megapop

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mega- +‎ pop

Noun[edit]

megapop (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Highly successful mainstream pop music.
    • 2007, SPIN, volume 23, number 6, page 90:
      Word that the Icelandic iconoclast had retwiddled the results of her in-studio tryst with Mr. Mosely dashed any hopes that she'd abandon herself to horny megapop escapism.
    • 2015 July 20, Jon Caramanica, “Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles”, in New York Times[1]:
      The last remaining bankable megapop titan hanging out with an Internet-fueled hip-hop star — what a world!