Quotes About Pop

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

I was raised on pop music.

The Ramones were American, and I knew about them, and I thought they were interesting. But they were like a pop band to me.

My fashion icons range from bubblegum pop princesses to grunge queens.

I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'

One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.

My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.

I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.

There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

It is true that Boney M was a group put together by a German producer, Frank Farian. But it is not true that all of us were mimics.

I recognize them for what they were. 'DeDe Dinah,' 'Ginger Bread,' come on. They're fun things. They're middle of the road. It wasn't really rock and roll. I don't know what it was, but it was something accepted and bought, and people still like them. When I reminiscence on stage, people respond. They really like those songs.

I'm just going to go out there, pop on my leather gloves, and constantly make connections outside the Octagon, and that will make me bigger in the Octagon.

The Go-Go's were a frothy pop band. I wanted to do music that had a harder edge.

I like when pop is still good music; that's what I like.

I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.

I think 'Girlfriend' in particular is definitely one of the songs that is angled towards early 2000s, late '90s, R&B pop and those kinds of songs that were prevalent in that time. I don't think I was conscious of those songs in particular, but I'd say I definitely wanted a song that had that kind of vibe era wise in tone and all the writing.

Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.

I remember listening to 'Songs In The Key Of Life' as a kid. Stevie Wonder has an ability to manipulate pop into something globally obtainable. Anyone can listen and enjoy it because there's something for everyone. That woke me up to the possibilities of pop music.

Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.