1. Pop Music
Pop music is made up by elements of many different genres
of music including Urban, Dance, Rock and Country.
‘Pop’ is a term that originally comes from the abbreviation
of popular, as pop music is simply a popular style of music
originating in the 1950’s

2. How do you define Pop music?
 The core elements defining pop music are things such as
the length of the song and the format of the song. Pop
songs tend to be short to medium in length and written in
a very basic format. Pop music is melodic and the lyrics in
Pop music tends to be very repetitive, especially during
the chorus, which could be seen as annoying by some
listeners. Pop songs are full of catchy hooks, which
catches the ear of the listener and makes the song
memorable. Catchy hooks are supposed to make the
song more appealing to the listener but can sometimes
do the opposite and put them off the song and be seen
as annoying.

3.  The main goal in pop music is to make it easy and
pleasurable to listen too, rather than having much focus
on artistic depth. To achieve this Pop artists often include
meaningless lyrics simply to make the verse to rhyme.

4. The Pop music industry
 Within pop music the emphasis is on recording and
producing and using technology such as autotune to
make the track sound high quality. There is less emphasis
on artistic quality in pop music unlike acoustic or rock