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