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Subject: Was synthpop considered nerdy in the 80s?
Written By: winteriscoming on 12/07/14 at 6:10 pm
I've heard that in the US new wave bands were considered uncool in the 80s compared to glam metal or more mainstream/R&B influenced pop like Prince or Michael Jackson. Maybe a bit less so if you were a girl ... I always got the idea that new wave bands were generally more popular with the female crowd, especially the more "teeny bopper" imaged bands like Duran Duran.
I don't think people in the States truly opened up to any kind of electronic music until the 2010s, except maybe house music for a brief time in the early '90s. I'd imagine people were less narrow minded about new wave in Europe.
Subject: Re: Was synthpop considered nerdy in the 80s?
Written By: c_keenan2001@hotmail.com on 12/07/14 at 11:54 pm
I think it was nerdy by the time I was a teenager.
Bands like Tears for Fears for example were tired of the limitations that synthesizers, keyboards, and drum machines place on you. I have no idea what exactly that means.
Subject: Re: Was synthpop considered nerdy in the 80s?
Written By: yearofthemonkey on 12/13/14 at 2:39 am
The term "New Wave" refering specifically to "synthesizer music" is mostly an American usage IIRC.
Subject: Re: Was synthpop considered nerdy in the 80s?
Written By: Howard on 12/13/14 at 6:59 am
What was so nerdy about it? ???
Subject: Re: Was synthpop considered nerdy in the 80s?
Written By: winteriscoming on 12/14/14 at 8:41 pm
I think it was nerdy by the time I was a teenager.
Bands like Tears for Fears for example were tired of the limitations that synthesizers, keyboards, and drum machines place on you. I have no idea what exactly that means.
I guess back then they were more limiting, but I don't see how they're more limiting than say electric guitar. Nowadays you can make just about any sound with a synth of course.
Subject: Re: Was synthpop considered nerdy in the 80s?
Written By: winteriscoming on 12/14/14 at 8:42 pm
The term "New Wave" refering specifically to "synthesizer music" is mostly an American usage IIRC.
I think it's more of a style than anything, most of the bands I think of as New Wave used at least some keyboards, but some of them were mostly guitar based, like Talking Heads.
Subject: Re: Was synthpop considered nerdy in the 80s?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/14 at 8:54 pm
The term "New Wave" refering specifically to "synthesizer music" is mostly an American usage IIRC.
New wave music is an umbrella term for several late-1970s to mid-1980s pop/rock musical styles with ties to 1970s punk rock.