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Music mag research

Jul 30, 2015

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My pop magazine research

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Genre- Pop

Description

Mise en scene- costumes,

makeup, props

Costumes- Casual, bright colour clothes and they look happy and playful. Props/makeup-They use props such as glitter, lasers an they also wear a lot of makeup. Female pop artists tend to use bright makeup to help them stand out. There’s no violence and there music and performances don’t offend anyone and there performances are also very busy and full of enjoyable and fun things. The picture above are of one direction and little mix, both of these groups wear bright colours and look like their having fun. The both competed on X-factor and they used different props each week to appeal to their audience. They also use bright lighting.

History originated in its modern form in the 1950s. pop music is very eclectic, often borrowing elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, Latin and country. pop music has absorbed influences from most other genres of popular music. Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form, gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music, instrumentation from jazz, country, and rock music, orchestration from classical music, tempo from dance music, backing from electronic music, rhythmic elements from hip-hop music, and has recently appropriated spoken passages from rap.

Culture The pop genre appeals to a younger audience, there target audience is mostly teenagers. There music focuses on a theme of love, relationships and general life. The younger audience can relate to this type of music . Pop music is generally happy music and is very upbeat. Record labels want the artists to represent being popular and successful so that people would inspire to be like them. They also sing songs involving relationships which the audience will think they are singing to them. It is influenced by the mass media.

Audience The audience is mainstream but there main audience is mainly teenagers. They also appeal to lower class people. The style of music and their costumes and their props would also appeal to teenagers as bright colours are used and the fashion. Teenagers can relate to the music style and the lyrics that are in the songs.

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