Psy 's Wildly Popular Music

In today’s society, music controls the way we live our lives. The influence that music has on society has broadened throughout the years and with social media being one of the world’s top priority, the fan base and spectrum for music in general has expanded significantly. Music is used to express feelings, moods, circumstances, experiences, knowledge, and so much more. With this being the case, the lyrics of any song can be interpreted differently by each and every listener. Many song lyrics give positive messages, promoting well-being, whiles others give negative messages, promoting violence, criminal behaviors, sexual contents, and disrespect towards others. With this being said, music reflects what the public demands, and in many cases the negative messages are often times what sells more than those music giving positive messages.

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the western world during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Pop is a genre which pulls in parts from other styles and genres such as urban, dance, rock, country, etc, to make it its own unique genre. Pop music is seen to develop this more recently as seen from similar instruments seen in country, and rock, taking its rhythm from hip hop, tempo from dance, and even including passages from rap.

There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music. The detractors of pop rock often deride it as a slick, commercial product, less authentic than rock music

Popular music is often one of the best lenses we have through which to view our own cultural orientation. Many of the artistic and experimental shifts in popular music have mirrored changes in our own society. For instance, the emergence of Elvis Presley as a public figure would signal the start of a sexual revolution and the growth in visibility of a rebellious youth culture. Similarly, the folk and psychedelic music of the 1960s was closely entangled with the Civil Rights, anti-war and social protest movements. In this regard, we can view popular music as an artifact through which to better understand the time and place in which it is produced. In light of this, the state of popular music today may suggest troubling things about our society.

In the end, singers are seen as if they were prepared for our own entertainment and so forgotten they are people as well. However, they also deal with their professional work and must take care of their public image, as well as stand criticism over their figure and bearing in mind their reaction may be misunderstood by their followers —and those who are not, too. In conclusion, even though singer artists share their lifetime and beliefs on social networks, specially the young ones, they remain misunderstood by most of the

Pop music is one of the most effective music genre around the world. Listening to pop music affects us in terms of our love life and passion. What is pop music? The definition of pop music is deliberately flexible. It accommodates the fact that the specific music identified as pop is continually changing.

Friday night, lying in bed, eyes closed absorbing the legendary lyrics of The Kinks with the Pontefract cake-like disc rotating on the retro record player you bled your parents dry for. This is as close as the discerning music fan will get to real musical talent. Truth is, young people will never understand the sensation of music in the decades owned by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones or The Searchers, instead the quality of modern popular music now has collapsed into a never ending and monotonous spiral of auto tuned sounds and sub-standard ‘talents’ who pale in comparison to the musical artists of last century.

I did a couple of drafts for this essay. For this assignment, I progressed in a much more organized sequence. When completing my secondary research, I was able to gain a lot of insight and develop my topic into how I wanted it to. Before doing so, I was sure I wanted to centralize my topic around K-pop but was not sure how and where I should focus my paper into. The primary research was my favorite part. I felt very involved with

With a closer assessment to two particular street performers, there are noticeable differences in the two crowds the performers attract. In Figure 1, there is a small child dressed as Michael Jackson, but his performance was a mixture of Michael Jackson’s top hits as well as today’s top hits. While a large majority of his audience is probably captivated by his youth and costume, his choice is music also interested the audience. For one group of teenagers, it was the song “Gangnam Style” by PSY that caught their attention initially. This is not unlike other areas of Los Angeles, like Chinatown, where performers are dressed in outrageous costumes young and old, selecting old and new hits, to gather the attention of the public. For a performer like this young boy, his costume appeals to the older demographic while his younger tunes can attract a younger crowd. In Figure 2, there is an older male playing jazz music on the saxophone. After a brief discussion with the performer, he said his primary goal was “to share what he missed from his childhood” and it appeared he was able to make the connection to more than a handful of individuals. After interviewing an African-American couple on their opinion of his music, they said something coincidentally similar. The music that he had played reminded them of when

To start off, I will be explaining what Kpop is, what is the “Hallyu” wave, and Local vs Global identities. My second section is the K-pop production: what idols are, how idol groups are formed so that will be like recruitment, training, the so called “death contracts,” etc. My third section will be about where K-pop differs from American pop. This will already be mentioned in the first section but this will be in depth research on such “differences,” and this section will actually require me to use a lot of YouTube videos. This section will have me using a lot of react videos where “Americans” react to Kpop or vice versa. The fourth section is the real deal: the mula. Where does the money come in from, where does the money go to, why is so much money being spent, etc. For my last section this will be where my conclusion is formed.

Gangnam is the financial district in the capital of Korea, Seoul. Gangnam residents are infamous in Korea for being philistine with property well above ten grand per square meter. This notion of “Gangnam Style” was less popular before PSY’s hit song, but it was formed to describe the materialistic nature and pride that Gangnam residents had in their monetary class. PSY, once less known, is one of the only K-Pop artists who writes and choreographs for his own music. This freedom to produce his own work allows him to add hidden messages that most people do not pick up.

Music trends have changed and evolved throughout history to lead up to the music trends of today. Though, some say that popular music has actually devolved in the sense of content and purpose. Most notably, people often say that popular music is much too inappropriate and should be censored or monitored. But if this is done, then free expression is lost and it could even impede on the basic human right of freedom of speech. For this being a debatable issue, there is a very simple way to resolve it; simply don’t listen to it if you don’t like it. It is after all, within an individual’s control to monitor what music they do or don’t listen to. This popular kind of music is how people express themselves whether or not it is inappropriate.

I chose the song “기가 막혀 (Awesome)”. The song is a fusion of rap and rock music. The beginning starts with piano and then dives in with an electric guitar. Instead of being stereotypically “hardcore” for rock music, the piano begins with a dramatic tone and then the overall melody transitions into a more intense feeling as the drums kick in. The tempo follows a consistent pattern, where the rhythm slows down in the verses and builds up in the chorus. During the verses, the lead singer raps in a low voice, but switches to singing in the chorus while maintaining the same vocal range. In certain points of the song, the sound of the guitar is amplified and the drumming becomes more noticeable. While the verses are calmer and accompanied by only

Pop music is potentially a tool for social control, partly because of its association with hypnotic rhythms, repetitive lyrics and flashing lights and expressive choreography. There is no

The popular culture of music has changed dramatically over the course of sixty five years. Since this time, new genres of music have been introduced, existing genres have changed, and fixed stereotypes have been associated with certain genres of music. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and is portrayed almost everywhere in first world societies, including on television, radio, at shopping centers, sporting events and in every area of popular culture. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and continues to strive and develop into more and diverse areas of culture.