I think the difference is that joycore is an aesthetic and fluxpop is a genre. Also, the term 'joycore' whilst 100% sinsurrr was also used frequently to wind certain people up, whilst I think fluxpop is more, um, serious. It's like: joycore was a term Matthew and then me and some other people started using, mostly on Barbelith, to talk about everything from 'Ignition (Remix)' to the New Pornographers. Fluxpop is a term that people started using to try and describe the kind of music that is often posted on Fluxblog (Matt may have used it first on mix CDs, I'm not sure of the chronology).
Pitchfork's Scott Plagenhoef used the term 'fluxpop' when talking about Annie at the end of 2004, and described it as "tracks with a pop sensibility and communicative, crossover potential that are nevertheless more often transferred via 0s and 1s than Hot 97s or Radio Ones" (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/top/2004/singles/index5.shtml). Maura Johnston does the same here (http://citypaper.net/articles/2004-12-30/music.shtml).
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Date: 2005-07-19 10:21 am (UTC)Pitchfork's Scott Plagenhoef used the term 'fluxpop' when talking about Annie at the end of 2004, and described it as "tracks with a pop sensibility and communicative, crossover potential that are nevertheless more often transferred via 0s and 1s than Hot 97s or Radio Ones" (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/top/2004/singles/index5.shtml). Maura Johnston does the same here (http://citypaper.net/articles/2004-12-30/music.shtml).