@kb673 You said, “You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.”
A clear insinuation I don’t have my facts straight, or am willfully denying “the facts.” That’s where my use of the words, “you don’t want to play this game” came in.
I’ll just cliff note it here for you:
(from Encyclopedia Britannica)
“Tin Pan Alley, genre of American popular music that arose in the late 19th century.”
Just because “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?” is a bit less fancy (although the two top singles of 1911, Irving Berlin’s ‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band’ and Harry Von Tilzer’s ‘I Want a Girl’ are pretty darn simple songs) than the typical pop songs of the ‘00-‘40s doesn’t make those early-20th century songs “not pop.”
If pop is, as you say, a “genre,” then how does describe and define this, “genre”?
I’ll happily receive, with open arms, these “facts” I am ignorant of.