what is actually happening here?

“on pop music” is something akin to an album review blog, in which the writers collect their thoughts on music and put them to (digital) paper. some articles will be simple opinion pieces (‘reviews,’ like something you would find on Allmusic but without the scoring bits as scoring is not sufficient in capturing the *largely* subjective experience of Listening to Music); other articles will weave creative writing elements into something resembling a narrative relating to the album being discussed.

how are you defining ‘pop’ music?

at this turn in the Earth’s rotation, ‘pop’ is a nebulous term. some may think of ‘pop’ as Diana Ross, Madonna , or Carly Rae Jepsen; others may think of The Beatles, The Smiths, or The Smashing Pumpkins. the moment someone called Metallica a ‘pop metal band,’ the label solidified as — pretty much — completely meaningless. as such, pop is the ephemeral dream stuff that makes up whatever we happen to enjoy listening to; it means nothing and everything.