easycore

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English

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Etymology

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From easy +‎ -core.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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easycore (uncountable)

  1. (music, rare) Music that verges toward easy listening, or that is less hardcore than comparable styles.
    • 1997, Dylan Jones, Ultra Lounge: The Lexicon of Easy Listening, page 18:
      [] the successful easycore DJs James and Martin Karminsky.
    • 1997, Billboard, volume 109, number 18, page 67:
      The uncanny ability of "easycore" artists to swoon us into special realms, especially ones deep in our hearts, is a major theme of "Ultra Lounge." But as the genre offers a vacation from despair, looming heartache often comes with the ticket.
  2. (music) A pop punk subgenre that combines elements of metalcore, incorporating use of breakdowns, screams, major key progressions and riffs and synthesizers.
    • 2016, Jason Rossiter, March: A Good Man:
      We have a forty-five minute slot, and the other bands are more easycore than we usually play with so there's a different crowd.
    • 2017 August 31, John Hill, “A Day to Remember Albums Ranked”, in Loudwire[1]:
      While a bevy of MySpace bands who used the word "easycore" as a self-descriptor to mark their poppy hardcore tastes, ADTR [A Day to Remember] make the rest of the pile seem like amateurs thanks to their laser-precise songwriting.