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The only one of those bands I know anything about is TMBG, and I wouldn't call them "pop". Don't you have to play a style of music that's actually popular in order to be called "pop"?
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Pop = juicy, sugary guitar lines, and a general "poppy" feel. Pop music can be brilliant, as in those examples, or mindbendingly awful, as in what you would hear on your top 40 station. But bad pop is still pop. Or, more importantly, good pop is still pop.
And none of those bands are obscure. TMBG won a Grammy, for Tim's sake! You can't get more pop than that. The Apples in Stereo are on the Powerpuff Girls soundtrack. We're not exactly dealing with Godspeed You Black Emperor! or Einsturzende Neubauten here.
Ok, so maybe Elf Power is a bit on the obscure side.
And I really love saying pop. Pop novel. Pop art. Pop pop pop.
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I've never gotten that from TMBG. Unless you mean it sounds like they were taking opium when they wrote the songs, which is possible...
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"The only one of those bands I know anything about is TMG, and I wouldn't call them "pop". Don't you have to play a style of music that's actually popular in order to be called "pop"?"
Popular with whom? By that criteria, R&B over here could be classified as pop.
And it can be. Pop can be used as a definition in the same way that classical can. As a catch-all, or as a more specific definition. So in the same way that classical can just refer to the Mozart era of music, and it can also be defined to include Romantic, Baroque and Modern; pop music can be defined either as basically "not classical" (which would include Rock, Dance, and others), or it can be as Simon described it.
"Though anything is better than Titney's music."
Insulting something by HILARIOUSLY changing their name makes you look really cool. Honestly. It does. Why don't you follow it up with an amusing post about Windoze? Or Prolestation owners? The merriment would surely cause a mass splitage of sides.
Fair enough if you don't like pop because you're still going through that angsty teenage "the words speak to me on so many levels man" stage. Just don't think it actually makes you even remotely interesting at parties.
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I didn't mean that anyone playing a popular style of music is automatically "pop". Just that you can't be "pop" if your musical style isn't popular.
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But what's your definition of popular? There are certainly enough snobby angst-filled "Nobody understands me" teenagers around to make They Might Be Giants fairly popular. They've been going for ages now.
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quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snayer: Yeah, but the US still gets stuck with NSync, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Stephen Collings, Christina Aguilera ...
yep.. all the beautiful people! spice girls on the otherhand... ew.
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...and we can't really speak for Stephen Collings.
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Well, a definition that says, essentially "This is music I don't like" is valid, I think, but not necessarily useful, and certainly not universal.
Even though I might tend to agree.
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