Pop Genre Secondary Research

The Secondary Sources represent the pop genre which are from search engines such as Google and Tumblr and OK magazine. The image in top left hand side shows a person dancing this portrays the fast and catchy rhythem of pop music which enables the audience to relate the song to dance, as pop music is played at weddings and parties. Most of the pictures are bright and colourful which represents the pop genre as the artists usually sing upbeat songs. Emotions of happiness and love is portrayed in the pop genre as many pop icons are females for example, Madonna, Lady GaGa and Katy Perry who sing about love like Madonna- Papa don't preach which tells the story of a young girl in love but the father dissaproves of the boyfriend. Pop artists usually spend a lot of money on the music videos to make them memorable like Michael Jackson Thriller which is often considered the best music video due to the dancing, theatre production and the comparison of the lyrics to the video "No one's about to save you from the beast of the night" the video shows zombies attacking a couple. Pop is known for the big stage productions and creating fashion trends such as Lady GaGa and her recently contraversal meat dress which she had worn at the VMA's and Madonna's outfits which she worn during the 80s for videos 'Like a Virgin'. Many pop artists such as Britney Spears and Katy Perry appear in a lot of gossip magazines like OK magazine which gains the artist publicity. Ideally, when we create a music video we would love a big budget to have a massive production and costume design though realistically we would have to make do with what we have. Pop music is a very mainstream genre as it is played on the radio and MTV a lot and many people who listen to pop would shop at high street shops like River Island. Many pop artists collaborate on songs such as Lady GaGa and Beyonce- Telephone, Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson- Scream and Gwen Stefani and Akon- Sweet Escape which enables the artist to get more radio play as the song may be more popular.
Dom Media