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{{Infobox Music genre <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Music genres -->
| name              = Electropop
| bgcolor           = silver
| color             = black
| stylistic_origins =[[Electronic dance music|EDM]]<br>[[Pop music]]<br>[[Synthpop]]<br>[[New Wave music|New Wave]]<br>[[Disco]]<br>[[Krautrock]]<br>[[Post-punk]]
| cultural_origins  = Late 1970s, primarily Europe and North America
| instruments       = Synthesizer - Drum machine - Tape loops - Drums - Guitar - Sequencer - Keyboard - Sampler- Vocoder
| popularity        = High, late-1970s/early-1980s, late-2000s, early 2010s
| derivatives       = [[Electro music|Electro]]<br>[[Post-disco]]<br>[[Techno]]<br>[[Eurodance]]<br>[[Dance-punk]]<br>
}}

'''Electropop''' is a form of [[electronic music]] that is made with [[synthesizer|synthesizers]], and which first flourished from 1978 to 1983. Electropop laid the groundwork for a mass market in chart-oriented pop and dance music. Numerous bands have since carried on the electropop tradition into the 1990s and 2000s.

Electropop is characterized by an emphasized electronic sound &mdash; often described as cold and robotic &mdash; and by minimal arrangements. This was mainly due to the limitations of the analog synthesizers and recording techniques used at the time, but has since become a stylistic choice.

Electropop songs are [[Pop music|pop]] songs at heart, often with simple, catchy hooks and dance beats, but differing from those of [[electronic dance music]] genres which electropop helped to inspire — [[techno]], [[house music|house]], [[electroclash]], etc. — in that songwriting is emphasized over simple danceability. They often feature alienated deadpan lyrics with a futuristic sci-fi edge.