Talk:Hi-NRG
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I've asked this elsewhere and can't seem to get an authoritative answer. Is this verifiable, citable, that the phrase Hi-NRG was coined AFTER the Evelyn Thomas single, "High Energy"? Or was it the other way around, the song ingeniously capitalizing on the name of the genre at the moment of its greatest prominence? Didn't that single come out in 1984, when the article states the genre was already crossing over into the mainstream? I seem to remember the phrase pre-existing the song but being shortened at the time of the song's popularity so as not to confuse the genre with one of its signature songs. I don't wish to change the article on the basis of my recollection, but I would love to know if this is more than a popular misconception, and has a basis in fact. Is there a generally accepted first usage? Thanks. Abrazame 08:53, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
