Tomorrow

5y

One of the things that doesn't get brought up a lot when discussing pop music is song structure. Song structure is basically just the blueprint for the direction in which a song will go, which is one of the biggest gripes about pop music because the structure of the songs almost always follows the same formula, that's what makes it "pop music".

Said song structure typically consists of an INTRO followed by a VERSE (A), (sometimes a PRE CHORUS in between these) HOOK (B), VERSE (A), HOOK (B), BRIDGE (C), and then finally the HOOK (B) again, and sometimes followed by an outro. A (pc) B A (pc) B C B is what we're looking at here.

HOB is chock full of songs that mimic this form almost perfectly.

Tomorrow

5y

Also when do you think The Weeknd “started making pop”? Because he’s been getting the “you changed” comments since 2013 lol

eversince

5y

Art pop

choc soc

5y

Thread makes no sense

jjjjjound

5y

Yall Putting HOB over Blonde or CO?????

jjjjjound

5y

Yall Putting HOB over Blonde or CO?????

provider

5y

this thread isn't comparing HOB to any other projects. make a thread man

Tomorrow

5y

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So the answer is YES The Weeknd DOES have a better pop album than Bruno Mars.

Edit: this post was just a fun jab pls don't take it as seriously as some of yall have lmao

Tomorrow

5y

I made that Bruno post so people didn’t come itt and say “you just made this thread bc of Bruno Mars”

Wanted to beat them to the punch even though this isn’t really about him, it’s more so about the “turned pop” thing I mentioned earlier

I also would like to see House of Balloons mentioned in pop album discussions

guwop

5y

I mean if u wanna compare wicked games to thats what i like do so by any means but imma look at u like the crackhead u are

eversince

5y

Art pop

RIP_Actavis

5y

While I'm not sure I completely agree (HoB has always been R&B to me)

By the time we reached Echoes of Silence, he had become pop

There is an incoherence (the good kind) to HoB & Thursday that prevents them from being straight pop records for me, although across the two there are certainly flashes of the genre. . . Wicked Games, The Morning, The Birds etc.

But by the time we reach EoS - that transition was in full swing. EoS, is easily the most commercial of the three mixtapes and legit opens with him covering a pop classic

Interesting thread

jjjjjound

5y

Good idea lol I just tried but I'm unable to make threads

Tomorrow

5y

@guwop1017

Tomorrow

5y

Who's doing that ITT?

KingOfPop

5y

All this and Bruno still factually more talented lmao

no color

5y

We just had two of these threads already

guwop

5y

Structure is not the be all end all when it comes to defining pop lmao

guwop

5y

Structure is not the be all end all when it comes to defining pop lmao