With the Viral sensation of Friday I'm curious to how you guys feel about her and in the direction pop music is moving.
Pop music isn't moving in any specific direction, it's constantly shifting changing in a fluid manner
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also it's not really a "viral sensation" it was more like an "ironic mini-blip" propagated more by people who disliked it than by genuine fans
Pop music has never really changed, It does have its trends, ex. boy bands, simple 4 chord songs, and now they are going in a dancy direction with a random rap part. Although it does change, it still dominates the music market for very short amounts of time and then dies very quickly.
Do you think that it had a bigger audience or appeal in years before?
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Also how do you think that most people online react to the songs and why?
[QUOTE=DeathMachine;29624199]Do you think that it had a bigger audience or appeal in years before?
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you mean pop music? I'm pretty sure what [I]is[/I] considered pop music is based on it's appeal, rather than the other way around. Pop is whatever has wide appeal
School assignment much?
Anyway, pop kicks ass. I would say that the current trend is to synthesize as much as possible of the sound. Like every instrument (including vocals). Lady Gaga is a good example of this, and house music. Purists will tell you that this is killing music. But the art of synthesizing everything isn't something new. It was exactly like this back in the 1980's.
I wish it'd find a direction to actually go in, and move out of the boring crap it's doing now
[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;29627969]I wish it'd find a direction to actually go in, and move out of the boring crap it's doing now[/QUOTE]
if anything the direction of pop music right now is the least boring it's ever been because what's popular is becoming increasingly eclectic. From about the 90's backwards every year almost never had more than 6-7 number one albums, which dominated the charts, but now there are almost as many number one's as there are weeks. i'm not saying the quality of popular music has gone up or down and a lot of this can probably be attributable to the general decline of the music industry but it's certainly not boring
80s pop was better than anything at all ever
I like 60s pop the best but 80s is up there.
My opinion is that Rebecca Black is the voice of her generation and the new standard of super high-quality music. My opinion on Pop music is that it is at its peak.
Music from this point will only be worse than Rebecca Black because she is the epitome of quality music.
She's a complete moron. Simple as. Not to mention she paid a considerable amount of money to have a song about a day of the week published. But hey, she made some serious dough-ray-me from it, so fair play.
Her parents paid a (comparatively small) amount of money to have a video shot for a prewritten song she'd recorded the vocals over. At the end of the day hate is what made it popular, so the lesson here is if you hate it, shut the fuck up about it.
Though quite frankly, I can't understand the veracity of people who hate music. Just ignore it.
[QUOTE=Franke_R!?;29636709]My opinion is that Rebecca Black is the voice of her generation and the new standard of super high-quality music. My opinion on Pop music is that it is at its peak.
Music from this point will only be worse than Rebecca Black because she is the epitome of quality music.[/QUOTE]
just like how you're the epitome of quality posting.
[QUOTE=stupid10er;29636861]just like how you're the epitome of quality posting.[/QUOTE]
The OP wanted an opinion and I gave mine.
If you don't like my opinion at least say why.
[QUOTE=Rad McCool;29627855]School assignment much?
Anyway, pop kicks ass. I would say that the current trend is to synthesize as much as possible of the sound. Like every instrument (including vocals). Lady Gaga is a good example of this, and house music. Purists will tell you that this is killing music. But the art of synthesizing everything isn't something new. It was exactly like this back in the 1980's.[/QUOTE]
True that. Even though I dislike the way this music is going, I have no problem with music that's made specifically for the fact that it's synthesized (think trance/techno).
Pop isn't much of a genre to move forward.
Therefore I do not think has credibility in terms of the industry as a whole.
Things like Arcade Fire, Porcupine Tree and James Blake are pulling through into the charts and that is a good thing for the industry.
Rebecca black has almost nothing to do with pop music and is in no way influencing it at all.
[QUOTE=AK'z;29653394]Pop isn't much of a genre to move forward.
Therefore I do not think has credibility in terms of the industry as a whole.
Things like Arcade Fire, Porcupine Tree and James Blake are pulling through into the charts and that is a good thing for the industry.[/QUOTE]
Pop isn't really a genre anyways, but I agree.
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