A term used to describe soppy, saccharine, generic, and wall-of-sound-ish adult contemporary cheese music, usually having vaguely Christian undertones. The genre itself originated in 2013, after the release of Hozier's "Take Me To Church", and rose to popularity in 2021 after Duncan Laurence released his song, "Arcade". It has since been used to define artists like Alex Warren, David Kusher, and Benson Boone. The term, however, was coined in 2025 by a Pitchfork critic known as Hannah Jocelyn.
Tom: What are you listening to?
Bill: Alex Warren.
Tom: Oh, you mean the guy that makes epic sad guy music?
Bill: Alex Warren.
Tom: Oh, you mean the guy that makes epic sad guy music?
by Dyl Dosankan Dumms July 22, 2025
Get the Epic Sad Guy Musicmug. Firstly, we need some definitions of how the word come to be.
Epic: Very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary.
Ism: A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
Epicalism is a word that means something is so epic that you believe it must be shared. Everything epic must be shared so it will be.
twitter.com/epicalism
Epic: Very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary.
Ism: A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
Epicalism is a word that means something is so epic that you believe it must be shared. Everything epic must be shared so it will be.
twitter.com/epicalism
Woah! Dude!! THAT WAS EPIC! I'm going to post that to Epicalism so that everyone online can share in the epicness!
by twitter.com/epicalism May 27, 2010
Get the Epicalismmug. Jorge: Where is Mads Hammer? He was supposed to drive me home.
Håkon: He left five minutes ago.
Jorge: WTF! Now I have to wait 6 hours for the next bus.
Håkon: What an epic ditch.
Håkon: He left five minutes ago.
Jorge: WTF! Now I have to wait 6 hours for the next bus.
Håkon: What an epic ditch.
by Magic Johnson fanboy #1 November 26, 2015
Get the epic ditchmug. by i make good words i promise September 12, 2019
Get the epicmug. Odysseus is a epic hero becuase he shows great strength, courage, and flexiblty throughout his epic quests.
by Epic hero May 9, 2018
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by the_riviera_kid October 10, 2010
Get the epic red line failmug. Jon epic is a person who is really cool and awesome. Normally used to friends. It can also refer to characters like Karamatsu Matsuno, Dice Arisugawa or Kaito Momota.
by shslmage October 14, 2019
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