girlypop
English
Etymology
Compound of girly + pop; compare girlpop.
Noun
girlypop (uncountable)
- (sometimes derogatory) Pop music involving female singers, seen as being especially feminine or girly.
- 2001, Kim Cooper; David Smay, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears, Los Angeles, C.A.: Feral House, →ISBN, page 171:
- Something about those soft-yet-snappy Dutch accents that is just perfect for melodic girlypop.
- 2002, Lucy O'Brien, She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul, London; New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, page 465:
- Amid the Spice Girl circus, new female artists who didn’t want to play corporate girlypop were sidelined.
- 2011, “Lady Garden”, in Front Magazine, number 156, page 56:
- Karis is one-third of new girlypop trio StooShe, whose first single is called Fuck Me.
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