"A genre's name means absolutely nothing if we don't unpack it."
6 June 2024 at 18:02
Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" is the Song of the Summer. It sounds like a genre that, in its time, was rejected by MTV and radio as 'not pop enough': '80s electro/synth funk/roller disco (Dan Charnas, author of The Big Payback and Dilla Time, writing for Slate).