I don't like pop music but I was wondering what makes something pop. I know that pop means popular but what makes someone like Britney Spears or Debbie Gibson pop? Should rap (I don't like rap) be pop if it's popular?
2007-08-09 06:41:08 · 6 answers · asked by BeatlesChick(♥'s music) 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Repetition is what makes it pop. Singing the same chorus over & over. Rap usally doesn't repeat the chorus as much.
I always tell my wife the way to get a multi million $ song is to just keep repeating the lines over & over & over...
2007-08-09 07:58:11 · answer #1 · answered by Luv&Rockets 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common type of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music[1]). The term does not refer specifically to a single genre or sound, and its meaning is different depending on the time and place. Within popular music, "pop music" is often distinguished from other subgenres by stylistic traits such as a danceable rhythm or beat, simple melodies and a repeating structure. Pop song lyrics are often emotional, commonly relating to love, emotion, or dancing.
Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R&B, jazz, electronic, and sometimes folk music and various other styles. For example, in the 1920s–50s pop music drew influence mainly from jazz, beginning in the 1950s from rock and R&B, and since the 1980s, from hip hop. The broad appeal of pop music is seen to distinguish it from more specific types of popular music, and pop music performers and recordings are among the best-selling and most widely known in many regions of the world.
Today distributed by major record companies as part of a global music market, pop music often involves mass marketing through radio, television and other media, making it a part of many people's daily life. As such, it has also faced criticism.
2007-08-09 13:45:48 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm guessing any song that gets a lot of airplay on those teeny-bopper radio stations. In my honest opinion about rap, I wish it didn't exist!
2007-08-09 13:45:11 · answer #3 · answered by Kraziegurl79 ist ein Rock Star 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
pop is the crap they play on the radio and MTV, with a FEW exceptions.
2007-08-09 14:02:20 · answer #4 · answered by jimmy j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's music that when you here it you want to dump a coke over their heads
2007-08-09 13:47:23 · answer #5 · answered by b d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rock has really long solo or instrumentals.
2007-08-09 13:43:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋