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Originally posted by Jared
I don't know why people keep trying to label Blurred Lines as pop. It's straight up 70s Marvin Gaye R&B.
I still don't get what your is argument though. Only 3 (maybe 4) of the songs in the Top 10 are true Pop songs and none of them are even close to "booty, clubs, and swag"
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You're totally right, that's what I'm saying. Whatever's popular is pop. Blurred Lines is popular. Thematically it's not what we know as "pop music" and yet there it is at #1.
What's a "true pop song"???? You can have club-ready music. You can have synth-pop. You can have bubblegum-pop. But "pop" as a word just means whatever's popular, it needs a modifier to mean an actual genre. Lemme break it down.
1. Blurred Lines - about the booty.
2. Can't Hold Us - about the clubs.
3. Get Lucky - this barely has lyrics but it's basically about the club.
4. Mirrors - standard rnb-pop-thing-type love song lyrics, nothing interesting here.
5. Cruise - about the booty.
6. Radioactive - not about the clubs or the booty or whatever! woo!
7. Just Give Me A Reason - staaaandard love song.
8. Come & Get It - an introspective piece about the symbolic tingling of Gomez's nether regions
9. The Way - standard love song. again.
10. I Love It - not standard! but has like 4 lines in it. also doesn't really count cause it was released like 9 years ago and we're just slow.
Ta-da.
EDIT: Belle already did the thing so you don't have to read this but yeah, there you go.