The Cycle of Pop Music

Rock music has always had its critics and those thatevolved into its own music genre and became very
wish that rock and pop music would just go away.popular in the 1970's. Hip Hop is a mixing of rap and
But over the years rock has proven to be prettypop music that has become an extremely popular
resilient and has withstood the test of time. Popsub-genre of pop and stands today as one of the
music is a bit of a different animal than rock musicmost popular genres of music in the industry. But
although the two genres do tend to cross over arock music always seems to be there whether it is in
great deal. Rock music is usually classified as musicthe background as it was in the 1980's or in the
driven by electric guitar and all the various sub-genresforeground as it was in the 1960's and seems to be
of rock are usually identified with electric guitar drivenagain today. Rock music seems to work in cycles and
music. Rock usually has a certain angst or messagethose cycles are definitely influenced by the
to it and many in the rock music industry take theirpopularity of pop music at the time. It seems that
music and their message very seriously. Pop music isthere is a large audience within the music industry
usually a little more encompassing than rock music.that likes to jump from one genre to the next and
Pop music is used to identify music that seems to bethat audience is the one that creates the pop music
universally popular with a large audience and cancrazes that rule from year to year and that audience
cross over from genre to genre. Pop is usuallyalso dictates when rock music is at its peak and
accepted as being short for popular so what we arewhen rock music seems to be in decline. In the days
really dealing with here is what the music industrywhen Britney Spears and Christine Aguilera were at
considers to be popular music which translates intothe peak of their popularity pop music was at its
music that has greater potential to sell a lot ofpeak which cause people to lose interest in rock
records. Pop music is music that is designed to bemusic. Artists such as Pearl Jam and Metallica seemed
catchy to the ear and grab a large audience rightto lose their luster and their record sales shifted to
away. Many newer country artists are starting tothose acts offering a more pop music sound. Today
write songs that are country but are also beingacts like The White Stripes and The Killers are
classified as pop because of their universally catchystarting to bring rock music back to the forefront
hooks. Sometimes pop can create other genres ofand it won't be long before rock music is giving hip
music due to the growing popularity of the musichop and other forms of pop music a run for their
within the pop genre. Disco was pop music until itmoney.