Really bad Top 40 music

[Bones McHorror]

 

[jbj]

To me it sounds more like a sitcom theme song than a pop song. More of a jingle than a hook.

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I think that's what makes it undeniably pop.

Wilson Phillips - Hold On and Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything are very similar - there's no let up, it's full on unashamed poppy hooks and production from the start to the end, that's why a lot of sitcoms and tv ads of theethe timedid use these kind s of tunes or made their own ones in the same style - Christ Duck Tales was touted as one of the best tv theme tunes here less than a week ago, it's basically a reworking of Hall and Oates' You Make My Dreams Come True.

That's only a bad thing if you're expecting real highahigh brow artistry from music made intentionally to sell by the boatload.

 

[MonkeyZero]

I agree with The Heights, but She's a Beauty is a great song and I'm not ashamed to like it.

 

[GusChiggins]

Yea David Silver's catchy synth-pop pwned Ray Pruit

 

[Bones McHorror]

I think that's what makes it undeniably pop.

Wilson Phillips - Hold On and Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything are very similar - there's no let up, it's full on unashamed poppy hooks and production from the start to the end, that's why a lot of sitcoms and tv ads of theethe timedid use these kind s of tunes or made their own ones in the same style - Christ Duck Tales was touted as one of the best tv theme tunes here less than a week ago, it's basically a reworking of Hall and Oates' You Make My Dreams Come True.

That's only a bad thing if you're expecting real highahigh brow artistry from music made intentionally to sell by the boatload.

I like pop. And I've probably talked more about it than most here. I also maintain that all music should have hooks of some kind. So 'shame' in having hooks never comes into a discussion of music with me. In fact, I may judge some things harsher because that is more 'normal' to me and not a side dish.

I am not really arguing what is or isn't pop. Since I view it as a neutral term. Same for pop as a production type; there are just too many types of pop production and they vary too highly, especially over time, to be an accurate descriptor or thing to latch onto. It's hard to predict what people will like based on it.

My point about jingles is that jingles are kind of like an approximation of pop music. Like the Friends theme is a crappy approximation of the Beatles, for instance. Now obviously King of Wishful Thinking did become a real song. But it sounds like it aught to have just been a jingle instead. Sometimes jingles are interesting in themselves, like Ducks Tales ripping off Hall and Oates, but not very often.

 

[Cheese Grits]

The fact that they had the stones to put the cheesy sax solo in there takes this from garbage to genius-level-garbage for me. They captured the look of Singles almost as well as they captured the uncoolness of Billy Joel's music.