electropop

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electro- +‎ pop

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electropop (uncountable)

  1. (music) a genre fusing electronic and pop music; technopop
    Coordinate term: synthpop
    • 2005, Alex Turner (lyrics and music), “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
      I said, I bet that you look good on the dancefloor / Dancing to electropop like a robot from 1984
    • 2017, Norman Abjorensen, Historical Dictionary of Popular Music, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 160:
      Electropop songs are essentially pop songs, often with simple, catchy hooks and dance beats, but they differentiated from those of electronic dance music genres in that the songwriting takes precedence over danceability.

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electropop m (uncountable)

  1. electropop