In 1993, Billy Idol discovered the cyberpunk genre. He became so enthralled by it that he named his next album Cyberpunk. The album itself isn’t very good, but the music video for Shock To The System is definitely cyberpunk.
For what it’s worth, the only songs on the album that I’d recommend listening to are Shock To The System and Neuromancer. You can skip the rest of the album.
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The wikipedia page for the album is pretty interesting. Apparently Billy Idol was legitimately interested in cyberpunk and really dug into the genre. He even started posting on alt.cyberpunk on usenet. He had this crazy idea that musicians could use the internet to communicate directly with their fans! And you could even produce an entire album at home by using this new program called ProTools!
Unfortunately, he couldn’t convert those big ideas into actually making a good album so everyone just called him a poser and thought he was trying to cash in on the popularity of cyberpunk. That’s rough.