new-wavish

comparative more new-wavish · superlative most new-wavish

1. Characteristic of or similar to New Wave.

   Barbie has been painted by many young new-wavish artists who definitely project her as a symbol of their past.

   1988, Outlet Book Company Staff, Barbie: Her Life and Times, page 127

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   Despite the really stupid name, this marginally new-wavish quartet has its moments: a silly slowed-down mess-around on "Rebel (She's A)," and some solid hooks in the originals, even a moderately interesting "Pictures of Lily" update, "Poster Girl."

   1983, Dave Marsh, John Swenson, The new Rolling stone record guide, page 223

   Many of the giants of the past seemed to lose their footing a bit as they tried to keep in step with a new era; sometimes they disappeared into new identities (the slick, new-wavish David Bowie of Let's Dance, for example), or, as in Morrison's case, they simply cleaned the slate and followed a new muse.

   2009, Erik Hage, The Words and Music of Van Morrison, page 100

   Thing is, we're-all-in-this-together is not a particularly punk-rock concept, at least in the world's-forgotten-boy sense originally conceived by Iggy Pop, who in 1986 made a blah album called Blah-Blah-Blah (see Animal's jarring and lucrative 3OH!3 collaboration), and who calls Ms. Sebert a “wild child” (a few cuts after she calls herself the same) in Warrior's “Dirty Love”—which is, well, even more diverting than her adequately new-wavish duet on an Alice Cooper album last year.

   2016, Chuck Eddy, Terminated for Reasons of Taste