Bruno Mars - Treasure

[atlantaboy]

I think Satech meant that pop can lean towards the urban sounding hip hop and r&b sound or lean dancey or bubble-gum pop or lean pop rock, depending on what phase pop music is in at any generational point in time. One era of pop can sound completely different from another era. However, rock continues to have very similar aspects regardless of how many evolutions it goes through. It still has pretty much the same typical rock sound elements that never change to a completely different genre sound.

Still not sure what you guys mean - Rock can lean hip-hop (Linkin Park, Everlast), it can can lean dancey (M83, MGMT), it can lean bubble-gum (Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams), it can lean pop rock (Goo Goo Dolls, Lifehouse)

When rock bands write/record songs, though, they usually write and produce according to their own personal taste - whereas, with pop, a lot of the writing/producing gets done by the same group of big name pop writers/producers who control the industry at a particular point in time, and therefore, you have a bubble-gum phase, then a guitar pop phase, then a dance/pop phase, then a disco phase, etc. (not sure if that's what you all meant)

 

[viper452]

I like it a lot. Sounds like an 80s song and the 80s had the best music by far, imo