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Old 05-30-2008, 12:49 PM   #7 (permalink)
Rainard Jalen
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I agree that Burt Bacharach was inspired by cool jazz, but that doesn't make him a jazz artist. He experimented with many different styles of music, yet always seemed to come back to rock.


I don't disagree with that. Pop is a style of rock.
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What I will say though is that pop, in some of its meanings, is a style of rock. But pop is broader these days. It now, for example, is most commonly used to refer to urban pop/contemp r&b, which is more descended from hip-hop and soul. It would be silly for example to start calling Rihanna a rock act.
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