![]() Is that initial drum riff straight out of Michael Jackson's Thriller? See what your speakers think. The Weeknd's vocal range here goes from the juicy low register of F3 scaling all the way up to a high note of C5 and the synth-heavy production is yet another Max Martin triumph, but one that feels lifted from the 80s rather than the 90s. Baby One More Time, the Backstreet Boys' I Want It That Way and NSYNC's It's Gonna Be Me (and that's just in the three years from 1998 to 2000) is an inspired choice. Well, if you're going to befriend a producer, the guy who made Britney Spears'. It's not that I can't, but a collaboration is a relationship, it's like a marriage, you've gotta build up to it." In a 2020 interview for Variety magazine, Canadian singer-songwriter Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, known professionally as The Weeknd, said of his experience working with Swedish producer Max Martin: "Max and I have become literally the best of friends, but I don't do that with many people. (Image credit: The Weeknd (XO, Republic) ) Our guide to the best test tracks to trial your hi-fi system.Read on, suggest those we might have overlooked, and of course, click on your chosen streaming service to access our specially-curated playlist below. Our selection spans a whopping 50 years of the genre, too, so there's no danger of 1980s synth-and-jangle overkill. We've picked out 25 of the best we can think of and explained why they're a match for even the most gifted drivers. Good music is good music whatever genre is comes from."Īnd now that the classification debate is all sorted (is it ever sorted?), which songs from pop's extensive and varied oeuvre should you be playing to test your stereo speakers? Thought you'd never ask. ![]() Perhaps our favourite such quote comes from Nina Persson, lead singer of The Cardigans, who said, "Pop music is a difficult term to define. Peter Tork has argued, "Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins." Prince once uttered, "What's missing from pop music is danger" and Bono's thoughts on the matter include: "Pop music often tells you everything is OK, where rock music tells you it's not OK, but you can change it." We certainly agree with Johnny Rotten when he said, "Pop music I have always loved best."īut what of the nagging notion that pop music is lesser, diluted, lacking in substance and ultimately, manufactured? An understanding of contemporaneous societal pressures (and momentary pain relief from these) is surely a positive aspect of pop music, though. ![]() Of course, it is worth remembering that to be good encourages popularity, but to be popular is not always to be good.
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