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cyberpop en · NOUN

Etymology

From cyber- + pop.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Pop music evoking cyber themes.
    • More than ever they are seen as the originators of modern electronic pop music — somehow the bridge between Stockhausen and cyberpop. 2004, Pascal Bussy, Mick Fish, Kraftwerk: man, machine and music:
    • […] cyberpop duo the Shamen fashion an archaic futurism from rapped vocals, fizzing synthesizers, hyperactive drum machine... 1997, Mark Dery, Escape Velocity:
    • 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. 1998, Bradd Shore, Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning:
  2. (uncountable) Elements of cyberpunk fiction and cyberculture brought into the mainstream as pop culture.