What is Twee Pop?

Question

I heard it is very juvenile sounding. I also heard it rock but just has happy topics like love, peace, happiness, kind of thing.

What is this Twee pop thing all about?

I have no idea. But I think "Twee" is UK slang for something. What that is I don't know.

Love, peace and happiness is what the world needs right now.

Answer 1

never heard of it but if its called twee pop how great can it be!

Answer 2

twee pop started back in the early 90's when the whole indie thing was starting to bloom. a few notable bands are of montreal (their earlier years), elf power, and others. alot of the twee pop came of out the athens, georgia music scene and the elephant 6 collective.

twee pop almost sounds childish, incorporating story telling, floaty harmonies, and presenting an all around feeling of love and happiness. its simplistic but can be very intricate.

Answer 3

Twee Pop is perhaps best likened to bubblegum indie rock — it's music with a spirit of D.I.Y. defiance in the grand tradition of punk, but with a simplicity and innocence not seen or heard since the earliest days of rock & roll. Twee pop traces its origins to 1986, the year the British weekly NME issued a cassette dubbed C-86, which included a number of bands — McCarthy, the Wedding Present, Primal Scream, the Pastels, and the Bodines among them — influenced in equal measure by the jangly guitar pop of the Smiths, the three-chord naivete of the Ramones, and the nostalgic sweetness of the girl group era. Also dubbed "anorak pop" and "shambling" by the British press, the C-86 movement was itself short-lived, but it influenced hordes of upcoming bands on both sides of the Atlantic who absorbed the scene's key lessons of simplicity and honesty to stunning effect, resulting in music — given the universal label of twee pop — whose hallmarks included boy-girl harmonies, lovelorn lyrics, infectious melodies, and simple, unaffected performances. In the U.K., the hub of the twee-pop scene was for many years the now-legendary Sarah label, home of groups including the Field Mice, Heavenly, and the Orchids; upon Sarah's demise, its founders created a new label, Shinkansen. In the U.S., the twee-pop scene took root most notably in the Olympia, WA area, the home of K Records, a label owned and operated by Beat Happening's Calvin Johnson.