glamcore

English

Etymology

glam +‎ -core

Noun

glamcore (uncountable)

1. (informal) A style of glamorous rock music; glam rock.
   • 2002, SPIN, volume 18, number 7, page 86:

     In the studio with screeching glamcore act the Rapture, the DFA shreds the band's tracks and reconstructs them from the ground up. The Rapture single "House of Jealous Lovers" began as a generally unassuming garage-rock tune.

   • 2001, Everett True, Live Through This: American Rock Music in the Nineties, page 180:

     […] We like fashion because it's nonsense, but done with a flair that's missing in the rock world.' This attitude and regard for sartorial elegance led some critics to dismiss the Urge's glamcore sound as throwaway.

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