Even though I’m a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I’m much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there’s no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There’s no, like, ‘I’ll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.’
My songs aren’t bubble gum pop dance songs and I don’t have background dancers on every single song.
All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.
Pop was great fun.
I do listen to Abba. And a lot of ’80s and ’90s pop music.
The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people’s perceptions of what the word pop means.
Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name – by my father’s position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
With most of my books, I’ll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.
When the songs pop out, that’s like the climax of us building.
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.
A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it’s not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone’s body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.
I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
If you’re a pop singer, you don’t need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don’t know if it’s pop or classical or what, but I’m religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.
Before I got married, I never really watched TV. Now, my husband and I watch ‘The Bachelor’ together. I love ‘The Soup’ – that’s where I get a lot of my pop culture – and ‘Chelsea Lately.’
I feel like this: When you call me in to do something with you, you must want me to do soul-singing. Because you know I’m a soul singer. Don’t ask me to come in and rap. And don’t ask me to come in and sing pop.
I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn’t, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.
I’m the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
My beauty tricks revolve around eyes. For the early morning shoots, I pop eye pads in the freezer the night before, and when I take them out in the morning they are already cold and active and are great under my eyes. I keep my eye pads right next to my red velvet Ben & Jerry’s in the freezer.
I didn’t start playing football a lot until I was in high school. I played it in seventh and eighth grade, but I didn’t play Pop Warner or anything.
People always seem to be interested in my private life because I’m married to a pop star.
Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke – George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.
Coming up with ideas is really hard – they don’t spontaneously pop into my head while I’m cutting vegetables.
Politics is pop. Our job as comedians – especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience – is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
The nice thing about doing a pop opera – in the way that doing, say, ‘Miss Saigon’ or ‘Les Miz’ would be – is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of ‘Why is this person bursting out into song?’ because the whole thing is sung.
At one time musical theater, particularly in the ’40s and ’50s, was a big source of pop songs. That’s how musical theater started, really – it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don’t do it to seek anybody’s approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.
I think I’m always adopting a persona. That’s how I look at pop music. I don’t feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don’t have to show an exact picture of who I am.
I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It’s simply a market chart.
Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.
Every week, I’m faced with, and aware of, 10-14 different reviewable albums that, in a perfect world, I’d be able to pop a review out of. But I’m just one person who, while maintaining my sanity, can only do 5-6 reviews per week.
I’ll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don’t have to be famous.
Music is my number one, it’s my life, it’s my everything. I’m enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.
That’s why ‘Chandelier’ was interesting to me… I wrote the song because there’s so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought it’d be interesting to do a different take on that.
Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I’m really proud that I had a part in them.
In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.
It’s not like you can say, ‘This is the right side and this is the wrong side,’ because obviously, a happy person is never going to want to inflict pain on somebody else. So the bullies are really victims themselves and yada, yada, yada, pop psychology, but it’s true.
Lesley Gore’s part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in ‘It’s My Party,’ savored revenge in the sequel ‘Judy’s Turn to Cry’ and belted the proto-feminist anthem ‘You Don’t Own Me.’
Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called ‘All At Sea,’ which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category.
No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
I feel like I’m doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to end up on the top 40 or the pop charts, it doesn’t mean I meant to go pop. It’s just where the music took me. It started at the bottom, and it rises.
I thought about going onto the first one, Pop Idol. My mum was saying, ‘Go on!’ But I decided not to. ‘The X Factor,’ though, doesn’t really seem to be a show about musical talent anymore.
The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis – that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.
I don’t follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that’s a weakness, actually, that I’m too in my own bubble. But I’m really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.
I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.
I’ve always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
What is pop music? It’s not a genre. It’s just the music that is popular at a given point in time.
GN’R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together.
My pop did a little time.
I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.
Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.
Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
I come from a pop background, but I’m also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I’m faking it.
Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.
My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.
