I'm guessing it kinda lost its touch when the 90s came around. But honestly, I wouldn't consider it dead even in this generation. A lot of indie bands and mainstream pop artist have a lot of synthpop elements which in my opinion would put them in that genre whether or not they're advertised as such. Then again I'm no genre cop so I'm not gonna get technical with genres.
Synthpop (also known as electropop, or technopop) is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Krautrock" of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the New Wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s.
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I'm guessing it kinda lost its touch when the 90s came around. But honestly, I wouldn't consider it dead even in this generation. A lot of indie bands and mainstream pop artist have a lot of synthpop elements which in my opinion would put them in that genre whether or not they're advertised as such. Then again I'm no genre cop so I'm not gonna get technical with genres.
Synthpop (also known as electropop, or technopop) is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Krautrock" of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the New Wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s.