How to Use alternative pop in a Sentence

alternative pop

noun
  • The alternative pop icon confirmed the news with a tweet.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Produced by DJ Nelson, the song laces trap music with emo-punk and alternative pop sounds.
    Ed Christman, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The British alternative pop-rock outfit has now earned 16.1 billion streams.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • For February 22 This is a pop and alternative pop song.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Foster is a working musician, famous for rocking the mic as the frontman of the alternative pop band Foster the People.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Just think about the alternative pop culture reality that could have been!
    Emma Dibdin, Cosmopolitan, 15 Sep. 2017
  • In 2022, Louis Tomlinson released his sophomore album Faith in the Future which leaned into an alternative pop-rock sound as a departure from his boy band days.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The city welcomed the festival in its first year, 1995, when not many people wanted an alternative pop-punk festival playing in their neighborhood.
    Lizzie Stokes, San Antonio Express-News, 5 July 2018
  • Yors blends alternative pop sensibilities with soaring vocals and a lilting falsetto, moving up and down scales like the classic rockers of the 70's.
    Alex Blynn, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2019
  • His set, dedicated to Chadwick Boseman, jumped genres from the gentle world music sounds of mbiras and flutes to fiery saxophone duets echoing late Coltrane, ending with a soft song that might appear on alternative pop album.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Easy Life also added horn instruments to their alternative pop songs for the performance, which attracted 10.8 million attendees, according to the quintet.
    Anne Steele, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Sullivan is an expeditionary medical facility nurse with the U.S. Navy, while Bustamante is alternative pop artist.
    Jane Stueckemann, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2019

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