"This is a record that shows how innovative and creative pop can be."
"I'm big into music production. There's so much good music production, especially in pop music."
"John Lennon, perhaps the greatest pop musician of all time."
"There's only one pop powerhouse whose stage presence is a little more elevated than her counterparts, and that powerhouse is Pink."
"In an appearance on 'The X Factor' in the UK, Britney's performance of 'Womanizer' was clearly more of a dance number than a singing one."
"Not a lot of pop stars write the way that she does."
"Pop music can be powerful because it's a way of documenting social history."
"Freddie wrote 10 of the 17 songs on Queen's Greatest Hits album."
"Hollaback Girl became Gwen Stefani's first U.S. and second Australian number one single."
"The Sweet Escape was another popular hit and earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals."
"It is absolutely insane to me that you can go through so many music departments and get a guide to break out a very complicated analysis of a whole [ __ ] piece but have no idea about pop music."
"Amazing pop record, the future of pop music."
"Is there ever a bad hook to black pink songs? I don't think there is."
"It's so ostentatious and that's what I love about pop music like that it doesn't give doesn't care."
"The era of boy bands and girl groups in the West might be over, but K-pop is here to stay."
"The Weeknd being able to keep the lurid aesthetic, the cohesive art direction, set against the gawdy backdrop of Vegas and the multi-part songs while giving us some of the best pop hooks of the decade."
"Good vibrations of California, one of our last living musical geniuses: Brian Wilson."
"In the world of pop music, there is Michael Jackson, and there is everyone else." - Time
"Barry Gibb, the pop virtuoso who's been filling the dancefloors and tugging our heartstrings for more than five decades. He's one of the masters, the most fantastic pop song catalog in history."
"She is not a pop artist who comes in and sings over the top of a track created by someone else."
"Describing pop music as art isn't daring or revolutionary, it's popular. Artpop debuted atop the billboard 200 earning Gaga her second number one album."
"As pop friendly as this album sounds it was definitely a risk to try to make a pop album that in a way was smart more thoughtful and smarter than your average pop record."
"Pop music is in their hands whenever they're ready."
"Teenage Dream was amazing let's just say it."
"Dylan helped to foster the importance of authenticity in pop music."
"Levitating featuring The Baby is absolutely incredible and the feature of The Baby works perfectly in it for what it is doing."
"This song is near perfect. Lil Nas X brings the amazing charisma that he's been kind of just bringing since the beginning but it's even more refined."
"Carly Rae Jepsen is severely underrated in the general realm of pop music."
"Lady Gaga revolutionized pop music by exploiting the digital revolution to turn it into a new fan-controlled experience."
"Lady Gaga's greatest gift and innovation to pop music and pop culture isn't her music it isn't her fashion and it isn't her art it's what she gave to the fans."
"Pop music is so flexible and versatile. There's so much room for songwriting and different songwriting styles."
"It's honestly insane how good he is at writing catchy pop songs about ridiculous topics."
"Janet Jackson was not to be played with between 1986 and 2001. Janet Jackson could do no wrong."
"Poppy's 'Voicemail': banger alert! Totally nuts on the lyrics, loving every second."
"Harry's special allure appeals to both men and women."
"For the entire 2010s, pop music has been dominated by big-name female solo acts."
"Selena bridged Latin music and American pop, helping to make the former mainstream in the States."
"Cruel Summer is her pop magnum opus, a masterwork that's short, bittersweet, and catchy."
"Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince captures the anxiety people had during the 2018 midterms so well."
"One of the strongest pop choruses of the last decade."
"Pop music exists in sort of a weird space. A lot of people really like it but our traditional models don't seem to do a very good job explaining why."
"Drake has carved a path through pop music that puts him more in league with the Beatles, Madonna, and Michael Jackson."
"Remember when, like, if you had the Pokémon music album, it was all just like beats? Here, Michael Jackson music!"
"This track is titled 'It's Okay to Cry' and is just a beautiful, triumphant, quivering, strange piece of anthemic pop music."
"Twice didn't abandon cuter colourpop or rebrand as a new group rather they took pop music by the hand and showed everyone the true variety and flavor of girl pop."
"I think with pop, a big part of pop is epic scale and escapism and fantasy, and people kind of want big, you know?"
"Bruno Mars can create and perform pop music as well as anyone else has ever done it."
"Whip it, I mean one of the most unlikely pop hits ever."
"The ultimate pop contradiction between feeling and meaning."
"They had so many good songs, they should have been so much bigger than they were."
"The Pussycat Dolls had really cemented their name as one of the most successful girl groups of the early 2000s."
"After Hours is by far one of the greatest pop masterpieces released in the 21st century so far if not the absolute best."
"After Hours was a genuine cultural phenomenon... the real king of Pop."
"This song is pure pop perfection. I mean, as a listener, you just have to clap along. It's just irresistible."
"Some records are meant to be mainstream and pop. Yes, okay. There's nothing wrong with that."
"I make pop music, but I like to think that I make really musical interesting pop music."
"Usher was a dominant force, with 13 of 15 singles peaking in the top 10."
"Frankie Goes to Hollywood were pop titans, truly an incredible power-packed run."
"I love the vibe, I love like a sultry pop moment."
"Thriller ranks among the greatest examples of pop music on record."
"As a sub-genre, girl groups have gifted us with so many moments of pop perfection."
"Truth be told, we don't really have that many 'it' girls right now who are killing it in the R&B and pop world."
"I think for a pop singer unless you write your own music it's a very short lifespan but the fact that Taylor is only 21 she's such a baby she has plenty of time in the industry."
"Your crush loves everything about you, from your curves to your long limbs, finding you perfect."
"And our first look ever at the face of Juventud Guerrera, the man under the mask."
"Your crush views you as an escape, bringing them peace, hope, love, light, and joy."
"Being able to say that you're sponsored when you're a kid is like people, because that's the question, like, 'Yo, you sponsored?'"
"If you love what you do, you don't work a day in your life."
"Pop music became doubly significant bound to the commonplace freed into the commonplace."
"There are no mechanisms obscuring the artificiality of pop music society spectacle cannot be further explained style neutralizes if not cancels the world."
"In pop music, we are dealing with a history of production that has made the improper proper."
"The interesting stuff, the stuff that accorded with the unsettling of truth and the decentering of the subject, and all of the binary oppositions that Derrida talked about overturning, you know that pop music was on the other side, do you know what I mean?"
"Madonna, the Queen of Pop, a disruptive figure who blazed a trail in music."
"...Tate really is the [ __ ] moment for pop music and I'm so into it."
"For a pop song to speak more about the human condition, loneliness even death wasn't often heard in rock and roll."
"...pop music would never be the same again."
"It's a perfect radio-friendly pop song with catchy production and high replay value."
"Their success was enormous as no other pop artist had ever made such upbeat music."
"A genuinely brilliant hour of pristine and emotional pop underscored with inspired songwriting."
"But the funny thing about playing pop music is, that's what the original intention of pop music was. It's supposed to be songs that sound great blasting out of a car radio."
"Everything in pop music was all about rebellion and punk and all that stuff."
"Pop makes people dance, pop makes people feel things."
"Fabulous when pop music can act in that journalistic kind of way."
"Pop music is always about being new."
"Modern pop songs are built on a continually refreshing sense of resolution and departure rather than linear narrative."
"Get up and talk about the pop music I love."
"...if you want everything to have that big thick Ariana Grande style pop stack where everything just almost feels like one massive vocal."
"...it's time to reinterpret what pop music is."
"Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd is an S-tier pop masterpiece.
"From her childhood in Detroit to the height of her pop music fame, she's never stopped reinventing herself."
"These like three-minute pop songs... are an important part of the way... we structure our memories and our desires."
"But then, you know, they had the pop hooks were still here in a big way, especially you can start to hear it on 'I, Robot,' but the arranging, the production values, just absolutely top-notch."
"In most pop songs these days, you tend to have these little snippets of what are called ear candy."
"It's one of the best pop projects of the year."
"The question of what exactly makes a pop star successful is a really interesting one."
"At the top, we have who we would consider to be the main pop girls... they are all in a unique category where pretty much anything they release is at least somewhat successful."
"Then we have a lesser tier called the minor pop girls... they're successful but not superstars."
"It changed my whole perception of what pop music could be."
"I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is."
"Bang Bang peaked at number three on the Hot 100 and at number one in the UK singles chart."
"Radio GaGa, which I think is a perfect pop song."
"The songs are really good, like 'Bastards of Young', 'Kiss Me on the Bus' were just like really good pop songs."
"What set Bebop Deluxe apart, however, was the ability of the band to approach the music with a more pop sensibility."
"These four singers managed to be the finest pop musicians in the history of popular music."
"She changed the sound of modern pop music irrevocably."
"Pop music is an art form; it's as hard to make as prog."
"Trans-Europe Express received positive reviews and gained a huge following within Pop and RnB music."
"Global pop music should sound like this, that's just my personal opinion."
"When pop is done correctly and surprisingly, that is just the absolute top tier for me of music."
"We want her to be the Queen of Pop, we want her to feel confident."
"It's still challenging, it's not just easy to digest boxed up pop music, it's got some edginess to it, it's got attitude."
"It's 80s pop Bliss, distilled and personified to Perfection."
"Really everything that you want pop music to be."
"A staggering proportion of the biggest hits from the last 30 years have actually been crafted in this cold, dark corner of Northern Europe called Sweden."
"His brand of Pop was one of the most berserk and adventurous ever heard."
"A vital figure and arguably the face of this new style is the one and only Charli XCX, an iconoclast bent on pushing those boundaries."
"Charlie's dedication to crafting electronic dance songs that still sounded distinctly pop foreshadowed the aesthetics of what we now call hyper pop."
"Something really amazing about this new sect of experimental alternative pop music that some call hyper pop is that it wholly defies the typical homogeneity of what pop music is supposed to be."
"It's pop music but it's like the best quality pop music you've ever heard."
"You're my best friend to me, it's one of their best pop songs ever."
"Rich girl by Hall & Oates, quirky, fun, really memorable song."
"Silly love songs by Paul McCartney and Wings, it's been a favorite pop song of mine since the day I heard it."
"Everywhere is an infectious, glimmering, perfect pop masterpiece."
"It's just such a joyful slice of pop perfection."
"I think it's just a really well written pop song."
"It's a good, very easily accessible pop song, pop album."
"Their songs were all hooks, all about the hooks."
"This is a sugary pop masterpiece from Keith and one of the most daring things he has done to date."
"1989 changed pop music in general."
"It was the greatest stunt in the history of pop music."
"I feel like she's pulling a Taylor Swift, Easter egg after Easter egg in this music video."
"Don't start now is one of the best pop songs I have heard in the past three or four years."
"Baby One More Time was a massive hit for Britney Spears, and like right out the gate, you know, she became a superstar."
"Everyone just seems like these gods and goddesses of pop music."
"Michael Jackson was and still is for many the King of Pop."
"It is a beautiful song, it's a pop song, but holy [__], this is an amazing vocal song."
"I just love how pop music makes people feel."
"This song has stood the test of time for almost 20 years as being a massive pop hit."
"Andy Bell has one of the most expressive voices in pop music. The pain of his experiences is only overtaken by his joyfulness."
"It's a confident, intelligent, brazen pop statement, mixing bubblegum diva vocals with EDM break beats."
"The focus on who's gonna make the next BTS is exactly why it fails."
"BTS expanded Global pop music to outside the US; they forced the world to see a different look of pop stars, they introduced a different sound of pop, one with actual substance."
"Her public persona and sonic aesthetic would generate a radical shift in pop music at large."
"The stakes were high for Mariah as she had a unique opportunity to demonstrate the extent of her vocal talent and definitely establish herself as a new pop sensation."
"One of the most technically gifted vocalists in pop."
"The best pop stars like MJ or Madonna or Beyonce make pop music that is both commercially viable and critically laudable."
"Pop is considered a genre, popular music."
"Their contribution to pop music over the last 50 years has been immense."
"Garrett's musical career took off with a series of pop hits that resonated with the youth of the era."
"Pop can be done beautifully, depending on who's making it."
"Pop is for popular, but there's also a certain sound you could come to expect."
"You're hot then you're cold, yes then you're no, you're in then you're out, you're up then you're down."
"It's rare that you see songs this high concept on the pop charts."
"I really like the state of modern pop music; there's a lot of great stuff going on all the time."
"Josh embodies the word Charisma in the pop industry."
"If you're interested in pop music, I'm sure that you'll get something of value out of it."
"I love it, this is my exact type of bright, bubbly, sugar bubble gum pop that I love."
"The songs are just classic pop songs, and pop song just won't die."
"Some of the strangest, harshest, darkest moments of my life become three-minute pop songs."
"Olivia Rodrigo's first Grammy of the night was best pop solo performance, which is 'Driver's License'."
"Pop music doesn't have to be about nothing; it can actually have some meaning and weight behind it."
"K-pop stands for Korean popular music."
"Whenever you're writing a song that's a pop song, you want it to have a unique quality and grab attention."
"I feel like a Spice Girl. I feel like Baby Spice."