Modern people’s preference for pop music has become a trend, and singers such as Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai, Li Yuchun, and Zhou Bichang have become household names. Most people hum their songs. What’s more, their loyal fans imitate their clothes, movements and expressions perfectly, reaching the level of obsession and fanaticism. Most pop music is based on daily real life, mostly love songs, but also describes life ethics, life ideals, missing one's hometown, and satirizes and criticizes the social system. Since pop music is mainly for the general public and pays more attention or emphasis on entertainment, even serious or tragic content is often stated in a lighter style, and the expression techniques and artistic styles are free and full of changes. .
From a morphological and structural point of view, pop music tends to be relatively simple in form, with few uses of pitch, and mostly within the range of sounds that are easiest for humans to listen to; music has less development and changes, and there are not many modulations. , especially the lack of frequent and fast off-keys; the rhythm is relatively simple, and a large number of works have repetitive mechanical rhythms; the intensity changes are not very complicated, the intensity amplitude is small, and there are fewer contrasting changes in extreme intensity; the sound structure has few levels , the average untrained listener can also clearly distinguish the levels of melody and accompaniment. Such music often has the characteristics of auditory sensory beauty, and has very low requirements on the listener's auditory tolerance and concentration. Since it does not require listeners to have a high ability to grasp auditory perception, it is easily accepted by most people, especially those who do not have much auditory experience. Since auditory experience is closely related to age, young people like this kind of music more.
From the perspective of existence, the main social consumer group of pop music exists among young people. The popular music activities of youth groups are not only an external manifestation of the choice of consumption methods, but also a core force of the reproduction potential of cultural diversity. At the edge of the youth group camp of pop music are teenagers and adults; and popularity itself is a two-way street: once teenagers pass this market down to smaller teenage fans or children's pop jazz lovers, it is passed up to adults. People and middle-aged people, teenagers themselves will no longer be interested in it. Due to factors such as social roles and mental development, smaller juvenile groups and adult groups are in a deficit in this "cultural trade", and are therefore more affected by the pop music trends led by youth groups.
From the perspective of activity format, the typical form of popular music activities is a concert. The concert combines viewing and listening enjoyment in one place, integrating live experience and nostalgia, including other forms of communication based on mass communication. At the concert site, the vast majority of the audience were young people who led pop music activities. They confirmed their identity in urban culture in this special way and conveyed a certain amount of cultural connotation. Concerts are also a means of compensating for a sense of alienation caused by the indirect nature of mass media in urban environments. In its initial stages, pop music has been criticized by art and ideology. To this day, people still criticize pop music, classifying it into the category of culture and subculture, and underestimating the influence of pop music on the Chinese music scene. It is an indisputable fact that it has brought new musical concepts and styles, even caused huge shocks in the ideological field, and is influencing and changing us more and more profoundly. Of course, pop music, as a commercial mass culture, its main value positioning is to emphasize the entertainment function rather than the educational function. It is essentially a non-mainstream and non-theme social ideology. However, this It does not affect the realization of pop music's musical value and its shaping of aesthetic objects from other levels with its unique aesthetic quality and humanistic connotation. From this perspective, pop music has breakthrough and revolutionary significance whether in the field of music or music aesthetics, whether in the field of life or in the field of thought.
Music has changed people's musical aesthetic concepts and habits, and improved people's musical aesthetic ability. In the past music aesthetic activities, the public always acted as listeners in music activities.
Nowadays, with the popularization and interaction of pop music, people not only want to gain auditory appreciation and enjoyment in music aesthetic activities, but also vent their passion and impulse through various behaviors and integrate themselves into music. In the emotions and atmosphere rendered, the simple passive recipient of music becomes an active participant, becoming both a recipient of music and a performer of music in a certain sense. This change in music aesthetic activities has enabled people to have a more direct and personal feeling and understanding of music, and then have their own evaluation, judgment and choice of music aesthetic form, aesthetic value, aesthetic direction and aesthetic function. The field of music aesthetics has changed from a "comfortable" person to a "self" person.
Music has changed people's behavior and lifestyle on a large scale. Music, the most fundamental value of Yishenmenjia, enters people's spiritual world in an aesthetic way. Its changing effect on people is realized through people's active aesthetic experience of it rather than relying on external force; music as the most important Emotion, the most imaginative art, can enter people's inner world more deeply and more intensely, allowing people to be influenced by the emotional atmosphere created by music, and make the spiritual world change in some aspects or to some extent; As one of the earliest art forms, music has always been the simplest and most effective cultural means for people to express their thoughts and feelings and need spiritual comfort; because music can move people more deeply and strongly, they can gain aesthetic experience from music It can be retained for a long time, that is, the effect of music on people is long-lasting and indelible.
As a form of music, pop music certainly has the above characteristics in its effect on people. In addition, its popularity is unprecedented and profound. Therefore, compared with other forms of music, it can save people. The impact is more extensive. For example, the lyrics of some popular songs such as "Follow your feelings" and "Good people have a safe life" have become popular and fashionable vocabulary; many cell phones and phone ringtones have also become certain melodies or certain singing parts of popular music... these What seems to be commonplace today is actually the epitome of changing people's behavior and lifestyle. From this perspective, pop music has popularized music and musicalized the public to varying degrees, and this musicalization process is the process of the public changing their lifestyles and behaviors.
Of course, the changes that pop music brings to people are in most cases gradual rather than sudden. It mainly uses its own charm to make people desexualize and willingly accept it, and subtly pays attention to people's closeness. In the process of musical beauty, we constantly get closer to the beauty of human nature and improve the quality of life. Pop music is first and foremost a mass music culture. "Popular music" is a historical concept. Examining China's current popular music within the history of Chinese popular music is the prerequisite for correctly evaluating its aesthetic value. Current pop music is an independent form in the history of the development of Chinese popular music. It has special historical value and aesthetic significance. The Chinese nation’s special ability to perceive music is the historical foundation for the popularity of current pop music. Chinese culture is a musical culture from its origin. Popular music conforms to the traditional aesthetic habits of the Chinese public in terms of rhythm, melody, lyrics and other factors. The popularity of pop songs also benefits from people's long-term cognitive ability of music. Chinese music culture began with the masses. As early as the lives of the primitive ancestors of China, China's popular music was formed. Music has always been an important part of people's daily lives. A large number of music and dance patterns can be seen on the unearthed Neolithic pottery. There are a large number of names of musical instruments in oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, and there are many ancient records of religious rituals. Music also plays an important role. Under the influence of a long culture of rituals and music. People's aesthetic cognition ability of music has also been formed. The current widespread acceptance of pop music by the public. It can be seen as the self-confirmation of this collective unconscious national aesthetic spirit. Benjamin pointed out. Art loved by the people is a natural collective experience. It is a reflection of the public’s own discernment. An explanation of the development of popular songs in the thirty years of reform and opening up. Pop music is an art style suitable for the public's aesthetic taste. The music that is popular in the streets and can be widely listened to and sung by people of different ages and social classes, may be sad and melancholy, passionate, intense and unrestrained, or lingering, all reflecting the current people's aesthetic needs.