Until the lecture on Friday, my perception of popular music was manufactured bands releasing cheese into the the charts. I think there is still a certain 'type' of popular music, and that it's easy to recognise when you see or hear it, for example, Girls Aloud and Metallica - both groups may still be popular and have the same amount of fans, but it would be dangerous and hard to find a Metallica fan who describes their favourite band as being 'pop'. I disagree with Kassabian's theory about popular music being 'home-made and unpolished', 'Happy Birthday' is not a 'pop' song as far as I'm concerned! On the other hand, Shulker's belief about the song having 'ideological significance by it's consumers' shows exactly what a popular song should be. Now, I realise that popular music can be part of any genre as long as it's widely circulated and commercially successful.
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Happy Birthday may not be a pop song in your opinion but it certainly IS by many of the definitions of the word popular. If you are going to make a statement like that it has to be backed up with evidence.
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