" underground "

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1: Underground is about passion. of course the word is missused and abused . a true underground artist will create music/art from the heart as apposed to something tailored to a commercial market.an underground event organiser will still put on the event for the love of it even if its going to lose money... underground artists can have a long career out of the often distructive gaze of mainsteam media and earn money which is closer to someone with a good job than the millions of there commercial counterparts. where as a commercial artist will probably have a short shelf life

  * e.g.,  ... "I have been buying his records for 15 years, a true underground artist" 

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1: underground is like deeper beats, lyrics and soul to a song - commercial is like what get's played on the radio and is marketed to the masses - Britney's mainstream, Eminem is mainstream - even though anyone can make underground music they don't coz it doesn't sell like commercial stuff - underground IS deeper, more hardcore, more controversial, or whatever...

  * e.g.,  ... sup the chenist - dust c.d is underground.. you'll know the difference if you know your music... 

 [ "underground" ]

1: Does NOT have to be unknown, it can also be a rapper that was underground yet kept the style and became extremely popular and well-selling commercial material

  * e.g.,  ... Pharoahe Monch and Wu-tang clan have music that is not bombarded with commercial material yet sell heaps 

 [ "underground" ]

1: those fucking annoying pimples that are like a solid mound protruding from your head, hurt like hell, yet don't have a head so you can't deal with them

  * e.g.,  ... you: fml this new pimple is giving me a headache 

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1: A twenty-first century marketing buzz word used to convince teens that the over-hyped, over-produced, corporate-friendly crap they listen to on the radio station everday is actually "unique, hip, different" or that they somehow aren't part of a target market in which they all obediently buy the same crap.

  * e.g.,  ... Yeah, that hot new underground rapper made his debut on TRL today. 

 [ "Underground" ]

1: Un•der•ground (un’der ground’), n., adj.

  * e.g.,  ... The mainstream media has a tendency to steal new ideas from the underground. 

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2: 1) A genre in music and other forms of media intended for an elite audience, that is often characterized by its high levels of originality and experimentation, and does not conform to typical standards, trends, or hypes as set by the popular mainstream media.

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1: A movement or a group of people related to music, who do it not for the money, the notoriety or the fame, but for the love. They don’t promote, because they don’t crave popularity. They also don’t need to tell everyone about how underground they are because they aren’t really interested in labelling their own movement, they just do it, and if people enjoy it, great.

  * e.g.,  ... You ain't underground, you have a Facebook page advertsing your event fella.... 

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1: Art, opinion or organization that exists outside of mainstream society or culture. Also known as "independent" or sometimes "counter-culture".

  * e.g.,  ... Giff preferred the underground music scene in her area to the bland stuff that played on most radio stations. 

 [ "Underground" ]

1: The London railway system. Also called the Metro or Tube.

  * e.g.,  ... We took the Underground from King's Cross to Covent Gardens. 

 [ "Undergrounding" ]

1: The act of connecting with the Earth through dancing barefoot to underground electronic music such as house music or techno, at an outdoor electronic music festival or gathering. These particular "roots E.D.M." genres of House and Techno use a 4/4 beat, a.k.a. "4 on the floor," the exact rhythms our ancestors produced through primitive percussion instruments created from trees and earth clay, which they used to dance barefoot upon the earth in celebration, worship, prayer and to connect with themselves, each other and Nature. Our ancestors did this for tens of thousands of years, and many indigenous communities around the world still do this today. See shamanism as well. Derivative of the word "grounding" or "earthing" which has been trending since 2015, describing the act of standing or walking barefoot on the earth to absorb ions, connecting electrically to the earth; reducing inflammation and improving health. *First coined/introduced by Elektrik Fantasy Festival in Miami.

  * e.g.,  ... I've got my Fantasy costume together and I'm ready to dance to some 4-on-the-floor house music at Elektrik Fantasy Festival, but I'm going barefoot because I'm all about the undergrounding on the sand!