2. 
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

3. The length of the song and the format of
the song help to define the pop genre.
They tend to be…
 short to medium in length
 Very basic format
 Melodic
 Repetitive lyrics
 Catchy

4. 
Pop is associated with bright colours and
cheep and easy clothing that you can
dance in, the pop princesses tend to
wear more sparkly costumes that you
wouldn’t walk down the street in when
performing where as the guys more
often wear jeans or have a more casual
style. There is also the image of lots of
screaming girls with fan signs.

5. Pop music is short for popular music so it
tends to be music that interests a wide
audience and is music that we are
exposed to a lot through music videos and
radio shows. As it is so popular it is used for
texts in the media that want to be
recognised and remembered like adverts.

6. 
There is less focus on the artistic quality
of the music as it is often highly auto
tuned using lots of technology to make
the track sound of high quality. The artist
can be very untalented but still be very
successful because their voices are so
altered.

7. 
The lyrics in pop songs tend to not have a
very deep meaning and be about
boyfriends, girlfriends, parties, love, dancing
and sex. They also rhyme at the end of
every line, they also sing about current
fashions and keep very up to date with the
younger generation, trying to use the same
kind of lingo they use. Its consistent so the
audience stay interested and comfortable
in what they know.