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antipop

antipop adjective: opposing mainstream pop music.

Adjective

antipop (comparative more antipop, superlative most antipop)

  1. Opposing mainstream pop music.
    • It extrapolates those ideas in antipop directions; the beat started amid feedback and reverb, then drove the music toward brick-walled dead ends, while Mr. Barnett repeated thoughts like “Strike me down” or “We’re being watched by experts.”2008 March 15, The New York Times, “South by Southwest, Shot by Shot”, in New York Times
    • Autechre’s soundscape is crowded and discordant, determinedly antipop.2008 April 17, Jon Pareles, “An Antipop Soundscape of Beats, Riffs, Throbs and Hisses, Full of Ideas”, in New York Times

Forms of antipop

comparativemore antipop
superlativemost antipop

Origin of antipop

From anti- + pop.

Questions about antipop

What does antipop mean?
Antipop means opposing mainstream pop music.
What part of speech is antipop?
Antipop is an adjective.

Words near antipop in the dictionary

  1. antipolyspermy
  2. antipolyvalent
  3. antipool
  4. antipooling
  5. antipoor
  6. antipop
  7. antipope
  8. antipopery
  9. antipopes
  10. antipoppy
  11. antipopular

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