Meanings
- InternetuncountableentertainmentA plunderphonic style of music in which a song is slowed down and lowered in pitch.
a daycore remix
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Perhaps extending from their relative ubiquity on TikTok's predecessor Musical.ly, nightcore audios have a strong presence on the app; so do their opposites, "daycore" or "anti-nightcore" remixes, in which tracks are slowed down for a heady, sluggish effect.
2020 December 21, Cat Zhang, “The Year in Music on TikTok 2020”, in Pitchfork, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2023If you've heard of the reverb + slowed trend, congrats, you've been listening to music on YouTube. The slowed trend is just one of many YouTube music trends, earlier versions of which include Nightcore and Daycore.
2022 June 3, Allia Luzong, “7 Weirdly Specific YouTube Channels That Are Perfect for Procrastinating”, in A Little Bit Human, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023Synonyms: anti-nightcore · Antonyms: nightcore
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA plunderphonic style of music in which a song is slowed down and lowered in pitch.
Origin
From day + -core, coined by analogy with nightcore (“a style of music based on taking an original track and speeding it up and increasing its pitch”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
daycore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daycore
“daycore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daycore. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “daycore,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daycore.
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