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Once any word becomes a genre descriptive, its meaning begins to change as less original bandwagon-jumpers primarily emphasize the characteristics of the pioneer bands (or perhaps only their favorite band of the milieu) which they most prefer, and then the real zeitgeist sets in when enough of these musical carpetbaggers begin to blip the radar of unsuspecting music journalists in the middle mass of the mass media. Then the wrong people get credit for starting something, and a style of music which had started out as very diverse becomes more and more streamlined and inbred. And it gets worse when even more bandwagon-jumpers catch the zeitgeist bug.
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