The genre that is party metal is rather interesting.  I feel like a group of people got together that enjoyed Punk music and Metal music equally and wanted to see if they could combine the two and see what they could make of it.  Some of the characteristics of this genre of music are…

• Exuberant style
• Fast paced
• High tempo
• Immense energy
• Party Music
• Lyrics
  • Party focused
  • Positive/uplifting

These songs can either be strictly for clubs or could be used for commercials like the Presenter was telling us about.

The audience that this was aimed for had these characteristics…

• Young adults
• Mostly white
• Male focused
• High energy events: sport games

A lot of these characteristics are very similar to the research I did about alternative rock.  This is because I feel that this is just a genre branch of alternative music

Keyboards was used throughout most of Andrew W.K.’s music along with usual instruments of guitar, bass, drums, and powerful vocals.  The musical elements of this kind of music really isn’t anything out of the ordinary and really rather similar again, to punk music.

The presenter lastly told us about Andrew W.K..  He began learning the piano at the age of four which is a very impressive feat.  He grew up to be a motivational speaker and had a few guest appearances of several TV shows.  He actually got to be the host of a very popular show on Cartoon Network called Destroy Build Destroy.  He is also a writer for Vice Media which is very interesting.  He did however have some legal issues that ivolved his real name, Steev Mike.  One of the most impressive things he did would have to be that in 2013 broke record for longest drum session in a retail store (drumming for 24 consecutive hours).

I could definitely see myself listening and enjoying this genre of music while at a party of some sort.