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weirdcore (uncountable)

1. A musical genre derived from punk, technopop, and house music, that deliberately uses weird sounds and lyrics.
   • 1992 November 13, Ernie Perez, “THE ORB UFOrb Big Life records”, in The Daily Illini, volume 122, number 59, page 8:

     The Orb, which consists of DJ Dr. Alex Patterson and producer/programmer Thrash, continue what they started on their two previous releases (The Orb’s Further Adventures in the Ultraworld and its followup, The Aubrey Remixes) by combining techno-pop, house and new-age music and creating a new sound—weirdcore.

   • 1993, Maximum Rocknroll:

     At this point I could mention that I’m not telling you anything about Ramones-style punkrock bands and/or any “weirdcore” bands coz I can’t tell you much about them!

   • 1996, Jonathan Buckley, Mark Ellingham, Justin Lewis, Jill Furmanovsky, editors, Rock: The Rough Guide, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 325:

     Album—Generic Flipper (1982, American Recordings). Reissued, this is a must for any weirdcore collection.

   • 1998 October, Muzik, page 96:

     Think DJ Cam constantly flip-flopping between dark samples and weirdcore soundbites, with an ever-constant barrage of breaks and beats underneath.

   • 2004 April 16, Kevin Hopper, “Edimal Dic Grease”, in Albuquerque Journal, 124th year, number 107, page 20:

     Limitations in musical ability often lead to surprising and desirable results. Edimal Dic Grease turns its limitations into sheer weirdness for weird’s sake. This is not unprecedented. Austin weirdcore act Butthole Surfers made a career out of it.

   • 2006, Kory Grow, “SUPERSYSTEM A Million Microphones Touch And Go”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 141, page 47:

     Their synths are dancier than their previous band’s, and their spazzy weirdcore vocals usually stay on the right side of “weird.”

   • 2018 December, Camylle Reynolds, “PIOUS FAULTS: Old Thread: LP”, in Razorcake‎, number 107:

     Rad Aussie punk comes forth from Pious Faults: straight forward hardcore vocals over fast, melodic weirdcore punk beats.

2. A style of art and fashion that incorporates surrealistic elements with manga and psychedelic art.
   • 2005 June, “Webgame of the Month: Stinkoman 20X6”, in PC Zone, page 21:

     Like weirdcore Japanese Megaman-style platformers? You may find this amusing.

   • 2022, Haoxing Wu, “Lost items and exposed shame – dreamcore’s inheritance and transcendence of liminal space and defamiliarization”, in Journal for Cultural Research, volume 26, number 2, →DOI, pages 153–165:

     There are additional offshoots like weirdcore and woundcore, which have diverse aesthetic trends but no clear classification limits, therefore this article will focus on dreamcore as a […]

   • 2022 August 16, Mira Sydow, “How the Skater Kid From My High School Became the King of Weirdcore TikTok”, in Vice‎, archived from the original on 16 August 2022:

     I’m not sure anyone else from high school knows about Yi’s iron grip on weirdcore TikTok, and I’m not sure they would care: The moms who rule our local WeChat opine that online stardom doesn’t hold a candle to a Google internship or a medical degree.

   • 2022 December 8, Lizzie Deal, “Pinterest Predicts the Top Home Trends for 2023”, in Real Simple‎, archived from the original on 9 December 2022:

     Weirdcore design is in, starring fantasy art and adorable mushroom decor.

派生した語

• → Chinese: 怪核 (guàihé) (calque)

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