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trailercore

trailercore noun: a trend and genre in popular music, emerged in the 2010s, characterized by trailers of films, television shows, or video games being accompanied by cover versions of well-known songs performed in a somber and slowed-down style.

Noun

trailercore (uncountable)

  1. A trend and genre in popular music, emerged in the 2010s, characterized by trailers of films, television shows, or video games being accompanied by cover versions of well-known songs performed in a somber and slowed-down style.
    • The “slowed-down cover” is a contagion that has spread through music to the point where it is acknowledged as its own self-contained genre: “trailercore”. / The first confirmed example of trailercore was in 2001, when Gary Jules’s tilt at Tears For Fears’s Mad World soundtracked an ad for the video...2021 November 5, Ed Power, “Trailercore: how anodyne, slowed-down covers ruined pop music”, in The Telegraph

Origin of trailercore

From trailer + -core.

Questions about trailercore

What does trailercore mean?
Trailercore means a trend and genre in popular music, emerged in the 2010s, characterized by trailers of films, television shows, or video games being accompanied by cover versions of well-known songs performed in a somber and slowed-down style.
What part of speech is trailercore?
Trailercore is a noun.

Words near trailercore in the dictionary

  1. trailer sailors
  2. trailer trash
  3. trailer truck
  4. trailer trucks
  5. trailerable
  6. trailercore
  7. trailered
  8. trailerful
  9. trailerfuls
  10. traileries
  11. trailering

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