(overview)
Pop music is music charted by the number or sales, plays, etc., that the work receives.[1] It is not a particular genre or style of music, but simply that which is the most popular for the tracked period of time. Most commercial music of any genre is composed with deliberate intent to appeal to the majority of its contemporaries,[2][3][4] but, unless extremely popular in its own genre, it must appeal to a wider audience to appear on the pop charts.
In opposition to music that may require education or formation to fully appreciate, a defining characteristic of pop music is that anyone is able to enjoy it. Artistic concepts such as musical form and aesthetics are not a concern in the writing of pop songs, the primary objectives being audience enjoyment and commercial success.[5]
Although pop music is produced with a desire to sell records and do well in the charts, it does not necessitate wide acclaim or commercial success: there are bad or failed pop songs.[6]
Initially the term was an abbreviation of, and synonymous with, popular music, but evolved around the 1950s to describe a specific musical category.[7]
Now I agree that most of what is said here is referenced and all. But isn't there something very wrong with this (too vague, questionable statements, doesn't really convey any useful information about how pop music actually sounds like)?
FOr many reasons (one of them is English not being my first language) I don't feel authoritative/qualified enough to edit this but couldn't we come up with something better? Would it be something worth doing? Opinions?
― daavid, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 07:20 (seventeen years ago)
It's a pocket encyclopaedia not sodding Life: A User's Manual.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:09 (seventeen years ago)
Also the entry has more than one paragraph.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:11 (seventeen years ago)
Flawed answer to a flawed question. The problem with defining "pop music" is that there are essentially three different answers (at least), all of which are perfectly valid.
Pop music is either:
1) Music which is popular, as defined above. Anything that sells across a large, broad cross-section of people.
2) An identifiable genre of music with common technical traits, musical and lyrical themes, production techniques, etc. Some of this kind of "pop" is extremely popular and fits definition 1 as well, some of it is obscure indie pop championed by critics and music afficianados.
3) Any non-"serious" music, which I suppose means anything other than classical, "real" jazz, or traditional folk musics.
― TheTco, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:13 (seventeen years ago)
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― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:14 (seventeen years ago)
The trouble with most pop writing is that it totally fails to take the constant part of lathe into account.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:15 (seventeen years ago)
TheTco, I didn't mention this but there is a separate entry for "popular music" which I guess would take care of your proposed definition no. 1 and (possibly) no. 3. Anyway a copy-paste of your answer would IMO be a 100 times better than what is currently there.
-- Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:11 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
I know and TBH I didn't paid too much attention to the rest. I thought the lead section (the part I quote) was bad enough to warrant discussion.
― daavid, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:35 (seventeen years ago)
Since the article expands on the abstract to a considerable extent I would have thought it essential to read the whole of it. I mean, who'd go to see a film on the basis of "The kid loses his sledge and gets rich but can't get happy"?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:38 (seventeen years ago)