C-pop

Chinese pop that glides between Mandarin hooks, slick K-pop shimmer, and a touch of ancient soul — like a dragon dancing through a neon-lit karaoke lounge.

Suno style tag: [C-POP]


Cabaret

Think velvet curtains, smoky spotlight, and a piano that’s seen some things. Cabaret isn’t just a genre — it’s a whole stage in miniature, where drama meets jazz and every song winks at you like it’s got a secret. Expect theatrical vocals, playful piano lines, and storytelling that sashays between sultry and satirical.

File this under: music that wears fishnets and breaks the fourth wall.

Suno style tag: [CABARET]


Cajun

Born in the bayous of Louisiana, Cajun is all accordion bounce and fiddle fire — a foot-stompin’ swirl of French roots, call-and-response chants, and rhythms that dance like the porch is on fire.

Suno style tag: [CAJUN]


Calypso

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, calypso grooves with steelpan sparkle, syncopated swing, and lyrics that serve sharp wit with a sunny grin — storytelling you can dance to.

Suno style tag: [CALYPSO]


Candy Pop

Like bubblegum pop on a sugar rush, Candy Pop is all sparkly synths, polished beats, and vocals so sweet they practically glitter — think J-pop or K-pop dipped in liquid cotton candy.

Suno style tag: [CANDY POP]


Carnatic

Rooted in South India and rich with history, carnatic music spins intricate melodies and complex rhythms into a tapestry of veena, mridangam, and voice — where every note is both structure and spirit.

Suno style tag: [CARNATIC]


Celtic music flows from the windswept hills and coastal cliffs of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, and Galicia — places where the land itself seems to hum along with the melody. Rooted in ancient oral traditions and carried forward through centuries of storytelling, it’s a living archive of cultural memory, often sung in Irish or Scottish Gaelic, and just as often played on the fiddle, tin whistle, bodhrán, or the plaintive celtic harp.

Whether it’s a lilting ballad, a stomping reel in 4/4, or a dizzying jig in 6/8, the rhythms have a way of pulling you in — like being swept into a dance that started long before you got there. Celtic music doesn’t just speak to the past; it dances with it, sings to it, and invites you to join in.

File under: folklore you can dance to, or a soundtrack for wandering through mossy ruins.

Suno style tag: [CELTIC]

Celtic Metal

Imagine a mosh pit in a misty glen — Celtic metal slams heavy riffs into ancient folk melodies, where bagpipes wail and fiddles shred like warriors in a circle pit.

Suno style tag: [CELTIC METAL]

Celtic Punk

Celtic punk is what happens when punk rock raids a pub session — loud, fast, and full of folk fire, with tin whistles, fiddles, and electric guitars all marching to a defiant, beer-soaked beat.

Suno style tag: [CELTIC PUNK]

Celtic Rock

Celtic rock plugs traditional folk into an amp, mixing electric guitars with fiddles and flutes to create a sound that feels like ancient myths driving a tour van through the Highlands.

Suno style tag: [CELTIC ROCK]


Chalga

Born in Bulgaria’s neon-lit dance halls, Chalga mixes folk roots with pop swagger, Balkan beats, and synth-laced grooves — all wrapped in bold, emotive vocals that flirt with the dramatic.

Suno style tag: [CHALGA]


Chanson

A French lyrical song tradition characterized by poetic, expressive vocals and storytelling, often accompanied by piano or acoustic instrumentation, and rooted in cabaret and folk-pop styles.

This is where words take the spotlight — not just sung, but felt. Chanson is French songwriting at its most intimate, where every lyric leans in like a whispered confession over wine-stained piano keys. Expect tender melodies, acoustic grace, and storytelling that’s equal parts heartache and philosophy.

It’s the sound of chance meetings, missed trains, and lovers who speak in verses.

Suno style tag: [CHANSON]


Chicago Blues

An electrified, urban style of blues characterized by amplified guitars, driving rhythms, and soulful vocals, rooted in the Great Migration and shaped by the city’s gritty postwar energy.

Suno style tag: [CHICAGO BLUES]


Not a genre, but a whole mood — like music wearing sweatpants and watching the rain. Chill refers to a laid-back, mellow, and relaxed sonic atmosphere, often featuring slow to mid-tempo rhythms, soft dynamics, ambient textures, and a focus on mood over intensity. It’s a stylistic modifier, not a genre itself, and is commonly applied across electronic, hip hop, and ambient genres.

Tagging something [CHILL] in Suno is your way of dialing down the drama. It’s perfect for smoothing out edges, softening beats, or giving even the loudest genres a bit of that late-night lounge energy.

File under: musical deep breathing — whatever the style, it just… exhales.

Chill Beats

A smooth blend of lo-fi loops, downtempo grooves, and ambient hip-hop that floats in the background like steam from a late-night cup of tea — made for zoning in, zoning out, or just vibing.

Suno style tag: [CHILL BEATS]

Chill Breakcore

Imagine breakcore took a deep breath — it’s all the wild, stuttering rhythms you’d expect, but softened by ambient textures and dreamy glitches that feel more like a lucid dream than a digital meltdown.

Suno style tag: [CHILL BREAKCORE]

Chill House

Chill house keeps the steady 4/4 pulse of classic house but swaps the sweat for a silk robe — smooth pads, mellow grooves, and synths that drift like a breeze through an open window.

Suno style tag: [CHILL HOUSE]

Chill Lounge

The sonic equivalent of mood lighting — slow, ambient grooves, gentle beats, and silky textures that turn any space into a low-key, late-night hideaway.

Suno style tag: [CHILL LOUNGE]

Chill Out

A relaxed electronic music built for unwinding — think smooth synths, soft percussion, ambient textures, and the occasional whisper of English vocals. Mostly instrumental and usually cruising at a slower BPM in 4/4, it’s the kind of sound that doesn’t ask for your attention but gently earns it, perfect for late-night lounges or floating through your own thoughts.

Suno style tag: [CHILL OUT]

Chillhop

Blends mellow hip hop rhythms with jazzy textures and lo-fi aesthetics, born from a global beat scene stretching across the U.S., Europe, and Japan. With laid-back 4/4 grooves, dusty drums, Rhodes piano, and the occasional vinyl crackle or vocal snippet, it’s mostly instrumental — the kind of sound that loops like a warm memory and makes background music feel like a main character.

Suno style tag: [CHILLHOP]

Chillstep

Chillstep takes dubstep’s deep bass and half-time swagger, then smooths the edges with ambient pads, soft drops, and melodies that feel more heart than hype — like dubstep pulling up a blanket and watching the rain.

Suno style tag: [CHILLSTEP]

Chillsynth

Melts ‘80s synthwave into a dreamy haze — slow tempos, ambient vibes, and neon-soaked nostalgia that feels like a memory of a memory, flickering softly on VHS.

Suno style tag: [CHILLSYNTH]

Chillwave

Bubbling up from the U.S. in the late 2000s, Chillwave wraps lo-fi electropop in a soft-focus filter — analog synths, drum machines, and reverb-drenched vocals that drift just below the surface. Sung mostly in English and riding a steady 4/4 beat, it’s music that feels like a dream you half-remember, soaked in sun-faded nostalgia and a touch of VHS fuzz.

Suno style tag: [CHILLWAVE]


Rooted in everyday life and echoing through centuries, Chinese folk weaves pentatonic melodies on erhu, dizi, and pipa — telling stories that move like rivers and rituals that never forget their way home.

Suno style tag: [CHINESE FOLK]


Chinese Traditional

This is the sound of dynasties and deep stillness — Chinese traditional music channels courtly grace and ancient rituals through pentatonic scales, elegant instruments, and a vibe that feels more like meditation than melody.

Suno style tag: [CHINESE FOLK]


Chip Hop

Chip hop drops bars over 8-bit backdrops, blending hip hop beats with retro game synths for a sound that’s part arcade, part boom bap — playful, glitchy, and pixelated with style.

Suno style tag: [HIP HOP, CHIP HOP]


Chiptune

Chiptune is electronic music that speaks fluent 8-bit — crafted from the sound chips of vintage consoles, old-school computers, and arcade machines that never quite stopped singing. Born in the 1980s and still buzzing globally, it’s mostly instrumental, driven by tracker software and those unmistakable synth tones that sound like nostalgia coded in binary. You’ll sometimes catch a vocoder line or a retro-sampled vocal, but at its core, it’s all about that crisp, pixelated pulse riding a steady 4/4 beat.

Suno style tag: [CHIPTUNE]

A stylized digital landscape featuring a lone figure with a bow standing in a vibrant desert under a full moon, surrounded by pastel-colored mountains and a pink-to-blue gradient sky.

No lyrics, just pure 8-bit melody, chiptune sounds exactly like the background music of a retro video game. Close your eyes and imagine Link entering a village in The Legend of Zelda.

Listen to “Chiptune 4.5” on Suno now.


Chopped and Screwed

Nope, not a recipe or a bad hardware day — though it does cook up something heavy. Born from Houston’s underground scene, this style slows hip-hop down to a syrupy crawl, slicing and repeating beats like a DJ caught in a dreamy loop. “Chopped” is the skip, the stutter, the remix magic; “Screwed” is the stretch — where basslines melt and vocals sound like they’ve been sipping codeine in a recliner.

It’s music that doesn’t walk — it leans back and drifts.


Christian Rock

Blends the sound and structure of rock music with explicitly Christian themes, lyrics, or spiritual messaging, often used for worship or faith-based outreach. Because sometimes you just wanna headbang and get saved in the same song.

Suno style tag: [CHRISTIAN ROCK]


Cinematic Dubstep

Cinematic dubstep feels like a movie trailer got hit with a bass cannon — sweeping strings, dramatic builds, and orchestral flair crash headfirst into chest-rattling drops and glitchy growls, turning every track into an action scene for your ears.

Suno style tag: [CINEMATIC DUBSTEP]

A surreal sky filled with soft, fluffy clouds in shades of blue and pink, illuminated by a dreamy sunset or sunrise glow above a dark mountain ridge.


Cinematic dubstep is perfect for soundtracking epic quests, final boss battles, or just feeling like your life needs a trailer. Orchestral drama meets digital chaos: sweeping strings, thunderous percussion, and choirs that sound like they’ve seen the end of the world… then boom, the sub-bass hits like a slow-motion explosion.

Listen to “Cinematic Dubstep 4.5” on Suno now.


City Pop

This is the sonic equivalent of a sunset drive through neon-lit Tokyo — all plush synths, funky basslines, and sax solos that flirt with the skyline. Born in ‘80s Japan, City Pop blends soft rock, disco shimmer, and smooth jazz into pure audio champagne.

Suno style tag: [CITY POP]


Classic Dubstep

Classic dubstep throws it back to the shadowy clubs of early 2000s UK — all moody minimalism, half-time swagger, and bass so deep it feels like it’s crawling under your skin.

Suno style tag: [CLASSIC DUBSTEP]


Classic Rock

This is dad’s vinyl stash and the soundtrack to every gas station road trip fantasy — riffs big enough to part the clouds and solos that refuse to end quietly. Classic rock is all about the golden era of the ’60s to the ’80s, where blues met bombast and leather jackets came with guitar picks. Think tube amps, thunderous drums, and lyrics that either break your heart or kickstart a revolution.

It’s not just a genre — it’s a muscle car doing donuts in your memory.

Suno style tag: [CLASSIC ROCK]


This is music with a long memory and a serious passport — stretching from medieval chants to modern symphonies, all wrapped in centuries of craft. Classical isn’t just one era; it’s a whole timeline of orchestras, operas, and concert halls echoing with structured beauty and emotional weight. Whether it’s a string quartet or a full-blown philharmonic, the vibe is precision meets passion.

And while folks often toss “classical” around loosely, it’s really about music built on notation, form, and intention — the kind that shaped theory textbooks and still shows up in film scores, conservatories, and dramatic coffee shop moments.

File under: music that wears a tuxedo but still knows how to wreck you with that one violin solo that makes you question your entire life.

A [CLASSICAL] composition featuring [orchestral strings] and [piano], with a [Dramatic] tone, structured as [Intro], [Verse], [Verse], [Chorus], [Verse], [Chorus], [Outro], [END]

For instrumental classical pieces without vocals, just leave the Suno lyrics section blank — no need to add anything unless there are actual sung parts. If vocals are involved, include the lyrics and guide the style with tags like [Choir], [Opera], or [Classical].

Classical Crossover

Classical crossover is what happens when the concert hall sneaks into the stadium — blending orchestras with guitars, operatic vocals with pop hooks, and tossing Latin or Italian lyrics over synths like it’s no big deal. Born in the ’80s across Europe and the U.S., it plays loose with time signatures and tighter with drama, turning highbrow into heart-throb without breaking a sweat.

Suno style tag: [CLASSICAL CROSSOVER]


Cloud Rap

Cloud rap floats through lo-fi beats and vaporous synths like a dreamy thought you almost forgot — hazy, echo-drenched, and more about the vibe than the flex.

Suno style tag: [CLOUD RAP]


Coldwave

A darkwave subgenre that walks through a dimly lit alley of synths and shadow — minimalist, moody, and emotionally distant, like post-punk after one too many existential questions in a Paris basement.

Suno style tag: [COLDWAVE]


Comedy Rock

Comedy rock amps up the laughs with a full band in tow — guitar, bass, drums, and keys laying down legit rock grooves while the lyrics go full satire. Kicking off in the 1950s in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, it usually rolls in English (though no stranger to parodying other tongues), with vocals that lean exaggerated, silly, or sharply clever. Most of it rides a 4/4 beat, but when the joke calls for it, the rhythm’s not afraid to get weird (e.g. Tenacious D)

Suno style tag: [COMEDY ROCK]


Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B smooths out the groove with synths, bass, and electronic drums, blending soul, hip-hop, funk, and pop into a sleek, modern package. Born in the U.S. in the ’80s and now global, it’s built on 4/4 beats and vocals that slide and soar with melismatic finesse — think late-night moods and vocal runs that flex like silk (e.g. The Weeknd).

Suno style tag: [CONTEMPORARY R&B]


Cool Jazz

Jazz with its collar unbuttoned — smooth, subtle, and emotionally reserved, it drifted out of the West Coast in the late ’40s with mellow horns, laid-back rhythms, and a focus on instrumental ease over flashy solos. Mostly 4/4 and light on vocals, it’s music that leans back and lets the groove breathe.

Suno style tag: [COOL JAZZ]


Corrido

The soundtrack of Mexican storytelling — ballads with backbone, where tales of love, loss, rebels, and legends ride out on guitars and a steady, no-nonsense rhythm that marches straight through the heart.

Suno style tag: [CORRIDO]

Corrido Tumbados

Corrido tumbados flips the script on tradition, blending the narrative soul of classic corridos with trap beats, 808s, and auto-tuned vocals — laid-back, streetwise, and tailor-made for the next-gen playlist.

Suno style tag: [CORRIDO TUMBADOS]


Country music is America’s open diary — born in the rural South, raised on front porch pickin’, and shaped by the everyday poetry of working-class life. It’s a genre rooted in storytelling, where acoustic guitars, steel strings, and heartfelt vocals turn simple truths into timeless songs. Whether it’s heartbreak, highway drives, Saturday nights, or Sunday reckonings, country doesn’t just sing about life — it lives it out loud, with a twang.

What makes country so central to the American soundscape is its staying power across generations and regions. From the Great Depression to TikTok, it’s morphed and multiplied — from Appalachian ballads to outlaw anthems, from the Grand Ole Opry to stadium-filling pop-country hybrids. It’s music that holds a mirror to American identity, for better or worse — capturing both grit and grace with equal clarity. It’s never just about the sound; it’s about the story, the place, and the feeling of belonging to something bigger than yourself.

File under: porchlight confessions, dusty boots, and songs that know exactly where you’ve been.

Suno style tag: [COUNTRY]

Major Subgenres of Country Music


Crossover Thrash

Crossover thrash is what happens when thrash metal and hardcore punk crash into each other at full speed — all breakneck riffs, shouted vocals, and pit-fueled chaos that hits like a steel-toe boot to the chest.

Suno style tag: [CROSSOVER THRASH]


Crunk

Turn the volume all the way up and throw subtlety out the window — crunk came stomping out of the Southern U.S., especially Atlanta, with chest-rattling bass, synth-heavy beats, and vocals that shout like the party just hit critical mass. Fueled by drum machines and Southern slang, it’s less about finesse and more about full-body hype — a 4/4 pulse built for jumping, chanting, and losing your damn mind.

File under: sweat, swagger, and speakers that might not survive the night.


Cuarteto

Straight outta Córdoba with a spring in its step, cuarteto is Argentina’s party-starting pulse — all rapid-fire rhythms, punchy piano, accordion riffs, and basslines that don’t sit still. It’s the soundtrack of neighborhood halls and all-night celebrations, built to move feet and shake the floorboards.

Suno style tag: [CUARTETO]


Cumbia

Born on the Colombian coast where cultures collided, cumbia moves with a sway that’s part ritual, part celebration — guided by hand drums, accordion flourishes, and a rhythm that feels like it’s been dancing for centuries. It’s folkloric, it’s festive, and it’s got that unmistakable swing that turns any space into a dance floor.

File under: hips don’t lie, drums don’t stop.

Suno style tag: [CUMBIA]

Cumbia Peruana

Also known as chicha, this Peruvian twist on cumbia blends psychedelic guitar, Andean vibes, and tropical swing into a hypnotic, neon-lit groove.

Suno style tag: [CUMBIA PERUANA]

Cumbia Sonidera

A Mexican variant of cumbia shaped by DJ (sonidero) culture, with live remixes, echoed vocal samples, and urban street party vibes — common in working-class neighborhoods and dance scenes.

Suno style tag: [CUMBIA SONIDERA]

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