Talk:Bardcore

Changed from redirect to article (different subject)

Today I started the article 'Bardcore', removing the redirect to Library Bards that was meant to represent their album BARDCORE. Eissink (talk) 20:57, 24 June 2020 (UTC).

I've gone ahead and moved the history related to the album to Bardcore (album); the old talk page for that redirect is at Talk:Bardcore (album). Graham87 08:12, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Notability

Is this subject really WP:NOTABLE? The article seems to derive from a single Guardian article. While the Graun is considered WP:RS, they pad out their online lifestyle and cultural sections with the same vacuous clickbait as any other publication. --Ef80 (talk) 20:49, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Its ultimate notability will rest on the quality and quantity of the reliable source material available to be cited, but from a purely personal perspective: this 64-y-o who detests clickbait has developed a substantial interest in this musical genre during the last few months. I suspect that its relationship to previous genres, such as Folk-rock (see, for example, Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span and more recent acts such as Blackmore's Night, will prove productive of further citable commentary. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.122.56.237 (talk) 01:35, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

It started way before 2020

I believe medieval-style remakes of pop/rock/metal hits is neither "internet phenomenon" nor it "became popular in 2020".

Good starting point for reading would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Medieval_music and works of bands like Blackmore's Night, In Extremo, Corvus Corax, Mediæval Bæbes and many more. Many "modern medieval" bands have some remakes of pop/rock songs that date way before 2020.

For example Blackmore's Night covers/remakes: https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/2702/covers — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.244.97.111 (talk) 16:13, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

In a similar vein: Don't the acoustic covers of the Harp Twins also fit here? --Florian Blaschke (talk) 13:17, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Only if reliable sources refer to the songs as bardcore. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:30, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Russian band Medievallica does pure bardcore stuff since 2013. 46.138.176.228 (talk) 20:08, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Okay, but do reliable sources state that? 75.164.178.36 (talk) 20:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

I believe it owes some origins to the widely known YTMND "Medieval" fad: https://wiki.ytmnd.com/Medieval I remember often they would use the same song, however, some used their own Medieval remixes of other songs. The original Medieval ytmnd dates back to 2006. I would concur, I also believe it began years before 2020, in practise. However, maybe the name Bardcore had not yet been invented. This was a widely popular early internet "meme" and thus, I would think it impossible that it did not have an influence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:6CE8:E200:E442:4B02:5620:E5C6 (talk) 16:00, 7 September 2023 (UTC)