The Power and Influence of Pop Music: a Cultural Phenomenon

Pop music is very popular because you can dance and sing along very easily. Also the beat of pop music gets stuck in your head a lot. Pop music is interesting because you can use a lot of different instruments and beats to make it influential and unique. Which make more people want to listen to it because it can also make you go from a sad and depressing to happy and excited.

Significant Artists/Bands/Producers of Pop Music Industry

The Beatles influenced pop culture in many ways with the lyrics and the contents of their songs and also just by their name. Their name influenced pop capture because it helped to inspire young children and influenced other artists to use different names. The early 1930s popular music began in the US it was then known as swing. During the 1950s rock n roll music came around. It was a more exciting and loud type of pop music. One of the bands significant to this was the Beatles who had very interesting songs and created a difference to pop culture. George Martin was the producer of the Beatles. He worked with them a lot to perfect their songs and made sure after recording they sounded good enough to be released. George Martin was also often referred to as the fifth beatle. A producer is someone who helps to create and publish the songs and albums. Micheal Jackson is also another person who made pop music and made it in a way where everyone who heard it knew it was him. Madonna is another person to do this. She makes a pop music and makes it her own.

One of the Most Important Recordings/Performances/Events

Yellow Submarine is one of the beatle most popular songs and interests both adults and children. The Beatles last live performance was on the 29th of August at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. However they also had a secret performance in January 1969 on one of the apple buildings rooftops. The style associated with pop had developed over a long period of time. Another famous song is one last time by Arianna Grande. This song is really famous because of what occurred In Manchester after she walked off stage after her concert had finished. This was a well known concert because of the bombing that happened and killed many people and injured others a really bad. Another one of her concerts was the one after it to appreciate and celebrate those who died. It was called “one love Manchester”. Many different artists performed and it made the concert one of the biggest of this time.

Imagery and Fashion Associated With the Pop Music Style

Over the last couple of years the clothing choice was less clothes and more skin. The Beatles started taking the drug LSD which made them hallucinate and change their style to bright colours. This only happened because of the drug. However, that has changed and some pop artists now where clothes appropriate for age they are aiming the song at. Sometimes that is very little clothing but most of the time they try to cover as much as possible because of demonitisation.

Popularity

The Beatles had a huge influence on pop culture. Their are still listened to generations later. Their music is very inspiring to young people because of the way they created it and the way it appeals to them. The children who listen to it like their music because of the things they sing about. In their song “yellow submarine” they sing about living on it which makes children interested in it because of the objects they sing about and how they sing it. They were that popular that they had to stop performing because there were too many fans attending them. This happened in in the Philippines. However, the popularity decreased when John Lennon said that they were more popular than Jesus which turned religious fans against them and they lost a lot of support.

In conclusion, pop artists do this so that people will remember their songs and want to listen to it over and over again. Music artists do this so that more people will want to listen to their music and make people feel happy. The melody that goes along with pop music is a very simple one that is made to stick in people’s heads.