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- noun music An early
synthpop genre with a cold,robotic sound.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hine was the producer of the Fixx, a London-based "technopop" dance band that had charted three Top 40 hits in the U.S. the previous year.
I Tina Turner, Tina 1952
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Posner's sound is almost certainly Pop in terms of strict genre, but he's really somewhere between that and hip-hop, blending smooth R&B vocals with technopop beats.
Daniel Roberts: Artwork Revealed for Mike Posner Debut Album 2010
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A tune that appears as an Abba-esque technopop number on the early album might show up in the guise of a slow, rambling ballad on the later one.
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This entire resurgence of odd technopop is fascinating to me, like a lot of the ambient music that came out after grunge became popular.
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When Gill first saw the film, directed by Luc Jacquet, it was in French, with a technopop score, and the filmmakers had scripted actual dialogue for the penguins -- as if they were animated.
Periscope 2008
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July 20th, 2006 at 7: 07 pm technopop: technology - v - culture … abundant musicality … and whatever else is on our minds » Dear Bill Kristol: says:
Think Progress » Kristol Suggests People of Iran Would Embrace U.S. Attack, Triggering Regime Change 2006
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SIMON: They weren't using quite some of the technopop accompaniment, I'm guessing, right?
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From inside the bar came the tinny drone of technopop.
Surrender, Dorothy Meg Wolitzer 1999
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A semblance of normalcy returned to the retirement community as the sounds of classical music, current technopop, sports, soap operas, and the occasional furtively tuned-in erotic movie resonated contentedly from apartment vid speakers.
Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Here he tries his hand at spare technopop, with help from members of the band Brazilian Girls.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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