sadcore

thumb|right|alt=A woman wearing a white dress laying on a red velvet couch in front of a grandiose red wall with gold accents|Lana Del Rey, pictured in 2013, has self-described her music as “Hollywood sadcore”. Slowcore is occasionally referred to as “sadcore”, and many journalists and scholars consider them to be synonymous labels for the same genre. Regardless, when they are distinguished, the differences are attributed to a heightened melancholy in the lyrics of sadcore songs. The sadcore categorisation saw considerable use in the early 2000s. Mentions include The Washington Post calling Mark Eitzel, the lead singer of American Music Club, the “reluctant king of sadcore” in 2002 and LA Weekly calling Charlyn Marshall (stage name Cat Power) the “Queen of Sadcore” in 2003. Reviewers also used it in passing for albums such as Red House Painters’ Rollercoaster (1993), Shearwater’s Everybody Makes Mistakes (2002), and Low’s box set A Lifetime of Temporary Relief (2004). Since then, Lana Del Rey self-described her music as “Hollywood sadcore” in an interview with Vogue in 2011. Phoebe Bridgers’s music has also been called sadcore, a descriptor she dislikes: speaking to The New Zealand Herald in 2023, she said “I hate the ‘sad girl’ label”.

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