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 Musicmug. Horrible garbage that makes me bleed from my ears and only stupid people are immune to its brain killing sounds. (doesn't qualify as music)
by Man_man February 15, 2020
Get the Pop "musicmug. (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.
Tim: Ey,bob did you here that Micheal Jackson died?
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''.
by Ghost™ June 29, 2010
Get the Pop Musicmug. A talentless, cookie-cutter product of the music industry that has changed form over the years, but right now in 2004 generally consists of:
1) A Jamaican-sounding guy singing in broken English and making little if any sense
2) Any girl with a half-decent voice, usually singing about dancing in the club or something equally overused and pointless
Apparently some people in America actually like this kind of music and have the impressive self-restraint to avoid changing the station when such a group is on the radio. I have yet to meet such a person, but I'd guess that middle schools all over the country are full of them.
1) A Jamaican-sounding guy singing in broken English and making little if any sense
2) Any girl with a half-decent voice, usually singing about dancing in the club or something equally overused and pointless
Apparently some people in America actually like this kind of music and have the impressive self-restraint to avoid changing the station when such a group is on the radio. I have yet to meet such a person, but I'd guess that middle schools all over the country are full of them.
See Sean Paul featuring whoever, Black-Eyed Peas, Shaggy featuring whoever, or any of the 200 other no-name spinoffs.
Typical song:
Jamaican guy:
"Shake yo booty mama
Shake shake yo booty
I like to see you shake it
Shake yo booty shake it"
Girl:
"I'm in the club dancing on a Friday night
I'm hangin with my peeps and I feel all right"
And so on...
The above song would probably crack the top 10 on the pop charts if I were to expand the lyrics and produce it. Sad, isn't it?
Typical song:
Jamaican guy:
"Shake yo booty mama
Shake shake yo booty
I like to see you shake it
Shake yo booty shake it"
Girl:
"I'm in the club dancing on a Friday night
I'm hangin with my peeps and I feel all right"
And so on...
The above song would probably crack the top 10 on the pop charts if I were to expand the lyrics and produce it. Sad, isn't it?
by Nick D August 16, 2004
Get the pop music groupmug. I was going down the street, without a care on my mind. All up in my own design... Again this song I just made up, will hit the top of the charts in 3 days. You'll see.
by Not Zane September 18, 2004
Get the pop music groupmug. Music that consists of different genres ranging from Early Jazz and Big Band, Early R&B, Early Rock and Roll, Doo-Woop, and Loung music. The time period usually dates from the Early 20th Century up to the 1960s
by jondich June 8, 2021
Get the Pasttime Pop Musicmug. Pop music is the marriage of repetitive beats and crappy lyrics. It usually takes little to no musical knowledge to write and produce a pop song. Pop music gets unnecessary hype a lot of the times. The people who listens to pop music are usually aged between 10-16 years old or retarded people with no musical knowledge.
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
by Guitar solo February 6, 2021
Get the Pop musicmug.