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Old 08-30-2012, 02:39 AM   #48 (permalink)
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legitimate sub-genre

Indie pop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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But it's retronym, imo if bands are not making twee pop for twee pop sake it takes away the legitimacy of being an official movement. It's more of a moniker to pigeon-hole certain bands than an actual genre or sub-genre of its time.

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In the United States, the terms "twee",[12] "twee pop" and "cutie" (all pejorative terms in the UK) have been adopted retrospectively to describe some examples of indie pop, owing to what has been called the genre's "revolt into childhood".[13]
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