Pop Music Daily

Pop culture has this funny way of taking elements from different subcultures and clumping them into what we have come to know as the mainstream. As a subset of pop culture, pop music is no different. Allow me to explain using hip hop as an example. Before hip hop as we know it today came into being (Kanye West, et al), hip hop was (and still is) a thriving subculture with an ethic centred on what they call the “four elements of hip hop”, one of which rapping.

Over the years, pop music has come to assimilate rap and is now an indispensable element in the pop music landscape.
Despite the naysayers, this process can actually be a positive thing. Without the constant assimilation, pop music would end up becoming stagnant. Without the constant assimilation, there would be no innovation in the form. Without the constant assimilation, pop music would lose its universal appeal. In short, without the constant assimilation, there would be no pop music.

Tune in next week when I contradict myself and tell you all why pop music as assimilation sucks.