I don't like when certain music gets labeled "pop". I just don't like it. Why? Because in my little world "pop" carries negative implications. I see pop as the opposite of art. Arght is when you follow your sixth sense and ur <3, and create something good, without careful calculations of how to please as many people as possible. When CC (careful calculations) get involved, the art becomes craft. And I have nothing against craft. However, when I want art, I won't take your craft alone as a substitute.
What makes it worse is the current state of pop music. And by that I mean mainstream pop. Apparently there is such thing as "indie pop", where musicians write and arrange their own stuff. I am not talking of those fine gentlemen and gentleladies. No, I mean the SHIT you get on your car radio and the abortion that MTV has become after ~2005.
When you spend years listening to ALL kinds of music, all genres (yes, even that one), songs and instrumentals, and even knowing how music is made, being able to compose, makes you see cheap emotional manipulation for what it is. The same few chord progressions to evoke the same quick emotional responses. The same damn drum samples. Not very imaginary arrangements (you do know what arrangement is, right?...) THE SAME DAMN WORDS ABOUT """ROMANCE""" (it's really fucking) OR YOUR DAMN BROKEN HEART THAT IS NOT WORTH ANYTHING SINCE YOU ARE CREATIVELY BANKRUPT AND LITERALLY DISPOSABLE.
In other words........... please don't call this really cool band I like "pop", they deserve better.
