Mainstream Music

Members:

Emilio Astudillo
Christopher Guzman
Nicolas Rojas
Pedro Pesantez
Gabriel Quezada

Mainstream music is the term used to describe the music thats

popular among people of all ages, although mostly teenagers in
the actuality. Currently, the most popular music genres are Pop,
Pop-Rap, Rap and occasionally Electric. This seems to change as
time goes by, which is proved by the popular music lets say 3050 years ago, where bands like The Beatles dominated, or the
early 90s, where Rock was very popular.
Pop has always been a rather dominant genre in music, where
many famous singers throughout the decades, for example
Madonna, who was very popular during the 90s. Nowadays, the
music industry is dominated by artists like Arianna Grande, Ed
Sheeran, Maroon 5, Bruno Mars, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Sam Smith,
Chris Brown and many other artists, where most belong to the
pop genre. The pop genre as a genre, pop music is extremely
eclectic, often borrowing elements from other styles
including urban, dance, rock, Latin and country; nonetheless,
there are core elements which define pop. Such elements include
generally short to medium-length songs, written in a basic format
(often the verse-chorus structure), as well as the common
employment of repeated choruses, melodic tunes, and hooks.
Basically, as the name Pop suggests, it means popular music, so
there isnt a clear definition as to what the beat, instruments or
vocals can be for it to be classified as pop. The reason I think why

this genre is so popular is because its so energetic that the

audience loves to sing along or find it very pleasing to listen to.
Next is Rap, is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic
music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and
rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip
hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic
elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing,
and graffiti writing. One of the well-known rappers in todays
music is Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Big Sean and others.
Most of the lyrics in todays rap is mostly about making money or
having sexual relations with women, but there are some rappers
like Kendrick Lamar that rap about real problems going on with
peoples everyday life. Also most rap songs have really good
beats and awesome flows, which is why I think most teenagers
like to listen to rap songs.
In conclusion, Rap, Pop-Rap, and Rap are the most popular
genres in todays music, for the reasons stated above. This is
proved by sources such as Billboard Hot 100, which shows all
the songs that are trending the most (meaning theyre popular) in
numerical order, where you can see that most of the songs are
either Pop or Rap. We think this is due to the fact that theyre
really catchy, and in some of the songs, people can relate to,
meaning theyll listen to more songs of the same artists hoping to
find something they can relate to.
We can say that this is all true. Whenever we turn on the radio,
its always a pop song. Rap isnt really popular here in Cuenca,
but it is in the United States, which is where most/all of the
mainstream music is decided. We really enjoy listening to pop,
since theyre catchy and usually have some sort of meaning they
we can relate too. Finally, we agree with the mainstream music
and will continue to listen more music of the same genre.