Top Ten Reasons Why Pop Music is Great

This goes against the fallacy that it takes no talent to make a pop song. It takes talent to properly balance a mix, to make sure everything complements each other if you're not looking to juxtapose, and to make sure there's a prominent melody. When there is a prominent and strong melody, it's often much easier to process than a steel guitar riff or a horn section. That doesn't mean it's relegated to DJ Mustard however, a keyboard solo can be incredibly complex while sounding smooth and pleasant. - WonkeyDude98

The magic in it if you even get one thing wrong you mess up the whole thing. - WonkeyDude98

Because there are no instruments used in pop music at all!

So what? This could apply to any genre. Any of these could apply to any genre.

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Even though I don't like pop so much (I prefer rock), I have to agree with this. Pop songs have lyrics that are harmless, and sometimes meaningful (I'm talking about your songs, Michael Jackson). - FnKk

EXACTLY. I'm not sure if Fifth Harmony's Work From Home is exactly harmful. Sure there's the whole meaning of "get boyfriend fired to have sex," but the girls even said that it's not too in-your-face. And what makes you beautiful by One Direction is not harmful, it's EMPOWERING which is the exact opposite of harmful.

This is because 98% of the lyrics are recycled garbage. All modern pop sings about is: love, boy/girlfriends, breaking up, missing so much, dating, touring around the world and the artists themselves. Recycled garbage lyrics with a terrible, repetitive beat. How is this harmless? - MChkflaguard_Yt

The lyrics are often harmless because they have near zero emotional depth.

Adele, Lady Gaga, Zayn, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Little Mix have excellent voices. And this isn't even a quarter of all of the singers. - AlphaQ

It might just be the increased vocal recording value over time, but a ton of pop singers have great, smoothvocals. Lady Gaga, Josh Ramsay, Lauren Mayberry, Tyler Joseph, Adam Levine (it's subjective for him), Michael Jackson (duh), Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake (as much as I hate to admit it), the list goes on. - WonkeyDude98

The girls of Fifth Harmony, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez all have great voices

Such as Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and One Direction? - MChkflaguard_Yt

WRONG. As mentioned, one click to find writing credit. All artists are aware that writing is where the money is, but very few pop artists are listed as the sole writer, its almost always a collaboration with several additional people. The truth is, a major artist has the clout to be sitting in the room while the writing happens, and maybe they contribute "add a baby-baby here".
I don't even like Taylor Swift, but she is an actual exception, and is making such massive amounts of money, no wonder other artists want to make sure they are at least "co-writers" on paper.

Depends on the artist, though? And that also goes with other genres, too. Rock, people write their own songs. Rap, depends on the artist, but yeah. And I'm not mentioning Country, because I don't listen to or understand most of it. But it's with a lot of genres, and it just depends.

This could apply to any genre of music - christangrant

Applies to every genre. Invalid reason. - MChkflaguard_Yt

It's not all synthesizers and drum machines. Saxophones are a legitimate trend now, to the point where it's almost annoying. Guitar tones and riffs are common, even in bad One Direction songs. Percussion of many kinds are used in pop (obviously), piano ballads are common, many different usages of horns, bass, and more. - WonkeyDude98

But MOST producers just use this same re-occurring riff, beat throughout the whole song, and poor repetitive lyrics that just go through out the whole entire song, No bridge, chorus or instrumental, Meanwhile these songs get Tens of millions of views while songs from artists such as Green Day Only recieve about a few Million - BringBackPunkRock

Even if instruments aren't used, it doesn't make a song horrible. It takes years to train an ear for EQ and compression when producing as well.

This is just a horrible attempt in confronting and satisfying metalheads. Using instruments does not add extra marks to a song review. - MChkflaguard_Yt

Contrary to what many people think, Autotune and vocoders can be used artistically too.

Literally any of these reasons could apply to any other musical genre.

If autotune didn't exist, Kanye West would seem less emotional and Fetty Wap would be boring. Autotune depends on the artist. - AlphaQ

Really? That stagato, unnatural beat is killing me! - MChkflaguard_Yt

Justin Bieber, One Direction, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, I'll even go as far as to say the JONAS BROTHERS are overhated. - WonkeyDude98

Rihanna isn't overhated AT ALL in my opinion, everyone likes her music. She's actually overrated. (i still like her music) - venomouskillingmachine

Fifth Harmony, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor are overhated. They don't deserve all the hate they get. They are good singers.
Justin Bieber on the other hand absolutely deserves all the hate.

Not really but ok

@Wonkeydude98
I agree that 1D and Taylor Swift are overhated. But there are lots you forgot to mention: Ariana Grande, Fifth Harmony, Meghan Trainor, Selena Gomez, and Shawn Mendes are overhated.
But Rihanna is overrated, not overhated.
And Camila Cabello is the #1 target of 5H haters (like leave her alone, she's a human being too! ).
But there are terrible pop singers that deserve all the hate like the Chainsmokers

This is the only part of this list I agree with.

MOST mainstream pop is bad in my opinion.

Non mainstream pop music is better

One Republic is the only pop band that satisfies me. - MChkflaguard_Yt

Don't forget dream pop, indie pop, and more!

You have your hammering synthpop, your gleaming ballads, your pop-rock, your pop and hip-hop combinations, it goes on. - WonkeyDude98

Well, any kind of music can be pop if it's a top single in the radio - yungstirjoey666

So does every other genre. Try again - MChkflaguard_Yt

Props to whoever added this one not all Pop is bad but a lot of what you hear on the radio now is - christangrant

It IS a pile of trash actually. Auto tune, recycled lyrics, untalented singing. How are these not trash? - MChkflaguard_Yt

True

Catchy can be annoying as well. Do you think Anaconda is good?
Invalid reason. - MChkflaguard_Yt

I wrote that. pretty much nearly every pip song is fun and catchy. - AlphaQ

Sia doesn't rely on makeup? Lady Gaga? Justin Bieber? Whoever added this, try again. - EpicJake

Have you seen the girls of Fifth Harmony without makeup? They're BEAUTIFUL

Um, yeah they do... Almost all of them... - NikoX

What about the plastic surgery in Korea then? - MChkflaguard_Yt

Camila Cabello for example. She quit Fifth Harmony, the group that made her famous and earned her money, so that she could EXPRESS HERSELF. Her upcoming solo album, "The Hurting, The Healing, The Loving," is about her journey from darkness to light. She is writing and cowriting almost EVERY SONG there. The 2 singles from it that she's released "Crying In The Club" and "I Have Questions" all have a story behind them. CITC is the healing, and IHQ is about the hurting. You can hear the emotion and passion in her voice when she sings it. If she didn't have passion, she would have stayed in 5H, if she only cared about the $$$$. But she wants to make MUSIC, not $$$$. So don't you DARE say that pop has no passion.
-TheProfessionalCamilizer

You know what else was catchy?
The bubonic plague!
Catchy doesn't make somthing inherently good, more likely it just gets annoying.

Not all of them (Justin Bieber) - christangrant

With the exception of... YOU know who is. - BorisRule

Fifth Harmony are VERY kind to their fans. They literally even retweet them.

Not exactly, some of them can get aggressive or impulssive towards fans

Like Scars to Your Beautiful is about trying to defy the unrealistic standards of beauty, and that's very important, considering how unfortunately society still holds unrealistic expectations. Besides, they're ALLOWED to sing about sex, what's so bad about sex? They can embrace it if they want. Who are you to judge? NO ONE! Let them be provocative if they feel like it.

Because they recycle the mouldy lyrics about love all the time. "Babe I miss u then"... My head hurts - MChkflaguard_Yt

Fifth Harmony are good examples of empowering

Bro country have guitar riffs... but is is good? - MChkflaguard_Yt

Listen up people I think it is healthy for the 🧠 beacause you learn new words not only bad words but good words too! So there oh and I am a 5th grader 10 years old girl who my partner/friend is with me

Explain in DETAIL. Which words do you learn? Also why would you mention your partner/friend?
I need bleach. - MChkflaguard_Yt

Lorde is great. Alessia Cara is great. Sia is great. Katy Perry is great. The Vamps are OK. Adele is great. Ed Sheeran is great.