New Romantic

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New Romantic (plural New Romantics)

  1. A person involved in the New Romanticism movement.
    • 2011, Michael Barclay, Ian A. D. Jack, Jason Schneider, Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995:
      As a band influenced by the European electronic underground, and not the popular New Romantics like Duran Duran, Moev was out of step with both the corporate rock that dominated the Canadian music industry and Vancouver's thriving punk scene.
    • 2023 November 30, Matt Phillips, “Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      But by the early 1980s the energy had largely drained from the punk movement, giving way to the synthesizers, eyeliner and bouffants of so-called New Romantic bands like Duran Duran and Adam and the Ants.

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