After listening to Jack Johnson’s music, one may describe it as mellow, laid-back, chill, and even beach-y or surf-like. Before this project, I had never thought deeply about what genre of music Johnson fell into, mainly because I would usually… Continue Reading →
The song “You Don’t Own Me” by Lesley Gore is classified as Pop from Gore’s Lesley Gore Sings of Messed Up Hearts album. This particular song fits into the idea of the Pop genre during the 1960’s through its emphasized… Continue Reading →
Kesha’s song “Praying” would fall under the genre of pop. “Praying” is different than the typical Kesha style that everyone is used to. She is known for her dance-pop or electronic pop style of music but this song is different…. Continue Reading →
When I think about “Alright” immediately I assume that the genre of the song is hip hop/rap. This is because of the combination of knowledge I have on both the song and the artists. Kendrick Lamar considers himself a rapper… Continue Reading →
“Same Love – feat. Mary Lambert” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis falls into the rap/hip-hop genre as well as the pop genre. Lambert’s emotional chorus lends itself to pop, and the rap verses are quite obviously rap. Before doing any… Continue Reading →
From a brief Google search, it seems that the genre of “Pumped Up Kicks” is unclear. It is defined as indie pop, alternative indie, pop dance, psychedelic pop, and more combinations of those and similar terms. Indie and alternative are… Continue Reading →
“Where Is The Love” unlike most songs is not confined into one genre of music. Hip-Hop group, The Black Eyed Peas expanded beyond their conscious rap roots to become one of the most commercially successful pop groups of the 2000s…. Continue Reading →
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, rap is a “musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted (“rapped”) to musical accompaniment. This backing music, which can include digital sampling (music and sounds extracted from other recordings), is also called… Continue Reading →
The song I decided to choose is No Doubt’s Just a Girl. As I mentioned before, this song resonated with me as a strong, feminist anthem. It was early in the 1990’s when an underground feminist punk movement called Riot Grrl came to… Continue Reading →
According to Dictionary.com, “rap music is a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly… Continue Reading →
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