Pop Music Pop Music Conventions Of The Genre - The Artists is often wearing fashionable, or trendy clothes. - Artists are more often than not portrayed as happy to provide a feel good factor to their music - The lyrics are quite often based around love or relationships, of course there are numerous exceptions and music has generally steered from this slightly in recent years - Bands express unity associated with teenagers - The music genre itself can be portrayed through the video, dress and setting as well as the actual music - Pop magazines are often printed in bright bold colours, as are videos filmed, which are normally associated with a positive vibe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJO3ROT-A4E – Teenage pop association
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Pop MusicPop MusicConventions Of The Genre- The Artists is often wearing fashionable, or trendy clothes.- Artists are more often than not portrayed as happy to provide a feel good factor to their music- The lyrics are quite often based around love or relationships, of course there are numerous exceptions and music has generally steered from this slightly in recent years- Bands express unity associated with teenagers- The music genre itself can be portrayed through the video, dress and setting as well as the actual music- Pop magazines are often printed in bright bold colours, as are videos filmed, which are normally associated with a positive vibe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJO3ROT-A4E – Teenage pop association
- The videos are often between 3 and 5 minutes long with a set structure, upbeat hook and consistent beat.- The Pop industry tends to follow trends, oppose to being unique or diverse- The form of song uses follows a hook, which is meant to be catchy and stick in an audiences mind, in order to gain sales- Pop music promotion is often via radio stations, YouTube adverts, magazines. In the UK pop songs are almost guaranteed to be heard daily on the radio.
Music Video ImageryMusic Video Imagery-In modern day pop music, their videos often include beats that are very dance orientated- They also stereotypically are associated with people in their ‘teen’ years, as many in their youth enjoy; partying, clubbing and dancing, which is exactly the purpose of pop music.- A lot of the imagery utilised by the pop music industry is based on sex appeal and voyeurism, and the lengths of this have been extended throughout recent years – which teens enjoy.
Roll Deep – Green Light (2000) Voyeurism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FGgdQKw5_sRita Ora – How We Do (2012) Party and Dancinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paeIQMFFoZo
Pop Artist ImageryPop Artist ImageryPop artists in the modern day are presented in a very sexual and seductive way. With such easy access to music videos, artists choose to dress provocatively as they are fully aware that their mainly teenage audience are attracted to such attire with rampant hormones. This is accentuated more so with female artists, but is still present with males.
TechnologyTechnologyWith such progression in the last decade considering technology and editors abilities to diverse music videos, there has been a major upheaval in the work that special effects play in common music videos.
