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8 May 2007

What Makes Pop Music Popular

Madonna ! Madonna ! Madonna ' concert crowd cheering wildly Adoring fans scrambling to attend their pop idols ' concerts , voting their favorite videos at MTV 's TRL , blasting their radios when their most wanted songs come on , and with the onset of high technology , people can now have their song choices in i-tunes , ring tones , mp3 , etc . What is it about Pop music that makes it a mainstream ? Is Popular music here to stay or just an in thing ' that

would eventually fade away

Critics and followers of Pop music abound . What makes haters hate them What makes pop music lovers continue to avidly support them , in spite of nasty critics

Popular music is tagged as such mainly because they are indeed popular With popularity , comes reviews from different sectors both good and bad The public , especially the youth sector , embraces pop culture because it mainly represents who they are in whatever stage in life they are in Critics would naturally bash artists of pop music as they are often seen as just having their so-called 15 minutes of fame . For some , this may be true . But for others , like Madonna , they have become icons Madonna has already spanned for more than a decade and still continues to make raves in the music industry . Critics will be critics , always pointing out every little wrong detail that they can find especially with those that are famous , namely pop

With the birth of MTV in the `80s , the music scene has been more easily accessible to a wider audience . Videos have catapulted pop music to a pedestal . With the youth imitating what they see on how the artists act out the songs , dancing , singing , and simply grooving to

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it , pop culture indeed was born . How artists dress up has also been the fashion style of young ones . As much as one would like to turn a blind eye to what effects pop music has , one cannot deny that it is surely very influential . Remember when Debbie Gibson came out with Electric Youth ? A lot of youngsters during those days were sporting her attire of long sleeves with blazer and jeans

Ever wondered why radio stations play back songs from the retro days including the `80s ? Memories are built from the songs that were popular during people 's younger days . A song such as Whitney Houston 's I wanna dance with somebody ' can be remembered from someone 's high school dance . Hearing again A-Ha 's Take on me ' could probably be a reflection for that first love 's theme song . Michael Jackson 's Thriller ' makes one reminisce those days of dancing along to that well-choreographed video and even recollections of childhood Halloween days . Even songs from the past would continue to be played on as the years go by , musing over the days when we , ourselves , were popular in our own circle . This is an indication that not only the music is...

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