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Who cares? Today's Pop music isn't music anyway. It's all specifically crafted to make it extremely popular so people will buy albums for singles, listen to the

• unalone 18y ago
  Not to squabble on generic terms with you, but pop music is still music. Does it focus on entirely different things than other genres of music? Yes. Does that mean that you can easily dismiss it as not having any musical merit whatsoever? Of course. However, it takes talent to make a good pop song. It's a radically different talent than the sort that goes into other music, but pop musicians are talented. They're just looked down upon because their music is so lacking in terms of depth. But that too contributes to WHY they're so popular. The creation of pop music is a study unto itself.
  • tdavis 18y ago
    Right, I'm not saying it doesn't take talent. Musically, though, the songs have no merit, so I don't really consider Pop music to be music; it's more like smart marketing or something. For instance, would you consider the songs in Coke commercials to be... music? I mean, it's music in the dictionary sense of the word I suppose, but nobody with any reasonable amount of taste would call it that. It's just an advertisement.