Oh, for Pete's sake...

After careful review, I have decided that the iTunes genre designations are almost but not quite completely random.  How else to explain labeling the Beatles White Album as "pop" and Abbey Road as "rock"?  Or Billy Joel as "pop" and Great Big Sea (including The Hard and the Easy, which is comprised exclusively of traditional Newfoundland roots music) and Jimmy Buffet as "rock"?

And John Denver?!?  John Denver is many things, but a rock singer he is not.  He won Entertainer of the Year  from the Country Music Association for 1975, after all.

All of this is faintly reminiscent of Jethro Tull winning the first Grammy for Best Metal Album.

Sheesh.