Well sure, but a pop song which doesn't live in the genre in unlikely to be the essence of pop, is it ?
No, but then I didn't say that it doesn't live in the pop genre, I said that it does live in some other genre.
If we want to assert that "genre" provides a disjoint partition (or, perhaps, a strict heirarchy) of all of music, then firstly we're going to have to go through the entire pop/rock section of HMV straightening things out, and secondly we have bands like Blink 182 where each songs is on the pop/rock margin, never mind whole albums at a time. Finally we're going to have to deal with cases like Vanessa Mae's "modern classical" or whatever she calls it. It's impossible.
Far simpler to say that pop is as pop does, and that if someone writes what is blatantly a pop song but that happens to have heavy guitar chugging, we'll call it a pop song rather than trying to work out whether it can't be pop because it might be rock.
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Re: Someone has to mention...
Date: 2003-01-16 02:35 am (UTC)Well sure, but a pop song which doesn't live in the genre in unlikely to be the essence of pop, is it ?
No, but then I didn't say that it doesn't live in the pop genre, I said that it does live in some other genre.
If we want to assert that "genre" provides a disjoint partition (or, perhaps, a strict heirarchy) of all of music, then firstly we're going to have to go through the entire pop/rock section of HMV straightening things out, and secondly we have bands like Blink 182 where each songs is on the pop/rock margin, never mind whole albums at a time. Finally we're going to have to deal with cases like Vanessa Mae's "modern classical" or whatever she calls it. It's impossible.
Far simpler to say that pop is as pop does, and that if someone writes what is blatantly a pop song but that happens to have heavy guitar chugging, we'll call it a pop song rather than trying to work out whether it can't be pop because it might be rock.