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This song ain't "hip-hop." A couple album reviews saying that the track has hip-hop elements in it makes fine sense to note in the context of the article, but I think putting that in the infobox alongside country music is a huge stretch/jump from that in my opinion. I've seen many articles list multiple genres sourced within the text, but not all of them need to be shoved into the infobox. R&B is probably a more apt description anyway, considering that's what most of Sam Hunt's singles have been pegged as on this site and his music passes for having 'hip-hop' sensibilities in the same manner this one is being described as. CloversMallRat (talk) 18:23, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
My goal was for the genre(s) in the infobox to represent the most common opinion that I could reliably source. Multiple reviews commented on hip hop elements in the song (the phrasing, the subject matter, the imperfect rhymes, etc.), so I included it. These days, the lines between genres are so blurry anyway, so influences are often as close as we can get to a solid genre definition. Especially with a song that was intended to exist outside genre lines and defy categorization. Honestly, I agree the song is probably closer to R&B than hip hop, but unless someone can find a credible source that identifies the song as such, these are the genre labels we have to work with. I'm not opposed to having no genre listed in the infobox and just have the influences listed in the prose if that seems more neutral. Songsteel (talk) 22:06, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I can get not wanting to just blanket statement it as country music if it bends the genre the way it does, but putting hip-hop of all things in the infobox just seems like a big stretch. Obviously more than 1 reviewer decided to throw out that word as a descriptor, so it makes total sense in the context of the article to highlight that, but this isn't literally a hip-hop song under any stretch of the imagination and it wouldn't be charting at country radio if it were. If you think just not having any genre labels in the infobox is a viable solution, then I think that might be best. It just seems wrong to brand it as a hip-hop song of all things, even if there are some sources who felt like it had those influences. That's just my take. CloversMallRat (talk) 09:13, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
