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futurepop

futurepop noun: a genre of electronic dance music with influences from synthpop, trance, and EBM.

Noun

futurepop (uncountable)

  1. A genre of electronic dance music with influences from synthpop, trance, and EBM.
    • Modern industrial music subgenres and fusion-genres include EBM, futurepop, power-noise, aggrotech (terror-EBM), coldwave, elektro, dark-electro, and industrial-metal. Yes, it can be quite confusing.2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture, page 37
    • Despite—or more likely, because of—futurepop's sudden and visible popularity within the global industrial scene, it was subject to harsh criticism in the early and mid-2000s.2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 296

Examples of futurepop in a sentence

  • Music festivals that feature futurepop bands include Infest, Wave Gotik Treffen and M'era Luna.2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Music Sound:
  • […] a substantial offering of futurepop (e.g., Covenant, Wolfsheim, VNV Nation, Apoptygma Bezerk), a smattering of aggrotech (e.g.2015, Isabella van Elferen, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture:

Origin of futurepop

From future + pop.

Questions about futurepop

What does futurepop mean?
Futurepop means a genre of electronic dance music with influences from synthpop, trance, and EBM.
How do you use futurepop in a sentence?
Music festivals that feature futurepop bands include Infest, Wave Gotik Treffen and M'era Luna.
What part of speech is futurepop?
Futurepop is a noun.

Words near futurepop in the dictionary

  1. futurelessness
  2. futurelike
  3. futurely
  4. futureness
  5. futurenesses
  6. futurepop
  7. futureproof
  8. futureproofed
  9. futureproofing
  10. futureproofs
  11. futures

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