NME's infamous C86 cassette —a celebration of an insular English scene of clumsy, fey, out-of-time pop-bands— spawned twee, a movement that, like shoegaze or emo, embraced its own putdown. The cutesy, sugary, trebly songs might seem ineffectual, but twee has grown into a huge cultural force. [[Defining Acts:]] The Field Mice, Belle & Sebastian, Tullycraft