“If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.” IfsMeanSoundMusic IsPopsNoiseUncomfortablePop Music Author:Merzbow
“Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.” FirstsHeartMomentsMightSoundFailingStandardsAskingPopsOpeningFinding YourselfSwingsChordsBerlinCdsPop MusicLoadedSmitten Book:Songbook Source: Songbook
“I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.” SoundPopsPop Music Author:Ellie Goulding
“I always have looked at "indie" as a term of "independence." Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant "popular" to me it didn't define a sound. And I think now that has been the context for things. If something is indie, it almost has this sonic association with it, or pop has become this term of shame almost, like, bubblegum sweet pop.” IfsThinkingWayHas BeensSoundTermSweetShameIndependencePopsAssociationGesturesPop Music Author:Solange Knowles
“I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.” WayBigsArtistCertainSoundRecordsPopsHearingSellingMainstreamPop MusicFussy Author:Nick Lowe
“I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.” UsedSoundCrazyMusic IsRadioPopsUsed To BeDiversePop Music Author:Madonna Ciccone