• The type of music that started as a subgenre of trance and is still considered so by many people. Trance fans usually call is happy hardcore. However nightcore fans prefer to not be associated with trance and dont like the idea of naming a nightcore as anything else.

    Nightcore is characterized by a sped-up melody (sometimes), fast rhythmic beat (usually), and ALWAYS higher than normal pitch. Almost all nightcore music are original songs nightcored (remixed into nightcore) by nightcore fans.

    Very popular is a belief that nightcore is a nickname of a person who remixes the songs. In reality anyone who knows how to use a computer can nightcore a song and upload it on Youtube.


    Nightcore meaning & definition 1 of Nightcore.


  • Genre that originated from trance and/or techno, and eventually got a life on its own.
    [Pure Nightcore]: VERY fast beats (sometimes so extremely fast, that you cannot count them), and very high pitch (almost chipmunks). Song usually lasts about 2 to 3 minutes. Often described as cute.
    Example: Kiss me by Schule321
    [Bass Nightcore]: fast beats, the main melody (and voice) are pitched up, but theres very low bass added; so the contrast between very high and very low is created.
    Example: Kiss me by GrizzNightcore
    [Trance Nightcore]: fast beats, high pitch, but less signing and more melody; filled with repetition; very often there is only one verse or a sentence that is repeated throughout the song. Usually it lasts at least 5 minutes, often more.
    Example: Kiss me by Nightcoremania

    Nightcore meaning & definition 2 of Nightcore.


  • Almost always refers to a song that was initially [trance] or [dubstep], sped up to the point where the lyrics sound like they are being recited by a hurried chipmunk, featuring a strong beat which is is audible but barely discernible. The song is then posted on YouTube, usually giving no credit to its initial creator, accompanied by a visual of an [anime] girl (or multiple anime girls).

    Nightcore meaning & definition 3 of Nightcore.


  • A trance music duo consisting of Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Søderholm, started in 2001

    A glorified term for one of the laziest forms of remixing: speeding up a song and pitching it up, which takes 30 seconds in Audacity. It comes from people trying to emulate Nightcores style.

    Nightcore meaning & definition 4 of Nightcore.


  • A collection of remixed top 40 pop songs fawned over by 11 year-old females that discovered the internet, anime, and music the night before. The remixes are created by speeding up any given song to 320BPM and kicking up the pitch enough so that Alvin, Theodore, and Simon froth at the mouth. These songs are always accompanied by a lowres JPEG taken from Fanpop of a random anime girl with no connection to the song and uploaded to Youtube under an account name consisting of a nonsensical Japanese word and a collection of numbers placed there in order to warrant the username available.

    Nightcore meaning & definition 5 of Nightcore.


  • 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.

    Nightcore meaning & definition 6 of Nightcore.


  • An awful genre of music that weaboos use as an excuse to sound creative or interesting. In reality, its usually some j-pop or mediocre song sped and pitched up, then posted under the youtube name kawaii san 43795. Once they have graced us with their creation (along with half a dozen sonic Ocs), they proceed to disprove Christianity in the comments section of a linkin park video.

    Nightcore meaning & definition 7 of Nightcore.


  • The worst type of EDM. Nightcore producers rip off a decent music ,speed it up and add some vocal,anime and shit,and then they claim its their own music.

    Nightcore meaning & definition 8 of Nightcore.


  • usually nightcore is taking a good or a semi-good song, speeding it up and putting it in a higher pitch and then putting a techno beat on it. then you put your name on it because your a music artist

    Nightcore meaning & definition 9 of 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.

    Nightcore meaning & definition 10 of Nightcore.


  • A sped and pitched-up song with an anime picture to attract the weeaboos. Mostly used my moneyholics to claim all the revenue for a song whereas the original creator gets none. Some go as far as to discredit the original creator.

    [Nightcore] was originally created by Thomas S. [Nilsen] and [Steffen] Ojala Søderholm and the moneyholics attempted to emulate their style before being corrupted into the wicked souls they are now.

    Nightcore meaning & definition 11 of Nightcore.


  • A sad excuse for a genre of music.
    [Nightcore] is a genre of music mostly made up of sped up songs, such as good music from the band [groove coverage] wich the Nightcore versions have more views than the originals.
    A Nightcore artist uses programs like [windows movie maker], or camtasia studio to add a picture of what is usually a girl from a japanese anime, and they speed the music up a bit and call it original and a remix.

    Nightcore meaning & definition 12 of Nightcore.


  • A genre of music where a relatively popular song is taken and [sped up] to sound like its being sung by an [anime girl]. It is generally thought that [nightcore] is listened to by many Weaboos, because of the fact that its supposed so sound like an anime girl.

    Nightcore meaning & definition 13 of Nightcore.


  • [Nightcore] is a type of music ... OH wait no sorry its fucking trash
    Untalented emo Weeaboos go get some [emo song] or some popular songs and ruin the fucking shit out of it
    They make the voice high pitched and it cringes me so much
    Literally no effort and people still like it LISTEN TO THE ORIGINAL SONGS FOR FUCK SAKE [ITO] BETTER THAN [NIGHTCORE] , WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE IT

    Nightcore meaning & definition 14 of Nightcore.

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