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Originally Posted by Stu
If pop music is so simple, where's your effort? The internet's made it quite easy to get a good pop song out there, so do it.
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Maybe if I could afford the silicone tits, and the massive hype campaign. Even if it's 'out there' it doesn't matter because unless it's a freak show attention grabber like Rebecca Black, or somebody who just happens to be 'discovered' like Justin Biebar, it doesn't matter how good you are, or aren't.
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Arm-chair critics sit here saying how it's so simple, but there's an art to writing a great pop song. It involves dynamics, lyricism, the correct application of hooks, time signatures that carry the listener's attention, melody, production techniques... there are so many elements that go in to making a great pop song, yet of course people will pass it off as easy because it isn't 'rawwwwwk'. Writing a decent pop song is not easy.
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Dynamics - everything has to be mixed down to mids, and compressed to be an even flow of volume. Where you can find dynamics in that, I don't know.
Lyricisim - Uh... "It's gettin' hot in here... so take off all your clothes"
Correct Application of Hooks - constant inane repetition of them works. Take Just Dance for example. The second half of that song is NOTHING but the word dance being panned right then left then right then left.
Time Signatures - Well, you have two choices: 3/4 and 4/4. Chose wisely, I guess...
Melody - Essentially, this is how low to mix the melody in order to make it seem like it's non-existent. MAYBE have some instruments there but usually in the modern electro-pop world, it has to be a 5 second loop of voice over a drum machine that NEVER varies patterns.
Production Techniques - again, 'industry technique' which is more used as a filter for record companies, and radio than it is, in a sense, something that relates to the listener/output.
With that said, ANY form of music is complicated. Music itself is a difficult beast to manifest. However, in comparison to the vast majority of music stylings out there, pop is sometimes retardedly simple, and effective non-the-less. Since quality is arguable, I think any song which you can string out to 5 seconds of melody if you arrange every piece in a row, and is 3 minutes long, is simple. Not to disrespect pop, but more out of respect to things like classical which obviously are well more complex(generally).