loungecore, n.
Brit. /ˈlaʊn(d)ʒkɔː/, U.S. /ˈloʊndʒˌkɔ(ə)r/
[‹ lounge n. + -core comb. form.]
Any of a variety of musical styles which combine elements of lounge music and hardcore. Also (humorously): lounge music (cf. lounge n.), typically recordings from the 1960s and 1970s as the object of revived interest, esp. when played in clubs more usually associated with (hardcore) dance music.
| 1991 Independent 29 Aug. 13/3 Urge Overkill. The kings (in a nation of one) of ‘lounge-core’. Crushed-velvet jackets, monogrammed polo-necks, and a horrible guitar onslaught. 1994 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 2 Mar. c2 Their 45-minute set served a main course of straight-ahead punk and ska with side dishes of nightclub skat singing they call ‘Lounge-core’. 1995 Time Out 6 Dec. 70/3 (advt.) Assorted trashy (and trashed) clubbers converge every fortnight on this groovy bar room, listening to lounge-core before mid-night and House after. 2001 Muzik Jan. 82/3 The sleazy loungecore closer ‘A Man And A Woman’ could easily have come straight from a James Bond bed-romp scene. |