Culture: what wa/is new wave, part 0

Self-tutoring about the early 80s: the tutor begins about new wave.

If you remember the mid-70s to the early 80s, you recall music – especially hit music – changed. Not every song was different, but “rock and roll” was largely upstaged by a new style of music, which came to be called “new wave.”

What was new wave? It may have started, mainstream, with “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles. From my point of view, it can be described like so:

1. New wave music talks more about ideas than physical attraction.
2. New wave music often speaks in first person about a surprising or confusing situation that requires adaptation.
3. The traditional roles of male and female don’t exist in new wave.
4. The new wave music itself sounds more electronic than rock and roll.

Source:

genius.com

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