nightcore
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A plunderphonic style of music based on taking an original track and speeding it up, increasing its pitch. Usually associated with visuals of anime-style artwork.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Mofo's [motherfucker's] tagging nearly everything Nightcore : it's not Nightcore! Maybe if you knew about hardcore you'd know that in the first place. <_<"
- "It's all in the title. Anyone know of good original Nightcore songs? Original being the key word here. And I guess any other really good Nightcore song too."
- "Grimes has shared a new remix of her recent single “We Appreciate Power.” Billed as a “Nightcore Remix” and produced by HANA, the track sees the original song (also featuring HANA) sped up and pitch-shifted."
Etymology
From night + core (“key part of a thing”) via Nightcore, the name of the Norwegian duo that created the genre. They explained their name by saying "we are the core of the night, so you'll dance all night long." Around 2008, others started making their own songs in the same style and used the term nightcore not to refer music made by the duo, but to the new genre of music as a whole. As this usage spread and knowledge of the original duo faded, the term was reanalyzed as night + -core in the same style as other music genres like metalcore, rapcore, etc.