Can someone explain to me the difference between New Wave and

New Wave is good

it's synth poop ya dumbo head.

>>72804222
they're pretty much interchangeable. new wave just focuses a tad less on the synth

They're both pretty much meme genre tags. New Wave tends to also be confused with Post-punk depending on the artist/band.

New wave = rockish
Synthpop = poppish

New Wave sacrificed 80% of what made Post-Punk good, and Synthpop dilutes that even further.

>>72805456
this

Aaaa that pic

>>72805470
this is what a really shitty opinion looks like

>>72804222
new wave is more dated (as in literally belonging to a certain time period) and is pretty much post-punk with synths, while synth pop is just any pop music that is driven by synthesizers

>>72804222
New Wave is a much broader term, includes several styles of punk. Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave, but then, practically every style of music in the 80's is "New Wave" because it's a term coined by the industry to describe the bizarre directions rock was going towards the end of the 70s.

>>72804222
Probably not

New Wave is an extension of the post-punk movement, and synthpop was an extension of New Wave. However, synthpop continued to exist past New Wave's demise, so the waters are a bit muddy after the 80s. However, New Wave was typically more guitar driven and 'artier', with artists like the Talking Heads, Blondie, and the B-52s building off of post-punk's experimental bent. That isn't to say that New Wave never included synths or wasn't ever written with pop in mind, but synth pop tends to be more explicitly pop-oriented and draws a bigger influence from dance music than New Wave did. The two are often used interchangeably, like in the cases of New Order and Depeche Mode, but there are also artists that particularly fit one but not the other, like the Pet Shop Boys for synthpop and Elvis Costello for New Wave

I think of new wave as punk with synths and synthpop as what normies call "new wave" (Duran Duran, Japan, Human League, etc.) That more stereotypical 80s sound, yknow?

>>72804222
"New Wave" isn't exactly a genre, it's a term used to describe the weird new shit that wasn't exactly post-punk that started popping up in the late 70s and early 80s like Devo and Talking Heads. Many New Wave artists were or eventually became synth pop artists.

New wave = Post-punk with synths
Synthpop = New wave with even more synths

It's a common echoed sentiment that "new wave doesn't mean anything specific", but there is an undeniable sound that makes it what it is. NOT post-punk and NOT synthpop. Unfortunately, I'm also not the one to tell you precisely what it is.

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>>72805470
Y'know music isn't for everyone...

tl;dr

new wave = guitar based
synthpop = synth based

>>72804222
"Synth pop" is a broader term that encompasses pretty much all synth-centric pop since the 80s. "New wave" is usually confined to the late 70s/early 80s, and while more prominent synths were a distinguishing feature for the genre, there were plenty of artists who used synths more sparingly (if at all), i.e. Talking Heads, XTC.

Honestly, "new wave" was just a bullshit term thrown around in that period because bullshit genre designations are a great way to sell otherwise unrelated acts as some kind of cultural phenomenon (see also: grunge). The term has stuck around because it's a convenient way to identify artists who don't fit neatly into post-punk or mainstream pop/rock.

>>72804222
Synth pop derives its sound from industrial, some early synth pop tracks for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXG3dgsPyTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QErPDNcj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFzEwgknbrg

New wave existed before synth pop and alongside first wave punk rock, new wave usually has more guitars than synths; its more or less punk rock played with a more pop mentality for lack of a better description
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyImiQIgs-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZDl_R8Zp2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tSuEKct8Eg


New wave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzQhd3PLKXc
Synth pop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw