Modern Pop....(bear with me)

[eejit101]

After recent music in the charts is mediocre at best, is good pop music finally making a comeback?

I mean right now ive just listened to the following...

TI ft Justin Timberlake - Dead And Gone
*****cat Dolls - Jai Ho
Florida - Round Round
Lady GaGa - Poker Face
Lilly Allen - The Fear
Beyonce - Halo
Noisettes - Dont upset the rhythm
Kings Of Lean - Use Somebody
Lady GaGa - Just Dance
Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck WIthout You

And that song with Miley Cryus's Brother, dunno who or what its called. Shake It??

and many others....


And all of these are in the UK top 15, and are likeable and listenable to. Especially the TI ft JT song, i love that.


Somethings wrong!!!!!!!!

[taylovesthebeatles]

Yes, eejit, something is wrong...with you! :P

Seriously, I really don't see much of a difference. Maybe I just have older taste in music, but that stuff especially doesn't sound any different than anything else that's come out recently, which I personally consider to be crap. There is the possibility that I just don't "get" it, but even so I do see a marked difference in today's music with older music. I don't think many, if any at all, new popular* musician today is really reaching very far back into their musical roots at all, to what pop music used to be. Add to that that much of the popular music today is difficult to classify as strictly pop or strictly R&B music- it depends who you ask where these songs fall. So no, generally as far as popular music is concerned, I don't think much has changed. Not until there is a redefinition of which artists (even current ones) are considered most popular.

*high volume of radio play today, not necessarily any artist popular within the past few years

[ScareCrowAKA]

Lady Gaga, Beyonce, *****Cat Dolls? are you serious. I am by no mean a hard rock or even that much of a rock person. But I think the newer stuff is getting more and more horrible... And I like songs of 2 or 3 yrs ago like cyclone, Let me buy you a drink, etc... But the songs you listed are all pretty much horrible. Especially Halo and Lady Gaga... Pa Pa Pa Poker face Pa Pa poker face. Ma Ma Ma Ma. hahahaha. -Dead and Gone is good, but most of T.I.'s songs are at least decent.

[GloBug]

umm not all those songs are pop. there are hip hop and r&b. i dont know what u classify as pop. britney spears is pop, JT when he was with nsync is pop. no TI and JT. that is a hip hop song.

[taylovesthebeatles]

umm not all those songs are pop. there are hip hop and r&b. i dont know what u classify as pop. britney spears is pop, JT when he was with nsync is pop. no TI and JT. that is a hip hop song.

Right, that's what I was saying in my post- it all depends on how you want to define "pop music". If you define it s "popular music", then much of those R&B songs would be considered pop music as well. If you define it the way you and many others do, then you're right, those songs do not classify as pop music. I suppose we should ask eejit what "pop music" means over there, assuming he knows!

[ScareCrowAKA]

I think he was going by the Chart... look up the pop 100 chart... all those songs are on it... Pretty much modern day hip-hop is all cross over subsidery of the broader term of pop.

[eejit101]

I was considering poplular music. And from my other threads involving songs i like and stuff, all of the songs listed here are in NO WAY similar to my taste.

[taylovesthebeatles]

I was considering poplular music. And from my other threads involving songs i like and stuff, all of the songs listed here are in NO WAY similar to my taste.

I didn't think they were similar to your tastes at all, eej, that's why I thought you were a little nuts!

[eejit101]

exactly!!!!!

Ive gone mad