Pop Music

Over View

• Designed to appeal everyone
• Commercially recorded music
• oriented towards the youth market absorbed influences from many other forms of music (classical, jazz, rock, dance, rap etc)
• Grown and advertised through media
• Television, Radios, Music Channels

Characteristics

• tends to reflect current/ existing trends
• Encourages dancing
• consistent and noticeable rhythmic elements
• focuses on melodies and catchy hooks

Bubble-Gum Pop

• genre of pop with upbeat sound, and marketed to appeal to preteens and teenagers
• produced in an assembly line process, driven by producers
• One hit wonders
• catchy melody, simple chords, simple harmonies, dancy beats, good hooks,
• lyrics about love, feeling good or being happy

Past Pop Music Artists

• Micheal Jackson
• The Beatles
• Whitney Hudson
• Barry Manilow
• Diana Ross
• Rolling Stones
• Elvis Presley

Current Pop Music Artists

• 5 Seconds of Summer
• Fall Out Boy
• Taylor swift
• Fifth Harmony
• Ariana Grande
• Adele
• Elle KIng
• The Weeknd

Why is it so Great?

• Since the mid-1950's pop music has usually been identified as the music and the musical styles that are accessible to the widest audience. This means the music that sells the most copies, draws the largest concert audiences, and is played most often on the radio.