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New Romantic
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English
Etymology
en æntɪk 4
Noun
New Romantic
A person involved in the New Romanticism movement.
en 2011 Michael Barclay; Ian A. D. Jack; Jason Schneider Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995 As a band influenced by the European electronic underground, and not the popular New Romantics like Duran Duran, Moev was out of step with both the corporate rock that dominated the Canadian music industry and Vancouver's thriving punk scene.
en-US Matt Phillips Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65 The New York Times 2023-11-30 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/arts/music/shane-macgowan-dead.html 0362-4331 But by the early 1980s the energy had largely drained from the punk movement, giving way to the synthesizers, eyeliner and bouffants of so-called New Romantic bands like Duran Duran and Adam and the Ants. https://web.archive.org/web/20260211061743/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/arts/music/shane-macgowan-dead.html 11 February 2026
Translations
Catalan: ca nou romàntic m, ca nova romàntica f
Swedish: sv nyromantiker c
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