An insight into Pop/Chart Music!

Hello!

In this post I am going to give an insight into Pop/Chart music. 

This is a video from the world famous boyband One Direction. This video clearly portrays the boy's personalities, in the first few minutes of the song they are all dressed up as different characters, one member Zayn is dressed as a girl. This shows their humerous side. Once the introduction has ended it shows the five of them trashing an office in Hollywood, I feel they are doing this as they are trying to somewhat 'mock' what other world famous artists are known to do when they don't get what they want, be 'divas'. The music video also shows some amateur dancing, the boys know they cant dance but they do it anyway purely because they know they aren't good at it but their fans will like it. The song itself is called 'Best Song Ever' and it has an extremely catchy tune that makes you want to sing it constantly, it is very upbeat and the singing is excellent making it easy to listen to.

                                     

This is a video from the controversial singer Miley Cyrus with her song 'Wrecking Ball'. This is a very intimate and she shows her emotion a lot, the song is clearly about a past relationship she has been in and the fact it is called wrecking ball denotes that the relationship ended badly. In the video Miley is swinging Naked on a 'wrecking ball', this suggests that the person she was in a relationship was with her when she was most vulnerable (naked) but then destroyed it all (wrecking ball). Miley is also seen kissing a sledge hammer, in my opinion this shows that she still loves what destroyed her relationship. This song seems to be very popular for those who listen to pop music, most likely because it is a slowly sang-song that has upbeat tunes behind her delicate voice.

                                     

This video comes from the singer Katy Perry singing her song 'Roar'. The video shows that she has been in an aeroplane crash in the middle of a forest with her partner, within the first 30 seconds of the video her partner gets killed by an animal so she is left to explore the forest alone. She befriends some of the rainforest's animals such as a monkey, elephant, crocodile and tiger. The song is explaining how strong Katy is and she isn't going anywhere and isn't going to back down 'you're going to hear me roar'. Katy has an unbelievable voice and this song portrays it well. Both this song and One Direction have similar beats behind the track which is very pleasing when you are listening to it. 

Overall when looking into the music videos I have noticed that the tunes behind the voice are rather upbeat and even the slower songs such as 'Wrecking Ball' have upbeat tunes behind them. I also noticed that the colours in the music videos are rather bright and in your face noticeable which pairs nicely with the upbeat sounds.