Music Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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stiff v. I sort of got into it in case the album did stiff and I’d have a job. But it went well so I’ve never had to work there. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Entertainment Music] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2005)

stiff v. The soundtrack album “All This and World War II"…is made up solely of Beatle songs performed by heavyweights like Elton John, Leo Sayer and the Bee Gees. It stiffed. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Music] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2005)

stiff v. The fourth album stiffed, and the band gave up sizable past and future royalties to escape their Wooden Nickel contract and sign with A&M. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Entertainment Music] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2005)

stiff v. Like the two previous 45s, it stiffed totally. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Entertainment Music] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2005)

stiff v. There was another single, “Listen To Me” (on which Nash probably participates), a fine commercial record which was (as usual) an English smash and an American stiff.…A slow-paced single called “The Baby” was released in March of this year, gaining the distinction of not only stiffing out in the U.S., as usual, but bombing rather badly in England as well. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Entertainment Music] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2005)

switching spit n. This distinctive hybrid of sound has the ability to dazzle spectators with their “switching spit” lingo (rapping in English, French, Twi and Pidgin) while commanding the credibility from the hip-hop elite. [English Ghana Music] [full cite] (Jul. 2, 2005)

synthistrator n. Synthistrator. An orchestrator who creates a synthesized mock-up recording. [English Entertainment Movies Music Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2008)

tag n. In addition, Tuck Hinton designers are moving the entrance of the building from its center to its right side and, in the process, creating a so-called “tag chamber”—that is, an external vestibule in which quartets can sing (in barbershop quartet singing parlance, a “tag” is a portion of a song). [English Music] [full cite] (Apr. 23, 2007)

tampon rock n. The other day I came across one of the most descriptive and appropriate genre titles. The lead singer of Dragonette called her previous work “Tampon Rock.” This genre is girls or women with guitars or a piano, singing poetically about their emotions and their inner worlds. Jewel, Aimee Mann, Tori Amos, Peaches, Liz Phair and their queen Sarah McLachlan are excellent examples of this. This is the kind of music that makes you believe you need a uterus to have real emotions. [English Music Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Sep. 1, 2007)

Tennessee music box n. Dulcimers come in all shapes and sizes—peanut-shaped models, triangles, graceful ovals and rectangular contraptions often called “Tennessee music boxes.” They usually have three or four strings and sound like a cross between a mandolin and a guitar, but sweeter-sounding, more fluid and droning than both. [English Music] [full cite] (Aug. 24, 2006)

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