When did newspapers start caring/writing about POP music?

July 25th 1964.

Rock music was Pop music in 1968.

http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=566

Jane Scott of the Cleveland Plains-Dealer and others have been doing so for quite awhile

In Europe, they started writing about pop music around the New Pop movement of the early 80s.

By then, they wrote about pop music in a serious way, treating it as art, not as some throway celebrity stuff like today. But then again, New Pop had more integrity than today's teenybopper pop...

Because it had MELODIES

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http://www.penandpixel.com/gollumpimp.jpg

Teenpop has melodies too. But the New Pop acts wrote those melodies themselves, and they sounded like themselves rather than everyone else working with the same producer/songwriter.

(Of course this ended with Stock/Aitken/Waterman)

RIP

I just want to correct a typo up there and note that one of our nation's best-titled newspapers is in fact the Cleveland Plain Dealer. (I like imagining that it outlasted competitors like the Cleveland Crooked Rascal, the Cleveland Rat Fink, and the Cleveland Slick Huckster.)

I'll see your Plain Dealer and raise you a Times-Picayune.

Don't forget the Memphis Press and News Scimitar