three new categoris of music, with examples

Dad music: Huey Lewis and the News

Cool uncle music: Elvis Costello

Creepy uncle music: Girls' Generation, Burzum, Kid Rock, Insane Clown Possee, etc.

[Brief reflections after the jump.]

1. Any two of these categories form a sorites series with whole genres in the penumbral regions (old school punk between dad and cool uncle, glam rock between cool and creepy uncle, pop/dance music between creepy uncle and dad).
2. Members of all three categories can listen to classic rock. This is why it is classic.
3. Anyone reading this who thinks he or she is the cool uncle is almost certainly in reality a dad or a creepy uncle. (A) Philosophy isn't cool, so whaddaya doing here? (B) Relatedly, cool uncles are just too busy doing their cool stuff to engage in much self-reflection on whether they are really dads or creepy.
4. Creepy uncles have a wider array of contemporary genres from which to chose (e.g. K-Pop, nearly every subcategory of metal (Norwegian death, pirate, folk, etc.), and rap-rock). They form a growing demographic in twenty-first century post-capitalism, one that marketers are finally waking up to.
5. If you have to be cool, being a cool uncles is the way to go. Since they are not pathologically self-obsessed, cool uncles are much less intolerable than hipsters, and in fact deserve none of the derision thrown the hipster's way. Plus, if one includes the penumbral regions, you get to listen to pretty good music.
6. I'm sorry that the categories are gendered. Are there seperate categories of mom music, cool aunt music, and creepy aunt music? Or do the original categories cover both men and women and as a result we should try to convince people to rename them? Some third option? I don't know.