Originally Posted by bort

Throwaway, but not actually trash. It's a fine line that I'd swear was crossed (well crossed in the right direction) less and less often.
There's presumably an art to making a great pop single (because it seems fucking difficult for anyone to do these days), but it's not supposed to be great art. Pretentious pop is vulgar, and usually unlistenable.

I think "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne is close to the perfect pop song. Of more recent hue, maybe something like "Push the button" by Sugababes? Good Michael Jackson is perfect pop.
Nelly Furtado's reinvention was (mostly) handled classily, and I think made for some pretty decent pop music.

Originally Posted by HighClassHo

I love Maneater. It's the only one I've liked though.

I don't know who Freda Payne is. Isn't one of the characteristics of pop to be massively popular?? I mean what is pop¿?

Originally Posted by bort

I don't want to be mean, but she had a number one hit, and your not having heard of her does very little to prove she was never "massively popular". Pop music is by its very nature ephemeral. As I'm sure someone much smarter than me once said...

Originally Posted by aaron

i thought this was going to be a thread about Pepsi.

:/