Research into the pop genre

By Katie Dring

What is the definition of POP

Pop music is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in

the 1950s, extracting from rock and roll. As a genre, pop music is very eclectic, often borrowing elements from other styles(genres) including urban, dance, rock and country; nonetheless, there are some core elements which define pop. The core elements: Short to medium length songs They are normally written in a basic format. They often repeat there choruses and melodic tunes. Pure pop music for example; power pop, normally features the below elements: Electric guitars, drums and bass The main goal in this case is usually that of the music being pleasurable to listen to, rather than having much artistic depth Pop music is generally thought of as a genre which is commercially recorded and desires to have a mass audience appeal. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as "a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, and folk music's".

What has been the most successful music videos

PSY- Gangnam Style Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris

Jennifer Lopez On The Floor ft. Pitbull

Gangnam Style was the first ever Music video within the history of the internet, to reach over one billion views on YouTube. Gangnam style was released on July the 15 2012 and within the first hour.. By the end of 2012, the song had topped the music charts in more than 30 Countries including; Canada, France, Germany, Australia, Italy Russia , Spain and the United Kingdom. As the song continued to swiftly gain popularity and ubiquity, its signature dance moves were attempted by many celebrities, artists and political leaders like David Cameron, Barack Obama, Madonna, Little Mix, Hugh Jackman, Britney Spears, Andrew Garfield and it was even preformed on a episode of Glee. In January 2013 the Britains Got Talents stars Ashleigh &Pudsey performed a routine at the National Television Awards which gained the song even more popularity.

Justin Biebers single Baby is the second most viewed music video on YouTube. This single has approximately 918,023,346 views on YouTube and to this day is still climbing. This single was released as the lead single from the latter half of Justin's debut album, My World 2.0. It was available for digital download on January the 18th 2010, and the song received airplay directly after its release. Baby was a commercial success, peaking at number one in France and charting in the top ten in countries such as the UK, Canada, The United States, Australia, Japan, Hungary, New Zealand, Ireland and Norway. On July the 12th 2010 it became the most viewed videos in YouTube history, and remained there until the year 2012 where Gangnam Style by PSY surpassed it.

On the Floor was Jennifer Lopezs lead single from her seventh studio album Love?. On the floor is an up tempo dance song, with influences of electro-pop and electro house, set in common time with a tempo of 130 beat per minute. Commercially On the floor is Jennifer's most successful single to date, as it topped more than twenty national single charts. It was Lopez's first single in four years to airplay and to date it has sold over three million copies and earn her a triple platinum certification. The song also certified triple Platinum in Australia and reached Platinum status in six other countries . This song got 700,265,778 views on YouTube.

What these Music videos have in common

Gangnam style and Baby both use green screens at the start of their videos.

Gangnam Style and On the Floor

Both use extreme close ups.

Baby and On the Floor both use dark

locations/setting with bright lighting.

Gangnam Style and On the Floor Both use long shots and extreme long shots to establish new locations. Also they both used long shots for performance/dancing shots.

Gangnam Style and On the Floor Both use revealing clothing. Although Gangnam Style Uses JLO uses a lot of product placement in her On bright clothing which you expect to see in a pop the Floor music video All three video use a lot of camera movements. Composition and framing music video. Such as tracking in and out and panning to All three have fast paced editing is used in all three music establishing a location videos.

Baby and On the Floor use mid shots.

Most influential music videos

Michael Jacksons Thriller is an American thirteen minute music video that was released on December the 2nd 1983. This music You need me I dont need you is the video was MTVs first world premiere video, and it was voted as second single from Ed Sheerans first one of the most influential pop music videos of all time. Thriller th album which was released on the 26 proved to have a intense effect on pop culture and was named of August 2011. Although this single A watershed moment for the music industry due to its wasnt the most successful song of extraordinary integration of filmmaking and music. In 2006 the his album and didn't; do very well in Guinness World records listed it as the most successful music the charts, I still think the music video video, as it has sold over nine million copies since its release. is influential. This is because it was In 2009, Jackson sold the right of Thriller to the Nederlander one of the first music videos to Organisation which allowed them to make a Broadway musical incorporate sign language. The of the video. music video was first released onto Released at the same time as the music video was an hour long th YouTube on the 19 of July 2011. The documentary called Making the Michael Jackson Thriller music video was directed by Emil which provided viewers with glimpses of the behinds the scenes Nava and it feature a 17 year old productions of the music video. The documentary was heavily signing actor Mathew Morgan who shown on MTV for a briefly amount of time and was the topthe lyrics to the song. music video. selling home-video release of all time atinfluential one point pop withmusic over 9 Whatsigns I think is the most influential What is believed to be the most million copies sold. video of all time