I completely agree with you. Even a country album can be placed in pop just because of the singer and not because of the actual music itself.
Ex. Carrie Underwood. I think most country artists hate her for the fact that she used american idol to get into the industry and they feel like she took a short cut. They are always trying to put her down for her and will immediately call her album a pop album when it's as country as you can get. She even said it herself in an interview that she hates to hear pop versions of country songs like it wasn't good enough to just have the country version so they asked the artist to re-sing it to make a pop version
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