I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
I really enjoyed 2NE1's music; I really like BLACKPINK.
I was a huge Rick Astley and Bananarama fan.
I do love great pop music, The Hollies had brilliant pop records.
I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of course.
I naturally gravitated first to R&B and pop: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle.
From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music.
I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.
I did Eurovision a few weeks back and to be fair, you can't get a gayer show than Eurovision.
My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.
I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
I'm a sucker for two things: Adam Lambert and songs that start out as emo as a sad episode of 'Felicity' and then drop. That. Beat.
I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&B, and I love the radio smashes he's put out since then, but I go back to his older music for that R&B.
Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
It's kind of hard to believe that 'Sherry,' 'Walk Like a Man,' 'Big Girls Don't Cry' - the big three - belong to the same group that does 'Oh, What a Night' and 'Who Loves You.'
I was known as a ballad singer who sang melodramatic heavily produced ballads. I'm not known as a mid-tempo singer who does fun songs. I'm not going to do a song like 'Dancing on the Ceiling.'
Deep down inside, I'm a cheeseball and still listen to Bryan Adams and all that stuff.
George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz.
My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.
'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly.
Like Juan Gabriel and Ana Gabriel, both singers and songwriters of legendary talent, Marco Antonio has reshaped a kind of Mexican romanticism. What he brings to pop music is the kind of songs that really talk to people's hearts.
