Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!
I did country way back when I was, like, 13-14 years old, and then I kind of fell into the pop genre.
My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.
I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production.
I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.
The pop market is a very fickle market, and that's why for me to go into the teeny-pop, 'TRL' mode, it's not really for me.
Tame Impala is kind of psych-pop.
You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.
Pop music I have always loved best.
I am straight up, unapologetically pop.
Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.
I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.
The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.
I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.
I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.
Singing pop music was not something I planned, but I managed to do it.
When you do a pop album, the canvas is completely yours. There is no story situation forced on to your songs - you have the freedom to develop it right from the concept.
I mean, I want my live show to be like a Marilyn Manson show, where it's gruesome and dark, but I want the music to be straight-up pop.
I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.
Nothing wrong with pop!
I want to make big-sounding pop records.
I like when pop is still good music; that's what I like.
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
