electropop
Digital dance tunes
Electropop is a style of popular music that foregrounds synthesizers, drum machines, and other electronic instruments while maintaining accessible pop song structures.
The genre emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s with acts like Gary Numan and Depeche Mode, then experienced revival in the 2000s: Her new album has a distinct electropop sound.
The term emphasizes catchiness over the experimental edge of broader electronic music.
Electronic sound-generating instrument
- vocoderSpeech analysis synthesizer
- autotuneAudio pitch-adjusting software
- sequencerOrders signals chronologically
- arpeggiatorCycles chord tones automatically
beats · hooks · melody · chorus · verse · production · producer · catchy
Years from eighty-nine backward
Inert illuminating element
- futuristicSuggestive of times ahead
- roboticStiff and unemotional
- sleekSmooth and elegant
- digitalOf discrete data
cyberpunk · retro-futurism · metallic · chrome · glitchy · minimalist · synthetic · cold
Electronic sound-generating instrument
- keyboardArray of input keys
- samplerSelection for trying
- MIDIElectronic music data standard
- DAWAudio production software
software · programming · digital · processed · computerized · artificial · loop · layering
synthesizer
Electronic sound-generating instrument
- vocoderSpeech analysis synthesizer
- autotuneAudio pitch-adjusting software
- sequencerOrders signals chronologically
arpeggiator · beats · hooks · melody · chorus · verse · production · producer · catchy · anthemic
eighties
Years from eighty-nine backward
neon
Inert illuminating element
- futuristicSuggestive of times ahead
- roboticStiff and unemotional
- sleekSmooth and elegant
digital · cyberpunk · retro-futurism · metallic · chrome · glitchy · minimalist · synthetic · cold · pristine
synthesizer
Electronic sound-generating instrument
DAW · software · programming · digital · processed · computerized · artificial · loop · layering
- musicmusic, song, songs, singing, singer
- music genresblues, jazz, rock, classical, rock music
- Pop MusicTaylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga
- pop genresEuropop, radio hits, hooks, earworms, summer anthems
- hybrid genresjazz fusion, rock opera, blues rock, folk rock, country rock
- J-popidol groups, idols, girl groups, boy bands, idol culture
electropopunplugged
Disconnected from power
acoustic music · folk music · bluegrass · chamber music · traditional folk
electropoproots music
Traditional folk-based genres
Americana · delta blues · country blues · mountain music · old-time music
electropoptraditional music
Culturally inherited sonic art
Appalachian music · folk revival · delta blues · mountain music · old-timey
pop, electric, electronic, electro, electronica, synthpop, technopop, electro-pop