"It's impossible to be Actual* Pop and Actual Rock simultaneously!"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the lex just claimed this: is he korrekt?

my response = it is NOT COMMON CERTAINLY but it has happened, like a kind of harmonic convergence within recorded music after -- with things after never the same as before

for example:
i. stones
ii. sabbaf
iii. slade/pistols (=essentially the same thing anyway)
iv. pulp fiction inspired resurgence of SURF sound

obv plenty of bands have been one then the other but not simultaneously, and some have even switched back again

*note use of ACTUAL here must not be employed in any kind of essentialist slipperiness, bcz that kind of behaviour is INDIE

Comments

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

If both rock and pop can be said to stem from rock'n'roll (of the rock around the clock type), then surely rock'n'roll is both rock and pop? Apart from that, the most obvious examples to me were the rock bands that become more (or are just perceived as more) mainstream when their style itself becomes mainstream eg. Blink 182, Good Charlotte. Best example of all = LORDI!