New Romanticism

New Romanticism was a pop music genre in the United Kingdom that began around 1979 and peaked around 1981. Developing in London nightclubs and spreading to other major cities in the UK, it was based around flamboyant, eccentric fashion and New Wave music. New Romanticisim bands adopted synthesizers and helped to develop synthpop in the early 1980s, which, combined with the distinctive New Romantic visuals helped them first to national success in the UK and, with help of MTV to play a major part in the Second British Invasion of the US charts.