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What is pop?
Tago Mago:
I think some of you are expecting too much precision from this word. "Pop" connotes a tangled web of ideas. It sometimes connotes popularity, simplicity of structure, and accessibility, but it also connotes love, sex, adolescence, commerce, consumption, mass production, and a rejection of academia and dry formalism.
If the word is worth retaining, then that's because we recognize that these ideas are connected in deep and confusing ways. If it proves useful to think of "pop" as a genre, then that's because we recognize that certain cultural artifacts are implicated in this nest of problems, and that we can help shed light on the problems along with the artifacts by thinking of them together, under a common name.
KharBevNor:
But the words not worth retaining.
Mainly because of the sort of inredibly tedious group masturbation this thread is becoming rapidly full of.
Professor Snuggles:
I'm listening to Avril Lavigne.
Zingoleb:
I consider Paul Simon to be pop.
He's the first proof I have that pop music isn't bad music.
Scandanavian War Machine:
i like to make a distinction between "pop" music, which is bad and wrong, and "poppy" or "poppish" music, which can be bad but isn't necessarily bad.
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