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
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 16, 2020
(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 26, 2010
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
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
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 9, 2021
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
Humanity:I want to die
by Honest Nigga June 25, 2017