antipop

comparative more antipop · superlative most antipop

1. Opposing mainstream pop music.

   Autechre’s soundscape is crowded and discordant, determinedly antipop.

   2008 April 17, Jon Pareles, “An Antipop Soundscape of Beats, Riffs, Throbs and Hisses, Full of Ideas”, in New York Times

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   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 March 15, The New York Times, “South by Southwest, Shot by Shot”, in New York Times

   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.

   2011, Thomas Harrison, Music of the 1980s, page 143