I love that sense of change that you’d get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
There’s many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that’s the reality of what music is.
A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
I’ve got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.
When I’m dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don’t wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn’t this be comparable? 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.
Everybody knows that I’m not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn’t understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
The core of me is country. It’s what I love. It’s what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I’m still singing it ‘countrily.’
It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I’d been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.
As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I’m not unhappy about it.
I like to make music because it’s fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.
I love pop music because you can really see what’s currently happening in society.
I’ve always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That’s what I’ve always done.
I wasn’t very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
I was about nine years old when I first heard Wu-Tang’s ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ Before that, I didn’t know anything about rap or hip-hop. I was just into Korean pop.
I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I’ve never thought, ‘Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.’ It’s never really been my thing.
Pop music will never be low brow.
I’m not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn’t discriminate against people. Look at Lady Gaga, y’know what I mean?
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.
I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream – we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet – underground in every sense.
I have come to terms with the fact that it’s called pop music – that’s what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.
We did a ‘Vanity Fair’ spread for ‘The Hunger Games,’ and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop up from the tree. There were three teenage girls who snuck past security and made it into the forest.
I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.
Women in music have always been associated with pop – with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.
Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson… all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.
Overall, Korean pop serves as the foundation of my musical upbringing. As a result, the melodies that I create just exude that type of vibe.
Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I’ve been led astray like that myself at times.
People don’t listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung ‘Easy’ in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it’s a really nice blend.
It’s a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing – in art, in pop – we’ll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
I’m a huge fan of Renaissance art. It’s very direct. They’re paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate way that a huge pop tune hits you in the face.
How You Like That’ has Blackpink’s own color and it’s more powerful than the previous songs. We tried to put in pop, rock and hip-hop aspects in it. Orchestral sound in the beginning is very impressive.
Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
I’m very aware of my spending, but I’m not very aware of my income. There are certain times when I speak to my accountant, or something will pop up, and I’ll be like ‘oh’ but it’s not really a frontrunner in my head.
Bob Dylan was the source of pop music’s unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.
I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.
My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that’s the way it will always be.
To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
The one thing about The Weeknd is that he’s gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That’s what I like about him.
It’s kind of like I’m Phil Spector, and I’m forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
It doesn’t get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
My time at Pop has been a transformative experience that I am extremely proud of. It has afforded me the chance to collaborate with some of the greatest creative minds in the world, and I’m thankful to Ashley Heath and Bauer Media for the opportunity.
I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear a jazz song then a pop song then a show tune then some jazz. Basically, whatever the DJ felt like playing, he would play. He was educating you and exposing you to things you would never hear otherwise.
Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.
This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don’t want to live my life like that, and I don’t want to be a typical pop star.
The difficult thing about a pop record is that you’re given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.
I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren’t hiring opera singers.
Pop culture is like our subconscious.
I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, ‘Damn, that’s a pop song!’ I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.
I’m not trying to be a pop singer.
I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.
I think hip hop is dead. It’s all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It’s all commercial now.
I’m tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.
Women who are paid to look hot get hit on all the time, so don’t roll up on a restaurant hostess with your non-iron Trump Collection shirt and expect anything to pop off.
Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren’t pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I’d fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
