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letsoulfly
lets face it. the meaning of pop(ular music) is corrupted as a genre/tag by its nature and doesnt provide any additional value. but adding something like progressive as a prefix makes it more and more insane IMHO. no offense, in 1994(?) there was a VW car "pink floyd edition" on the market...thats very popular, right? TL;TR when you make music progressive it cannot be 'pop' any more. JM2C
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letsoulfly
maybe it's my lack of english skills, but that sounds exactly the same as i wrote it. so i agree with you, i think... IMO popular (music) simply means getting easy access & becoming mainstream as an aim/result. when you add 'progressive', it becomes an oxymoron. FYI i avoided negatively connoted 'mainstream', but that's 'popular' ;)
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HRDGRV
"Pop music" isn't just strictly a definition that requires the qualifier of it being popular - we've come to expect that there are specific, identifiable sounds that are associated with it. Besides, there are bands or artists playing "pop" music with less than 1000 listeners, which is by no metric "popular". So it stands to reason that if some play music in that style, but get "artsy" or "progressive" with it, that this tag makes sense. And besides, the fact that it IS something of an oxymoron is what makes the concept appealing and interesting
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bardsimpson
Love Akiko! She does amazing prog songs in her own unique style, no matter how much ill-founded hate she gets on this site because of the spammers.
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placebo_molko
I'm so glad i'm not the only one talking about mew being progressive pop. People look at me like "wtf is progressive pop" but mew is totally progressive pop
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n0_m0re_st0ries
Bjork, Mew, The Flaming Lips, Dirty Projectors, The Fiery Furnaces, Supertramp, and The Moody Blues should definitely be listed here.
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