英和和英

名詞

cutecore (uncountable)

1. A type of aesthetic, music genre, and fashion style that emphasizes cuteness, pastel colors, and childlike imagery or motifs. [from 1995, gained popularity in 2022]
   • 1995, Newsweek‎, page 57:

     In the alternative rock world, cutecore was a rebellion against the dogmatic noise and macho posturing of hardcore punk.

   • 2002, Beard, Steve, Aftershocks: the end of style culture‎, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 104:

     The whole thing is designed in the manner of Douglas Coupland’s Generation X primer, with vox pop inserts, conceptual games and puzzles, cutecore slogans and Internet riffs layering the page.

   • 2004, Schilling, Mark, The encyclopedia of Japanese pop culture‎, Weathermill, →ISBN, page 223:

     If Hello Kitty could express alarm at the lifestyles of her American cutecore fans— high out of their minds at all-night raves— her little paws would no doubt fly up to her round cheeks and her mouth—often invisible, never larger than a dot—would expand into a big, Munch-like O.

派生語

• cutegore (“cutecore content involving gore”)