What is the difference between a Rock song and a Pop song?
Mother Superior Jump The Gun For I Am The Walrus asked:
Is there a difference in the lyrical content?
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Is there a difference in the lyrical content?
I obv. know that they’re different genres but what confuses me is that on wikipedia it said that rock differs from pop but pop was made from rock. I don’t understand. Is every mainstream rock band rock/ pop or what’s the deal?
Julia
December 23rd, 2010 at 2:23 am
Sarah
Talent.
December 25th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Aubrey
It’s preference i say. Like I think having mainstream success is pop…ut in the 90′s thats a different story. I wouldnt considered nirvana aic or tool pop but they were big.
i guess its more over all sound. not to loud basic verse chorus verse chorus. catchy hooks, lyrics. but nirvan fits most of them…so its a bit ambigious…
December 27th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Taylor
pop = popular
rock is more guitar driven and has a definite back beat and typically has meaning to it
while pop is like the miley cyrus ke$ha im going out to party tonight! crap
(im a little biased cus i **** the POPular music nowadays)
December 29th, 2010 at 6:24 am
Natalie
Rock music has a heavier guitar, and bass line to it. Pop music, is more mellow, and quiet? I can’t think of a word. But the guitar line is soft, unlike rock.
Yes it is true, that pop music did come from rock music, but its the same as everything else. It evolved over time.
December 29th, 2010 at 8:03 am
Hailey
pop is just mainstream popular music with chords that almost all pop songs have, and the lyrics are just sh*t.
rock has real/decent sounding instruments and meaningful lyrics
December 31st, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Anthony
Pop is catchy happy music, and very mainstream, like the beatles. Pop is an umbrella term, rock is rock, do I need to explain what rock is? Rock and every other music can be pop
January 2nd, 2011 at 3:44 am
Aiden
Pop music tends to be a bit more artificial sounding, rock tends to be a bit more technical. But one could argue Pop communicates better with it’s generation otherwise I wouldn’t see it being popular.
January 4th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Allison
i dont know either.
January 6th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Mason
Rock is all about the music, the lyrics are allot of the time based on Love (as are most pop songs of today) but Rock is a wide genre of music like for instance you get Hard Rock (my favourite) Heavy Metal, Progressive Rock (another favourite) Punk Rock and many, many more and each one has there own sound and lyrical themes. In a Rock song there is a beat (drums) a little bass (bass guitar obviously lol) and normally most of the time two Guitars one being a Rythum Guitar and the other a Lead Guitar for all the Solos which is were the technicality of the music comes from and that everyone mentions. There are also on ocasions Drum Solos that are extremily technical and even some Bass Solos.
With Pop you don’t generaly get many technically good musicions you just get a Computer Generated beat and then you get a singer, Don’t get me wrong some can sing but the lyrics are to be honest not really about anything and are quite meaningless.
The reason Pop music is so popular is because the beat is catchy and that reason alone to get so many people to listen to it and get so much money for something that really anybody can do (if they can sing abit) is why most Rock lovers get really annoyd with them because people in the Rock industrie don’t get as much followers and popularity as they deserve because so many people listen to the radio and do not care about the other music they can be listening to, the better stuff that is never played on the radio. It is a real shame really, But it has happened for the past 30 years or so, so unfortunately i don’t expect anything will change any time soon.
January 9th, 2011 at 12:19 am
Andrew
Pop music focuses on vocals and beat while rock focuses mainly on instruments like bass and guitar.