Posted May 15, 200619 yr Where was the Pop at One Big Weekend? Soooo many bands - which was good IMO, but I thought Radio One was a station that supported Pop music. Only the Sugarbabes I think, Pink - ummmmmmm???. No male solo acts at all as far as I remember :( . I wondered what people thought of this. FM
May 15, 200619 yr Nope, Radio 1 goes with whatever music is 'in' at the time and with R&I waving the flag for Brit music at the moment, they will take out as much pop as possible, with only a few acts thrown in because they're successful. -_- This is why I hate Radio 1. :) Oh along with JK and Joel of course. :rolleyes:
May 15, 200619 yr Pop is taking a rest at the moment, you only have to look at the single release schedule and tracks hitting the chart. Indie/ Rock and Rnb in large quantities. Pop only by big names, that's all - I'm wondering if the new Cascada record will change all this.
May 15, 200619 yr Keane are pop. Orson are pop. The Feeling are pop. Corrine Bailey Rae? Possibly. Maybe there weren't may pop acts as you have to perform LIVE at the even :rolleyes: Edited May 15, 200619 yr by RabbitFurCoat
May 15, 200619 yr Keane are pop. Orson are pop. The Feeling are pop. Corrine Bailey Rae? Possibly. Maybe there weren't may pop acts as you have to perform LIVE at the even :rolleyes: :huh: Maybe it depends on your definition of pop. Look where the Keane, Orson, Feeling and CBR are on BJ and other music forums and you'll notice they are not in pop.
May 15, 200619 yr Why aren't they pop. Does Pop not mean popular music. What else are they. They can't be indie as they're not on an idie label. They're most certainly not rock. They are pop. Other pop bands that have been mis-labelled as rock are Coldplay and Kaiser Chiefs. Hell even Jack ****ing Johnson was in the Rock and Indie forum. He's about as indie as my Gran... Edited May 15, 200619 yr by RabbitFurCoat
May 15, 200619 yr And even if you don't consider the likes or Keane, The Feeling, Coldplay and Embrace as pop then they're MoR, which is a sub-genre of pop.
May 15, 200619 yr who cares? :blink: I honestly dont think it matters what genre of music a group belongs to , aslong as their good then it doesnt matter?
May 15, 200619 yr And even if you don't consider the likes or Keane, The Feeling, Coldplay and Embrace as pop then they're MoR, which is a sub-genre of pop. I thought the new imported from America buzzword was adult contemporary as mor has negative 1970s conotations. anyway that list of bands is so radio 2 (well apart from wogan's big hat country hour)
May 15, 200619 yr AOR innit. Adult-oriented rock... Ask most kids today who they're most interested in - Arctic Monkeys or Westlife? Ordinary Boys or Lee Ryan? Kaiser Chiefs or Britney Spears? They'll normally answer the former each time. Listen to the reinvention of the sound of Kelly Clarkson, Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson. It's not just Radio 1 who're pushing the rock direction, it's the record companies on both sides of the atlantic. One Big Weekend used to have a dance day did it not? Where's that then? Gone...dance music's asleep. The Brit award for best dance artist has gone too - replaced by Best Live Act. Music's transitionary...personally I think it's good that indie has reared its head again, even if it does mean we get a glut of awful bands (many of them signed in a hurry by majors and told what to sound like) at least it means "alternative" is not represented by Travis or Limp Bizkit like five years ago...ugh!
May 15, 200619 yr Look back to 1999/2000 if you want to see what pop music is... A1 Westlife Vengaboys Steps S Club 7 etc...chirpy, feel good bright songs and videos...
May 15, 200619 yr Look back to 1999/2000 if you want to see what pop music is... erm no thanks :lol: :puke2:
May 15, 200619 yr Author Look back to 1999/2000 if you want to see what pop music is... A1 Westlife Vengaboys Steps S Club 7 etc...chirpy, feel good bright songs and videos... Is this the line-up at One Big weekend that year then :P I agree, good music is good music - the genre doesn't matter. But there maybe good pop acts that aren't getting much of a look in at the moment - the current trend is away from pop. The definition is arbitrary I suppose - I didn't think James Blunt was pop, but didn't he win best pop award at the Brits? He was up for it anyway. Thanks for replies :D FM
May 15, 200619 yr Of course it was Pop. Guitar-based Pop. Listen to Dirty Pretty Things - they sound like The Kinks, don't get much more pop than that.... :lol:, Editors sound like a cross between Teardrop Explodes and Psychadelic Furs (two 80s POP acts...) with a bit of Interpol thrown in, Keane are totally pop... Only Muse can be said to be a proper Rock act....
May 15, 200619 yr Ah...well you haven't heard Muse's new single then have you. It's totally Prince - one of the biggest pop stars of the 80s. :D
May 16, 200619 yr Genre defintions are all relative I guess. Personally I'm glad that we don't have awful pre-fabricated cheese like A1, Steps and Westlife anymore- and the Vengaboys especially. They didn't even sing on their records- they did nothing. I much prefer popular music being bands which write their own songs, play their own instruments etc. Then again I quite enjoy some of Kelly Clarkson's stuff now and again. Maybe I just prefer the guitar sound to an electronic one. Either way, I think current popular music is in a lot better state than it was around 1999-2002.
May 17, 200619 yr Ah...well you haven't heard Muse's new single then have you. It's totally Prince - one of the biggest pop stars of the 80s. :D Oh dear, that sounds a bit disappointing... I had kinda hoped that as they'd been getting gradually heavier with each album, that the new stuff was just gonna go totally down the Power/Symphonic Metal road..... :lol: :lol:
May 21, 200619 yr Music scene is c**p now with all the indie guitar c**p. Much better in the 90s and early 00s
May 21, 200619 yr Ah...well you haven't heard Muse's new single then have you. It's totally Prince - one of the biggest pop stars of the 80s. :D i was trying to figure out what it reminded me of
May 21, 200619 yr Oh dear, that sounds a bit disappointing... I had kinda hoped that as they'd been getting gradually heavier with each album, that the new stuff was just gonna go totally down the Power/Symphonic Metal road..... :lol: :lol: yeah man! i was waiting for that song to move up a few gears into an ultrafunkudelicrockout explosion
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