Word: technopop
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...music as “energetic and upbeat.” Leticia R. C. Frazao, a friend of Birnbaum who graduated from Tufts last year and helped with the wardrobe for “Predator,” described Shields’ style as “technopop.” “It’s really fun and energetic,” she said. “I run to this song.” A performer from a young age, Shields, a Massachusetts native, first performed on the streets of Greece, where he spent his summers...
...warped-sounding keyboards. Two of the more raucous songs, Rock in This Pocket and Fat Man and Dancing Girl, are even hot enough to hit the dance circuit. But unvarnished Vega fans need not fret: the album still sports tunes like Blood Sings, in which she breaks from technopop and delivers straight folk with Dylanesque force...
...dialogue is all song cues; Pitchford's songs are standard technopop, except for a comic showstopper, called Life Ain't Worth Livin' (When You're Dead), that the suicidal teens of Heathers might take to heart. Otherwise, Sing is strictly Gold Diggers turned to brass. In the latest teenpix class portrait, it's a dropout...
They tried to call the new music "technopop," but it doesn't quite stick. Technopop is disco with a drum machine. No giant musical gap separates Michael Jackson's two big albums, Off the wall and Thriller. No difference exists between disco's Beethoven's Fifth and Hooked on Classics...
Dance clubs are jumping skyhigh. From New York's Ritz to Madame Wong's West in Los Angeles, the dead discos have been displaced. Gone are the glitterballs, replaced by giant video screens. Their new music? Ringing cash registers and everything from rap music to technopop. The First Avenue club in Minneapolis, for instance, attracts up to 1,200 patrons each night to its multilevel cavern of stages and dance floors, plus four giant screens and 15 video monitors integrated with computer graphics. A good club disc jockey keeps well ahead of radio, dropping a record when...
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