- published: 18 May 2016
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Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local audiences. Although popular music sometimes is known as "pop music", the two terms are not interchangeable. Popular music is a generic term for music of all ages that appeals to popular tastes, whereas pop music usually refers to a specific musical genre.
Musicologist and specialist in popular music Philip Tagg defined the notion in the light of sociocultural and economical aspects:
"Popular music, unlike art music, is (1) conceived for mass distribution to large and often socioculturally heterogeneous groups of listeners, (2) stored and distributed in non-written form, (3) only possible in an industrial monetary economy where it becomes a commodity and (4) in capitalist societies, subject to the laws of 'free' enterprise, according to which it should ideally sell as much as possible of as little as possible to as many as possible."
Take a small bite of your meat-loaf and share it with the throne
Tie the tie, you're a handsome date rapist
Put some faces, put some smiles, and all that garbage in your mouth
Lick them with the knowledge that you don't know where they've been
Just like a quarter
Fake like you care and you'll get to go home with her tonight
Tell the friends, you're their biggest hero
Put some faces, put some smiles, and all that garbage in your mouth
Lick them with the knowledge that you don't know where they've been
Just like a quarter on the sidewalk
Starving smiles, so pretty
It will always be this way
No one here is innocent
No one here is on his knees
No one here has got some problems
No one here is a rapist, racist, high-blood pressure, short-tempered
Your face has filled out a bit but you're respectable
Keep it sharp, keep on smiling, we're happy
Put some faces put some smiles, and all that garbage in your mouth
Share them with your children though you don; t know where they've been