Pop is real music

I personally do not like most of modern age mainstream pop music but i do still believe it is music. An objective definition of pop music is not really stated anywhere so I will show the most popular and the best definitions of it. The free dictionary by Farlex states, 1st definition: pop music - music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock' n' roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love. 2nd definition: popular music, popular music genre - any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time). Lets see some more definitions, shall we. Webster dictionary states: music written and marketed with the intention of achieving mass distribution and sales now principally in the form of recordings. And finally lets see Wikipedia: Pop music (a term that derives from "popular") is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the Western world during the 1950's and 1960's, deriving from rock and roll. The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular (and can include any style). 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. I will talk about all definitions in general. Okay so lets start this up. Now that we know to some extent what pop music is we can define music. Dictionary.com defines music as: an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. We also have Webster dictionary which defines music as: sounds that are sung by voices or played on musical instruments. That was the simple definition but if we want to look at the full definition here it is: the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity. Now it is time to look at what real means. Definition of real from dictionary.com : True; not merely ostensible, nominal, or apparent. Existing or occurring as fact; actual rather than imaginary, ideal, or fictitious. We will also look at the Webster's dictionary definition: Actually existing or happening : not imaginary. Not fake, false, or artificial. That was the simple definition of it but now lets see the full definition: not artificial, fraudulent, or illusory : genuine ; also : being precisely what the name implies . And also: (1) : occurring or existing in actuality (2) : of or relating to practical or everyday concerns or activities (3) : existing as a physical entity and having properties that deviate from an ideal, law, or standard . So now that we know the definitions we can get to the debate. I am trying to show that pop music is indeed real music. REAL music. How can we prove that it is real. Now we could get all philosophical and start talking about what is real and what is not and while I do love philosophy and I believe we live in a real life universe and that we are real I am still only in this debate to talk about music and to drag philosophy into the debate least I can. To prove that something is real we have to be able to feel it in one shape or another, it can be by touching, hearing or in any other form of sensing and felling. Now that we got the REAL part of the debate out of the way it is time to get onto the MUSIC part of the debate. We will go through all of the definitions of music: Dictionary. com definition of music is: an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. If we look at this definitions it fits the criteria. It is sound and through that sound musicians express their emotion and ideas and pop music also has element of rhythm, melody, harmony and color. The whole genre of pop follows this but to make it observable for everybody I will link 4 pop songs and through them you will see that pop fits the criteria of music. Now to get to the Webster's definition of music: sounds that are sung by voices or played on musical instruments. Now that was the simple definition of music but non the less a valid one. Everything in that definition applies to the genre of pop. Genre of pop are sounds and they are sung by voices or played on musical instruments and sometimes even both. Lets now go to the full definition of music provided by Webster dictionary: the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity. The genre of pop does all of that, it orders tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity. I have shown that pop is REAL and also that it is MUSIC. Final conclusion: Pop is real music (also it says it both in the name and in the definition, it is pop MUSIC, and I did show it was REAL but of course I also showed that it was MUSIC and with that we can see that pop is indeed real music). My sources: http://www.thefreedictionary.com... http://www.merriam-webster.com... https://en.wikipedia.org... http://dictionary.reference.com... http://www.merriam-webster.com... http://www.merriam-webster.com... http://dictionary.reference.com...