Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alternative bubblegum pop

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The result was delete. Courcelles 02:17, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative bubblegum pop[edit]

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unsourced neologism, see WP:NEO and WP:MADEUP, google search doesn't turn up much. Karl 334 ^{☞TALK to ME ☜} 20:17, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Non-notable neologism. For the few instances where it is used, it's probably just invented on the spot, rather than a reference to an identified music genre. Excluding WP and its mirrors and pages where "alternative" just happens to precede "bubblegum pop" (usually in a list), I found a whopping six ghits, all incidental mentions: here, here, here, here, here, and here. The content itself seems to be an amalgam of WP:OR and pure fiction, such as the phantom BBC references. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 22:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:58, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a non-notable neologism. I put out about 100 pop-punk releases over the course of my labeldom, I know of what I speak. Making this a redirect to Pop-punk would be reasonable, but I doubt this is a valid search term. Carrite (talk) 04:19, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Now having actually read the piece, this uses "alternative" anachronistically. Original essay. Carrite (talk) 04:26, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Unsourced and unsourceable personal opinion of someone messing around. As I !vote, it also has crap about rap artists being a prime example, as well as a reference to Rebecca Black, which is just as unsourced as the original content. However, even if you look at the original version [1], it makes baloney claims such that "Prime examples of Alternative Bubblegum Pop bands are Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and the The Beatles." Led Zep? lol. Yes, Pink Floyd recorded Bike (song) in 1967, but its ridiculous to claim its one of the "first" alternative bubblegum songs. If there really was a legitimate alternative bubblegum pop genre, it would be populated by bands post-Nirvana-breakthrough bands like Dressy Bessy or Best Coast, not a Syd Barrett bad trip.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 06:28, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per past outcomes of other new genres; see, e.g., Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electrocrunk, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian post-hardcore, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian fantasy metal, and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trance metal. See also Wikipedia:Existence ≠ Notability, WP:HAMMER, and WP:CRYSTAL. Bearian (talk) 01:51, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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