Styles and Genres 6

MUSIC
We created our own micro-genre. (DJ on BBC Breakfast. They all sound like “hip-hop” to me.)

There’s a genre of whispering-lightly music that's prevalent in the UK and America. (@FLOTUK)

bubblegum pop (Songs with tunes.)
80s pseudo smooth jazz (Preferable to the real thing.)
haunted-house piano

ARCHITECTURE
verandah dentata (The sort of elaborate front porch structure that surrounds the Bates mansion and other American vernacular buildings with decoratively appealing but terrifying fretwork pointy bits. (Richard William Parker via FB)

contemporary custom Sonoran Desert curvature home (In the US, a “contemporary” is a futuristic house from the 70s or 80s.)

The bland faux industrial look is called "genericana". (EC)

That's what Lille basically is: "an especially ambitious railway hotel". (Martin Lampprecht)

lawyer foyers, garage mahals (found in McMansions)
20s and 30s stripped classicism
municipal council offices chic (commenter on The Bridge)

brickobethan (TF)
developer bricky (HP)
anywhere land development
prepostmodernist (RP)
Kentucky Fried Georgian
Wrenaissance

What to call the current fad for an ordinary 50s office block wrapped in a steel spider-web?

THEATRE
eyebrow acting
peanut gallery (the “gods” in a theatre, the very top tier up near the ceiling)
drawing-room comedy (popular between the wars)


ART, ANTIQUES, INTERIORS
I love whenever people post something out of a 1987 New York stock-trader apartment. That sleek black marble-walled grey countertop vibe. (via FB)

council-estate chic (Melamine tray printed with LIVE LAUGH LOVE and roses.)

French curves (Not a straight line anywhere, everything curved and moulded, even wash-stands.)

cruise-ship luxe 
etagère (wall unit)
white-napkin, white-linen restaurants
Chinese factory art (produced in the 60s and 70s)

tout les Louis (Disparaging term of the late 19th century.)
big-eye art 
packing-case aesthetic (Karl Renner)
joke oak (Tudorbethan furniture)
hotel art (See decorator’s art and corporate foyer art.)

GET THE LOOK
For beautifully created luxury homes in French, Italian/Mediterranean, Tudor, Tuscan and other traditional and Contemporary styles, you will be pleased by the villa, mansion, castle and even palace-style effects built in character and proportion. (Architect's website)

BOOKS, FILMS
silkpunk (set in a Chinese/Japanese mythical past)
generic McMagic movie (Ursula K. LeGuin)
peplum movies (like sword-and-sandals)

facile witchy novel/memoir
urban wyrd
reading-group fiction 
hip comedy drama
nunsploitation (The Devils, Call the Midwife)

FASHION
News-anchor style (US – jade jacket with black lapels, Mao blouse with a bar brooch)

ORGANISATIONS
Lord-on-the-board outfit (Firm probably staffed by guys in ties and girls with pearls.)

More here, and links to the rest.