A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
As a fan of pop music myself, I hate discovering that a favourite track has a completely different meaning from the one I thought.
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.
To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't.
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.
There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.
Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.