what are your opinions on pop music?

i can enjoy a lot of pop because i like to decompress in between listening to more challenging music, but really you don't need an excuse to like what you like

i to like to have periods where i'll listen to pop, rock, rap .... and then all the really heavy electronic stuff, then the lighthearted stuff... i can appreciate different styles of music including pop.

  On 6/20/2010 at 4:47 AM, tht tne said:

i can enjoy a lot of pop because i like to decompress in between listening to more challenging music, but really you don't need an excuse to like what you like

pretty much nails it for me.

define 'pop music'

What defines pop music? I really cant stand most crap on the radio but I like Daft Punk, Digitalism, LCD Soundsystem etc etc. They're pretty poppy bands.

I have to put up my hand and say that I did like that La Roux song that was out last year. But I'd put that more down to my love of really high voices, I fucking love sopranos.

  On 6/20/2010 at 4:54 AM, kaini said:

define 'pop music'

well i'm coming from an american perspective so to me pop is just "what's on the radio" and formerly "what's on mtv" though i still watch mtv hits now and then

i'd expand it to "what's on the radio as well as what sounds like it's TRYING to be on the radio."

i'd consider it TOP 40

I like it, it's fun.

some of the music i like is somewhat popular, it's like saying 'hey loads of people watched avatar, therefore it must be fantastic'. and whilst there's some truth in the statement, loads of people also like lutevisk or german oom-pah music.

edit: is timbaland pop music? what about max tundra?

what about V/VM? or jive bunny?

max tundra is pop in a blender

I listened to mew a while ago. do they count as pop?

Synthpop is my guilty pleasure.

I love Mayer Hawthorne.

I love pop music, couldn't define it though.

intentional 'pop' music by its very nature is formulated commercial mass market toss however this isn't to say decent music can't have some pop aesthetics

at the minute I cant get enough of this dudes album on Planet Mu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfFSbPPwNQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XIV5-axhFM

I sometimes like bands like M83 if that counts as pop, and a really small bit of music that comes up on the telly and radio sometimes

I think what's mostly playing on the radio these days is trash, and has been for a long long time.

I do enjoy popular bands like Passion Pit, though.

i listen to whatever i enjoy. i think that about sums it up.

also, depends how drunk i am.

I don't hate pop music , but sadly the majority of it is fucking atrocious .

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I love pop music.

I genuinely absolutely fucking love pop music.

Firstly because, as a stats geek, I love the whole drama of the charts - Tom Ewing has written about the dynamics formed by the compression of competing styles of music into the limited space that is the pop charts, and the interesting and sometimes exciting cultural blend it can produce. (Though unfortunately, since I've got older, I don't really have the time and energy to follow the charts any more, especially since the demise of TOTP.)

But mostly because I genuinely love the genre of bubblegum pop. I love jaunty, catchy, insistent earwormy music. I love it when it's really cleverly designed and just perfectly crafted and put together to sound as sweet and enticing and attractive as possible. The skill that goes into the production on a lot of pop tracks, where, if you know anything about production, it's taken *so much* effort to make it sound so effortless. I love the collision of gleeful innocence with cynical marketing. I love the way it sounds, the slickness of it, how it just slides off your ear like candy.

I love the ways that people find to be incredibly creative within a highly rigid formula. It's like I was talking about on the Aphex/Music students thread, about having to know the rules in order to break them. To squeeze something innovative and "wow, what was that?" into the narrow constraints of a 3 minute and 20 second pop song takes genuine creativity and ingenuity.

But the number one (with a bullet) reason I love bubblegum pop is - it's actually physically impossible to be depressed while listening to bubblegum. Good bubblegum, whether it's the Archies or Girls Aloud - I don't know if it's because it raises your heartbeat or what, but it's the one thing guaranteed to cheer me up, no matter what.

  On 6/20/2010 at 11:17 PM, Masonic Boom said:

 

But the number one (with a bullet) reason I love bubblegum pop is - it's actually physically impossible to be depressed while listening to bubblegum. Good bubblegum, whether it's the Archies or Girls Aloud - I don't know if it's because it raises your heartbeat or what, but it's the one thing guaranteed to cheer me up, no matter what.

high fuckin five

it's hard to listen to

everything about it is fake and annoying