An extremely broad genre of music. Pop music consists of catchy melodies, infectious beats, polished instrumentals, and usually a calculated image/vision to go along with it and promote it. "Pop music," as a genre, isn't to be confused with the term, "popular music," which could be music from any genre that has garnered mainstream attention or adoration. Many works of pop music also never gain widespread popularity. Pop music is commonly structured in a verse-bridge-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus-middle 8-chorus form, but there are numerous exceptions to this standard, but pop music always has a catchy and polished sound to it that is intended to appeal to the public at large. Although, at times, pop music can have a "unique" sound to it that instantly will make one label it as "pop," pop music often heavily borrows from other genres of music, creating subgenres such as: dance pop, teen pop, bubblegum pop, r&b pop, pop rap, country pop, electropop, etc. The one characteristic that sets these subgenres away from the genres they borrow from is, again, a catchy, structured, and polished sound.
Pop music is also often maligned by music elitists and critics. But, the one thing you have to remember is that pop music is mostly intended to be fun and exciting, not some deep emotional work of art; although pop music can be deep and emotional at times, contrary to popular notion.
Pop music is also often maligned by music elitists and critics. But, the one thing you have to remember is that pop music is mostly intended to be fun and exciting, not some deep emotional work of art; although pop music can be deep and emotional at times, contrary to popular notion.
Examples of Pop Music and its stars:
Britney Spears
Madonna
Kylie Minogue
Bananarama
Rihanna
Girls Aloud
Sugababes
One Direction
The Wanted
Michael Jackson
Justin Timberlake
... and the list goes on...
Britney Spears
Madonna
Kylie Minogue
Bananarama
Rihanna
Girls Aloud
Sugababes
One Direction
The Wanted
Michael Jackson
Justin Timberlake
... and the list goes on...
by bluesunstorm January 8, 2013
Get the Pop Music mug.(a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular") is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented towards a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short and simple love songs and utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes. Pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, but as a genre is particularly associated with the rock and roll and later rock style.
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bob: Yeah..i heard some people called him, ''The king of pop music''.
bob: Yeah..i heard some people called him, ''The king of pop music''.
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A genre of music full of disgraceful people singing what they managers give them. Their fans praise them and see them as super-humans
Retard:Oh my god Taylor Swift and Drake are so talented Pop music is the best
Humanity:I want to die
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Get the Pop music mug.A type of popular contemporary music, just like jazz, folk, r&b, rock n roll, ect. Pop music is the traditional type of popular contemporary music. In fact it is popular in every culture, it is the most popular kind of music. The content is normally about stuff that you can't see, such as love.
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1. Hey, quit playing that stupid pop music on your radio. Play this avenged sevenfold song instead, and once you’re done listening to them, you’ll be in love with the band and you may proceed to shove that Billie Eilish cd up someone’s anus.
2.OMGGGG, they are playing Nikki Minaj on the radio now, shut up so I can listen to her song. - a 12 year old girl with no brain cells telling her parents to shut up so she can listen to Nikki Minaj in the car
2.OMGGGG, they are playing Nikki Minaj on the radio now, shut up so I can listen to her song. - a 12 year old girl with no brain cells telling her parents to shut up so she can listen to Nikki Minaj in the car
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