New Wave is a sub genre of alternative rock, it is influences by a number of different genres, and these include punk rock and indie rock. New Wave music emerged in Britain in the late 1970's. Some artists/bands which come under the genre of New wave/Rock are The Killers, Keane, Linkin Park and The Kaiser Chiefs. The music has many origins including pop orientated music that is not mainstream. Alternative Rock is a catch-all phrase for underground rock music which descended from punk rock; this genre includes New Wave music.
New Wave & Rock music both focus on similar things to heavy metal and punk; these include topics which highlight concerns for society. Drug abuse, addiction, poverty, greed, depression, racism, corruptness of government are just a few of these social concerns which appear in many different genres of music. Even though they follow similar conventions in their lyrics they represent these issues in a more sensible, calmer light. They manage to grab a much larger audience as they focus on these issues in a different way to heavy mental. Instead of scary music, lyrics, costumes and make-up, the artists are dressed casually, sometimes in elaborate costumes, but they do not represent death or depression in their own costumes.
Ultravox are a British New Wave rock band. Their costume is quite casual and laidback. New Wave Rock bands can also have typically bright and 'out-there costumes'.
In music videos, New Wave Rock tends to be performance based as well as narrative based. Lips syncing and instrumental scenes are generally used together for the performance based parts of the video; there are often cuts between the narrative and performance. In nearly all videos of this genre guitars are used as an important instrument. The performance part of the videos are an artist or band lip syncing and playing their instruments. The narrative part follows are story; they show a strong enthuses of social concern.
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