Music Genre Music Genre Research – Research – POP Music POP Music

By Kellie Rothery

The Meaning of Pop The Meaning of Pop Music Music

• The meaning of pop music is just that is popular music.

• Its known for the kind of dancing that you do on the dance floor but it is also however for those who like the rock kind of genre as there is some mixture there of rock and pop

Elements of Pop Music Elements of Pop Music They take a lot of elements from other genres likes: Latin Urban Dance Rock This is all to mix it up about, for the audience to love

and be interested in. In all pop songs and other songs from different genres

have sometimes the same elements to create the perfect song for example:

Repeated chorus melodic tunes hooks

Difference between Difference between hard rock and pop hard rock and pop

rock rock There is different kind of dance and rock

pop out there in in world Hard rock is a lot more aggressive than

pop rock as the features include electric guitars, drums, and bass instruments

Pop includes more of rock and roll revolution of the mid-1950's and continues in a definable path to today

Access to the audience Access to the audience • Since around the 1950s there has been more of

dancing music and musicals being popular to the audience, this is because of them having access to:

• Copies of songs • Copies of albums• Able to go to concerts • When the technology was introduced there was a

lot more access with the songs being on the phone and YouTube videos being accessible.

Pop song and Pop song and structure structure

• Pop music 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

• The size of the song is known for being from 2-5 and ½ minutes

• Some songs can be more than the 8 minutes long because of the audio at the start and finish, these are the type of pop songs that make the storyline be more serious and relate to the audience more than other songs, so when its playing on the radio or airplay it is shortened down to about half the size which would be like 4 minutes or 3 if the longest is 6 minutes.

Pop music melting pop Pop music melting pop

Pop music has been and continues to be a melting pop that borrows and assimilates elements and ideas from a wide range of musical styles like:

R&B Rock Country Disco Punk Hip hop these have all been influenced and been incorporated

into pop music in various ways over the past 5 decades. Most recently, Latin music seems to be impacting pop music more significantly than at any point in the past.

Pure Pop Or Power Pure Pop Or Power Pop Pop

There is also pure pop or power pop, typically consists of relatively brief songs played on the standard electric guitar, bass and drums with vocals that have a very strong catchy chorus, or hook

The goal of these two pops is that the audience is hooked onto the creativity of the instruments and the singing put together.

Some of the Artists in Some of the Artists in this Genre this Genre

• Jessie j • Nicki Minaj• Pharrell Williams • Katy parry• Bruno mars• Flo rider• Olly murs• Britney spears