• nile_istic@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Funny, cuz lots of the ones who say “ew less than 100k listens” will also say they’re not into pop music. Wondering what they think “pop” is short for lmao

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        19 hours ago

        You’re right and also wrong. It’s a genre defined by being meant for an audience as wide as possible. It evolves over time like any genre, but in this case specifically what defines pop in an era is whatever is popular in some era. Trying to be popular is like the entire point of pop.

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            19 hours ago

            I’m not saying that all pop music is actually popular, I’m saying that the origin of the term “pop music” is “popular music”.

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              19 hours ago

              That’s very different from what you stated early. Because “pop music” doesn’t stand for “popular music”. They are different things in the way the OP stated.

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                15 hours ago

                The genre of pop music was built off using instrumentation and song structures common in popular music, hence the name. Not sure why this is confusing, but I’m also not interested in talking to you anymore, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯