what if you have a girl?

I don't know anyone who likes who genres. That's a reliable way to like a whole bunch of appalling crap. The closest I've come to that is liking artists who were sui generis, who seemed to estblish their own genres: The Beatles, Kraftwerk, David Bowie. But liking The Beatles didn't mean you had to like ELO, and liking David Bowie didn't mean you had to like Gary Glitter.

Surely the end result of your process here is "My great-granddaughter will like [insert name of artist here]". And isn't that already how most people describe their music tastes -- with the names of artists, rather than the names of genres?

"That's a reliable way to like a whole lot of appalling crap." Well said... sadly these days a lot of brands are beginning to look like genres, and genres like brands...

Which, in short, is to say that there is a lot of appalling crap out there.

Even better to say "I like X album by Y, but not Z album' - that's if albums even exist any more in the future.

Yeah, Momus is on the mark. Death to genres. The question from hell for me: So what type of music is it?

death to genres is all good and what not. but 100% impossibile. or, an "impossibility". people naturally compartmentalise. from patrick's run in with "french/quebec" style, to "folktronica" and "cute formalism". [the last 2 i've been accused of]. well the genre game can get out of control. it's the easiest way to describe music. you could call momus and moby and prefuse 73 "electronic". but, they don't really have anything in common. and its sort of missleading. you could call marxy and ashley simpson "pop". but that doesn't really work either.