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• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re right and also wrong. It’s a genre defined by being meant for an audience as wide as possible. It evolves over time. Trying to be popular is like the entire point of pop.

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• frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, it is a genre. And that genre is “popular music.”

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• nile_istic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It literally does stand for popular music.

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  • traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It doesn’t have to. Both can be used interchangeably but one doesn’t always necessarily mean the other. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music has a really good outline on the history and why “pop music” is a sub genre of “popular music”.

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    • nile_istic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m not saying that all pop music is actually popular, I’m saying that the origin of the term “pop music” is “popular music”.

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      • traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s very different from what you stated early. Because “pop music” doesn’t stand for “popular music”. They are different things in the way the OP stated.

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