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  • noun music The skillful composition of pop music

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pop +‎ craft

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Examples

  • The pinnacle of the compressed, dreamy, retro, happy-kids-in-the-sunshine, everybody-into-the-pool chillwave movement that hit last year and continued with startlingly good results through most of 2010, and included lovely popcraft from the likes of Tamaryn, Houses, Teen Daze, et al.

    Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2010 Mark Morford 2011

  • The pinnacle of the compressed, dreamy, retro, happy-kids-in-the-sunshine, everybody-into-the-pool chillwave movement that hit last year and continued with startlingly good results through most of 2010, and included lovely popcraft from the likes of Tamaryn, Houses, Teen Daze, et al.

    Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2010 Mark Morford 2011

  • Naturally, it was no surprise to me how craptacular this particular song is, but I had largely forgotten the reason why, which was, aside from being insipid and banal popcraft in that peculiarly Swedish way, instrumentally, every part of the sounds like substandard apings of other 80s rock bands.

    2008 January 07 « Whatever 2008

  • Naturally, it was no surprise to me how craptacular this particular song is, but I had largely forgotten the reason why, which was, aside from being insipid and banal popcraft in that peculiarly Swedish way, instrumentally, every part of the sounds like substandard apings of other 80s rock bands.

    The Final Judgment on “The Final Countdown” « Whatever 2008

  • Even so, there's more afoot in 'Ten Summoner's Tales' than mere popcraft.

    Ten Summoner's Tales 1993

  • Since 2005, Jason Thompson, Graham Cobb and the popcraft known to

    Arkansas news, politics, opinion, restaurants, music, movies and art 2010

  • All this comes to a head on "Our House," as divine a pop single as there ever was -- so undeniable that this very British anthem actually crossed over into the American Top Ten in 1983 -- but that's merely the splashiest evidence of Madness 'popcraft on The Rise & Fall.

    AvaxHome perfecta 2010

  • One of the great new wave / early MTV records, She's So Unusual is a giddy mix of self-confidence, effervescent popcraft, unabashed sentimentality, subversiveness, and clever humor.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

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