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

No.

Yes.

No!

Thanks guys, many singers to try and listen!

With commercial pop I more aimed at singers like

Katy Perry
Beyoncé
Nicki Minaj
Iggy Azalea (both can't be called hiphop, although they call it hiphop themselves..)
Lady Gaga (is IMO better, but still not good)
Ariana Grande (hahaha)

And that sort of stuff....

Yes

Crowded House.

I second these 2.

its funny you mentioned Crowded house Chula, lately ive been obsessing over how good the verse is in 'Don't dream its over'

I love Crowded House too, and Don't Dream It's Over is one of my favorite pop songs!!

Crowded House may be the closest to the vaunted Beatles thrown. That band wrote some of the greatest pop music ever.

Seconded.

^Yep

Pop - particularly electro/synthpop - is probably my favorite music genre.



I could do this all day.

Sky Ferreira

that video gets me way too excited

Im always amazed to find out some ppl actually enjoy Maroon 5.

i seriously don't see the appeal of mediocre pop tunes with nasally vocals..

his melody in that one song "kept playin love like it was just a game petending to feel the same" and the jazzy chords on rhythm, it was all pretty groovy. Overplayed, sure, but it met a minimum standard and it was catchy.

If good means talented then Lady Gaga, Sia.

I think there's lots to like about Bruno Mars. "Uptown Funk" is lip licking fine.

better copy that can't be embedded:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82872039/

shi**y low-effort click quality:

Sia's "Chandelier" blew my mind. Her vocal power is magnificent.

Only pop artist i enjoy kinda is sam smith. Barely

Im.so glad you said this. Maroon 5 is ugh...

ariana grande

Yes, I can. Billie Bloody Ocean:

Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen



Jeans so tight you could barely take them off when they were wet, pastel cardigans, too much hairspray, soda stream machines, smoking in school, the ZX Spectum, tunes like this are magical memory kindlers.

BoA...no doubt, but she only sings in Korean for the most part...lol

Well that's because you have sex with children, whereas I have the moves like Jagger.

Bitch.

No idea really. I don't know if some these artists are considered more as indie than pop.

Hayley Kiyoko (US)
Jeanne Cherhal (France)
Dionne Bromfield (UK)
Marina and The Diamonds (UK)

Shura.


Purity Ring

charli xcx
chvrches
ke$ha
allie x

Ed Sheeran

This fellow has the voice and the songwriting and the musicianship to become a folk legend. But he's pop star right now so let's enjoy him for that. No sense bemoaning the caterpillar for being the caterpillar and not yet the butterfly. Everything in its own time.

Ed Sheeran - Bloodstream

Crowded House. (probably posted them about 10 pages ago)

As far as bands that can hang with the likes of The Beatles I'd add CH to that short list.