Pop Music is a genre of Popular Music notable from classical or art Music and from folk Music. The term indicates specific stylistic qualities, but the genre also includes elements of rock, hip-hop, dance, and country, making it a flexible Musical form. The definition of Pop Music is purposefully flexible as the Music that is identified as Pop is constantly changing.
The expression Pop Music may also be used to refer to particular subgenres (within the Pop Music genre) that are referred to as soft rock and Pop/rock. The Pop Music genre also often involves mass marketing and consumer-driven efforts by major record companies and Music labels, w hich makes it an often-scorned genre by non-mainstream Musicians as they feel that the quality of Music suffers.
The average consumer of Pop Music is often identified to be in his or her teenage years, making it an important icon of youth culture. Pop Music has always been the source of numerous moral panics, especially as many of the styles that influence it trickle up from minority groups (racial, ethnic, sexual or class-based). This is partly because youth culture itself is an object of social trepidation. It is tempting for anyone to confuse Pop Music with Popular Music. According to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Popular Music is identified as the Music since industrialization in the 1800's that is most in line with the tastes and interests of the urban middle class.
This would include an extremely wide range of Music from vaudeville and minstrel shows to heavy metal. Pop Music, on the other hand, has primarily come into usage to describe Music that evolved out of the rock n roll revolution of the mid 1950's and continues in a definable path to today.
One of the steadiest elements of Pop Music since the 1950's is the Pop song, which is not usually written, performed and recorded as a symphony, suite, or concerto. The basic form for Pop Music is the song and usually a song consisting of verse and repeated chorus. They are short in length but there have been notable exceptions though. The Beatles Hey Jude was an epic 7 minutes in length. However, in many cases, if the song is abnormally long, an edited version is released for radio airplay such as in the case of Don McLean's very famous American Pie. It was edited down from its original 8 1/2 minutes length to just over 4 minutes for radio airplay. While on the other extreme, some hit songs clocked in less than 2 minutes in length.
Like other art forms that aim to attract a mass audience (movies, television, Broadway shows), Pop Music has been and continues to be a melting pot that borrows and absorb elements and ideas from a wide range of Musical styles. Over the past five decades, Pop Music has been influenc ed and incorporated genres of Music like Rock, R&B in various ways. Most recently, Latin Music seems to be impacting Pop Music more significantly than at any point in the past.
Although Pop Music continues to be a melting pot of styles, there is a genre of Pop Music that claims to be Pop Music in its purest form. This Mus ic, usually called pure Pop or power Pop, typically consists of relatively brief (not over 3 1/2 minutes) songs played on the standard electric guitar, bass and drums with vocals that have a very strong catchy chorus, or hook.
In the 2000s, hip-hop blended in with Pop Music, is paving the way for the multi platinum successes of artists like Nelly, Eminem, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Ciara, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani and especially Britney Spear s. Artists such as Mariah Carey and Pop queen, Madonna, presented comeback albums that continued to make them rule the Music charts and keep their titles.
For the past 50 years the most successful Musical styles on the Pop charts have continually changed and evolved and times will tell as how much more Popular they become in future.
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