| Pop music is a genre of popular music notable | | | | exceptions though. The Beatles Hey Jude was an |
| from classical or art music and from folk music. | | | | epic 7 minutes in length. However, in many cases, |
| The term indicates specific stylistic qualities, but | | | | if the song is abnormally long, an edited version is |
| the genre also includes elements of rock, hip-hop, | | | | released for radio airplay such as in the case of |
| dance, and country, making it a flexible musical | | | | Don McLean's very famous American Pie. It was |
| form. The definition of pop music is purposefully | | | | edited down from its original 8 1/2 minutes length |
| flexible as the music that is identified as pop is | | | | to just over 4 minutes for radio airplay. While on |
| constantly changing.The expression pop music | | | | the other extreme, some hit songs clocked in less |
| may also be used to refer to particular subgenres | | | | than 2 minutes in length.Like other art forms that |
| (within the pop music genre) that are referred to | | | | aim to attract a mass audience (movies, |
| as soft rock and pop/rock. The pop music genre | | | | television, Broadway shows), pop music has been |
| also often involves mass marketing and | | | | and continues to be a melting pot that borrows |
| consumer-driven efforts by major record | | | | and absorb elements and ideas from a wide range |
| companies and music labels, which makes it an | | | | of musical styles. Over the past five decades, pop |
| often-scorned genre by non-mainstream musicians | | | | music has been influenced and incorporated |
| as they feel that the quality of music suffers.The | | | | genres of music like Rock, R&B in various ways. |
| average consumer of pop music is often identified | | | | Most recently, Latin music seems to be impacting |
| to be in his or her teenage years, making it an | | | | pop music more significantly than at any point in |
| important icon of youth culture. Pop music has | | | | the past.Although pop music continues to be a |
| always been the source of numerous moral | | | | melting pot of styles, there is a genre of pop |
| panics, especially as many of the styles that | | | | music that claims to be pop music in its purest |
| influence it trickle up from minority groups (racial, | | | | form. This music, usually called pure pop or power |
| ethnic, sexual or class-based). This is partly | | | | pop, typically consists of relatively brief (not over |
| because youth culture itself is an object of social | | | | 3 1/2 minutes) songs played on the standard |
| trepidation. It is tempting for anyone to confuse | | | | electric guitar, bass and drums with vocals that |
| pop music with popular music. According to the | | | | have a very strong catchy chorus, or hook.In the |
| New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, | | | | 2000s, hip-hop blended in with pop music, is paving |
| popular music is identified as the music since | | | | the way for the multi platinum successes of |
| industrialization in the 1800's that is most in line | | | | artists like Nelly, Eminem, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Ciara, |
| with the tastes and interests of the urban middle | | | | Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, |
| class.This would include an extremely wide range | | | | Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani and especially |
| of music from vaudeville and minstrel shows to | | | | Britney Spears. Artists such as Mariah Carey and |
| heavy metal. Pop music, on the other hand, has | | | | pop queen, Madonna, presented comeback albums |
| primarily come into usage to describe music that | | | | that continued to make them rule the music |
| evolved out of the rock n roll revolution of the | | | | charts and keep their titles.For the past 50 years |
| mid 1950's and continues in a definable path to | | | | the most successful musical styles on the pop |
| today.One of the steadiest elements of pop | | | | charts have continually changed and evolved and |
| music since the 1950's is the pop song, which is | | | | times will tell as how much more popular they |
| not usually written, performed and recorded as a | | | | become in future.Author is a web master & |
| symphony, suite, or concerto. The basic form for | | | | offers Free Mp3s, Movies, E-books, TV shows, |
| pop music is the song and usually a song | | | | Games, Antivirus, & Videos for downloads for a |
| consisting of verse and repeated chorus. They | | | | small lifetime fee & no per download charge. That |
| are short in length but there have been notable | | | | too Legally. |