Definitions
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- noun music
Shoegazing , an introspective genre ofalternative rock popular in the 1990s which made extensive use of guitar effects - verb music To perform in the
shoegazing style
Etymologies
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Examples
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Buzzing with the synaesthetic beauty of so-called shoegaze forebears, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (pictured above) create swirling anthems that function just fine as daydreams.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Anyway before you know it, there's something called shoegaze and a bunch of bands in the firing line because the music papers need something new to write about and so everyone moved on but it seems time has been rather kinder than expected to the shoegaze bands.
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Bryan Derballa A woman at a block party at Monster Island on Metropolitan Avenue and River Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Marketing It 's Hard to Be a Hipster Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, trucker hats worn ironically, affection for obscure musical genres like "shoegaze": These are the telltale signs of the species known as the hipster.
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The term "shoegaze," in this context, is more of an instruction than a description - one that applies as much to the audience as it does to the performer.
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I'm not sure where year zero would be … For my money The Velvet Underground were probably the first "shoegaze" band, so we we're probably way down the line somewhere.
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The term "shoegaze," in this context, is more of an instruction than a description - one that applies as much to the audience as it does to the performer.
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The label is associated with the whole "shoegaze" genre.
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Is there ever a worry that you'll be forever pigeonholed by the "shoegaze" connection?
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No musician likes to be trapped in a genre - at the same time I always thought "shoegaze" was one of the more acceptable terms to be associated with simply because you're given a lot of musical freedom.
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How did that effect you and the band at the time and looking back, do you feel that the whole derogatory element of such monikers eventually romanticised the "shoegaze" scene as a musical genre?
alexz commented on the word shoegaze
this is one of those words where, in Wiktionary's attempt to have a briefly written definition like a paper dictionary, they miss out on explaining what the word means.
the 90's are 20 years in the past, and this is the first time I heard this word, and wiktionary failed to explain this colour of music to a non-musicblind person.
the recursive verb definition is the cherry on top of the unclear definition.
September 13, 2017