trailercore
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trailercore (uncountable)
- (music) 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.
- 2021 November 5, Ed Power, “Trailercore: how anodyne, slowed-down covers ruined pop music”, in The Telegraph[1]:
- 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 game Gears of War.