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- 1. Pop Music Pop music is made up by elements of many different genres of music including Urban, Dance, Rock and Country. ‘Pop’ is a term that originally comes from the abbreviation of popular, as pop music is simply a popular style of music originating in the 1950’s
- 2. How do you define Pop music? The core elements defining pop music are things such as the length of the song and the format of the song. Pop songs tend to be short to medium in length and written in a very basic format. Pop music is melodic and the lyrics in Pop music tends to be very repetitive, especially during the chorus, which could be seen as annoying by some listeners. Pop songs are full of catchy hooks, which catches the ear of the listener and makes the song memorable. Catchy hooks are supposed to make the song more appealing to the listener but can sometimes do the opposite and put them off the song and be seen as annoying.
- 3. The Pop music industry Pop music is commercially recorded to gain popularity from a wide audience. Within pop music the emphasis is on recording and producing and using technology such as autotune to make the track sound of high quality. There is less emphasis on artistic quality in pop music unlike acoustic or rock music where the emphasis is on live performance, and the artists are arguably more talented.
- 4. Aims and intentions of pop music The main goal in pop music is to make it easy and pleasurable to listen too, rather than having much focus on artistic depth. To achieve this Pop artists often include meaningless lyrics simply to make the verse to rhyme Pop music aims to appeal to a general audience rather than a particular sub culture or ideology. To ensure that the music appeals to a mass audience, pop tracks reflect current existing trends and fashions. Tracks within the genre are rarely diverse so people arent put off, and continue to be interested by the music. Pop music is intended to encourage dancing, this is done by the dance beats and rhythms throughout pop songs.
- 5. Development of pop music Pop music has absorbed influences from most other popular music genres. The features of many other music genres have been used to develop pop music as we know it today. The form of a pop song comes from sentimental ballards The vocal harmonies have been gained from gospel and soul music The intrumentation is influenced by jazz country and rock music The orchestration comes from classical music The tempo of pop music comes from dance music The backing of pop songs id influenced by electronic music And recently the use of spoken passages have been used in pop songs, which is influenced by rap music.
- 6. Exploring pop as a genre Dance-pop Dance-pop is a sub genre of pop music developed from post-disco and synth-pop music. Dance orientated pop music originates from the early 1980s, it is up tempo and intended for clubs. In the late 70s/early 80s disco started to go out of fashion, and sub genres such as post-disco and synth-pop were created. These genres were in essence more modern versions of disco music, and were more experimental and producer/dj driven. Examples of current artists creating dance-pop music are Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Kesha, Britney Spears and Christina