Futurepop can be seen as a subgenre of Electro-Industrial or as an evolution of it. Although it is one of the smallest and least known genres, Futurepop illustrates once again an interesting link between Industrial and Trance. This has happened before when hard EBM beats found their way into the earliest forms of Trance. Futurepop is as much Pop as Electro-Industrial is, meaning it is barely true Pop at all. It is, however, a much cleaner, more produced type of Electro-Industrial, with no distortions, scary vocals or obscene themes. This genre focuses on dark but beautiful melancholic synth melodies and powerful synth basslines, which can recollect and crossover to Trance (though regularly at a lower BPM). Futurepop can mirror a lot of Darkwave because the latter is Gothic Synthpop, where the former actually is Industrial Synthpop. Futurepop is the perfect soundtrack for anything sci-fi or futuristic – completely electronic and dark, but crystal clear. This is not instrumental music like Trance – equally melancholic vocals about bombastic, cyberpunk topics mark this genre as a highly thematic one.