trailercore

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noun

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.

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Meanings

nountrailercore (uncountable)
  1. uncountableentertainmentA 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.
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    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.

    2021 November 5, Ed Power, “Trailercore: how anodyne, slowed-down covers ruined pop music”, in The Telegraph

Origin

From trailer + -core.

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APA

trailercore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trailercore

MLA

“trailercore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trailercore. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trailercore,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trailercore.

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