shoegazing en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈʃuˌɡeɪ.zɪŋ/ (General-American)
- /ˈʃuːˌɡeɪ.zɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From shoe + gazing, because of the tendency of such performers to look down rather than at the crowd and the heavy use of effect pedals.
Meanings
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(UK, uncountable) A subgenre of alternative rock music popularised in early 1990s, characterised by a dreamlike sound making much use of effect pedals, and by a detached or introverted performance style.
Then in 2003, they released Still Electric only on their website; with this album, they'd taken on more of a shoegazing style of rock, similar to Chapterhouse or Catherine Wheel.
2013, Pete Crigler, Majorlabelland And Assorted Oddities, page 91:Johansson and Sitek started out in more faithful lo-fi style before filtering the songs through an indie-rock sensibility that's equal parts postpunk-gothic, 4AD dreampop, shoegazing drone, and TV on the Radio epicness.
2011, Barney Hoskyns, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits, page 491:"[…]Anyway, correct me if I'm wrong here, Danny, but wasn't it you who told me that true shoegazing began and ended with Slowdive's 12-inch debut: the imaginatively titled, 'Slowdive'?” “You're taking me out of context here, dude. What I meant was that it was the epoch of the genre. The other bands still made a valid contribution, they just didn't define the moment."
2006, James Buckley, Celebrate Myself, page 12:
Synonyms
Translations (9)
pl shoegaze (indie music genre) · eo ŝugejzo (indie music genre) · fi shoegazing (indie music genre) · es shoegazing (indie music genre) · cmn 自賞搖滾 /自赏摇滚 (indie music genre) · cmn 盯鞋 (indie music genre) · cmn 瞪鞋搖滾 /瞪鞋摇滚 (indie music genre) · cmn 低頭搖滾 /低头摇滚 (indie music genre) · ka შუგეიზინგი (indie music genre)