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bedroom pop

bedroom pop noun: a musical genre or aesthetic in which bands or artists record at home, rather than at traditional recording spaces.

Noun

bedroom pop (uncountable)

  1. A musical genre or aesthetic in which bands or artists record at home, rather than at traditional recording spaces.
    • Among the inscrutable terms invented to parse the stylistic subtleties of rock music, “bedroom pop” stands out as an elegantly descriptive coinage. The bedroom in question refers not to the content of the songs but to where they’re produced. These are solo projects, sort of like writing in a diary...[2006 January 26, Hugo Lindgren, “Garbagehead Revisited”, in New York
    • The Oakland, Calif., singer and songwriter Melina Duterte, who calls her D.I.Y. bedroom pop project Jay Som, does it all.2017 March 22, Joe Coscarelli, “Jay Som Brings Her D.I.Y. Bedroom Pop to Brooklyn”, in The New York Times

Questions about bedroom pop

What does bedroom pop mean?
Bedroom pop means a musical genre or aesthetic in which bands or artists record at home, rather than at traditional recording spaces.
What part of speech is bedroom pop?
Bedroom pop is a noun.

Words near bedroom pop in the dictionary

  1. bedroom deal
  2. bedroom deals
  3. bedroom eyes
  4. bedroom nation
  5. bedroom nations
  6. bedroom pop
  7. bedroom set
  8. bedroom sets
  9. bedroom state
  10. bedroom states
  11. bedroom suburb

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