Hip
Hip adjective - Being in the latest or current fashion.
New wave
New wave noun - Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts).
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Though not full-on 80's (Unlike Steel Wheels, though even that isn't very 80's), it has elements of synth-pop, new wave, and even hip-hop.
Source: Music / Undercover - Rihanna is supposedly an R&B singer but has done everything from electronic (including techno, house, EDM, trap, and dubstep), reggae, folk, dance-pop, new wave, hip-hop, synthpop, latin music...
Source: Genre Roulette -
In the beginning when hip-hop was in its infancy in the early eighties, only a hand full of 20-somethings were caught up in the culture of Hip-Hop, while the majority of the other 20-somethings were still into the post-disco/R&B new wave funk scene.
Source: Pop-Culture Isolation
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