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- suffix Applied to various (often specialised and
underground )genres ofmusic .
Etymologies
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Back-formation from hardcore.
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In the parlance of Internet culture, the suffix “-core” denotes a visual aesthetic, a style evacuated of its deeper substance.
America as an Internet Aesthetic Condé Nast 2021
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