REPRESENTATION

POP- STEREOTYPES, CODES AND CONVENTIONS• There are codes and conventions, and stereotypes that go with the genre of POP. These

include certain demographics for the stereotypical audience. • The conventional age for the genre of POP is between 8 and 50. This is a large range as the

genre of pop is really large and lots of different forms of music fit under the pop genre. • POP is very gender neutral as there is an equal amount of songs that suit both men and

women being released in this genre. • It is not ethnocentric, and so there are lots of different ethnicities that listen and enjoy POP

music. • It is targeted at the social classes under upper class, however upper class people do listen

to this genre. • The audience for this genre stereotypically were fashionable clothes and are modernised.

They wear a lot of new clothes, have fashionable hair cuts, and obey trends that are constantly created.

• The genre usually follows trends, and a lot of music that is produced is not that different to other music that is being produced around the same time in the same genre.

• Artists tend to stick to the same structure in their music as they know the audience like it. • The stereotypical pop listener is seen to be ‘normal’. This means they are not overly

aggressive, they are nice, they are similar to a lot of other people, usually because they also follow the same trends as other people.