When does a song become a classic?

[Spark]

I don't actually mind pop music at all, it's catchy and fun. But it all seems so... transient to me. I just can't see myself ever bothering to listen to it in six months time, so why should I bother with it now?

[Ruckus]

Why do you need it to be everlasting? You gotta live in the moment, man.

[Ruckus]

I like pop now more than I ever have in the past, despite getting to the age where I should really have grown out of it. I'm not sure why. "Better" music just feels a bit pretentious to me lately.

Think it's a pretty common thing. You sort off go through a stage where you explore lots of different types of music etc. but come to the realization that, at the end of the day, more often than not you just want a tune with a good beat/catchy melody to it. I can't say I find 'better' music pretentious or anything, but I'm definitely much more willing to listen to a pop song than I used to be.

[Spikey]

we've got call me maybe and gangnam style this year so it's probably been the best year for pop for ages

[Spark]

Why do you need it to be everlasting? You gotta live in the moment, man.

I just cbf.

[Uppercut]

Think it's a pretty common thing. You sort off go through a stage where you explore lots of different types of music etc. but come to the realization that, at the end of the day, more often than not you just want a tune with a good beat/catchy melody to it. I can't say I find 'better' music pretentious or anything, but I'm definitely much more willing to listen to a pop song than I used to be.

Yeah, that's exactly it. Also I'm not over-exposed to it the way I was growing up. I haven't had a "pet hate" song in a while, I hardly ever hear music I haven't put on myself anymore.

[Ruckus]

we've got call me maybe and gangnam style this year so it's probably been the best year for pop for ages

Oh man I can't take that song...so catchy, but not in a good way.

[Spark]

Haha I'm the opposite - when I have time, I'm going to grab a heap of atonal **** and listen to that for a few days.

[Ruckus]

Yeah, that's exactly it. Also I'm not over-exposed to it the way I was growing up. I haven't had a "pet hate" song in a while, I hardly ever hear music I haven't put on myself anymore.

Would be interesting to see if it's the opposite for people who grow up loving mainstream pop...wonder if they would start to move away from it and towards stuff which is more musically 'complex'.

[Spark]

Would be interesting to see if it's the opposite for people who grow up loving mainstream pop...wonder if they would start to move away from it and towards stuff which is more musically 'complex'.

This is more or less what happened to me. Having said that, I listened to a ****load of classical when I was young so I've always listened to music in a slightly 'different' way. Harmony > melody.

[Ruckus]

So do you still like pop as much as you used to (in addition to the other stuff)?

[Spark]

No. Mostly because I hear the same harmony repeated far too often. And there's a particular earbleedingly irritating synth that seems to be all the rage at the moment. I don't mind it, of course, but I'll rarely if ever pick a modern pop song over, say, this.

[Ruckus]

ha I thought that was going to be Justin Bieber for a second, given the advertising

[cpr]

TBH, stand by my original comment. When it comes to listening to music, unless its classical, lyrics mean an awful lot to me. So much durge written today.

[PhoenixFire]

TBH, stand by my original comment. When it comes to listening to music, unless its classical, lyrics mean an awful lot to me. So much durge written today.

I'm totally the opposite. Lyrics are probably the least important thing to me, but then again thats probably why I listen to so little music with lyrics in.