How to Use alt-pop in a Sentence

alt-pop

noun

• As a baby of the late ‘90s, her nods to alt-pop and indie rock of the early aughts are clear.
  — Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 3 May 2024
• Her, of course, refers to the ever-elusive alt-pop matriarch Lana Del Rey.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 22 Sep. 2023
• She’ll be joined for all four Australian shows by rising alt-pop star Benee.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 15 May 2024
• Mark Sheehan, who played lead guitar for the alt-pop group The Script, died Friday after a brief illness.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
• Sitting at a small workstation at his Nashville home, alt-pop artist Morgxn holds up a piece of white poster board.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2024
• This Must Be the Place, the bulk of their 45-minute performance was one colorless alt-pop tune after another.
  — Preston Jones, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• However, rather than sharing a typical visual, the alt-pop chanteuse uses the nearly 11-minute clip to take her fans behind-the scenes right in the midst of the action.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 10 May 2023
• Her aesthetic is a bit of sleight-of-hand that elevates her grungy alt-pop songs, but that’s fine: Wasn’t Lady Gaga most exciting in her meat dress?
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• This year, the artist and alt-pop act Alvvays made their respective late-night TV debuts and grew their audiences globally.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2023
• Many of Amos’ songs built toward surging, anthemic alt-pop hooks with unsettlingly direct lyrics like that.
  — Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2024
• Our focus is alternative – alt-rock, alt-pop, alt-country, and indie rock.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2024
• In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, the 38-year-old alt-pop superstar opened up about possibly wanting to have kids someday — but not until the time is right.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2023
• The words eventually became the basis for the latest — and possibly last — song from the D.C.-area alt-pop singer: At 31, Janice is in hospice with an aggressive form of cancer.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• With Saban, she’s switched seamlessly to Spanish, marrying an alt-pop sound with the punch of Spanish-language story-telling, and leaving us better for it.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 26 July 2023
• But Brat came at a moment when mainstream pop music is finally embracing more of the crunchy alt-pop sounds she’s been swimming in for the last decade, while Charli’s own cult of personality has grown to exponential proportions.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 June 2024
• Yet when a devastating pandemic threatened to curtail her breakthrough moment, the alt-pop luminary took shelter in her family home back in Los Angeles—and cleared some psychic cobwebs in the attic.
  — Suzy Exposito, SPIN, 6 June 2024
• Saturday, May 11’s headliners are alternative rock veterans Weezer and new school alt-pop singer-songwriter Dominic Fike.
  — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 18 Mar. 2024
• Cameron, who’s seen a therapist for most of her life, approached writing Alchemical, Vol. 1 by revisiting many harrowing experiences she’s endured to craft the soul-baring, introspective lyrics that accompany her moody alt-pop sound.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024