Teenage Dream Ideas (Four)

In Rihanna's new music video Only Girl (In The World) there are particularly noticeable and brilliant editing techniques which I feel would suit our music video.
Below is the music video to Rihanna- Only Girl (In The World).

In the beginning of Teenage Dreams there are seventeen beats and we wanted to have a different shot for each beat, we thought we could have seventeen different shots of the couple with out showing the couple so the love would be through symbols for example, a couple holding hands, feet entangled with one another and a shadow of the couple hugging each other or holding hands and walking. In Rihanna- Only Girl (In The World) quick and fast face shots are used to match the beat (2.49-2.58), there are three shots which are repeated in this editing technique and the pace slows down, there are a wide shot of Rihanna standing on a pillar which symbolises her power, a mid shot of Rihanna on the pillar singing to the camera and a close up shot of Rihannas face looking down to represent her vulnerability. The repetitive shots make the audience want to know what are the shots which gains interest in the music video. The quick shots portrays Rihannas different emotions such as innocence which is shown in the close up shot when she is looking down, power in the wide shot when she is standing on a pillar with a long dress and promiscuosness which is portrayed in the mid shot because she is wearing a tight corset and her posture.
I think the use of the quick shots for our music video would be interesting because we can still show symbolisms of the love that the couple share and the audience will have time to see the shots instead of the seventeen shots which will be too quick.

Teenage Dream Ideas (Three)

We are filming in December and we expect that there will be bad weather when we are filming, so we have to prepare for the rain and wind because we are filming in Brighton which is far from where we live.

If there is rain when we are filming we shall have rain coats and umbrellas protecting the camera equipment the actors will only have coats and umbrellas when we are not filming, in case of continuity the actors will have to be wet when we are filming. Umbrellas may ruin the shots for example, we want to see the couples face looking at one another to portray their love and longing.

When we are editing I think we should have slow motion pace which is inspired by Labrinth- Let the Sunshine, I really liked the shot where Labrinth turns around which is in slow motion to show the rain dripping on his face and then the editing is fast when he faces the audience. Even though, in this still shot there is sun which represent the song lyrics "Let the sunshine, let the sunshine baby" however this shot is mostly rain. In Let the Sunshine I really like the close up shot which shows the side of Labrinths face which is a dark shadowed siluet, I really like this shot and I would like to replicate it however we may have to film in a studio to use the variety of lighting that we have in photography and then using Imovie we could green screen the location.

The rain could be used as pathetic fallacy which is used in Labrinth- Let the Sunshine, so we could use the rain towards the end of our music video to symbolise the girls heart break.

This is the video for Labrinth- Let the Sunshine which has the slow motion editing in the rain and a variety in weather and lighting.

However, if there is sunny or windy weather we will still film and edit the way we wanted our shots originally.

Teenage Dreams Ideas (Two)

We have decided that one of our locations will be at Brighton Beach because we wanted to have some shots of the couple walking hand in hand along the beach at night.
We want to film at Brighton Pier because we thought we could have an over the shoulder shot of the boy playing a game to win the girl a toy and then he could give the girl a toy, we liked this idea because it seemed like an American teen programme and most girls find that romantic. The photograph on the right is an example of the game where you can win toys, we would want something like this instead of the crane picking up a toy.

If we film at the pier there are many rides so we thought we could film close up shots of the rides and the couple on the ride.
This idea was inspired by Pink- Who Knew video were the couple are on the ride.

This video is filmed in a fun fair with the couple looking happy when they are walking together, although when they are on rides together the boy looks unhappy and the girl is trying to comfort him. Filming on a ride will be very difficult because we will worry about lighting so we will film in the day but it may ruin our continuity because we wanted to film at late afternoon or night, we are going to be using a hand held camera on a fast ride so the camera may not completely focus on the couple and we will have to go on the ride about four times to try different angles and distances. However, if filming on the ride does not work we could film shots of the rides and have the couple standing in front of the camera.

We have been discussing some of our camera shots that we think we should have. We liked the idea of filming at the beach and placing the camera on the ground among the pebbles and rocks and having them in focus and gradually getting blurry and the couple will be in the background, we thought this will be a good shot because we do not want all of our shots just to be about the couple even though it is a love song but in this shot they will still be in it but less noticeable so we will still be conforming to the lyrics. On the left side is an example of the shot although the rocks nearest to the camera will be in focus.

We have been thinking about the lighting as well because when we were deciding what song we wanted to do the group really liked Beyonce-Halo and when we watched the video we all loved the lighting in the video because it was really bright and it seemed like a fantasy.

This is Beyonce- Halo music video were the bright lighting is mainly used.

I really love the use of the bright lighting in the video because it makes the relationship seem like an hallucination or a dream and it defiantly conforms to the lyrics "I can see your halo" the lighting could represent a deeper meaning to the song as it could be interpretted that the man died. When I watched Kate Nash- Foundations I noticed that the same bright lighting was in a close up shot of the couples hands (photo on the right), it seems like the bright lighting is used in more female artists videos when the lyrics are about love for example, Beyonce- Halo, Kate Nash- Foundations and Katy Perry- Teenage Dream. The bright lighting could symbolise womens 'dream' relationship so I think we should try and include it in our music video, although we will have to research how to do it because we may not have the resources.

For the narrative in our video we have decided to have a girl dreaming about what is happening in the video rather than it happening but we want the audience not to notice it so we will have to make it flow, although we shall include some subtle changes like the lighting. Also, we want the video to make it to have a 'love at first sight' vibe so we thought we could have a split screen of the couple looking at eachother. There is an example of an high angle shot showing the couple looking at each other in Paramore- That's What You Get.

We really liked the idea of a split screen to show both the girl and boy point of view looking at each other and we will include the theme of 'love at first sight' in this shot which was inspired by the photograph on the left or we could have a high angle shot of the boy and girl looking at each other and the split screen could be seen as a barrier to reality and her dream which was inspired by the screen shot on the right. I love the emotions of love, peace and mellow in the photo on the right side and the idea of 'love at first sight' in the photo on the left.

We should film both shots and edit both shots to a split screen to see which shot suits our video best, although we are going to have to research how to do split screen on Imovie.

For our music video we have thought of three possible endings and we have decided to film all three and then when it comes to editing our video we will decide which ending we prefer.

The first ending is the girl coming out of her fantasy and the boy will walk towards her and then the camera will cut, this will leave the audience wanting more because it is cliff hanger and the audience can make their own minds up about what happened.

The second ending will be a split screen of the boy and the girl point of view shots looking at each other and then the boys girlfriend will come, this may make the audience disappointed or it could make the audience want more.

Finally, the third ending will be the boy walking towards the girl and then we may have a close up shot of the girl looking happy but then we will show the boy walking past her, this challanges the usual pop genres 'happy ending'.

In our performance part of the music video we were considering having Valentines day cards scattered on the floor with the girl laying on the ground or standing up and singing.

When we thought of the idea we realised that Paramore- The Only Exception had a similar setting however we can not embed the video to our blog so this is the link to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J7J_IWUhls&ob=av2e, but the screen shots on the right and left side are from the video. We thought of having heart shapped confetti, love letters and valentines day cards which symbolises the lyrics in our chosen song Katy Perry- Teenage Dream "Now every February you'll be my valentine", though we could have a high angle shot of the girl laying down we could have the girl standing up and spinning around throwing the confetti and cards in the girl we could film this in our schools photography room because we could use the studio and we could use a high tripod on a table and film her dancing which conforms to the pop genre.

Also, we have decided that we want to have our main performance of the girl singing and dancing around in her bedroom like Taylor Swift- You Belong With Me.

We all really liked the idea of the girl dancing and singing in her bedroom because we feel that it represents our song (Katy Perry-Teenage Dream) really well because the main theme to the song is really like a teenager in love and we want our video to be romantic and 'cheesy'. We wanted the girl to be performing to her self in the mirror and lip syncing to the song, so this does not portray her as Katy Perry it just shows her as a normal teenager, we could even have a close up shot of the girl turning on the radio but we ruin the continuity if we keep on going back to the girl singing in her room.

In the screenshot on the left we really liked the idea of the girl singing in to a hair brush because it reminds us of many romantic films. . We thought of adding the performance scene one quarter of the way through the video so the girl can be wearing different outfits when singing in the mirror to show she is getting ready for her date.

In the beginning of Adentures of Babysitting the lead girl is singing and dancing to a love song in the mirror whilst getting ready and she jumps on her bed and she starts singing. This is the opening to Adventures in Babysitting from 0.11 to 1.48 is the dancing and singing in the girls bedroom.

I really like that the dance moves all relate to the song which is The Crystals- Then he Kissed Me for example, the screen shot on the right shows the girl dancing to the lyric "then he asked me to be his bride" the girl put her curtain on top of her head for it to represent a brides veil and she walks like she is walking down the aisle. I love that all of the dancing is all high energy and jumping around, I think we should resemble this dancing in our music video because I think the energy and spirit will work well in our video. Also, I really like her 'girly' bedroom which is portrayed by the baby pink and pink furniture, carpet and decoration this reinforces her feminity. We should also have many pink objects in the bedroom that we will be filming in because it will show it is the girls bedroom and I think we should have a photograph of the boy or the couple in her bedroom.

Finally, for our performance shots we want to have a shot in a shape of a key hole to make the audience feel like they are intruding on the girl and we want to make the audience feel like they know the girl. The screen shot on the left which is from Paramore- That's What You Get gave us inspiration for this shot and we were thinking about having an over the shoulder shot of a young girl or a boy looking in the key hole and then having a point of view shot in the eyes of the child seeing the girl dancing and singing. In our group we were trying to think of ways of how we could create this shot, I thought we could create this shot by placing a black piece of cardboard over the lense of the camera. However, we are going to have to experiment and research on how to create this shot.

Teenage Dreams Ideas

Originally we had two ideas of where we could film we thought about Brighton or Bournemouth, the majority of the shots will be filmed at the beaches so we wanted to find a beach that we thought will suit our video. In the end we decided to film in Brighton,the picture on the right is of Brighton Beach. We liked that Brighton had pebbles instead of sand so the rough contrast and scale of the pebbles would we very interesting. We think that Brightons club scene would suit our 'pop' genre as club lighting is usually very bright and if we go to Brighton on a weekend the clubs will be busy. We really liked the architecture in Brighton as there is a contrast of modern buildings, old buildings like the Royal Pavillion and vintage shops. Plus, Brighton will be better for us to go there as it takes 1 hour and 45 minutes whilst driving and 45-1 hour on a overground train.
We believe that the song is about a girl feeling like she is a teenager again because she feels like this man is her first love, first kiss and she wants everything with him hence the title 'Teenage Dreams', we want our narrative to be about a couple and portraying their love for one another.
When reading the lyrics and peoples opinions about the song we became aware that this song was controversial as a lyric is "Let's go all the way tonight, No regrets, just love" which could be interpreted that the couple are going to have sex. It is controversial because the song is about teenagers in love and people think the song it promoting teen sex because there was an implied sex scene in the music video. However, many people do not agree including our group, this is an opinion from some one on Song Meanings http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858836257/ "She's not promoting teenage sex. The song is about two adults. She's singing about how her boyfriend makes her feel like a teenager" This could be interesting for us to get other peoples opinions about the song who are a range of ages. This could be a limitation for us because people may disagree with the lyrics and we do not want to imply a sex scene.

We thought about having an old couple who was in their 60s-70s reversing time to when they were younger, our inspiration was Jason DeRulo- What If

We really liked the shot of the clock reversing which is at 0.56, we thought we could do a close up shot of the clock rewinding time and then a wide shot or a mid shot zooming out to show the girl getting ready for there date. Also, we liked that the end was at the beginning and the music video matches the lyrics.

We liked the idea of showing the couples life together, this is inspired by John Lewis advert.

I loved that the advert shows the womans life as a baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult and an old women. I love the emotions portrayed in the advert because it is happy and the audience see the process of aging and the process of the couples relationship, though with our music video we would reverse time. However, a limitation of showing the reverse of time is the time period because we would have to have a location which did not seem modern and because we want to film in Brighton which is a large populated place we cannot control what people in the background would be wearing.

For the lyric "You are my missing puzzle piece" we wanted a puzzle of the couple and for the pieces to come together to represent that the couple is 'one'. On the right side is an example of a custom made jigsaw pieces, we could purchase the puzzle from http://www.jigsaw2order.com/. We would shoot this scene by a high angle shot and leaving the camera rolling and match the pieces together, we would have to edit this to make it seem like it flows instead of jumping. I really liked the idea of the puzzle piece because the lyrics match the idea, this may look a little bit animated however we do not have the computer software to make animations.
Although, we are using Kate Nash- Foundations as inspiration to make this scene seem animated.

We really love the socks curling in to eachother at 1 minute and 10 seconds because it symbolises love or the man is over powering in the relationship because his sock dominates. Also, the toothbrushes moving away from eachother symbolises the seperation. Also, I really like the bright light shining on the couples hands at 1 minute and 2 seconds, I think we should try and shoot this scene because our location is on a beach and it would make our video seem more like a 'dream'.

To gain inspiration for our video or to include in our video I think we should film many couples talking about how they met, most of these couples would be middle aged or older to talk about their life together. Also, we should ask people who are teenagers in love before we storyboard so we could get inspiration or to know how we should portray the love story. Our inspiration for this is the movie Paper Heart (2009) it is a film about a girl who does not believe in love and she travels asking people how she met their partner.

The peoples whose story I loved the most in the film is from 3 minutes and 37 seconds till 7 minutes and 57 seconds. I found this story really romantic and interesting because in the beginning they both talk about divorce, the scene later talks about the women meeting her future husband on her first day of work, her boss forced her to go on a date with him and a week or two later there it was heavy raining the women bought new Gucci shoes which cost a lot and the man told her to wait under shelter and he drove his Jeep on the steps under the porch and he told her to "Get in" and he drove her to her car. Also, I think the puppets which are re-creating the story is a brilliant idea because it reinforces their youthfulness when they fell in love. I think we should use this as inspiration to find a romantic story and we could film a couple talking about how they met or the girl watching this part of the film in her living room and then go in to the narrative.

Katy Perry- Teenage Dream

Teenage Dream is the second mainstream and third studio album overal, by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry. It was released in the United States on August 24, 2010.
This information is from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Dream_(Katy_Perry_album(Katy_Perry_album.
Katy said she would "definitely keep it pop. 'Lovefool' by the Cardigans meets 'Into the Groove' by Madonna but a little more meat on the bones lyrically. I'm not just gonna talk about the beat and just dancing, I like to get into the meaning." Katy said that its compositions are more mature and honest about the songs of One of the Boys. In an interview with Associated Press, the singer commented that she reserved the details of the album for her and not for interviews, as used to do, saying that her perspectives have changed.
The album worked with numerous artists and producers including Greg Wells, Guy Sigsworth, Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Ryan Tedder, Rivers Cuomo, Thaddis "Kuk" Harrell, Greg Kurstin, Benny Blanco, Darkchild, Cathy Dennis, Ester Dean, The-Dream and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, who told Rap-Up magazine in December 2009 that the sound of the album will be pop/rock, the same sound as One of the Boys. He added: "It’s a different gear for me. This is a very important project for me ’cause people are waiting to see what I’m gonna do".
California Gurls featuring rapper Snoop Dogg was released as the album's lead single. It was sent to U.S. radio on May 7, 2010 and became available as a digital download on May 11, 2010. The song spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has sold over three million digital copies to date.
Then the title track was released as the second single and sent to radio stations on July 22, 2010. Jocelyn Vena of MTV said it "picks up right where 'California Gurls' leaves off. With a strong beat to back her up, Perry sings about a boy who makes her feel like a teenager again" after hearing it at a listening event in New York City. The following day the single was released via iTunes. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number twenty. It has reached its peak of number-one on the chart, marking Perry's third number-one.
According to Billboard, "Firework" will be the third single from the album and is due for release in October 2010. The music video is set to include competition winners from eastern Europe. It was said on her website and twitter account that she has been doing the music video for the shoot, but has no official info about the video.
Prior to the release of the album, three promotional singles were released exclusively on Apple's iTunes Store as a countdown to Teenage Dream. "Not Like the Movies" was released on August 3, 2010, and made a debut of 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 before falling from the Hot 100 the following week. "Circle the Drain" was released on August 10, 2010, as the second promotional single and entered the Billboard Hot 100 at 58. "E.T." the final promotional single was released the following week on August 17, 2010 and charted at 42 on the Billboard Hot 100.There were many positive reviews for example, Leah Greenblatt wrote for Entertainment Weekly, "Beneath the fruity outfits and fart jokes, Perry is clearly serious about the business of hit songcraft; that doesn't make Dream nearly cohesive as an album, but it does provide, intermittently, exactly the kind of high-fructose rush she's aiming for". However, the most negative one was from Slant Magazine said :"Perry's ironic persona—all gum-smacking, eye-rolling sarcasm—signals that those tracks are, if nothing else, shallow by design; it's the album's second half, when Perry dons her serious artist face, that Teenage Dream transcends its own middling crappiness and becomes truly, remarkably shitty".
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 192,000 copies. In Canada, the album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart selling 26,000 copies. In Australia, the album also debuted at number one, as well as having been accredited with a Gold certification for sales of over 35,000 copies. In the UK Teenage Dream debuted at number one with sales of 54,176, doubling the sales of Eminem's Recovery.

This is Teenage Dream track listing:
1. Teenage Dream
2. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)
3. Californa Gurls featuring Snoop Dogg
4. Firework
5. Peacock
6. Circle the Drain
7. The One That Got Away
8. E.T.
9. Who Am I Living For?
10. Pearl
11. Hummingbird Heartbeat
12. Not like the Movies
13. Californa Gurls (remix)
14. Teenage Dream (remix)

This is the music video to Californa Gurls which was the first single released from the album.

Katy Perry- One of the Boys

One of the Boys is Katy Perry second debut album, in this album she changed her style to mainstream pop and she changed her surname. The album was released on the 17th June 2008 on Capitol Records. The album earned Perry two Grammy Award nominations in 2009 and 2010, and has sold 5 million copies worldwide. The information about the album is from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_the_Boys_(Katy_Perry_album
Perry has stated that she had been working on the album since she was eighteen years old. Katy was influenced by artists and bands like Queen, The Beach Boys, Heart, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper and Alanis Morissette. All songs on the album were written by Perry - who was assisted by musicians Greg Wells, Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Cathy Dennis, Desmond Child, Andreas Carlsson, Dave Katz, Sam Hollander, Ted Bruner, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard.
The album's lead single, "I Kissed a Girl" was released in early May and soared up the charts. "I Kissed a Girl" was a commercial success. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the 1000th chart-topper of the rock era. The song has since become a major worldwide hit, and along with the United States, it has topped the charts in more than 30 countries, including Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. It has sold over 3.8 million digital downloads in the U.S. as of June 2010.
The second single, "Hot n Cold", made it onto the chart after the album came out due to digital downloads. It was released in early September, and peaked at number 3 on the US charts, making it Perry's second consecutive top 5 single. On November 14, the song became Perry's first number 1 on radio airplay. It also became number one on the iTunes comprehensive charts. It is officially one of the ten best-selling digitally downloaded songs of all time. It has sold over 4.4 million digital downloads in the U.S. as of June 2010.
"Thinking of You" the penultimate single, which was originally planned to be the first single from the album, but was scrapped for "I Kissed a Girl" due to its surge in popularity. "Thinking of You" received a video in late April 2008, but the video was removed from YouTube and replaced by a new video after the single was re-released as the third international single from the album. Perry shot the second video with director Melina Matsoukas in the first week of December 2008. The video for the single was released on December 23. The track peaked at #14 on the iTunes comprehensive chart and peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week of February 12, 2009 where it remained for the next two weeks before declining to #31 in its seventh week on the chart. It has sold 864,000 digital downloads in the U.S. as of August 4, 2010.
"Waking Up in Vegas" is the fourth and final single from the album. It went for radio adds on April 21 in the U.S. It was released to Australian radio on March 23, where it became the fourth most added song in its release week. Perry performed it on American Idol in May, resulting in a surge of sales for the song and propelling it all the way to number two on the iTunes comprehensive chart. The music video was shot by Joseph Kahn during March 2009 in Las Vegas and officially premiered on the iTunes store in the U.S. and Australia on April 28, 2009. The song has sold over 1.82 million digital downloads in the U.S. as of August 4, 2010.
The title track "One of the Boys" peaked at number #40 in Australia Singles Top 50 for five weeks until January 2009. "If You Can Afford Me" peaked at #28 in the Top 40 New Zealand, where it remained for three weeks.
The album received positive reviews from Billboard magazine who claimed, "not since Jagged Little Pill has a debut album been so packed with potential hits."However, there are more negative reviews such as NME who wrote that "Madonna and Perez Hilton may be fans, then, but if you’ve got even a passing interest in actually enjoying a record, don’t buy this one".

This is One of the Boys Track List:
1. One of the Boys
2. I Kissed a Girl
3. Waking Up in Vegas
4 Thinking of You
5. Mannequin
6. Ur So Gay
7. Hot n Cold
8. If You Can Afford Me
9. Lost
10. Self Inflicted
11. I'm Still Breathing
12. Fingerprints

This is the music video to Katy Perry- I kissed a girl which was her first single from the album and the aong reached number 1 in 30 countries.

Katy Perry- Katy Hudson

At the age of 15 Katy Perry signed to the Christian music label Red Hill, under which she recorded her first album to a christian label Red Hill. Katy's album was self titled 'Katy Hudson' it was a gospel-rock album this was before she switched to mainstream pop music. The album was released on 23rd October 2001, the album received a good reviews from Russ Breimeier of Christianity Today, who applauded her voice and songwriting and called her "a remarkable young talent emerging, a gifted songwriter in her own right who will almost certainly go far in this business." However, people who wrote reviews on Rate your Music disagreed and said that the album was "not as interesting as her follow-up, but a far stronger vocal performance and a lot more varied sound".
The album did not do well on distribution and the album ceased after Red Hill Records folded at the end of 2001.
This is the track list of the album:

1. "Trust in Me" (Katy Hudson/Mark Dickson) – 4:46
2. "Piercing" (Katy Hudson/Tommy Collier/Brian White) – 4:06
3. "Search Me" (Katy Hudson/Tommy Collier/Scott Faircloff) – 5:00
4. "Last Call" (Katy Hudson) – 3:07
5. "Growing Pains" (Katy Hudson/Mark Dickson) – 4:05
6. "My Own Monster" (Katy Hudson) – 5:25
7. "Spit" (Katy Hudson) – 5:10
8. "Faith Won't Fail" (Katy Hudson/Mark Dickson) – 5:14
9. "Naturally" (Katy Hudson/Scott Faircloff) – 4:33
10. "When There's Nothing Left" (Katy Hudson) – 6:45

This is a song on the album called Trust in Me


(this is the link to Rate your Music- http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/katy_hudson/katy_hudson/)

The Early Years of Katy Perry

Katherine Elizabeth Hudson who is better known by her stage name Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She was born in Santa Barbara, Californa, on the 25th October 1984. Katy was raised by her Christian pastor parents; she grew up listening to gospel music and she sang in church at the age of 9 to 17. Katy yearly attended church camps and christian schools. Perry's maternal aunt and uncle were screenwriter Eleanor Perry and director Frank Perry, through whom she is also related to Charles M. Schwab, the founder of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

Katy Perry was not allowed to listen to the music which her mother called 'secular', Katy went to dance classes she learnt Swing, Lindy Hop and Jitterbug dance. Katy's parents took her to voice lessons at the age of nine till sixteen, She enrolled in at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and studied Italian opera for a short time.

At the age of 15, Perry's singing in church attracted the attention of rock veterans from Nashville, Tennessee, who brought her there to polish her writing skills. In Nashville, Perry started recording demos and was taught by country music veterans on how to craft songs and play guitar.

Pop Genre Research

Pop Genre comes from the term popular, it is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented towards a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple love songs.

This is taken from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music

"Musicologists often identify the following characteristics as typical of the pop music genre:
an aim of appealing to a general audience, rather than to a particular sub-culture or ideology
an emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal "artistic" qualities
an emphasis on recording, production, and technology, over live performance
a tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments
much pop music is intended to encourage dancing, or it uses dance-oriented beats or rhythms
The main medium of pop music is the song, often between two and a half and three and a half minutes in length, generally marked by a consistent and noticeable rhythmic element, a mainstream style and a simple traditional structure. Common variants include the verse-chorus form and the thirty-two-bar form, with a focus on melodies and catchy hooks, and a chorus that contrasts melodically, rhythmically and harmonically with the verse. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment. The lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions.
Harmony in pop music is often "that of classical European tonality, only more simple-minded." Clichés include the barbershop harmony (i.e. moving from a secondary dominant harmony to a dominant harmony, and then to the tonic) and blues scale-influenced harmony. "The influence of the circle-of-fifths paradigm has declined since the mid-1950s. The harmonic languages of rock and soul have moved away from the all-encompassing influence of the dominant function. ...There are other tendencies (perhaps also traceable to the use of a guitar as a composing instrument) – pedal- point harmonies, root motion by diatonic step, modal harmonic and melodic organization – that point away from functional tonality and toward a tonal sense that is less directional, more free-floating."

On the right hand side there is a photograph of Madonna who is known as the 'Queen of Pop' and Michael Jackson whos the 'King of Pop'.