antipop
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antipop (comparative more antipop, superlative most antipop)
- Opposing mainstream pop music.
- 2008 March 15, The New York Times, “South by Southwest, Shot by Shot”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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 April 17, Jon Pareles, “An Antipop Soundscape of Beats, Riffs, Throbs and Hisses, Full of Ideas”, in New York Times[2]:
- Autechre’s soundscape is crowded and discordant, determinedly antipop.
- 2011, Thomas Harrison, Music of the 1980s, page 143:
- The song, “We've Saved the Best for Last,” became a wide mainstream hit as well, adding even more fuel to an antipop sentiment in jazz.
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opposing mainstream pop music
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antipop (invariable)
- antipop (opposing mainstream pop music)