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Originally Posted by The Germanator
I could name a bunch that are good.
Good recent hip-hop artisits: Aesop Rock, Blackilicious, MF Doom, Kool Keith, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Mr. Lif, Cannibal Ox, Madlib, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Sage Francis, etc.
Good recent pop artists: Of Montreal, The Olivia Tremor Control, The High Llamas, Neutral Milk Hotel, Rilo Kiley, Beulah, Koufax, Quasi, The Busy Signals, Mirah, The Shins, etc.
I agree that a lot of the more mainstream pop isn't great, but better stuff exists.
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pop
adj.
1. Of or for the general public; popular or popularized: pop culture; pop psychology.
2. Of, relating to, or specializing in popular music: a pop singer.
3. Of or suggestive of pop art: a pop style.
n.
1. Popular music.
2. Pop art.
Pop is any kind of music that is popular. I've never heard of most of the bands you listed, how can they be "pop"? Or do you just have the definition confused? I thought "pop" music was constantly changing depending on who and what was popular. I love Neutral Milk Hotel...but I didnt think they were very "pop"ie at all.
And I strongely dislike the Hip Hop culture, and I strongely dislike the music that has spawned from it, and I strongely dislike rap. And I have to agree with the definition that Bond posted.
Most hip hop artists and rap artists dont even make their own music. True to the glory days of the turn tables, they steal sounds from other bands, put it in their music, then lay their lyrics over top of it. Can you be considered a musician if you do that? I happen to think not.
And I love Linkin Park too...but I would consider them "pop" because they are popular. You cant say you hate all "pop" music, because that is a very very broad over generalization. But what I think Crono meant by "pop" were things like boy bands and all those "pop princess's", which, I must say, they all suck.
I dont like Hip hop. I dont like rap. Does that make it a bad style of "music"? No.
I disrespect
most hip hop and rap. Does that make it a bad style of "music"? Yes. There are very few hip hop and rap artists that I have respect for. Those are the ones rapping about something intelligent instead of gang bangs and killing people, being a thug, etc.
[edit] And if I could make a difference...I think I would make myself immortal...then I would have all the time in the world to make as many differences as I wanted.