Pop music targets a wide audience ranging from ages 8 to 50 across genders and ethnicities. The typical pop listener is portrayed as fashionable and trend-following, embracing modern styles. Pop songs often stick to familiar structures and sounds that are popular at the time to appeal to mainstream tastes.

1. REPRESENTATION

2. POP- STEREOTYPES, CODES AND CONVENTIONS
• There are codes and conventions, and stereotypes that go with the genre of POP. These
include certain demographics for the stereotypical audience.
• The conventional age for the genre of POP is between 8 and 50. This is a large range as
the genre of pop is really large and lots of different forms of music fit under the pop
genre.
• POP is very gender neutral as there is an equal amount of songs that suit both men and
women being released in this genre.
• It is not ethnocentric, and so there are lots of different ethnicities that listen and enjoy POP
music.
• It is targeted at the social classes under upper class, however upper class people do listen
to this genre.
• The audience for this genre stereotypically were fashionable clothes and are modernised.
They wear a lot of new clothes, have fashionable hair cuts, and obey trends that are
constantly created.
• The genre usually follows trends, and a lot of music that is produced is not that different to
other music that is being produced around the same time in the same genre.
• Artists tend to stick to the same structure in their music as they know the audience like it.
• The stereotypical pop listener is seen to be ‘normal’. This means they are not overly