pop music
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- noun
- /pɑp ˈmjuzɪk/
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música pop
- Many teenagers enjoy listening to pop music because of its catchy melodies and themes about love.
- pop music star
- rock and pop music
- movies and pop music
In fact, most pop music uses these four chords.
- In fact, most pop music uses these four chords.
- And he had never ventured into pop music and never really strayed from the church.
- Like she's, you can tell she's been working in like pop music for so long 'cause the whole like the set is so like clean.
- And when she leans into the fact that she's not trying to impress her friends and and her pop music program, she's not trying to impress anybody.
- Also, they're playing some kind of like South Korean K pop music and messages of capitalism and love is what we've been told from the South Korean side over this loudspeaker.
- Imagine like techno K pop music, like club shit.
- But if you create, OK, it's like pop music.
- I want to do all types of music, of course, pop music.
Examples
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In fact, most pop music uses these four chords.
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We have a daughter who is a singer-songwriter studying pop music out at USC.
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And pop music, oh, pop music was my best friend at this time.
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It's what I do for a living, though I write about pop music and comic books, mostly.
Academic text (2009) -
The role of the sound engineer and producer in pop music recording is crucial.
Academic text (1999) -
"Weird Al" Yankovic is one of the most exciting new artists in pop music today.
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The schoolchildren were sent home to bed, and the band began to play pop music.
Fiction book (1991) -
I'd like to think that I make pop music that is adventurous.
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In 1943, Broadway music still sounded much the same as pop music and was still sold to the same broad audience.
Academic text (2007) -
Bernstein's frequent references to pop music created an immediate reaction with the audience.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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1.4
A type of popular music with simple tunes and a strong beat
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Music that many people like and often hear on radio
Antonyms
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Music that is formal and often played by orchestras, mainly from Europe since the 1700s
How Mainstream
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'pop' (short for popular/popular music) combined with 'music' yields the genre of popular music. The concept maps transparently onto the constituents, is cross-linguistically common, and would be readily inferred by a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Pop music comes from shortening the phrase 'popular music' to pop. It labels songs with bright, catchy tunes that seem to 'pop' into your head and please many people, so today it means music with a catchy melody and wide appeal.