Pop rock

Pop rock is a fusion genre that mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its (typically) guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music. The detractors of pop rock often deride it as a slick, commercial product, less authentic than rock music.

Characteristics

Much pop and rock music has been very similar in sound, instrumentation and even lyrical content. The terms "pop-rock" and "power pop" have been used to describe more commercially successful music that uses elements from, or the form of, rock music. Pop-rock has been defined as an "upbeat variety of rock music" represented by artists such as Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Everly Brothers, Rod Stewart, Chicago, and Peter Frampton.

Debates

Critic Philip Auslander argues that the distinction between pop and rock is more pronounced in the US than in the UK. He claims in the US, pop has roots in white crooners such as Perry Como, whereas rock is rooted in African-American music influenced by forms like such as rock and roll. Auslander points out that the concept of pop rock, which blends pop and rock is at odds with the typical conception of pop and rock as opposites. Auslander and several other scholars such as Simon Frith and Grossberg argue that pop music is often depicted as an inauthentic, cynical, "slickly commercial" and formulaic form of entertainment. In contrast, rock music is often heralded as an authentic, sincere, and anti-commercial form of music, which emphasizes song writing by the singers and bands, instrumental virtuosity, and a "real connection with the audience".

Pop

Pop may refer to:

Common meanings

Father

Fizzy drink

Pop music, a music genre

People

Pop (nickname)

Pop (surname), a Romanian surname

Iggy Pop (born 1947), American musician

Jimmy Pop (born 1972), American musician

Pop Chalee (1906–1993), American painter, muralist, performer and singer

Places

Pop River (Jijia), Romania

Pop River (Sadu), Romania

Entertainment

Pacific Ocean Park, an amusement park

Pokémon Organized Play, a trading card and figure organization

Publishing

Pop (fashion magazine), a British publication

Pop Magazine, a sports magazine

Television

Pop (U.S. TV network), an American cable network formerly known as TVGN until January 2015

Pop (UK TV channel), a UK children's television channel

POP TV, a Slovenian television network

Products

Princess of Power, a toyline created by Mattel

POP! vinyl figures, a series of popular-culture-themed figurines from Funko

Video games

Pop (video game)

Prince of Persia, a video game franchise

Music

Pop music, a genre

Pop!, a UK pop group

Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band

Rock

Rock commonly refers to:

Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids

Rock music, a form of popular music

Rock or Rocks may also refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

Rock, Cornwall, a village in England

Rock, County Tyrone, a village in Northern Ireland

Rock, Northumberland, a village England

Rock, Worcestershire, a village and civil parish in England

Rock, a hamlet in Washington, West Sussex, England

United States

Rock, Kansas, an unincorporated community

Rock, Michigan, an unincorporated community

Rock, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

Rock, Rock County, Wisconsin, a town in southern Wisconsin

Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin, a town in central Wisconsin

Rock County, Minnesota

Rock County, Nebraska

Rock County, Wisconsin

Rock Mountain (disambiguation)

Rock Township (disambiguation)

Multiple countries

Rock Creek (disambiguation)

Rock Island (disambiguation)

Rock Lake (disambiguation)

Rock River (disambiguation)

Elsewhere

Corregidor, an island in the Philippines

Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's eponymous debut album in 2006 marked the start of her career as a country music singer. Her third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart.

Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless became the best-selling album of 2009 in the United States. The album won four Grammy Awards, making Swift the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Swift's third and fourth albums, 2010's Speak Now and 2012's Red, both sold more than one million copies within the first week of their U.S release. Speak Now's "Mean" won two Grammy Awards, while Red's singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" were successful worldwide. Swift's fifth album, the pop-focused 1989, was released in 2014 and sold more copies in its opening week than any album in the previous 12 years, making Swift the first and only act to have three albums sell more than one million copies in the opening release week. Its singles "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album would go on to win three awards at the 2016 Grammys including Album of the Year making Swift the first and thus far only female artist to receive the award twice.

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Gonna go to downtown NYC, hang with me
Better to be together,
Creep cold allyways
That no one care's about anyways
But now it's time to hit the big city
Music shouting down the town
Blasting it way through the sound
Punk guys coming down the drive opposite
They don't know where to stick
Never know what to pick
Hot RNB girls driving by click
They aren't know what is thick
Summer show time we pick
Pretty, poppy,young girls
Making their way through the holds
Seeming to break through the moulds
Oh aye aye (Oh, aye-a aye)
And now dance girls plan un-folds
Bite the posion, stand up bold
Cos it's
aye aye aye (aye aye aye aye aye aye)
Oh baby oh
Oh baby oh
Oh baby oh

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Pop rock

Characteristics

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Pop

Common meanings

People

Places

Entertainment

Publishing

Television

Products

Video games

Music

Rock

Places

United Kingdom

United States

Multiple countries

Elsewhere

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