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What is pop?
J-cob9000:
I keep reading the title of this thread as, "What is poop?"
Zingoleb:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 13 Apr 2009, 10:44 ---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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Pfft, pop isn't bad. That's like say rock music is bad and wrong, but rock-ish music may or may not be bad. It's just a wide genre, that varies from decade to decade as styles change. In the sixties, you get artists like Herman's Hermits and B.J. Thomas which, to me, are pop, and I greatly enjoy them. Look at the 70's, and two extremely solid and good albums would be Carole King's Tapestry and Paul Simon's Graceland, which are both pop music, just in different ways. Then you get the other side of the pop spectrum which would be Britney Spears and anything produced by Disney, and I just can't stand that. That's gone straight from pop music to 100% I-sold-my-soul-for-this commercialism.
I suppose a good definition of pop music would be music that is easily accessible and appeals to a wide variety of people.
I forgot the point I was trying to make.
Scandanavian War Machine:
true. i think "contemporary pop" would have been a more apt way to put it, rather than just "pop," which is pretty unfair, admittedly.
but i don't think your rock music analogy is very fitting in this instance.
[i had a good paragraph stating why i think this but sleep-deprived and indigestion-stricken as i am right now, it didn't make much sense so i got rid of it. i'll try again later.]
Zingoleb:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 13 Apr 2009, 13:14 ---true. i think "contemporary pop" would have been a more apt way to put it, rather than just "pop," which is pretty unfair, admittedly.
but i don't think your rock music analogy is very fitting in this instance.
[i had a good paragraph stating why i think this but sleep-deprived and indigestion-stricken as i am right now, it didn't make much sense so i got rid of it. i'll try again later.]
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I think it is, to be honest. Pop is a wide genre covering many different artists and sounds (from Britney Spears to Paul Simon), and rock is the same (ranging from the likes of Creedence to The Dead to Creed). Both cover a lot of fantastic sounding artists to some miserably depressing acts, and both can bleed into other genres (Country-pop or country-rock, for example).
Scandanavian War Machine:
but rock is never rap.
pop is sometimes rap.
pop is sometimes country too.
you see where i'm going with this? pop is not so much a genre of music but an extra descripter to attach to whatever the genre may be.
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