Let's have fun! It's Pop Week!

dankrsta · 03-28-2011, 12:10 PM

Well, everybody knows what Pop music is, and by that I mean commercial, simple, catchy music intended for radio play and not the very broad term of popular music that encompasses everything outside of classical, modern classical and jazz. For the sake of clarity, here's what Wikipedia says:

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Pop music (a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular") is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented towards a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes. Pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, but as a genre is particularly associated with the rock and roll and later rock style...

...Hatch and Millward define pop music as "a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz and folk musics". Although pop music is often seen as oriented towards the singles charts it is not the sum of all chart music, which has always contained songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs, while pop music as a genre is usually seen as existing and developing separately. Thus "pop music" may be used to describe a distinct genre, aimed at a youth market, often characterized as a softer alternative to rock and roll.

Pop music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What are your favorite pop songs? Let's see how pop changed (or haven't changed) through the decades.

I like the cheesy pop of the 80s, that's my guilty pleasure.

So I'll start with that. (before Lady Gaga takes over this thread

)

Madonna - Into the Groove

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun