girlypop
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of girly + pop (compare girlpop). The origin of the slang senses is uncertain, but the term was popularized in 2023 on TikTok.[1]
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[edit]Noun
[edit]girlypop (countable and uncountable, plural girlypops)
- (uncountable, sometimes derogatory) Pop music involving female singers, seen as being especially feminine or girly.
- 2001, Kim Cooper, David Smay, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears, Los Angeles, C.A.: Feral House, →ISBN, page 171:
- Something about those soft-yet-snappy Dutch accents that is just perfect for melodic girlypop.
- 2002, Lucy O'Brien, She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, page 465:
- Amid the Spice Girl circus, new female artists who didn’t want to play corporate girlypop were sidelined.
- 2011, “Lady Garden”, in Front Magazine, number 156, page 56:
- Karis is one-third of new girlypop trio StooShe, whose first single is called Fuck Me.
- (countable, Internet slang, humorous, usually endearing) A female friend; a girlie (also used as a term of address).
- 2023 April 30, u/DifferentConcert6776, “Except you've already gotten lazy with it.”, in Reddit[3], r/brittanydawnsnark:
- "Not another social media platform that I have to keep up with" ...uh, girlypop? Nobody is forcing you to download and interact with it, you're not being held against your will to participate! 🙄
Adjective
[edit]girlypop (comparative more girlypop, superlative most girlypop)
- (Internet slang) Flamboyantly feminine.
- Synonym: zesty (of a man)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “Girly Pop / Girlypop”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007
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