Archive for January 22, 2011
Pop music is music that is really contemporary music. Today whatever music you hear, music that is moving with the times, all of it is pop music. Fifty five years before, the music which was contemporary in that era was also pop and the fathers of pop, Bob Dylan etc lived. But today’s music is also called pop, so pop is really a genre of contemporary music throughout all ages, which is flexible enough to change its form from one to another and still maintain some integrity.
So you can have rock, jazz, blues, R&B, dance numbers and many other genres influencing this one particular genre of music. Sometimes even elements of folk and country music has been found to be present in pop. The basic trick that pop music undertakes to maintain its popularity is use melody that would stay in the minds of people. They do not use catchy tunes but tunes and rhythm which forces you to remember it. Also, the songs are barely filled with lots of music, there is one tempo which goes through the entire song and doesn’t change. But this is an element which has drawn much criticism around the song. Critics often say that pop is too simple and therefore maybe worthless.