uncertain Memory and Secret Garden don't even resemble any discernible genre. Songs like these are simply referred to by fans as "Gackt rock".
* [[Christian Rock]] performer Carman did this constantly during his career. Pop, rock, rap, something vaguely like folk, adult contemporary, a pastiche of '50s rock and roll, and his famous rhyming sermons put to music. He often recorded with guest performers, and even then he might defy the genre they are typically known for; for example, "Our Turn Now" features then-metal band [[Petra]] but is the kind of rap-rock that [[DC Talk]] would eventually be known for.
* [[Drake]] does a mild version of this in his albums. He usually has typical [[Boastful Rap]] songs, but occasionally does pop/R&B ballad-type songs, such as "I Get Lonely Too" and "Find Your Love". In fact, one of the things he is praised (or criticized) for is his ability to switch from boastful raps to self-examining ballads.
* Conor Oberst ([[The Face of the Band|face]] of [[Bright Eyes]]) exhibits this tendency with his [[Side Project|Side Projects]]s.
* Ulver IS this trope - They began as a mix of atmospheric black metal and folk metal and then went dark folk and then a harsher, more lo-fi black metal. On their 4th album they became practically industrial metal and on their 5th they became a mix of trip hop, ambient and breakcore. They now have gone towards a general experimental rock style.
* DJ Shadow's early works were heavily trip-hop influenced while his last album encompasses indie rock and 'hyphy' influences.
* [[Guniw Tools]] jump from jazz-rock to folk to punk to electronic music on several of their albums
* [[The Veronicas]] went from single acoustic rock pop (Heavily Broken) to RNB-Eletronic-Faux-Rap (Cold) in three albums.
** Two albums in and have done pop, pop-rock, pop eletronic, dance pop, classical pop, 80's inspired pop and RNB.
* [[Britney Spears]] and her album ''Circus'' is a mix tape as such and an example of this.
* Amorphis has run the gamut from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbUHOLnpFyU&feature=related straightforward Death Metal], to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNNQE1c9mxU a more melancholy Death/Doom style], to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=adfaixBsbZE Alternative Rock], to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qjiWb1O_L4&ob=av3e Gothic Metal], to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bbVelwUkDY vaguely Opeth-ish Progressive Death Metal], and even [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUbk1Kp8xGc&feature=relmfu acoustic ballads].
* [[Skinny Puppy]]'s ''hanDover'' runs the gamut from straight industrial(Vyrisus) to industrial metal(Village) to EBM(Icktums) to IDM(Ovirt) to ''breakcore''(NoiseX).
* Amy Grant has also had [[Genre Roulette]] resulting is MOR/Adult Contemporary Christian Pop (her early career), Southern and Bluegrass Gospel style recordings (her hymns albums), mainstream country-folk style songs (Tennessee Christmas among others), folk-rock (her Lead Me On and Behind The Eyes albums), mainstream AC/top 40 pop (much of Unguarded, Heart In Motion, House of Love and Simple Things albums, the duet with [[Peter Cetera]] called The Next Time I Fall being the most notable), Christian Rock songs (the In Concert albums and certain songs from her early career) and others.
* [[Sound Horizon]] is, in theory, a [[Symphonic Metal]] band. In ''theory''. The fact that [[The Other Wiki]] has them listed under nine genres should tell you something about how they work.
* [[Vanessa Amorosi]]: "Somewhere In The Real World" was a jazz (Something Emotional), rock (Kiss Your Mama!), pop (Perfect), swing (My House) and contemporary (Who Am I?) album...to say the least.
* The [[Foo Fighters (Music)|Foo Fighters]] were usually alternative rock with a [[Surprisingly Gentle Song]] every now and then. Then with ''In Your Honor'', a [[Distinct Double Album]] with an acoustic disc, it became more common.
{{quote| '''Dave Grohl''': "I eventually want it to get to the point where when people ask me what kind of band I'm in, I say: 'I just play music'. It's not one specific genre of music, it's not one specific style. I'm just a musician. I can play all these different instruments, I can write a bossa nova, I can write a thrash tune."}}
* [[Vanilla Ice]]'s music has elements of [[Nu Metal-metal]], Jazz, Country, Hip-Hop, [[Gangsta Rap]], Funk, [[Alternative Rock]], etc.
* Crotchduster embodies this to the max. They switch between Power Metal, Death Metal, Grindcore, Synth-Pop, Comedy, Electronic, self made audio samples, Classic Rock, Blues, Jazz, A Cappella, etc. etc. You name it, they've used it at some point. And they only have ONE. FUCKING. ALBUM.
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
▲* ''[[Frank and Ernest]]'' lands in a lot of different situations.
 
== [[Toys]] ==
* ''[[Bionicle]]'''s exact genre depends on which comic/book/on-line serial you read or which animation/movie you watch. Its tone also shifts from kid-friendly fables that teach [[An Aesop]] at the end to [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's for Kids?|highly violent, messed up, borderline-horror]] stories that make you wonder how they got [[LEGO]] to approve them.
 
== Webcomics[[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Dinosaur Comics (Webcomic)|Dinosaur Comics]]'' parodies this. After T-Rex comes up with [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1183 the ultimate disaster movie], [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1184 he realizes how he can make a nigh-infinite number of sequels]: By [[POV Sequel|by showing the same series of events from different perspectives]], he can shoehorn his story into any genre imaginable.
* ''[[The Dreamer]]'' jumps from historical fiction to YA lit in a matter of pages.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' tends to change its genre with every [[Story Arc]]. Compare the fantasy epic shown in [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/weekly/041120 these] strips from 2004, to [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/weekly/050618 this] [[Sit ComSitcom]]-style [[Broke Episode]] from 2005, to [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/weekly/061014 this] crime thriller from 2006, to [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/weekly/070818 this] [[Fantastic Comedy]] from 2007. The only consistent trait is that most strips have some sort of joke in them, but even that's [[Cerebus Syndrome|not always the case]].
* ''[[Rusty and Co (Webcomic)|Rusty and Co.]].'' The Belt of Genre Changing does this.
* ''[[Pibgorn]]'': [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2011/04/27/ In Drusilla's dream sequences.]
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' switches between a samurai movie, a spaghetti western, then a buddy comedy, silent movie slapstick, horror, crime drama, ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]''-esque pulp adventure, a gladiator flick, etc., and sometimes all in the same episode!
 
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