Hayley Wilgers
History of Rock and Roll
March 25, 20
Pop Rock, well known in early days as well as today, precisely means popular. Many believe the term “Pop Rock” to be more of a commercial term, and would describe it as a lighter version of “Rock” in itself. After the British Invasion, people started to use it to oppose the original “Rock” term. It is an upbeat type of music and is very well known by fans of Elvis, The Bee Gees, and The Police. Rock and Roll was one major music category, and people loved it. As time moved on and people used music as a way to open new doors, it eventually turned into more smaller categories, including Pop (Graham, 2015).
During the 1950’s, most pop music involved a style, and good arrangement. Pop music came on the rise when original Rock and Roll music began to die down and lighter, somewhat softer …show more content…
Most of the music is just noise backed up with not much meaning and random instruments. If a comparison was placed between Elvis Presley and Miley Cyrus, there would be a distinct difference, placing Pop music back into the 1950’s just with a different sound. One of Elvis’ most popular songs is “Burning Love” and one of Cyrus’ most recent popular songs is “Wrecking Ball.” Elvis Presley’s song involved the guitar, drums, and of course, his voice. In Miley Cyrus’ song, she used instruments such as an acoustic guitar, piano, others not known to me, and her vocals. Though her song did have deep meaning, it was very sexualized, and discriminative against women. Burning love was used to get the ladies and show fun and creativity. I did a sort of mashup, playing the two together. They sound so much similar in their vocals and even some of the instrumentals do as well, however Burning love was faster, more monotone, and didn’t offer as big of an introduction to the chorus. Though these are only two examples, there are so many more to show what the changes were
History of Rock and Roll
March 25, 20
Pop Rock, well known in early days as well as today, precisely means popular. Many believe the term “Pop Rock” to be more of a commercial term, and would describe it as a lighter version of “Rock” in itself. After the British Invasion, people started to use it to oppose the original “Rock” term. It is an upbeat type of music and is very well known by fans of Elvis, The Bee Gees, and The Police. Rock and Roll was one major music category, and people loved it. As time moved on and people used music as a way to open new doors, it eventually turned into more smaller categories, including Pop (Graham, 2015).
During the 1950’s, most pop music involved a style, and good arrangement. Pop music came on the rise when original Rock and Roll music began to die down and lighter, somewhat softer …show more content…
Most of the music is just noise backed up with not much meaning and random instruments. If a comparison was placed between Elvis Presley and Miley Cyrus, there would be a distinct difference, placing Pop music back into the 1950’s just with a different sound. One of Elvis’ most popular songs is “Burning Love” and one of Cyrus’ most recent popular songs is “Wrecking Ball.” Elvis Presley’s song involved the guitar, drums, and of course, his voice. In Miley Cyrus’ song, she used instruments such as an acoustic guitar, piano, others not known to me, and her vocals. Though her song did have deep meaning, it was very sexualized, and discriminative against women. Burning love was used to get the ladies and show fun and creativity. I did a sort of mashup, playing the two together. They sound so much similar in their vocals and even some of the instrumentals do as well, however Burning love was faster, more monotone, and didn’t offer as big of an introduction to the chorus. Though these are only two examples, there are so many more to show what the changes were