Most commonly, choices are made based on the lyrics, often with the appropriate snippet quotes in the fanmix post, but fanmixes tend to end up at least biased towards, if not entirely, one musical style because the creator harvests songs from their current favourite musical crop.
Personally, I prefer fanmixes that are wildly varied in genres, as long as each song is relevant for its own reason (a specific character, a moment in a relationship, an episode, whatever). This might be because single-style fanmixes are so often full of stuff I'm not terribly keen on - emo, comatose acoustic tracks, "singers" who have perfected the art of painful droning.
I had a couple of Atlantis fanmixes I was picking songs for but had forgotten aboutt. Hmmmm...
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Date: 2006-09-12 02:41 pm (UTC)Personally, I prefer fanmixes that are wildly varied in genres, as long as each song is relevant for its own reason (a specific character, a moment in a relationship, an episode, whatever). This might be because single-style fanmixes are so often full of stuff I'm not terribly keen on - emo, comatose acoustic tracks, "singers" who have perfected the art of painful droning.
I had a couple of Atlantis fanmixes I was picking songs for but had forgotten aboutt. Hmmmm...