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nightcore

As yet unrecognized genre of the music that originated on the Internet, more specifically YouTube. Some people claim to be the creator of it, but since the original account is no longer active (and no one even remembers what was the nickname of the person) those claims cannot be proved.

The main characteristic of nightcore is its high pitch often accompanied by fast beat. Very often songs that were remixed into trance, are later on remixed one again into nightcore and so many nightcore songs have trance-like characteristics.

Even though almost any song of any genre can be nightcored, trance and techno songs, as well as electro music and all types of dance music (here especially eurodance) are most often used. Some rock and pop songs are also nightcored. Rap and metal are the two genres that are heavily avoided, and there are very few songs remixed into nightcore.
-Is nightcore the same like trance?
-No, it's not.
by nightcored_heart March 14, 2011
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A subgenre of trance that has been bastardized in recent year by people who think all nightcore is is a sped up or high pitch version of a song with no further work when in actual nightcore you add original music to the song to make it a nightcore song.
"What are you listening to?"
"A nightcore version of some song."
"But all they did was speed it up."
"Ya"
"That's called speeding it up or chipmunking, not nightcore"
by Mad Mod April 13, 2015
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A music "genre" made by a bunch of weebs who think that speeding up a song is considered a genre of music.

It, most of the time is just taking a song and, speeding it up, slowing it down, pitching it up, or pitching it down, with an anime character shown in the video.
Guy 1: "This is an amazing Nightcore song"

Guy 2: "Nightcore is trash."
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Person: *posts a meme on reddit*
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Nightcore

Basically, sped-up music and the bpm (beats per minute) rises. It's a type of techno that originated in the early 2000's.
Guy 1: Hey dude, did you hear that nightcore song on the radio?
Guy 2: Yeah, they sounded like chipmunks.
by Orexio October 22, 2017
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Sped-up anime techno music with stolen artwork
Hey, do you listen to Nightcore?
by ProfessorPig July 16, 2020
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Nightcore is basically a popular song that is sped up and increased in pitch, they will draw people in with cute anime girls in thumbnails. People will tend to refer to those enjoy this music as "weeaboos"

It originally came from a genre known as "Trance" which is similar to Nightcore, but it is a genre that has longer songs and focus more on the melody.
Nightcore tries not to familiarize itself with Trance.

Nightcore gets a lot of hate at times due to it associating itself with "weeaboos" and being called "Effortless"
Nightcoreis the best music genre.
Nightcore is for weeaboos
Nightcore is effortless
Nightcore is REAL music

I am not good at putting this in a sentence I apologize.
by XepesHasBigGay May 4, 2018
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