What Pop Music REALLY Is.

To me, at least.

Music class this year is theory and history-based and the one important thing I learned from it was the completing piece of my definition of pop music.

I've taken from numerous sources, learned from listening and right now I can cohesively and completely compile my concept of the genre.

Pop music is two things first - it's pop, short for popular or pop as in sweet, aimed at people 20 and under.

Pop as in popular is any style, any nationality as long as it's widely played, heard, listened to and nowadays bought. Pop music is what people are listening to at any given time - it's what's POPULAR.

Pop as in sweet is particularly aimed at teenagers and pre-teens - silly lyrics, simple melodies and hardly any jumping through hoops and walking through fire musically. It's a genre you don't have to really, really, really critically listen to if you don't want to. If you want to, who's stopping you? I do.

But the genre has one final description. It's got clean lines, it's processed, partly manmade, and it's like all the other modern art forms. You see how architecture in the 21st century uses manufactured materials - steel, concrete and is square, angular but built by people. How literature these days is catchy, edgy and has bite and popular visual art is mostly made on computers these days - they all mirror how pop music is.

So, pop music is literally a reflection of every other present art form - it has the qualities that literature, visual art, architecture and every other field has.

Which brings me to an external point. I HATE it when people separate 'art' from music and think that 'art' are the paintings you see in galleries and the sculptures lying around. Art is music, literature, painting, architecture, filmmaking, broadcasting, those billboards and advertisements around you - THEY ARE ALL ART FORMS.