Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.
I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music.
There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.
We kind of write pop songs, but we don't fit in the pop world. We're really bad at being pop stars and walking down red carpets. We've got our own little bubble, which we really like. We've learned to really like that.
Pop music will never be low brow.
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
I have always been a singersongwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense. "
Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely.
Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.
It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.
You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.
I'm still not really planning on pursuing a music career. I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
Grace? Are you tipsy? (Selena) Maybe just comfortably toasty. Pop tart toasty. (Grace)
How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something. . I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's is going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene.
I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey and know my pop music. I like it, my voice is good, and I can start out getting confidence without an audience in front of me.
What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.
I started drawing comics, and at first I was very influenced by the whole pop art movement, you know, Batman was on TV and all that pop art stuff? But then my next influence was in 1966, or maybe it was '65, I don't know. Somebody showed me a copy of the "East Village Other", which was an underground newspaper. And. . . it had comics in it! And they weren't superhero comics.