Post-Pop
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Post-Pop is term used to describe the pop music made after the boyband and girl group/singer era of the late 1990s and early 2000s, generally beginning around 2002.
A similar period occurred between 1992 and 1996 when the teen pop of the late 1980s departed in the wake of hip hop and the grunge movement. However, it could be argued that during this era dance-pop merely merged with R&B to form acts such as Boys II Men.
The term may be compared to post-grunge and post-gangsta as many genres of popular music more or less froze in development during the mid-to-late 1990s.
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During most of the 2000s dance-pop was no longer chart-topping, so boy bands and girl singers had to fuse with hip hop, pop-punk and related music to get record sales and airplay.
Examples of this include Britney Spears acquiring hip hop production rather than that of dance and artists like Avril Lavigne,Kelly Clarkson (whom actually started out as a pseudo R&B/pop artist) and Michelle Branch developing a "rocker chick" image similar to that of Alanis Morissette.
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The term "post-pop" is also used to refer to experimental music, especially indie rock, that has a catchy sound but is musically "advanced" and creative (e.g. Say Anything (band)). This is analogous to post-rock, which uses rock'n'roll instrumentation for music beyond the narrow confines of rock'n'roll itself. Post-pop may be sonically rooted in pop music conventions but may have an aesthetic rooted in avant-garde classical music, like John Cage's compositions.
The "post-pop" concept is often translated to other forms of art than music:
- www.postpop.co.uk — A group of Italian architects
- www.postpop.org — A group of German artists
[edit] Artists
- Kelly Clarkson
- Ashlee Simpson
- Avril Lavigne
- Good Charlotte
- Simple Plan
- Jesse McCartney
- The Click Five
[edit] See also
- Generation Y
- 2000s
- Post-Grunge
- Post-gangsta
