Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music. It emerged in the later 1990s and is often thought of as reaching its peak circa 2002/2003. It was pioneered by and associated with acts such as I-F, Miss Kittin and The Hacker and Fischerspooner.
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Electroclash
Electroclash | Introduction
It is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music. It is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music. Electroclash is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music. It  is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music
what is the meaning of the song alejandro
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The song bids farewell to her lovers.
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whose song is it?
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Lady Gaga
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was it a single release or part of any album?
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It was part of her third EP, "The Fame Monster".
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where was it performed live?
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Yes, she performed at The Monster Ball Tour.
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did it perform well on charts?
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It debuted at number 72 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for the issue dated April 17, 2010; debuted on the Mainstream Top 40 chart at number 35, and the Hot Digital Songs chart at number 71.
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what is this above tour you mentioned just?
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It was the second worldwide concert tour by Lady Gaga.
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where did it take place?
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Montreal
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was it broadcasted anywhere?
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Yes, it aired on HBO
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what was its actual concept?
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The musician wanted to put together an expensive looking, beautiful show which would be affordable for her fans - the tour was a "pop-electro opera".
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where is this above singer from?
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Manhattan, New York City
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what is her style of music?
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Electroclash, "ruthlessly catchy naughties pop glazed with Auto-Tune and undergirded with R&B-ish beats."
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name some of her notable works?
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Her cover of Elton John's "Your Song" for his tribute album "Revamp", she starred in "A Star Is Born".
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can you explain the first mentioned musical style of her?
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While she's music can be labeled as electronica and chiptune, it incorporates elements from ambient and classical music. Using a mixture of old 8-bit computers and modern equipment, she's music is produced in the bitpop style. While she's albums are electronic in nature, they can vary in genres from album to album. For example, she's first release, "Emit and Exude", is a blend of industrial-electro with electric guitars; the third release, "Pioneer, "is a chiptune album that uses a Game Boy as the main instrument, and the first major release, "Coloris", is a dance-electronica album. Lain often uses acoustic instruments with synthesizers (this stems from his musical roots in classical piano).
She (band) | Musical style
Richard Moroder Juzwiak of Stylus Magazine described the song as one of the first songs of the electroclash genre, further noting, "Kittin lampoons the scene as she creates it, and shows love for those without whom, electroclash wouldn’t be possible."
1982 (Miss Kittin &amp; The Hacker song) | Critical reception
Although her music was overlooked during her lifetime and for decades after her death, it was some of the most experimental and prophetic work created during the 1930s. "Music of the Spheres" (1938) is the first known work scored for electronic instruments by a female composer. The fourth movements of her two clarinet suites (1932) are some of the earliest examples of a pitch-based approach to rhythmic processes, which would not be fully explored again until the late 1940s by composers such as Elliott Carter and Conlon Nancarrow. Several of her works anticipate the minimalist music of the 1960s, most notably the fourth movement of her first String Quartet.
Johanna Beyer | Musical style
In an interview with "Ponystep", Florrie described her style as "a big mixture: Kind of a sixties, organic feel merged with modern pop beats and electronics". She also told "Metro", "I grew up listening to my dad's Beatles records but I love electronic music, I like doing upbeat stuff to make people dance." "The Guardian" writer Paul Lester said about Florrie that "she completely bypasses the sweaty authenticity of groaning determination for a slicker, brighter sort of pop desire. This comes across in her music. It's breezy". "Time" magazine wrote in 2014 that "Her brand of pop music is playful, propulsive, and built around rhythm, bearing the influence of her work as a session drummer for the songwriting/production squad Xenomania".
Florrie | Musical style
When she was 18, singer Jean-Patrick Capdevielle convinced her to return to taking classical lessons so as to improve her singing technique. She discovered that although rock had given her more artistic freedom and hedonistic lifestyle than classical music, it was still not enough for her, so she decided to create her own style. This became a combination of early opera, modern trance and pop music. Shapplin and Capdevielle subsequently worked together on her first release, "Carmine Meo", written by Capdevielle.
Emma Shapplin | Career
She has been described as "synth textured and bassy heavy electro-pop".
Laura Bettinson | Musical style
Lorde is noted for her unconventional pop sound and introspective songwriting. In a 2017 interview with "NME", she declared "I don't think about staying in my genre lane". AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine characterised her style as primarily electropop. Upon the release of "Pure Heroine", contemporary critics described her music as electropop, art pop, dream pop, indie pop, and indie-electro, with influences of hip hop. "Melodrama" was a departure from the hip hop-oriented minimalist style of its predecessor, incorporating piano instrumentation and maximalist electronic beats. Prior to the release of "Melodrama", Lorde only utilised her vocals and did not play musical instruments on her records or onstage, elaborating, "[My] voice needs to have the focus.
Lorde | Musical style and songwriting
She mainly plays rhythm guitar, but she plays other musical instruments. During live shows she sometimes plays the piano and occasionally plays the bass guitar. While recording, she sometimes plays piano and drums, and occasionally uses uncommon musical instruments such as a melodica and a shamisen.
Ringo Sheena | Singing and songwriting style
Music critics have described Charli XCX's music in a variety of terms including dance-pop, electropop, pop punk and alternative pop. Her early recordings were described as a blend of dark wave and witch house. As her career progressed, she showcased several other musical styles such as gothic pop and synth-pop in her debut album, her second album was described as pop punk containing elements of punk rock, new wave and power pop. Her latest projects explored an avant-pop direction, "Vroom Vroom" contained elements of Eurodance, meanwhile "Number 1 Angel" showed influences of trap, R&B, electropop, synth-pop and experimental pop. Charli XCX's singing voice has been compared to that of Gwen Stefani and Marina and the Diamonds.
Charli XCX | Musical style
As Morse's musical style blended jazz, blues, and country, she has sometimes been called the first rock 'n' roll singer. A good example is her 1942 recording of the song "Get On Board, Little Chillun", which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie, and jive sounds as a genuine precursor to the later rockabilly/ rock 'n roll songs. Her records sold well to both Caucasian and African-American audiences. As she was not well known at the time of her first solo hits, many people assumed she was African-American because of her 'hip' vocal style and choice of material.
Ella Mae Morse | Musical style
Gigolo featured many of the early electroclash songs, such as for example Christopher Just's "I'm a Disco Dancer" from 1997 or Chris Korda's "Save the Planet, Kill Yourself", which originally even had been released as early as 1993. In the widely recognized film documentary "Welcome to the club! 25 years of electronic dance music" by European television network Arte, Miss Kittin describes the origination of the first songs of the new style together with DJ Hell and declares him the inventor of the Electroclash genre. The style was pursued by artists including Felix da Housecat, Peaches, Chicks on Speed, Fischerspooner and Toktok vs.
Electroclash | History
Sherwood was usually described as a torch singer; she appeared on stage in a sweater and glasses, and used a cymbal held in her hand for accompaniment. "Life" described her as "flashy, richly sentimental, as unsubtle as her crashing cymbal and as unpretentious as her $49.50 dress".
Roberta Sherwood | Style
Zowie's music has been classified as predominantly electropop and new wave. Fleury herself has described her debut album, "Love Demolition", as having an "industrial, hip hop side, but still a light pop side". When asked about her recording style and choosing songs, Fleury stated "Drumming & rhythm were really important elements to me to help shape this record. The beat has to be interesting to me. It's generally how I use to start my songs when writing, by humming a beat and recording it down. I listen to everything in a super rhythmic way - vocal lines, guitars, keys lines." While speaking on musical tones she enjoys, Fleury commented "I like dark and pretty but not just one or the other.
Zowie | Musical style
She cites swing bands, Gershwin and America jazz from the 1920s as influences. She has been likened to Ella Fitzgerald many times and one writer called her "the next heiress in the bloodline of young women with supernaturally classic voices". She also describes herself as a "rock lover at heart". She has a diverse musical preference from The Carpenters to The Cranberries. She draws inspiration from Cat Power, Regina Spektor, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland, Daniel Johnston and Chris Garneau, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Velvet Underground and Led Zeppelin.
Zee Avi | Musical influences
According to Jon O'Brien of AllMusic, Sinclair gradually composed a musical tone incorporating "the theatrical dance-pop of Lady Gaga, 1940s film noir, and the electro-gloom of Depeche Mode." She also reported that she has always been a pop music fan, especially in evoking contemporary "new age" artists as Adele, Lana Del Rey, Marina and the Diamonds, Ivy Levan and Lorde. Sinclair claims to be influenced by her own experiences. She is also inspired by cinema when composing songs. In this regard, she said during an interview for "MKR Magazine": I'm a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick, Tarantino, Gaspar Noé. I love anything that's beautiful and disturbing and horrifying and gorgeous at the same time.
Teddy Sinclair | Style and influences
Her style has been described as a "renaissance of all things kitsch and fabulously forties", while Decca music mogul Mark Cavell hailed her as, "the Lily Allen of Jazz and if she's good enough for George and Brad she's good enough for Decca." Her musical hero is Ella Fitzgerald.
Victoria Hart | Musical style
Itsuka's lyrics when she first began performing music were originally more about love, however the longer she worked as an office lady, the more she sang about society and angrier things. During "Distopping", most of her songs were from the point of view of other people, including her younger sister, her coworkers or is inspired by snatches of conversation on the train.
Charisma.com | Musical Style
Era Istrefi characterises her own musical work as multi genre combining dancehall with hip hop, pop and electronic. Her music also incorporates electronic dance, reggae, techno and alternative. Diverse observers have compared her music style and appearance to that of Rihanna and Sia.
Era Istrefi | Musical style
She was not influenced by any historical jazz musicians, because she did not have any knowledge of jazz music until her late start as a singer. Even though she began studying jazz history in Paris, it was after she had already created her own vocal style. Rather, she sang various genres of music from classical music to rock music by herself before she studied jazz in Paris.
Na Yoon-sun | Vocal style
Morris is known for her particularly aggressive guitar-playing and its interaction with Linda Hopper's pop-influenced vocals. In addition, the vocal harmony between the two singers has defined the band's sound, especially on later releases such as "Rubbing Doesn't Help" that feature more of Morris' vocals. Critics have compared Morris' guitar-playing to punk acts like Johnny Ramone of Ramones as well as alternative rock musicians such as Johnny Marr.
Magnapop | Musical style
Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music. It emerged in the later 1990s and is often thought of as reaching its peak circa 2002/2003. It was pioneered by and associated with acts such as I-F, Miss Kittin and The Hacker and Fischerspooner.
Electroclash | Introduction
Page's original music blends ethereal vocals with piano-driven, atmospheric soundscapes. She attributes her ethereal sound to her use of reverb, delay, and layering techniques in post production. Page's primary instruments are the piano and synthesizer with production and beat creation in Logic Pro.
Mimi Page | Musical style
Wexler declared, "[h]er particular hallmark was a haunting sexual vulnerability in her voice, and she may have had the most impeccable intonation of any singer I ever heard". Greil Marcus of "Rolling Stone" captured Springfield's technique as "a soft, sensual box (voice) that allowed her to combine syllables until they turned into pure cream." She had a finely tuned musical ear and extraordinary control of tone. She sang in a variety of styles, mostly pop, soul, folk, Latin, and rock'n'roll. Being able to wrap her voice around difficult material, her repertoire included songs that their writers ordinarily would have offered to black vocalists.
Dusty Springfield | Musical style
Her musical style has been characterised as rock, pop, art rock and indie rock, incorporating a wide range of influences including experimental rock, chamber rock, electropop, soft rock, and cabaret jazz. Clark mentioned that singers such as David Bowie and Kate Bush had inspired her, as had Jimi Hendrix and Siouxsie and the Banshees. She said in a 2015 lecture she listens to a Bowie track every day, and that "It's No Game (Part One)" was her favorite. Talking Heads, Patti Smith and Pink Floyd are also influences, as well as guitarists Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew (both from King Crimson), Marc Ribot and Adam Jones from Tool.
St. Vincent (musician) | Musical style and influences
One of the first musical groups with electrical 1980s sounds was Super Show de los Vazkez from Veracruz, México, formed in 1981, also, other important exponents were Los Temerarios, Los Bukis, Fito Olivares, among others. These groups created several hits with electrical sounds, their fame continues to the end of the 1980s. In the early 1990s, Selena the "Tex-mex queen," had great musical hits in U.S. and Mexico, her main hits of the tecnocumbia style was ""Como la flor" (Like a flower), "Carcacha" (the old car)", and, for first time, this genre was called like ""Technocumbia"" by her, with the musical hit of same name, ""Technocumbia"".
Tecnocumbia | Introduction
Electroclash is a style of music fusing 1980s electro and new wave synthpop with 1990s techno and electronic dance alongside elements of funk and punk. Also known as retro electro, tech pop and synthcore, electroclash primarily utilised keyboards, groove boxes, turntables and computers to produce grooving minimal tracks. More than the music, electroclash encompassed a musical culture of confident presentation: individualistic personalities and sexual freedom. Emerging in the later 1990s, with Berlin becoming an international hotspot, electroclash faded as a distinctive style as it fused into tech house music. Trance is a form of electronic dance music, characterised by a high rate of beats per minute (120-160), melodic progressive synths and repetitive rhythms.
German electronic music | Styles Originating in Germany
Spears is described as a pop artist and generally explores the genre in the form of Following her debut, she was credited with influencing the revival of teen pop in the late 1990s. Rob Sheffield of "Rolling Stone" wrote: "Spears carries on the classic archetype of the rock & roll teen queen, the dungaree doll, the angel baby who just has to make a scene." In a review of "...Baby One More Time", Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic referred to her music as a "blend of infectious, rap-inflected dance-pop and smooth balladry." "Oops!... I Did It Again" saw Spears working with several R&B producers, which led to "a combination of bubblegum, urban soul, and raga." Her third studio album, "Britney" derived from the teen pop niche "[r]hythmically and melodically", but was described as "sharper, tougher than what came before", incorporating genres such as R&B, disco and funk.
Britney Spears | Musical style
Bolduc never had any formal music lessons, and developed her own style under the influence of her father's teaching and the musical traditions of Irish folk music and Québécois folk tunes. Her songs tended to be happy and comical with lively rhythms. Her self-written songs often used existing melodies from folk tunes or dances, combined with lyrics she wrote herself. For instance, she wrote the song "Les Cinq Jumelles" about the Dionne Quintuplets, which was set to the tune of "Little Brown Jug". In other cases, she adapted popular contemporary American songs. Bolduc often used the technique of the "enumerative song", which lists something such as foods or tasks.
La Bolduc | Musical style
Spektor's primary instrument is the piano, and she plays the guitar as a secondary instrument, primarily playing on a seafoam Epiphone Wildkat archtop hollow-body electric guitar for live performances. Spektor has said that she has created a great number of songs but rarely writes any of them down. Spektor's songs are not usually autobiographical but are based on scenarios and characters drawn from her imagination. Her songs show influences from folk, punk, rock, Jewish, Russian, hip hop, jazz, and classical music. Spektor has said that she works hard to ensure that each of her songs has its own musical style, rather than trying to develop a distinctive style for her music as a whole: "It doesn't feel natural for me to write some diary type song.
Regina Spektor | Voice and style
Hoop's style has been characterised as largely experimental with folk, rock, and electronic influences. Her early mentor, Tom Waits, described it as, "like a four-sided coin. She is an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or a red moon. Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night". She often finds that, "I have an identity crisis every time I write a catalogue of songs, I think: what is this music? Where does it fit?". She explained her tendency to move between a number of styles as, "I am impressed by the power of music and its ability to transform the vessel it enters.
Jesca Hoop | Style
Although her main concerns seem to be love ("Christina"), she also tackles more serious problems, but on a light and funny note as ever, like racism ("Elle sort qu'avec des blacks"), depression and solitude ("La vie est dure"). Her musical style is a happy mixture of folk, pop blues, chanson, rap and even raggamuffin and heavy metal. Her self-acknowledged influences are quite eclectic: Judy Garland and Bette Midler for their music hall artistry; Jerry Lee Lewis for his rough or/and country music side; Brenda Kahn for derision; Canadian Peaches for minimalism; Chris Isaak and others like Etta James; the Beach Boys; Marie Dubas, a French interwar cabaret entertainer whom she quite resembles and describes as "a true hurricane of a woman"; and the White Stripes because "they understood everything about blues and rock".
Anaïs Croze | Biography
Alexandra Savior has described her style as a "feminist angst horror film feel." She has received positive notices for her early works. British music paper "NME" has said of one of her efforts, "... the striking and smoky vocals belong solely to Savior and ooze a burgeoning star power well beyond her tender age of 21."
Alexandra Savior | Musical style
Her musical style is a mixture of pop and dream pop very similar to artists such as M2M, Natalie Imbruglia, Michelle Branch, Jewel, and The Cranberries.
Maria Arredondo | Musical style
Aira has experimented with different genres of music; much of "Copy" had a dance sound while "Valentine Step" has strong Latin influences and "Sayonara Technopolis" was marketed as "electro meets big beat". She has also recorded several ballads and a heavy techno cover of Lenny Kravitz's "Rock and Roll Is Dead". She has, however, remained consistent in that she uses voice filters and synthesisers.
Aira Mitsuki | Musical style and influences
Beginning since her first album, she started to work on Greek music. While she was performing rebetiko songs formerly, Sali is performing pop songs currently.
Ziynet Sali | Music style
Coupure Électrique and Change Your Mind (No Seas Cortés) are Spears's first non-English-language songs, the former being a downtempo electropop song and the latter a Latin disco song.
Britney Spears | Musical style
Hot Chelle Rae's musical style has mainly been described as dance-rock, pop rock, alternative rock and pop.
Hot Chelle Rae | Musical style
MØ's music has been classified as electronic, electropop, synth-pop, and indie pop, and has been described as "electro music with guts". "The Guardian" described her music stating; “her music, muscular and melodic, is a hybrid of bouncy EDM drops and scandipop on steroids”, and "NME" called her work a cross between Siouxsie Sioux and Janet Jackson. MØ has described her sound as "an organic yet dynamic mix of electro, indie-pop, soul and street vibes". She showcased different musical styles in her debut album, including indie pop, dream pop, dark pop, electronica and alternative R&B. Her second album, "Forever Neverland", was described as electropop and dance-pop, containing elements of tropical house, experimental, trip hop, alternative pop and dancehall.
MØ | Musical style
Most of her music was composed with small ensembles in mind. She was at first influenced by the impressionist current, then her work turned out to be more in the neo-classical vein.
Josée Vigneron-Ramackers | Musical style
Morris is known for her particularly aggressive guitar-playing and its interaction with Linda Hopper's pop-influenced vocals. Critics have compared her style to punk acts like Ramones as well as softer alternative rock musicians such as Johnny Marr.
Ruthie Morris | Musical style
Nakamura is notable for the two different styles in which she sings. Her first style is a modern rock/pop sound. Her second style is an enka-inspired sound; thus far her enka-styled ballads have been her largest successes. Her singles have thus far alternated between these two styles.
Ataru Nakamura | Musical style
While his trademark sound has evolved through the years, it generally involves female vocals and trance-like synths (a style which has been dubbed "trance and bass", "trancestep" and "futurestep" by listeners). His most recent concentration is a 1980s electroclash influenced fusion of electro and drum and bass, which was dubbed 'electrostep'. At first (around early 2002), this style seemed odd and comical to some in the drum and bass community. However, this move has given John the ability to carry his style of drum and bass forward. He has dabbled in darkstep, jazzstep and various other styles in his time.
John B | Style
Lauten's music was always a combination of two contradictory streams, one a cloudy, beatless stasis derived from minimalism, the other a neoclassical attachment to tonal melody and ostinato. These two were present from the beginning of her recording career, the first in her "Concerto for Piano and Orchestral Memory" (1984), the second in her "Sonata Ordinaire" (1986) for piano. Her 1987 opera "The Death of Don Juan"—feminist tract and Zen meditation combined—was one of the major postminimalist works of the 1980s; it was revived in April 2005 at Franklin Pierce College (in New Hampshire), directed by Robert Lawson. Her neoclassical tendency blossomed into a full neo-baroque idiom in her "Deus ex Machina" Cycle for voices and Baroque ensemble (1999).
Elodie Lauten | Musical style
Davidson's music has been labelled as techno and minimal wave, with AllMusic's Paul Simpson describing it as "cold, hypnotic minimal wave with analog synthesizers and drum machines, showcasing her intimate yet detached lyrics that are more often spoken than sung." "Pitchfork" critic Sophie Kemp has stated that the sound of "Working Class Woman" is "somewhere between spoken word electroclash of Miss Kittin and the dreamy dissonance of Julee Cruise."
Marie Davidson | Musical style
With her debut, Duff's music featured prominent pop and pop rock elements. Duff cited listening to rock music as a child for the main influence behind the theme. She worked heavily with The Matrix for her second studio album, leading critics to compare the effort to releases from artists such as Avril Lavigne, Ashlee Simpson and Lindsay Lohan. These themes were featured more prominently on her third studio album, "Hilary Duff". The album makes further use of strong drum and guitar beats. Duff co-wrote multiple songs for the album, with the lyrics speaking on topics such as criticism, following your dreams, and love.
Hilary Duff | Musical style
AllMusic's Paul Simpson characterized Kedr Livanskiy's music as lo-fi electronic pop and indie electronic that draws on '90s techno and jungle influences, while labeling her early songs as "wintry lo-fi house and jungle tracks with supremely haunting vocal melodies." Aimee Cliff of "The Guardian" described her style as "shoegaze-y electronic music that sounds as if it has arrived in a time capsule from a retro-futurist era." Her debut EP, "January Sun", featured elements from "'90s-era UK electronic music, dreamy alt-rock and radio pop." Her subsequent releases eschewed software synthesizers in favor of analog gear, including Roland SH-101 and Roland Juno-106; 2017's "Ariadna" was compared to the works of techno producers Patricia and Huerco S.
Kedr Livanskiy | Musical style and influences
This stepwise motion between B and A highlights this chord change. The song is in verse-chorus form with a bridge before the fourth and final chorus. The song features sparse instrumentation, primarily a minimal beat produced by drum machine. A guitar plays the song's riff, a six-note pattern as Stefani repeats "this my shit" during the chorus, and a brass section joins during the second chorus. In part because of its cheerleading motif, it drew comparisons to Toni Basil's 1982 song "Mickey".
Hollaback Girl | Composition and musical style
Sofia Zida's musical style has changed after the release of her first album. Disco Mamazida being completely based on dance beats her music nowadays includes various styles of musical genres, including dance-pop, pop rock and also Latin music styles.
Sofia Zida | Musical style and performance
Bush's musical aesthetic is eclectic, and is known to employ varied influences and meld disparate styles, often within a single song or over the course of an album. Even in her earliest works, with piano the primary instrument, she wove together diverse influences, drawing on classical music, glam rock, and a wide range of ethnic and folk sources. This would continue throughout her career. By the time of "Never for Ever", Bush had begun to make prominent use of the Fairlight CMI synthesizer, which allowed her to sample and manipulate sounds, expanding her sonic palette. She has been compared with other "'arty' 1970s and '80s British pop rock artists" such as Roxy Music and Peter Gabriel.
Kate Bush | Musical style and voice
Ustvolskaya developed her own very particular style, of which she said, "There is no link whatsoever between my music and that of any other composer, living or dead." Among its characteristics are: the use of repeated, homophonic blocks of sound, which prompted the Dutch critic Elmer Schönberger to call her "the lady with the hammer"; unusual combinations of instruments (such as eight double basses, piano and percussion in her Composition No. 2); considerable use of extreme dynamics (as in her Piano Sonata No. 6); the employment of groups of instruments to introduce tone clusters; sparse harmonic textures; and the use of piano or percussion to beat out regular unchanging rhythms (all of her acknowledged works use either piano or percussion; many use both).
Galina Ustvolskaya | Style
Emayla describes her music as a fusion of pop and soul. She cites Aretha Franklin, Joss Stone, Jhené Aiko and Tracy Chapman as influences when she was younger. Some of her early stages' work has been compared to Laura Pausini.
Emayla | Musical style and influences
For most of her music, Hannah Fury has relied on vocals, keyboard and piano. She frequently uses overdubbing of her own voice to create harmonization and occasionally uses other instruments such as bass guitar. Starting with her CD "Subterfuge", she has also introduced programmed drum machine to her instrumentation choice. She continues to use drum machines in "Through the Gash". Reviewers of her work have compared her to Tori Amos, Kate Bush and Lisa Germano.
Hannah Fury | Musical style
Marika Papagika distinguished herself from most of her contemporaries by virtue of her sweet soprano voice with its relatively high tessitura, her vocal timbre, somewhat reminiscent of Western classical singers, and her diction. The style and sound of her recordings is further distinguished by the particular accompaniment which graced most of them, namely the unusual combination of cymbalom and violoncello, plus a violin or a clarinet, and, very occasionally, a xylophone. Her occasional forays into more purely Western songs also set her apart from her female contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic. It is perhaps reasonable to understand the performance styles of Mr.
Marika Papagika | Musical style
In the late 1980s, Annabouboula was one of the first American-based acts that could be categorized as world music or world beat, terms that were first gaining currency at that time. The liner notes of the Shanachie release of "In the Baths of Constantinople" say, "What [it] did was take a traditional belly dance and "rembetiko" music (smokey Greek blues) and electrify them, adding a funky rhythm and a wild psychedelic undertow to these dark and moody songs of passion and heartbreak." A review at Allmusic.com says, "[It] combines traditional Greek belly-dance music with elements of rock, hip-hop and dance music" and says of Anna Paidoussi that she may have been raised in the US, but that doesn't stop her from singing passionately in Greek on both originals and daring interpretations of classic Greek rembetiko and bouzouki songs.
Annabouboula | Musical influences and style
Eva Spence's vocal style was acknowledged by Michael Wilson of the BBC as bi-polar; swapping between "fragile lullabies to blood-curdling scowls". Her singing voice is in a soprano vocal range and has been compared to the stylings of Alison Goldfrapp of Goldfrapp and Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins. Their earlier work - such as Hysterics, Cosmology and their demos and extended plays - was known for its use of jazz breakdowns and swapping chaotically between explosive mathcore, calm atmospheric experimental music and acid-jazz. Their music is also noted for sharing traits with Nintendocore for the use of 8-bit synthesizers and in terms of chaos and sound.
Rolo Tomassi | Musical style
Chisholm's music is generally pop and rock. She also released an album of show tunes. Her vocal range is identified as mezzo-soprano.
Melanie C | Musical style
Rachel B cited as inspiration Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Minnie Riperton, as well as contemporaries like Robyn, Mark Ronson and Corinne Bailey Rae. Her own style has been described as pop, jazz, and soul combined, while herself called it "soulful empowerment pop", derived from her set of classic influences. She has earned praise for the sassy, imaginative and energetic character of her songs and compared favorably to Norah Jones and Amy Winehouse.
Rachel Borovik | Musical style
"Chromatica" loses the guitars but certainly handles heavy subject matter." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic thought that the singer revives memories of her 2009 EP "The Fame Monster" and "leans into her status as a veteran on "Chromatica", making only the mildest attempts to sound modern... [The album] willfully ignores trap and the other dour pop trends of the late 2010s for exuberant disco and house, styles that are not only in her musical comfort zone but allow her the freedom to explore personal pain and loss..."
Chromatica | Music and lyrics
Many of her earlier music 2006–2010 was ambient, electronic music and dub in style, apart from the 2008 album "Blue & Purple", which was minimalism. Since 2012, most of her music has been classical music, folk music, world music and acoustic music. She has sung in English, German, Spanish, Romanian and Esperanto, and also worked as a sound engineer and producer for other artists.
Dusepo | Musical styles
Ladytron have described their sound as "electronic pop", with music journalists similarly describing their sound as electropop. They focused on a balance between pop structures and experimental sounds. Their sound has also been described as synth-pop, electronic rock, post-punk revival, new wave, shoegaze, witch house, and art pop. While some writers have labeled Ladytron as an electroclash act, others have claimed that they are not entirely electroclash and Ladytron members have also rejected the term, with Daniel Hunt and Helen Marnie commenting: Reuben Wu said about the process of making a new Ladytron album: "We start writing individually. We've never really lived in the same city before.
Ladytron | Music style
Jonna Lee's early projects have been described as folk-pop. Her and Claes Björklund's project, iamamiwhoami, was considered an electronic music act, drawing a mix of styles, including electropop, synth-pop, art pop and avant-garde. Her music, under the moniker ionnalee, has been termed as electropop, indie pop and art pop.
Jonna Lee (singer) | Musical style
She discussed the death of her grandfather in the song "You're Always Here", which she wrote with her husband French. Her music has received mixed reactions by critics. Her debut album "Headstrong" was compared to the first works of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera by "Billboard". Heather Phares of AllMusic defined Tisdale's voice as "pleasant enough" but not "distinctive" while reviewing her debut album "Headstrong" and added she had "more character singing" as her role in the "High School Musical" series. Phares later praised Tisdale's voice by saying her "chirpy, slightly saccharine voice is perfect". Her second studio album "Guilty Pleasure", released in 2009, achieved a 48% rating on Metacritic, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".
Ashley Tisdale | Musical style
East describes her music as "urban-inspired with a few twists" and lists Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Sade, Emeli Sandé, Jessie Ware, and Florence Welch among her inspirations. East's early solo work was heavily influenced by drum and bass artists including Netsky and Matrix & Futurebound.
Fleur East | Musical style
Kesha wrote or co-wrote every song on her first two albums and considers herself a songwriter primarily, writing for artists including Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus. Along with a mezzo-soprano voice, she possesses a "strong, sneering vibrato", with a distinct yodel-like quality to her voice; she employs actual yodeling on the songs "Tik Tok" and "Cannibal". Having previously done country, pop rock, and electro, she had a clear idea of the synth-pop sound that she wanted for her debut album. The genre was popular at the time, with many of her peers releasing similar output as well. Both of those albums are of the genre with catchy hooks and synthesized productions often compared to pop singer Dev by music critics, creating misunderstandings among the fans of the two.
Kesha | Musical style and image
Vickers' musical style includes simple folk-tinged, keyboard and guitar based ballads to more up-tempo indie rock and synth-based songs with full band backing. Her musical style has been compared to Kate Bush, Ellie Goulding, Dido, and Dolores O'Riordan. Vickers additionally showcases an idiosyncratic style of singing described as breathy, raspy and hiccupy. Vickers has cited an array of influences including Florence + The Machine, Kate Bush, Regina Spektor, Kings of Leon, Frou Frou, Sinéad O'Connor and The Sundays. Vickers commented on her musical style and debut album, "Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree" (2010), saying: For her album "Music to Make the Boys Cry" (2013), Vickers initially described her new musical direction as "sexy", "adventurous" and influenced by indie and rock music, citing the works of The xx, The Doors, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Björk.
Diana Vickers | Artistry
The album's lead single was planned to be "All About You" (2014) and, among other instruments, it featured a banjo and an acoustic sound. Instead of the original plans, Duff released a dance-pop record which balanced EDM with the folk pop sound originally planned for the record. This album consolidated Duff as a dance-pop singer.
Hilary Duff | Musical style
"Madame Hollywood" is credited as a tech house and electroclash song.
Madame Hollywood | Composition
Her characteristic singing style lacked lyrics, communicating emotions through sounds, the way a violin would. This may have fueled her popularity in non-French speaking countries like Germany, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and Korea. She used her voice like a musical instrument giving a soft, unique dream-like tone. She has been called "la voz de la sirena" ("the voice of a Siren"). Most of her recordings are arrangements of classical themes composed originally for instruments rather than voice, while the arrangements consist generally of large orchestral ensembles mixed with a pop-rock band instrumentation. She incorporated pop-rock elements that made her music appealing.
Danielle Licari | Singing style
The Miami New Times called her a "singular talent" and described her music as, "Imagine stripping off all the studio layers of (T Rex, Roxy Music, and Mott the Hoople), retaining their Oscar Wilde-ian lyrical and structural flights of fancy, and channeling it through a muse with an ethereal, dream-pop-worthy voice."
LoveyDove | Early life and influences
She is a classically trained, solo singer, composer, pianist and percussionist who is now a U.S. citizen and works as a composer in the film and television industry.
Rock &amp; Roll Heart Attack | Introduction
Her music catalog included more than 130 compositions, among which many are choral music. It is in choral music that she used sonorities and driving rhythms, humorous and light swings the most. In this her work is similar to that of Alfredo Casella, Paul Hindemith, and Giulio Viozzi. Her style, very conservative, is linked to neo-classicism, and has had no trace of the innovations introduced by avant-garde music since the 1930s.
Cecilia Seghizzi | Style
Ziman, who grew up in Greenwich Village, trained from youth as a classical pianist, writing her first songs on an upright piano at age 6. She attended the Berklee College of Music on a scholarship to study classical composition, and was awarded the 2001 ASCAP Leiber and Stoller scholarship for her song "Like Water is to Sand." Her original plans to pursue film scoring were changed in 2002 when Patti Austin came to Berklee to recruit background vocalists for an Ella Fitzgerald tribute tour. Ziman toured with Austin for 18 months, causing her subsequent compositional style to draw heavily from jazz vocalists such as Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.
Elizabeth &amp; the Catapult | History
In her obituary for Owen Thomas, fellow composer Nicola LeFanu described the former's musical style as follows:The hallmark of her style is linear counterpoint; the music is carefully constructed to allow for self-similarity in its proportions, both in the large and in the detail. In speaking of her work, Thomas acknowledged the influence of the 17th-and 18th-century music which she played so much in her days as an organist. Her contrapuntal textures are transformed, though, by the "shimmer and glitter" which she loved.
Janet Owen Thomas | Style
While Linstruth herself promotes Rammstein as one of her main influences, she is also known to be influenced by Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker and Yngwie J. Malmsteen. She uses wah and tremolo effects extensively.
Lori Linstruth | Musical style
Ann Powers, also in the "Times", wrote of Hersh's musical style: "Her plastic, sometimes obsessively circular song structures emphasize staggered rhythms and extreme dynamic shifts, and her voice, a carnal cry that pushes through her body gathering up air, lends her often oblique lyrics an oracular veneer."
Kristin Hersh | Themes and style
Hart's music is considered minimal synth-pop. "New York"s Bedford and Bowery describes it as "resonant, tender, and not too sweet". She primarily composes on electric piano and vintage synthesizers.
Annie Hart (musician) | Musical style
A reviewer noted the perfect accuracy and purity of her singing, and her embellishments in repeats which were not customary at the time. Another reviewer wrote about her controlled voice in all registers, rich in overtones and with exquisite "legato", in dynamic flexibility and with freely floating top notes. A third reviewer described her "fluid delivery", with an "extraordinary projection of her brilliant high notes", and noted her intelligible diction in all registers, and her "ability to communicate a wide range of emotion", especially a "tender expressive quality".
Ruth-Margret Pütz | Discography
The term electroclash describes a musical movement that combined synthpop, techno, punk and performance art. The genre was in reaction to the rigid formulations of techno music, putting an emphasis on song writing, showmanship and a sense of humour, described by "The Guardian" as one of "the two most significant upheavals in recent dance music history". The visual aesthetic of electroclash has been associated with the 1982 cult film "Liquid Sky". DJ Hell is widely credited as inventor and name giver of the genre, while DJ and promoter Larry Tee later popularized the term in the US by naming the Electroclash 2001 Festival in New York after it.
Electroclash | Terminology and characteristics
Lights is known for her electropop and contemporary synth-pop tunes. Her musical style has been described as electropop, electronic rock and synth-pop. Lights described her own music as an "electronic landscape of moody sunset times". "The Listening" was characterized as gentle indie-electronic alt-rock. "Siberia" was characterized by a "heavier" sound than her previous works. "Allmusic"s review of "Little Machines" described it as a "mature, electro-punk affair that proved Lights had grown beyond the twee, synth-and-folk artist she started out as." Lights stated that her artistic influences were Björk, Genesis and Supertramp.
Lights (musician) | Musical style and influence
Upon her debut release, Del Rey's music was described as "Hollywood sadcore" by some music critics. It has been repeatedly noted for its cinematic sound and its references to various aspects of pop culture; both critics and Del Rey herself have noted a persistent theme of 1950s and 1960s Americana. The strong elements of American nostalgia brought "Idolator" to classify her firmly as alternative pop. Del Rey elaborated on her connection to the past in an interview with Artistdirect, saying "I wasn't even born in the '50s but I feel like I was there." Associated with several styles, Del Rey's music has been tagged broadly as pop, rock, dream pop or baroque pop, and has also been described as indie pop and psychedelic rock (especially on particular releases), linked to indie music, and trip hop, and often touching on styles such as hip hop, lo-fi, and trap.
Lana Del Rey | Musical style
When interviewed at the European Border Breakers Awards in 2012, Stan said the diverse nationalities in her home city Constanța have influenced her music. In another interview, she named Michael Jackson, Madonna, Adele, Rihanna, David Guetta, Sia and Robbie Williams as influences. Stan's first studio album "Saxobeats" features hi-NRG, dance, electronic, house and eurodance music, with saxophone being used on some songs. Stan expressed her interest in the instrument, which is often used in her region. Its use in her songs had become her signature "saxobeat" sound. "Unlocked" has elements of dance, techno, pop and R&B, which one music critic described as an evolution in her artistry.
Alexandra Stan | Artistry and musical style
The title song of her first album, "Arachnitect", is her quirky rock arrangement that touches on the children's classic theme of "Spider and the Fly," complete with a harpsichord and guitar-driven "silent-film-esque" chase scene across a web. She scored two versions of the American folk tune, "Ghost of John," one orchestrated with influences from Bach and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and the other "Bare Bones" version for voice and organ. She added several verses of new lyrics for poor John, describing his deteriorating body.
Kristen Lawrence | "Arachnitect"
Anouk's musical style has been described as a combination of Joan Osborne, Melissa Etheridge and Alanis Morissette. She is known for explosive rock songs like "Nobody's Wife" and "R U Kiddin' Me", but has also made small and fragile songs like "Lost" and "Michel". In addition to her pop/rock sound she also experiments with soul, funk and hip hop.
Anouk (singer) | Musical style
Chrome Entertainment called the genre "house electronic trot" because it "is composed of fast beats and strong electronic sounds with addictive trot melody". "Billboard" described the song as having a hyper-techno dance beat that would fit into "Dance Dance Revolution", while the dance routine was "more like an intense aerobic workout than a silly dance".
Crayon Pop | Musical style
This technique creates "an electro-acoustic hybrid instrument" uniquely her own. In addition to Cage, Moran cites Tori Amos and Kayo Dot as artistic influences.
Kelly Moran (musician) | Style
The 2006 release "Opheliac" featured "cabaret, electronic, symphonic, new age, and good ol' rock & roll (and heavy on the theatrical bombast)". A classically trained musician, Autumn is influenced by plays, novels, and history, particularly the Victorian era. She enjoys the works of Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband Robert, and Edgar Allan Poe. She incorporates sounds resembling Victorian machinery such as locomotives, which she noted was "sort of a steampunk thing". While a young Autumn cited Itzhak Perlman as an influence because of the happiness she believed he felt when he played, her main musical influence and inspiration is the English violinist Nigel Kennedy.
Emilie Autumn | Influences and musical style
Over seven years of writing and recording, Gabriela Kulka developed the singular style of dark musical theatre mixed with a jazzy attitude, and a focus on poetic and quirky lyrics - influenced by Danny Elfman and Kate Bush on equal part. Her output is strongly influenced by classical music, jazz and pop. Artists she names as her closest inspirations are, firstly and undeniably - Kate Bush and Tori Amos, but also Peter Gabriel, Kurt Weill, Danny Elfman, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, Chroma Key, Queen, ABBA, Bruce Dickinson, and Iron Maiden (whose songs she performs live) and Madonna.
Gaba Kulka | Musical style
Mysti Mayhem is an acoustic guitarist playing both 6 and 12 string guitars. Her music includes various styles such as blues, country and rock. She uses whichever sound services the emotional communication of the song which is her main focus.
MystiMayhem | Style
Her first was her 2001 debut album "Let Yourself Go", which featured mostly classic songs from the 1940s.
The Art of Elegance | Overview
Intent on being a rock star during the middle 1980s, she gravitated towards what would become her primary instrument, the bass. Like her influences Simon Gallup and Tim Butler, she played with a pick. “They kicked me out of the Dick Grove Music School after five minutes,” she recalls, “because I didn’t want to play with my fingers.”
Tish Ciravolo | Early years
Her output is also unique in that it only contains secular vocal music, with the exception of one volume of sacred songs. She was renowned for her poetic ability as well as her compositional talent. Her lyrics were often poetic and well-articulated. Nearly three-quarters of her printed works were written for soprano, but she also published works for other voices. Her compositions are firmly rooted in the "seconda pratica" tradition. Strozzi's music evokes the spirit of Cavalli, heir of Monteverdi. However, her style is more lyrical, and more dependent on sheer vocal sound. Many of the texts for her early pieces were written by her father Giulio.
Women in music | Baroque era
Sometime in abundance, sometimes very rarely, and that some of these figures act as archetypes or prototypes for another generation which will manifest these characteristics a lot more easily, maybe a lot more gracefully, but not a lot more heroically. Another twenty years later she would have been just like you know, the hippest girl on the block. But twenty years before she was - there was no reference to her, so in a certain way she was doomed. In sheet music for the album, a song titled "Priests" was included, and although reportedly recorded, it didn't appear on the LP or on any subsequent Cohen record.
Songs from a Room | Composition
"She Wolf" is primarily an electropop album that combines influences from the musical styles of various countries and regions, like Africa, Colombia, India, and the Middle East. Shakira termed the album a "sonic experimental trip", and said that she researched folk music from different countries in order to "combine electronics with world sounds, tambourines, clarinets, Indian classical music, dancehall, etc." The title track is an example of the electronic music styled production of the album, and is composed of 70s disco guitars and "heaps of robot effects". "Did It Again" is a midtempo electropop song that contains elements of samba.
She Wolf | Musical styles and lyrics
Hutley considers her music under the name "Cherax Destructor" to be "folktronica / friendship-hop". Cherax Destructor's music has been compared by Under the Radar to the works of Baths. In contrast, Hutley refers to "helpful kappa" as "post-rock", citing Sigur Rós and Explosions in the Sky as her main influences, and refers to "ᴅᴀɪᴋᴜ ɪɴᴅᴜsᴛʀɪᴇs" as "breakcore / bass music" inspired by Yoko Kanno and Hiroyuki Sawano.
Cherax Destructor | Musical style
Lingua Ignota's two 2017 releases, "Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him" and "All Bitches Die", have been described using a wide range of musical genres, including Baroque, black metal, classical, death industrial, doom metal, electronic, extreme metal, experimental, folk, harsh noise wall, metal, industrial, neoclassical, noise, opera, power electronics and spiritual. Her third studio album "Caligula" features less industrial and electronic influences. Hayter herself admits she has difficulty describing her musical genre. Generally, Hayter draws inspiration from people, "who've been through hard shit and keep going. The people who are still strong even if they're struggling to have their voices heard." She first became interested in rock music when she found a cassette tape copy of Nirvana's 1991 album "Nevermind" left behind by her cousin, and became "obsessed" with Kurt Cobain.
Lingua Ignota (musician) | Musical style and influences
She described her process in composing started with writing beats and melodies on a blank page with just a piano or a beat. She continued explaining that it is common to have a track maker, someone who writes melodies and putting a melody on a mostly completed beat. She confessed she avoids the words "me or I" in lyrics. In "Queendom"'s first preliminary performance, Jeon proposed a sorceress concept of "Latata". In music critics IZM's words, it "does not look like the a rearranged version, but more like an entirely original song". The article also mentioned the reason she can consistently being confident about her team, song and herself both on and off stage is because she has a clear image of what she wants to create.
Jeon So-yeon | Songwriting and musical style
Ralph describes her musical genre as a mixture between synth-pop, disco and smooth soul. She has mentioned Donna Summer, Cher, Stevie Nicks and Sade as her main influences. According to her label 604 Records Ontario, the singer "blends funky 1970's bass with 1980's style pop keys, while staying contemporary through vocal melodies and fresh synth sounds". Her songwriting style is described as narrative, usually following themes of "jealousy, lust, deception and strength".
Ralph (singer) | Artistry
She's a walking exaggeration, outsize in sound, personality and look. And she's a rapid evolver, discarding old modes as easily as adopting new ones." Although many critics describe her technique as bubblegum rap, Minaj said: "What people don't know is that before I was doing that craziness I was doing me, I was just doing regular sounding rap that anyone could hear and identify with. But once I started doing all that weird shit—I'm not mad at it because it got everyone's attention." Noted as a rap artist, she lends herself to electronic music genres (especially electropop). "Pink Friday" marked her exploration of the genres, spawning electro songs including the pop-laden "Super Bass".
Nicki Minaj | Musical style
The singer also expressed that the album title song "Amazulu" was, in fact, the first song she had ever written in her home language, Xhosa.
Amanda Black | Musical style
Whenever I try to figure out her guitar parts, I usually get it on the second go."
Cate Le Bon | Musical style