brostep

English

PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr

Blend of bro +‎ dubstep

brostep (uncountable)

(music, originally derogatory) A harsher-sounding form of dubstep music, influenced by house music and heavy metal.
- 2013 [1998], Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash‎, new and revised edition, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
  In a crowded field for negative epithets, brostep was the term that won as a pejorative, the buzzword of a concerted but increasingly futile campaign to mock the masculinist tendency in dubstep out of existence. […] But then, as so often happens, the word began to be embraced as a positive identity.
- 2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers:
  By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]

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