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.
It doesn’t have to. Both can be used interchangeably but one doesn’t always necessarily mean the other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music has a really good outline on the history and why “pop music” is a sub genre of “popular music”.
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.
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)_/¯
Pop is a genre, and does not necessarily stand for popular music
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.
Yes, it is a genre. And that genre is “popular music.”
It literally does stand for popular music.
It doesn’t have to. Both can be used interchangeably but one doesn’t always necessarily mean the other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music has a really good outline on the history and why “pop music” is a sub genre of “popular music”.
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”.
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.
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)_/¯
Crazy the Wikipedia link is right there and everything. Oh well! Good day!