My piano teacher once told me that a lot of pop music is primitive classical.
That's a very interesting perspective. I'd have to agree with this to a degree.Pop music is production line music. It brings about the ontological discussion "what is art?".Pop music nowadays has become much more about production companies and technology than it has about talented performers. Actually, just about all types of music are like this now.Basically, if you're weird, hot, a mildly good singer and maybe able to play the guitar a little... you can be a pop star. But ultimately, turning a profit trumps talent, progressiveness and art.It's sad but true.
To put it on the flip side, contemporary art music has to fit within academia's notion of serious music. Which leads to a lot of music that nobody likes except music professors. Such that people's favorite "classical" music of the late 20th and 21st centuries tends to in fact be pop music (movie scores, video game themes, etc.).
I'm well aware of my ignorance and I don't care! *snob level upPop music sucks! It's so saturated.
You are entitled to your opinion for sure -try writing a song though -with a catchy melody that people enjoy. It is a great buzz to hear your song, sung by teenage girls, as they go shoplifting on a saturday morning- -Very few can actually write catchy melodies though -Pop may be all about the money but what isn't in our culture? People think that because pop music sounds simple it is easy to produce -it isn't. It is an art form like any other -exploited by greedy industry moguls -but an art form nevertheless -Classical composers wrote some great hooky melodies also btw -using just two chords -so what?
pop artists will not sustain or even create a legacy.