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Pop Music Can Be Creative

June 18th 2009 in Hip Hop

Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, Rythm & Blues (R&B), jazz, electronic, and every now and then folk music and numerous other styles. Pop music performers typically make use of state-of-the-art technology and recording studios to achieve the sound they want, and record producers may have a heavy influence. Pop music generally uses a simple, memorable melody and emphasizes the rhythm, a number of times with syncopation, and stripped down to a basic riff or loop which repeats throughout much of the song. Pop music is a number of times criticized for being overly simple and repetitive.

Popular

Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are distributed by one or more of the mass media. Popular music is music that is not something else ( a number of times ‘folk’ or ‘art’ music). Popular music is associated with (produced for or by) a particular social group. Popular music is distributed by mass media and/or in a mass market. Popular music is additionally rarely entirely instrumental. Popular music is not really about ‘being heard’, but rather about ‘being heard again’; and ‘being heard again and again and again’ is what really popular music is really about. Pop is contemporary music and a common kind of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music).

The term popular music doesn’t refer only to a single genre or sound, and its meaning is divergent depending on the time and place. Within popular music, “pop music” is a lot of the time distinguished from other sub genres by stylistic traits such as a danceable rhythm or beat, simple melodies and a repeating structure. 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 broadly known in a lot of regions of the world. The development of recording methods is seen as a major influence on the sound of pop, distinguishing it from classical music and jazz, as well as from some types of popular music which could seek a more “natural” sound.

Album

In the recorded music era, the single (a single song) and the album (a collection of tunes ) are the usual methods of distributing pop music. Notable highlights for pop music in the 1980s are Michael Jackson’s second Epic label release, Thriller, which went on to become the optimum -selling album of all time. Jackson has been the most successful artist of the 80s, spanning nine #1 singles in the U.S. alone during that decade, and selling over 133 million copies with only two albums — Thriller, and its follow-up Bad.

Pop music
in the 1980s was heavily influenced by an electronic sound with synthesizers and drum machines, and dance type music. 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 now. Pop music can range from the highly creative, iconoclastic or virtuosic to simple and downright dumb.




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