Was it to be ‘freakgaze’? ‘Conceptro’? ‘GorillavsBearcore’? Blogger Carles settled for ‘chillwave’, and a millstone was born. – most of whom were unaware of each other’s existence – found themselves swept up in a bluster of blog hype when alt-culture burn book Hipster Runoff offered up a list of potential genre names for their shared flavour of heat-melted, synth-soaked electronic pop. In 2009, a handful of bands from all corners of the U.S. From happy accidents to off-the-cuff portmanteaux to jokes-gone-wrong (we see you, purple), these are the stories behind the genre tags which continue to define – or, some might say, defile – the music we’re all listening to. We’ve collected detailed (and, sometimes, first-hand) accounts of how and why 14 of the more memorable genre terms of the last few decades came into being. With the gusto of the amateur lexicographer, then, we thought we’d track down the moments when these units of music journo currency were first coined.
#Heads will roll remix dubstep full#
The music fan’s dictionary is full of unlikely and strange little tags: some (witch house, wonky) have always been ridiculous others (dubstep, juke) trip off the tongue but, when properly considered, take you by surprise.
“Language is the dress of thought”, wrote Samuel Johnson – and, like any ethical shopper, sometimes you want to investigate exactly where your dress came from.
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