![]() With the benefit of distance, it feels fairly obvious which bands were witch house and which were actually just experimenting with electronic music. The problem was, no one could quite settle on what witch house was supposed to be, but everyone was sure they didn’t want to be part of it. ![]() Still, witch house was popular because it sold a mood - an unsettling mix of sadness, melodrama, fear, and paranoia - and if you made music that could be lumped into that weird mood mixture, then you, too, could become a practitioner of witch house. ![]() The genre’s day in the sun went by so fast that most of the artists lumped into it didn’t even have time to release an album during its short-lived heyday. It was successful because it sounded sort of terrifying, and it was briefly popular - from 2009 through a little bit of 2010 - because everyone wants to be a little bit terrified sometimes. Witch house, a subgenre of electronic music, sounds nothing like Papa Roach, but it was able to convey unfiltered emotion in similar ways.
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