Draft:Bedroom pop
| Bedroom pop | |
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| Cultural origins | 2010s, United States |
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| Jizz-Jazz | |
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| Bedroom Screamo[1] | |
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Bedroom pop is a microgenre of indie pop that emerged in the early to late 2010s. The style was characterized by an online-based approach to home recording and self-made music inspired by hypnagogic pop, indie folk, indietronica, lo-fi music and slacker rock.
The style gained wider popularity online through platforms like YouTube and TikTok in the late 2010s and early 2020s, with artists mainly releasing their music through online streaming platforms such as Spotify, Bandcamp and SoundCloud. Artists include Clairo, Beabadoobee, Her's, Men I Trust, Strawberry Guy, Rex Orange County and Boy Pablo.
Etymology
[edit]In 2011, music critic Simon Reynolds used the phrase "bedroom pop" in his book Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, stating that, "hypnagogic is bedroom pop".[2]
Characteristics
[edit]History
[edit]1960s–1990s: Forerunners
[edit]During the 1960s and 1970s, artists such as Hasil Adkins, Joe Meek, Pip Proud, Pete Townshend, Frank Zappa, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sly and the Family Stone, Prince and R. Stevie Moore became early pioneers of home recording.[3]
The Beach Boys' Smiley Smile and Wild Honey, alongside the work of Brian Wilson, were later described as pioneering "bedroom pop".[4][5] Paul McCartney's McCartney and Ram
By the 1980s, the early work of Daniel Johnston made use of cassette tape recording at home.[6] In 2019, Pitchfork retroactively labelled him the "Godfather of Bedroom Pop".[6]
2000s–2010s: Origins
[edit]Mac DeMarco [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
Clairo[17][15][18] Her's Men I Trust, Strawberry Guy, Rex Orange County Boy Pablo TV Girl LUCY (Cooper B. Handy)
2020s
[edit]In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the further proliferation of bedroom pop artists. Beabadoobee[19]
Legacy
[edit]During the 2020s, bedroom pop was influential upon a crop of bands who merged it with screamo, resulting in the bedroom skramz genre. It was pioneered by Your Arms Are My Cocoon on their 2020 self-titled debut EP. The release was widely influential, particularly amongst uploads by artists on Bandcamp.[21] Often times, subsequent bedroom skramz projects incorporated Midwest emo's riffing style and screamed vocals with major key synthesiser melodies and calm drum samples. By February 2022, the style had been adopted by Rookie Card, That Same Street, the Civil War In France, Calendar Year and Garden Angel. Amongst these articles, experimentation with other genres continued, with Garden Angel taking from Nintendocore, house music and country music and That Same Street making use of vocaloid vocals.[22]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "The Softer Side of Skramz: Bedroom Pop and Screamo Collide". Bandcamp Daily. 2022-02-18. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
- ↑ Reynolds 2011, p. 418.
- ↑ Wray, Daniel Dylan (2020-05-12). "'My studio is an extra limb right now': bedroom pop, the perfect genre for lockdown". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
- ↑ Sacher, Andrew. "Thank you, Brian Wilson". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 2 - Sounds of the 60s with Tony Blackburn - The Beach Boys and Friends: Their Forgotten Gem". BBC. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- 1 2 Minsker, Evan (2019-09-12). "Remembering Daniel Johnston, the Godfather of Bedroom Pop". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2025-08-25.
- ↑ "Bedroom Pop: How TikTok Continues To Fuel The Music Scene". www.thegazelle.org. Retrieved 2025-08-25.
- ↑ Taroy, Aldrin (February 5, 2011). "Call & Response: Foxes In Fiction". BlogTo.
- ↑ LaGorce, Tammy (May 21, 2006). "In Their Rooms, Shrinking Violets Sing". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Don't Call it Bedroom Pop: The New Wave of DIY". Complex. April 17, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2023.
- ↑ Williams, Jenessa (June 12, 2020). "What even is Bedroom Pop, and why is now the time to care?". The Forty-Five.
- ↑ "How bedroom pop became the dominant sound of Gen-Y angst". The Independent. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2025-08-25.
- ↑ Petridis, Alexis (2019-03-29). "'Be urself': meet the teens creating a generation gap in music". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-08-25.
- ↑ Kalia, Ammar (2022-03-13). "Rex Orange County: Who Cares? review – sweet, unremarkable bedroom pop". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-08-25.
- 1 2 Battan, Carrie (2019-08-12). "Clairo and the Fuzzy, D.I.Y. Sounds of Bedroom Pop". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
- ↑ Pitchfork (2019-10-08). "The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- ↑ Hawthorne, Katie (2024-07-12). "Clairo: Charm review – deeply human songs of desire and distance". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
- ↑ Battan, Carrie (2021-08-02). "Clairo Recovers from Viral Fame". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
- ↑ Beaumont, Mark (2020-10-19). "Beabadoobee's success is a sign that the bedroom pop revolution is in full swing". NME. Retrieved 2025-08-25.
- ↑ Madden, Emma (2022-08-15). "Riding Roller Coasters With PinkPantheress, Bedroom-Pop It Girl". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2025-08-25.
- ↑ Galil, Leor (20 February 2025). "From bedroom studio to bonkers show". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- ↑ Noel, Jude (18 February 2022). "The Softer Side of Skramz: Bedroom Pop and Screamo Collide". Bandcamp Daily. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
Bibliography
[edit]- Reynolds, Simon (2011). Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-1-4299-6858-4.
- Unterberger, Richie (1998). Unknown Legends of Rock'N Roll: Psychedelic Unknowns, Mad Geniuses, Punk Pioneers, Lo-Fi Mavericks & More. Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0879305345.
