For me, with the Blue Man Group, I got asked. It was for the Royal Variety Show, which was something I always wanted to be a part of. I’m really interested in things people don’t necessarily expect. I did a pop song, but I did it in my own style.
When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called ‘Pop It,’ where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It’s a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I’m stressed.
When you’re on the pop treadmill, you don’t always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren’t necessarily your environment.
I treat every album as a new beginning, so I’m asking myself, ‘What is pop music now? What are people consuming?’ and I take these things into effect.
‘Need You Now’ is a universal subject matter. It’s something that not just country fans, not just pop fans – everybody’s been there. And the production was a little left of center.
I must point out – Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva – she’s one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.
But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.
I think everyone is very surprised at how ‘Matrix’ has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.
It was a fun job but I’d never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.
I’ve covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don’t think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.
I’m masquerading as an innocent pop star.
I still miss my gramma. I can see her at the farm, in her apron, babushka and support stockings. My Slovak gramma spoiled us with pig in the blankets, kalachi, pop, chips and a drawer full of lollipops. It was heaven.
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.
I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
Creating a decent pop song is a challenge – and occasionally, once in every decade – it’s kind of fun to do that.
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people’s heads as they listen in the car. You don’t have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it’s just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
I think it’s a bit shocking for people when pop stars say anything out of the safe zone.
It’s very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.
I want to make big-sounding pop records.
I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, The The.
There hasn’t been that many indigenous Australians who have made it in the pop industry.
I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music… I love big, American pop music.
The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don’t act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he’d buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.
In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else’s space.
Pop is everything from Kanye West to Taylor Swift, it’s all pop to me.
I’m into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school… whatever… pop. If it’s really good, I like it. I don’t have to be told what to listen to. If I like it and it’s good, I’ll listen to it.
If you try to do that in pop music – to play only rare show tunes, for example – people don’t come.
I think the pop industry is still a young man’s game.
I think ‘Twilight’ was such a phenomenon that it will be awhile before anything like that will happen again. Cause it really influenced pop culture, and the stars of it – well, the people who became stars out of it – their lives were completely changed.
I’d get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little ‘wood shots’ down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn’t count the number of long outs!
Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it’s the best thing in the world.
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.
You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn’t the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don’t have a problem with it. What I’m trying to say is, I’m not a reluctant pop star.
I think, especially in pop culture, we’re brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
I eat small portions of crisps, sweets, chocolate, pizza, chicken, cake, doughnuts, ice cream, noodles and pop tarts all day long, so I get pretty upset when people accuse me of being anorexic.
You can tell on-stage when a joke’s starting to lose its pop. It doesn’t mean people don’t want to hear it anymore; it means I don’t want to do it anymore. Because I want to move on to something that has a knee-jerk reaction just like you get when you tell somebody a joke that they’ve never heard.
Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I’m going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop – everything. We unite them all.
I’d been listening to some old ’70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, ‘Let’s go into the studio and do something different. Let’s do something that’s super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.’ ‘Trouble’ is what we did. It’s something that wrote itself.
That’s what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.
Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.
I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can’t find any work.
Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
