When was the term techno pop coined?

I'm writing a book and I have a character lamenting in 1979 that music sucks mostly because of all the disco but also because of stuff like Gary Numan's Cars, Funkytown by Lips Inc, Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star. Basically all the computerized synthesized stuff. What would you call this, techno pop? Or was that term not in use yet? I would say new wave but that is too general.

'79 was an amazing year for music

make sure you say LIPPS not LIPS in your book!

I think Kraftwerk was planning an album called "Techno Pop" in 1983. Did the industry use it in 79 or is it like "Krautrock" in that it didn't gain traction until after the fact?

Especially since the speaker is a 17 year old kid albeit a musician I wouldn't want to make him too knowledgeable.

i think s/he would say "synthesizer bands" or "synthesizer pop"

That's a great idea thanks.

I still don't know what to call this new form of Dance, I keep hearing Electropop and Electroclash from certain sources although I hear elements of Europop and UK Garage in it.

Futurism was quite a popular term back then in relation to Depeche etc:

this fictional person would prolly just call it keyboard shit

should probably just call it disco. "I hate all of that disco shit like Gary Numan and the Buggles".

I was 17 for most of 1979...and I can't remember what we called it, or if we called it anything at all. I do recall that my friend Peter had a copy of Replicas and it seemed sort of important at the time (and that a year or two later, when "Cars" was a hit, Gary Numan was just a punchline for us).

I think he's going to say he hates disco and this new synthesized computer crap.

You should make it a complicated sci-fi novel, where he laments that he hates rave and grunge and dubstep and mash-ups, and everyone just looks at him really puzzled.

The term I have always used is synthpop. As said above, "Technopop" was planned as an album title by Kraftwerk (and of course later used in the lyrics of "Musique Non Stop"), but I am not sure if that was the first time the term had been used. In fact, I doubt it was.

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The Buggles single, "Clean Clean" from 1980 had the b-side "Technopop". But synthpop is the term I remember from the time.

I remember hearing the term "synthypop" around that time (possibly not until the 80s proper, a year or two or three later). Maybe I was just mis-hearing "synthpop," but it seems to me it was "synthypop."

Maybe it was a Philadelphia WXPN DJ thing.