That would be a canonical matter

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

No canon today as my list is at work and I am not - instead, a question:

Is there an artist or group that suddenly springs to mind when you think of 'pop'? What about 'indie'? Or 'emo'? Do you think there can be 'defining songs' for a genre?

In other words - are there canonical artists/songs in pop? How changeable are they over time?

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well for their target market being indiepop was better than being pop! (And indeed indiepop was "more pop" than pop)

I'm happy for almost everything to be pop, though - I don't see "indiepop" as any harsher a qualifier than "teenpop", it's just a useful connotative label for a particular flavour of the whole.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Have we had the "pop is an attribute not a genre" war on poptimists yet?