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Alternative dance (also known as indie dance [4] or underground dance in the United States [5]) is a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with electronic dance music. Although largely confined to the British Isles , it has gained American and worldwide exposure through acts such as New Order in the 1980s and the Prodigy and in the 1990s.
In the new millennium, as computer technology became even more accessible and music software advanced, interacting with music production technology made it possible to create music that has some similarities and some differences to traditional musical performance practices, leading to further developments and rapidly evolving subgenres.
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a subgenre of alternative rock and subculture [1] that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic [3] in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. [8] It originated from British post-punk [4] in the late 1970s and subsequently generated a thriving fanzine, label, and club and gig circuit.
Dance-pop is highly eclectic, having borrowed influences from other genres, which varied by producers, artists and periods. Such include contemporary R&B, house, trance, techno, electropop, new jack swing, funk and pop rock. Dance-pop is a popular mainstream style of music and there have been numerous artists and groups who perform in the genre.
Indie folk, a style of folk music from the 1990s; Indie hip-hop or Underground hip-hop, an umbrella term for hip-hop music that is outside the general commercial canon; Indie pop, also known simply as "indie" Indie R&B or Alternative R&B, a style of contemporary R&B music that combines elements of R&B with pop, rock, hip-hop, electronic, soul ...
The Madchester scene's distinct combination of indie rock and dance music became termed indie dance by critics, or more specifically the subgenre baggy. [47] Madchester and baggy's most infamous moment was the 27 May 1990 Spike Island concert headlined by the Stone Roses. With an attendance of around 28,000 and lasting twelve hours, it was the ...
The former frontwoman of the pop band Chairlift, Polachek dropped her debut album, Pang, in 2019. But the song "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings" didn't make its way onto TikTok until December 2021.
Indie pop is a style of pop music that originally grew out of British post-punk in the late 1970s. [18] [19] Indie pop was one of the first independent music genres, and was initially synonymous with "indie". [19] Indie pop is characterized by a focus on melody, arrangements, and harmony, with less angst and distortion as compared to indie rock.