That's just a snob's view of pop, though. "Pop" shouldn't be defined to be any music designed to appeal to the masses and which we personally don't happen to like. Vapidity is not a rquired characteristic of pop, it's just extremely common.
To me, a piece of music being a pop song depends more on the formula it follows and the tricks it uses than it depends on what the song happens to be about, but maybe I'm alone in this.
More examples of archetypal pop songs:
I Get Around, The Beach Boys Love Me Do, The Beatles Stand by Your Man, Tammy Wynette
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Date: 2003-01-16 03:36 am (UTC)That's just a snob's view of pop, though. "Pop" shouldn't be defined to be any music designed to appeal to the masses and which we personally don't happen to like. Vapidity is not a rquired characteristic of pop, it's just extremely common.
To me, a piece of music being a pop song depends more on the formula it follows and the tricks it uses than it depends on what the song happens to be about, but maybe I'm alone in this.
More examples of archetypal pop songs:
I Get Around, The Beach Boys
Love Me Do, The Beatles
Stand by Your Man, Tammy Wynette