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 A Total Fan Experience With Pop PostersThe term pop music has been around for a long time and it has come to embody many different kinds of music over the decades. The term itself is an abbreviation of the term popular music and to some musicians it is the kiss of death to have their music called pop. The musicians that equate the term pop with corporate music feel that having their music labeled pop means they are part of the corporate machine and are headed down a path that will alienate them from what they consider to be real music fans. But pop music is just popular music and if someone calls your music pop then that means a lot of people like it. It has always been confusing why bands get together, work hard to write songs and play shows, and then feel threatened when their music becomes popular and gets labeled as pop. In the 1960's and 1970's there was a greater understanding of the phrase pop music as it was applied to bands from the Rolling Stones to Pink Floyd to the Dave Clark 5. All very different types of groups but their music was very popular so it was called pop music. Today pop music means you are a successful band that has no soul to some people and that just makes no sense. For this discussion let's just stay with the notion that pop music is popular for a reason. Many a pop poster gets sold each and every year and back when Michael Jackson posters and Madonna posters were very popular people were really buying into the idea of pop music. It didn't matter if it was really R&B, if it sold a lot of albums it was called pop. Even Cher posters were popular back then and that had a lot to do with what she was not wearing as opposed to what she was singing. People would buy Simply Red posters to remind them of hit songs like Holding Back The Years that were very popular songs in the 1980's and 1990's and made up the bulk of pop music. It was not unusual to order a Whitney Houston poster as her music was all over the pop charts and pop radio and she was a star that was rising fast and on her way to international stardom. Then there were true artists that understood what it meant to play pop music and did not fight that label at all. During the time of his wildly popular Purple Rain movie and soundtrack you would see a lot of people purchase a Prince poster as that movie poster for Purple Rain became very popular. But even as a genuine artist that wrote his own material and was considered a musical genius by many Prince had no problem embracing the notion that he wrote pop music. Little things like that always bothered the people that were running away from the pop music label. In the late 1990's and early 2000's pop music began to become what the musicians that shunned it feared it would become. It became a completely corporate form of music where producers would seek out artists just to make money off of writing shallow and commercial songs. A Spice Girls poster is an homage to a band created by producers solely to make money and make money they did. Backstreet Boys posters and Ricky Martin posters also display groups and artists that were created by producers and put into the spotlight to make money. Sometimes music is not about the message, sometimes it is about the money and that is a sad thing. |
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