megapop

noun

megapop

noun

Etymology From mega- + pop.

1

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Informal Highly successful mainstream pop music.

  • Word that the Icelandic iconoclast had retwiddled the results of her in-studio tryst with Mr. Mosely dashed any hopes that she'd abandon herself to horny megapop escapism.2007, SPIN, volume 23, number 6, page 90:
  • The last remaining bankable megapop titan hanging out with an Internet-fueled hip-hop star — what a world!2015 July 20, Jon Caramanica, “Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles”, in New York Times:

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