SOPHISTIPOP
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Any sophistipop fans here? It's a heavily polished fusion of soul, jazz, funk, and new wave that saw its peak in the mid-Eighties.
Some examples:
Prefab Sprout
Sade
Level 42
The Blue Nile
Matt Bianco
Scritti Politti
Swing Out Sister
Johnny Hates Jazz
The Style Council
Basia
Simply Red
ABC
Spandau Ballet
so....basically office rock/yuppie pop?
GOLD (gold) ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOUR SOUL
>>64197232
def
prefab is GOAT my dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS0hpiN_z3g
>>64197288
YOU'VE GOT THE POWER TO KNOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nCYNvW2nAI
does this count?
>>64197299
YOU'RE INDESTRUCTIBLE
>>64197295
Prefab is indeed GOAT but this is my favorite prefab song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeZkLV3ZjeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPHHkerFwgM
is this one of those fake rym genres
>>64197659
It's a real genre
>>64197659
it's not so much "fake" as the genre got classified well after the fact. Some New Wave/Synthpop bands that used more Funk/Soul elements and generally had a much more polished sound than their peers got lumped into the "Sophisti-pop" classification. The name for the genre didn't exist when the music was being made, though.
i just call it adult contemporary
This genre was confusing, it didn't really have a place anywhere
It was way too polished and creative for the Adult Contemporary crowd
It was too white and clean cut for the black crowd
It was too conformist and pacifying for the New Wave crowd
how can someone not like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgESYQ5iPtI
>>64198419
or this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teHqHmnXnhE
