Classification of pop music

Pop music is a type of music style, which refers to music created with the main purpose of catering to the taste of a broad audience. It is commercial music entertainment and all the "industrial" phenomena related to it. ——The "Music Encyclopedia Dictionary" of the former Soviet Union

In fact, just listen to songs. Many music lovers insist on classifying pop songs into categories if they disagree. So in addition to the familiar music types, there are also various unheard of pop music classifications...

First of all, they are classified by region or language... This kind of classification is generally normal, nothing wrong with it. It’s very popular, so people generally don’t discuss its category when talking about it. For example, some of the more influential countries or regions:

Mandarin pop

Cantonese pop

European and American pop

Japanese pop

Korean popular

Indian popular

Turkey popular

French popular

Italian popular

Africa Popular

Arab Popular

These popular categories have distinct regional characteristics and are easy to distinguish. But generally people don't like to use this kind of pop classification. For example, someone asks you "What type of pop music do you like?" "I like Mandarin pop" - isn't this too low? "I like French pop" - am I being too pretentious again...

Okay, let's introduce some cool pop music categories... Listen up, everyone...

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Pop dance music

Many people think that dance music is music for dancing. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. After DISCO became popular in 1970, pop dance music was born, and it is generally based on electronic music. Nowadays, many of the earthy songs are dance music.

Adult Age

Don’t get confused when you see this category. This category has nothing to do with pornography. It plays like "a median in the middle of the street." It lacks the friction and smooth sound of rock or soul music, but it pays too much attention to the acoustic effect like traditional pop music, focusing on romantic and sad love songs.

Indie pop

Indie pop is not about independence in terms of numbers, but independence in production. It's hard to say how this category emerged, but it originated from small companies or individuals who put aside business and pursued music and art. These musicians are like a group of hard-working pioneers and diggers. The Indie they uphold is a gentle attitude. They do not destroy anything or go to extremes to show their independence, but a kind of sobriety and peace that is not disturbed by the outside world. Obsessed with their own taste, they just make music they like.

Boy groups

Don’t be surprised, this is also a category of pop music. In fact, this type of music was born in 1965. It wasn't until 1993 that the birth of the Backstreet Boys pushed the genre to new heights. Subsequently, from the United States, Europe to Japan, various boy groups began to emerge. Therefore, the TFBOY that many mother fans are enthusiastic about is actually the leftovers from other people’s games (don’t hit me)..

　Girls Groups

Since there are boy groups, there must be girl groups. Everyone is already familiar with this. The influence of girl groups in China is mostly from Japan and South Korea, while Chinese local groups seem to be tepid.

Dream pop

Relies on sonic processing of musical textures to express pleasant tones. Dream pop attempts to use breathy and echo-filled guitar effects and electronic synthesizers to process effects. For example, Faye Wong's "Singing Tour".

Psychedelic pop

Although there was a style of psychedelic music in the 1960s, psychedelic pop refers to new psychedelic music.

Whether they're performing hallucinogenic psychedelic pop (like the Beatles, early Pink Floyd, and countless others), noisy Byrds-influenced guitar rock, distortion-laden free-form riffs, or mind-blowing Nervous sonic experimentation, their evocative and idiosyncratic sounds are a source of hallucinations, whether their music is modernized or shamelessly copied from the original artists. This style is also often associated with drug use.

Ambient pop

Ambient pop is a typical music style without harsh notes. The intoxicating rhythm of German rock is greatly influenced by ambient pop, and even has a hypnotic effect. Essentially, it's an extension of dream pop's awakening in the shoegazer movement. Although most still use original instruments, they interpret the music by absorbing electronic music, including sample works.

Sunshine pop

Sunshine pop originated in California in the mid-1960s. The main styles are songs with rich accompaniment, orchestral ensembles, and non-stop cheering. genre, it is usually influenced by some hallucinatory music, but its purpose is not to evoke any renewed strong need after the consciousness has weakened from drug dependence; it simply absorbs the warm and comical hallucinatory pop side, and merges Produced innovations that became the era (especially Phil Spector and Beach Brian Wilson).

Noise Pop

Jangle Pop is a sub-genre of alternative/indie rock. As its name says, it is wrapped in feedback, dissonance and Pop with frayed 'sharp guitar flicks. It occupies a niche somewhere between bubblegum dance rock and the avant-garde, a product of traditional pop music-making colliding with the sonic onslaught of white noise.

Noise Pop

The English name is Jangle Pop, which is different from noise pop. Jangle Pop is an American post-punk music movement in the mid-1980s. Its main symbol is its musical quality. A return to the harmonious guitars and pop melodies of the 1960s. The instant spark sparked by the arrival of R.E.M. gave Jangle Pop a folk-rock flavor, but it is still fundamentally a music genre based on pop music. Jangle Pop is not mainstream music--the band's lyrics are often deliberately vague, the sound is unpolished and unprofessional, which means that this music has all the characteristics of a do-it-yourself spirit.

Twee Pop amp; C86

Also translated as childish pop, it may be best compared to bubblegum indie rock - its music has a DIY spirit, but disdains punk Conventional conventions of music, yet it has a forthright innocence not heard since the birth of rock music.

Baroque Pop

Baroque pop emerged in the mid-1960s, beginning with artists including Left Banke, the Beach Boys, producer Phil Spector, and composer Burt Bacharach Injecting the basic elements of classical music into the rock era to achieve a magnificent orchestral sound effect is different from the original fanaticism of simple rock. Layered coordination, arrangement and trumpeting are characteristic of all Baroque pop, giving the music a dramatic, lively character.

Chamber Pop

Also called CHAMBER POP in English, it refers to a kind of elegant, noble and refined pop music, which has a certain feeling of classical music.

It emerged in the 1990s as a reaction to LO-FI and GRUNGE at that time. It emphasized beautiful melodies, exquisite soundtracks, and clean recordings, and often used strings and wind instruments to create the musical feel of the Baroque era.

Brill Building Pop

"Brill Building Pop" music applies the concepts of professional songwriters to traditional "pop" and "rock" music , countless teams of professional songwriters work out of the Brill Building, a one-block music publishing building in New York City, providing services for artists of all stripes ("the Coasters", "the Drifters"). ", "the Shangri-Las", "the Ronettes", Neil Sedaka and Connie Francis), whose songs are not only indebted to "rock" and "r&b" as evidenced by their high-level lyrics and melodies (Ramp; B) music, and also benefited from "Ding Bang Alley" "pop" music.

Contemporary Christianity

Yes, this is also a pop music category (God broke into a cold sweat after listening to it), referred to as CCM. Contemporary gospel music, which is mainly Christian, has a strong religious overtone.

Elegant pop

"Elegant pop" is a smooth mainstream "Pop/Rock" music with a "Jazz" flavor. In the mid-1980s.

In addition to "jazz" elements, many "elegant pop" artists also incorporate "pop-soul" music elements into their music, but synthesizers are usually used to modify the music arrangement. It shows that "elegant pop" music is a product of the 1980s.

With its garish production and soft, urbane feel, "gentle pop" music appealed to the tastes of "Adult Contemporary" and "Quiet Storm" music radio shows, but It never became a widely popular trend and, by the turn of the '90s, had largely died out.

Celtic Pop

Celtic Pop has many similarities with traditional Celtic music. Country pop in the United States and Britain takes advantage of this. Point to imitation---although pleasant tones or instruments are clearly influenced by credible articles in following popular conventions and rarely misunderstanding the core of traditional forms of music. ;