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There is something infinitely positive and upbeat about pop music, even when the lyrics bely that feeling.
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That pop music, even in its saddest form, makes you want to get up and dance speaks volumes about it.
FORBES: In Defense of Pop Music and "Guilty" Pleasures
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Brecker was a multiple Grammy winner who played in a variety of jazz settings and even crossed over to the world of pop music.
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Composer Him Sophy, who studied in Russia for 13 years after surviving the Khmer Rouge labor camps, has blended rap, religious chanting, rock, his country's ancient music, operatic styles, pop and even added a Khmer Rouge propaganda song as a cell phone ringtone in the production.
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Just as Ernest Hemingway in the 1930s sharpened up language with short sentences, so Beckett and Co introduced ambiguity into novels, even traditional ones, and especially into films, television, pop music and advertising.
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Even the BBC began hiring pirate DJs to front its new pop-music station.
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It featured tributes to the British countryside and the Industrial Revolution (complete with smokestacks emerging from the ground), showcased the "Chariots of Fire" soundtrack as well as pop music staples from the Beatles to Amy Winehouse, and even comedy bits featuring Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson), actor Daniel Craig and even Queen Elizabeth II herself.
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Homegrown French music isn't limited to pop, rock, or even more traditional chanson these days.
NPR: In France, a Revolution on the Pop Charts