Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other styles such as urban, dance, rock, Latin, and country; nonetheless, there are core elements that define pop music. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure) as well as the common employment of repeated choruses, melodic tunes, and hooks.

>>60777842
"Pop" is short for "popular". Any music made for commercial purposes is pop music. This is in contrast to art music, which is typically composed using standard notation and not intended primarily for commercial consumption, and traditional music, which is typically not written down and usually passed down through performance and repetition.

>>60778210
So is Coldplay considered pop or alt rock?

>>60778335
obviously pop, jesus christ.

>>60778351
Then why does their tag say altrock on google

>>60778335
I'd consider them pop because alt rock isn't really a thing. It's just a label used as a proxy when the people labeling it or the target audience aren't knowledgeable in genres.

Songs like Viva La Vida are Chamber Pop, for example.

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>>60778364
What?

>>60778375
Alt Rock = broad term used when actual genres wouldnt help, because the target audience doesn't know what they mean.

Chamber Pop you can google.

>>60778392
But alternative is a genre though like for Phil Collins and Kat Stevens?

>>60778424
Whatever, dude.

>>60778496
What dude I'm just asking because when I google alternative thats what it says not that I don't believe in your little chaos theory.

>>60778292
This all the way