Can you name a good pop artist?
 

Let's cut right to the chase:

I think today's pop music isn't as good as music is supposed to be...
Certainly, not all is bad, but I think it's all just too commercial.

On the other hand, music is just a thing of taste. Nothing is good or bad by definition. If you think it's good and you enjoy it, that it is good for you. I am just more a rock type o' guy..

:yeah:

Now I am curious if you can come up with some pop artists that I should listen and I can really enjoy. Can you name a few?

I've honestly never gotten the pop hate. There's only two important genres: good music and bad music. I actually like a lot of Taylor Swift's recent stuff. Anyway, here's some recent pop hits that I like:

The first song, Settle Down, is indeed a good song.

The thing to me with pop is, beside from being very commercially orientated, it just doesn't touch me. I never really enjoy a song. At maximum, I'm like: nah it's good but I would never buy a cd for it.

Thanks for posting the songs though! The first one is one I can enjoy more than most other pop songs. Thanks!

I agree with your sentence with that there are just two genres though!

Nice picks.. I wouldn't call Kimbra recent but she's pretty awesome. I've played that song in plug multiple times.

Few more, not sure what exactly it is that catches your ear so I'm trying to post a variety of sounds and styles....

Ah yeah, I guess Settle Down is five years old now. Time flies.

An even older pop-artist that OP probably already knows is Cindy Lauper.

The Knife
Bjork
iamamiwhoami
FKA Twigs
Perfume Genius
Goldfrapp

There I named 6 right off the bat.

Thank you for giving me an excuse to post this.



Im not really up to date on modern pop but i do like the pop genre, i like Gaga and Alizee, Kylie minogue, stuff like that.

Of montreal is the only band i know that experiments with rock & electronic music to make incredible pop.
Some over their stuff sometimes goes over my head and it takes me awhile to get the groove but once i do i usually obsess over the song.

I'm not sure how well some of these fit into the 'pop' category, but whatever:

Florence + the Machine
Beat Happening
Lana Del Rey
Beach House
Hospitality
St. Vincent
Mirah
Bjork