“Then you were fired up [the charts] in week one.”This decade of pop music has arguably seen more rapid change than any before it. “Now, it’s not the rule.” She cites the dominance of hip-hop as the cause of this trend towards more muted pop songs, because “those choruses are so simple, there’s nothing to them. That might make it harder to predict what will be a No 1 hit, but that’s the fun of it. “It makes creating so much more exciting, because we’re not trying to fit in this perfect pop box.”“That’s the interesting thing about pop music – the good pop music isn’t trying too hard to be pop music,” says Kohn. “The natural inclination when you start to write pop is almost to be a bit too cheesy.

Source: The Guardian January 03, 2020 07:52 UTC