cyberpop

English

Etymology

cyber- +‎ pop

Noun

cyberpop (uncountable)

1. (rare) Pop music evoking cyber themes.
   • 1997, Mark Dery, Escape Velocity:

     […] cyberpop duo the Shamen fashion an archaic futurism from rapped vocals, fizzing synthesizers, hyperactive drum machine...

   • 1998, Bradd Shore, Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning:

     In his carefully orchestrated fusion of innocence and menace, Michael Jackson has become a kind of cultural icon of techno-totemism, a true cyberpop villain/hero.

   • 2004, Pascal Bussy, Mick Fish, Kraftwerk: man, machine and music:

     More than ever they are seen as the originators of modern electronic pop music — somehow the bridge between Stockhausen and cyberpop.

2. Elements of cyberpunk fiction and cyberculture brought into the mainstream as pop culture.