@mrmeaner Once again, as we see in this thread here, someone made a fuss about calling the Beatles, “rock.” Who cares? We all know the Beatles. Nothing bad is going to happen, no egregious misappropriation occurs if someone calls the Beatles “rock,” or “pop,” or whatever. It’s all madeup label malarkey anyway. It’s all pop.
Yes, everything in popular music is essentially rooted in Rock and Roll. I really don’t want to be didactic and don’t have the energy for a history lesson, but, yeah. Everything from the last 60+ years of popular music essentially flows from the Rock and Roll Big Bang of the mid-‘50s.
Metallica has sold 125 million albums.
Nothing is “popular with all listeners.”
You’ll actually find people that don’t like…Michael Jackson…Beatles…Adele…Mariah Carey.
But Metallica has sold 125 million albums.
Pretty popular. Intro, verse, chorus, repeat, bridge/interlude/solo, repeat.
Pop.
I already said Jazz and Classical wasn’t pop.
I don’t know how I’d describe One Direction, Take That and Coldplay other than, “crap.”
One is free to call this stuff whatever they want.
I just prefer to describe the sounds of things than to just bluntly, hamfistedly apply made-up marketing labels to music.
People either are brainwashed by all the marketing labels and accept them as “fact” or “truth,” just really enjoy segregating and labeling things, reflexively equate “pop” with “bad,” or some combination of all the above.