diff --git a/beetsplug/lastgenre/__init__.py b/beetsplug/lastgenre/__init__.py
index e54c32bab..e26ade1fc 100644
--- a/beetsplug/lastgenre/__init__.py
+++ b/beetsplug/lastgenre/__init__.py
@@ -348,7 +348,6 @@ class LastGenrePlugin(plugins.BeetsPlugin):
 
     def imported(self, session, task):
         """Event hook called when an import task finishes."""
-
         if task.is_album:
             album = session.lib.get_album(task.album_id)
             album.genre, src = self._get_genre(album)
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 18e02c009..661c0d811 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Changelog
   `Tomahawk`_ collections. And file transfers now have a "Content-Length"
   header. Thanks to Uwe L. Korn.
 * :doc:`/plugins/lastgenre`: Fix an error when using genre canonicalization.
+* :doc:`/plugins/lastgenre`: The ``force`` config option now defaults to true
+  and controls the behavior of the import hook. (Previously, new genres were
+  always forced during import.)
 
 .. _Tomahawk: http://www.tomahawk-player.org/
 
diff --git a/docs/plugins/lastgenre.rst b/docs/plugins/lastgenre.rst
index c08b90204..043f6e163 100644
--- a/docs/plugins/lastgenre.rst
+++ b/docs/plugins/lastgenre.rst
@@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ Wikipedia`_.
 .. _pylast: http://code.google.com/p/pylast/
 .. _script that scrapes Wikipedia: https://gist.github.com/1241307
 
-Switch ``force`` flag to False to keep the original genre when member 
-of the whitelist.
+By default, beets will always fetch new genres, even if the files already have
+once. To instead leave genres in place in when they pass the whitelist, set
+the ``force`` option to "no".
 
 If no genre is found, the file will be left unchanged. To instead specify a
 fallback genre, use the ``fallback`` configuration option. You can, of