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Do you like pop or rock
Pop music 10%  10%  [ 3 ]
Rock music 90%  90%  [ 26 ]
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:06 pm
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To answer backwards, many people I know like music with a melody (can be simple) they can follow and with lyrics they can understand. By that, I mean both in volume and in meaning. That's why so many "pop" songs deal with things like love, broken relationships and other everyday life issues.

Another possible approach is that when friends hear my guitar playing, their comments are often "well that was a nice tune but ... no words? Maybe you ought to hook up with a songwriter? Oh, and ... that tune seemed a bit complex -- wouldn't it be pretty hard to dance to?"

Now if I play the melody to a tune everyone knows (pop, standard or otherwise) I get comments like, "Wow that's great ... most guitarists don't play real songs but ... aren't you gonna sing it too?"

To boil this down: real song = melody they can recognize, not just chords, the tune needs sung words and the words have to be something they can identify with and it should have a danceable beat or at least one they can tap along to.

Further proof -- I play some simplistic I-IV-V pattern in a stock 1950s beat and have someone sing the words to any of 20,000 50s songs and everyone thinks it's great.

That's what we in the movie biz call entertainment! A parallel question might be -- how come most audiences don't go for art house films with deep meaning, a significant statement about life or something that could set your beliefs in a new direction? Same idea I'd say.


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"Pop" does mean popular, but I think you're referring to today. Pop music today has turned sour, a lot of image and superficiality over quality and substance. Pop music in the 60's and 70's you had the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, etc. and they were all rock. I think when we refer to pop music today we think of the sappy stuff, cliche lyrics, electronic beats, artists that look good but suck at singing, these things appeal to people why? because that is what is commercially being fed to our youth. I think you'll find that there are a lot of people out there that are unhappy with music today, especially pop, but that's why we have underground and indie music, stuff that is non mainstream. Independent record labels have some good stuff and I think they give the artist more breathing room than that of a major label. I could go on and on about this but I have put so many posts here on fender.com about this subject that it's kind of tiring me out. Anyway, that's my take on it.


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Go back and read the Billboard Top 40 charts for the years 1955 through 1975. Then tell me that pop music used to be wonderful and now it sucks.

It has always been the same. Do you think every record on the radio sounded like the Beatles and the Kinks in 1968? There was a whole lot of 1910 Fruitgum Company and Englebert Humperdinck on the radio, too.


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SlapChop wrote:
Go back and read the Billboard Top 40 charts for the years 1955 through 1975. Then tell me that pop music used to be wonderful and now it sucks.

It has always been the same. Do you think every record on the radio sounded like the Beatles and the Kinks in 1968? There was a whole lot of 1910 Fruitgum Company and Englebert Humperdinck on the radio, too.


I never lived in that time period so I'm not a really good source. I mean, what is pop music? It's music that's popular, right? I would consider the Beatles pop and I think they're great, but every generation has its duds. Yes, there will always be artists that are promoted by the industry because they make lots of money. We as people however, have to make our own decisions on what we think is good and what we think is not good, whether it'd be pop or rock. Sadly, many people choose pop, which is why it's popular.


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because it's Popular :wink:

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Money Money :!: From its taget audience, just like crap I mean Rap :oops:

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