"It All Sounds The Same These Days!"
In just about every home in America at just about any given time the words: "It all sounds the same these days!" is uttered to a teenage child, while the mother is screaming "Turn it down!" in the background. The teenager storms to his bedroom and turns the radio up to full volume and thinks, "They just don't get it!" Then proceeds to dance around the room singing into the hairbrush. This is the pleasure principal of pop music. Whether accredited to innocence or ignorance, a unreconciled naivety has survived this culture since its inception. They're everywhere. We cannot escape the wrath of teen pop bands, you can love em or hate em, but they are a representation of an ever changing culture.
What is the pop music phenomenon? Most pop music uses a "commercial" approach to songwriting which limits the use of complicated musical devices, this is said to be what makes pop music. "Popular music is popular because the composition hears for the......
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