schizoid pop
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Game Theory plays schizoid pop."
- "While a few songs could be trimmed down (the schizoid pop/rap of "New Agenda" and the trie "Funky Big Band"), for the most part, the grooves are so solid here that they carry any weak parts."
- "Enjoyably schizoid pop-rock stylings from this Minneapolis quartet. Seabniss you're in a musty Sunday afternoon drawing room, listening to Suzanne Vega’s love child by Moe Tucker murmuring pensive music-box euphonies; other times it's Ben Folds at Lennon's white piano, intoning wintry imaginings."
- "The sneering public school humour of Viv Stanshall and Peter Cook was a major factor in The Instant Automatons' brilliantly schizoid pop, as it was for many others. Krautrock hadn't filtered through, and although punk was important, it was the pre-'76 mavericks and post-'78 dub experimentalists who made the biggest impression on the world of DIY."
- "Catch Twenty One Pilots all buttoned up: Twenty One Pilots fire piano-driven schizoid pop at the Mid¬ dle East Downstairs on June 22."
- "Twenty One Pilots: Blurryface Cares What You Think: Are they pop punk? Indieronica? Schizoid pop? Fusing as many different styles as you can imagine, the Ohio duo gam a following for being the band who sounds like everything - and nothing - you’ve ever heard before."
Etymology
From schizoid + pop; short for schizophrenic pop. While the term has seen usage before the 2010s, it gained prominence between 2012-2013 as a descriptor for the hard-to-categorize musical style of the American band Twenty One Pilots.