Pop music means everything to me. I’ve been listening to pop since I was kid, running home from school to watch Britney Spears and Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera music videos, and it felt like it was a world to escape to for me personally.
Pop music is getting so emo. It’s great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.
In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else’s space.
I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
I tend to latch on to things pretty obsessively for awhile. I listened to Russian pop music exclusively for almost five years. It’s weird.
For a long time I wasn’t actually listening to pop. But when I got back into electronic and hip-hop stuff, I rediscovered my passion for pop music.
I love pop music, but at the same time, I’m seeking to write whatever I’m organically inclined to.
I love pop music, but I feel like the genre is overpopulated – there was so much bubblegum for a while, but I feel like Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are bringing good, real music back to the radio.
I personally don’t like to draw a line between ‘K-pop’ and pop music, but I do think it is a good time for K-pop artists to be shown to the world, because the world is just ready for it.
I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like… the band I’ve signed on to our label right now; they’re called The Sounds. They’re kind of like a new-wave pop band.
There’s a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that’s foolish. They’re not really listening.
When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
When everyone was listening to pop music I was listening to Monty Python records.
The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it’s really for kids.
Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.
I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I’m like a Casanova of music. I can’t seem to settle down with one musical form.
For me, I always have looked at ‘indie’ as a term of ‘independence.’ Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant ‘popular’ to me; you know, it didn’t define a sound.
If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn’t record it! I love them too much to do that.
I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.
I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.
Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It’s not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.
I like pop music. I consider rock ‘n’ roll to be a branch of pop music.
Games isn’t really pop music, and neither is OPN. Both are part of the same ecosystem and both deal with exploring the undercurrents of pop music.
As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.
No one does cool, catchy pop music like Robyn, and ‘Hang With Me’ is a testament to that.
I grew up listening to pop music with my dad in the car, and we’d just listen to Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Earth Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band – all that good stuff. So to see it snaking its way back around again is really exciting, and I love listening to the radio.
Dr. Dre’s ‘2001’ album changed modern pop music.
I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.
I’ve become kind of a haven for people who like pop music, but that’s not the only thing they like. They also like music in general and want to be able to expand their own horizons. They haven’t completely given up on music and are willing to have somebody mediate new things that are happening in music to them.
Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.
I do love great pop music, The Hollies had brilliant pop records.
Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it’s what it expresses that counts.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
No U.K. rapper has been in my position; there are loads of big rappers like Tinie Tempah or Skepta, but no one has done what I have: had mainstream success with underground music and pop music.
There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Losing My Mind,’ or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell’s ‘Help Me.’
Pop music is always great for keeping the energy up, but it can get really old, especially after eight hours, just because there aren’t that many great pop songs.
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that’s existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.
I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop… I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.
I’ve never intended to be controversial, but it’s very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
I don’t really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.
If I can sing along to it, it’s pop music.
I wanted to show that pop music can be about something else other than the big love songs.
There are times pop music is the end result when I’m in the studio, but I don’t really go in and say, ‘Today I am going to make a pop song,’ but it can happen.
I love a bit of pop music. I’m a big sucker for it.
I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
Good, effective pop music isn’t just verbal language. It takes a good physical beat to make you feel something.
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it’s sparse. There’s nothing that’s pretentious or planned. It’s just so gutsy.
I think there’s something antagonistic about bedroom pop. We’re reappropriating pop and saying you don’t have to be an ex-Disney star to make pop music. You can be from Shepherd’s Bush and have spent most of your life listening to the Smiths and still make a pop record.
Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It’s incredibly important.
Every year, there’s some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it’s kind of relegated to the sidelines.
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that’s why garage bands started springing up everywhere.
There’s rock n’ roll in hip-hop, there’s rock n’ roll in pop music, there’s rock n’ roll in soul, there’s rock n’ roll in country. When you see people dress, and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that’s rock n’ roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star, you know?
I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.
I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music – which is usually older pop music – to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you’d expect.
Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.
I don’t have to, like, try to come out with pop music because I feel that that’s gonna make me sell a lot more. I mean, I make the music I love to make and that’s it.
I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.
I grew up in Southern California and always loved melodic pop music.
Belly made me aware that you could write songs that were mysterious or vulnerable. Their guitar-led music was in some ways very simple, the opposite of the pop music I was brought up with, like Michael Jackson. It made me realise music was something that you could be part of, make in your room.
