Slartibartfast wrote: I grew up on pop music and singles.  I don't really pay much attention to pop these days, but still it's out there and what I do get wind of smells really bad.  The first one I've heard in a long time that I think is pretty good is Pharrell Williams - Happy. Here's a good parody - http://v5.player.abacast.com/v5.1/player/index.php?uid=6294&popupurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffilesource.abacast.com%2Freachmediainc%2F022114%2FHIT0221.mp3 Sure it's a bit repetitive, but... Feel free to share if you have any other worthy candidates out there.

Happy is a great pop song. Thanks for posting!

I think Katy Perry puts out good stuff!
On the first page I saw some put up a video of Perfume!
Yes, they are the best! Awesome electro J Pop. I like them almost as much as prog!

A Person wrote:   CHVRCHES:

Dean wrote: Ah crap. Svetonio's discovered this thread.  Oh well, it was fun for a while.

Edited by Svetonio - April 19 2014 at 11:22

Oh, but they're good boys I'm sure, Tom! Good looking bunch of lads like that with the world at their feet, surely they wouldn't be doing drugs and taking advantage of pretty young willing girls?!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - April 19 2014 at 05:31

Tom Ozric wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: Are you serious ??? You're unhappy aren't you?  Are you a man who's growing boobs??? How did you know ?? I'm beggin' ya', please don't tell anyone....... No, really - I work in a grocery store where the latest hits are constantly churned out ad-nauseum, and there may be a brief passage that could be jammed out to be something cool, but overall, the quality of most of these modern hits is pretty low........ ........thankfully I hear some decent things like acceptable hits from Gabriel, Genesis/Collins, Yes, Asia, Chicago, Zeppelin etc.    There is a total RUBBISH song from Jessica Mauboy - who chants "fill me up, fill me up.." - well, if she was hot then I'd oblige.............

Yeah, I was in disbelief when I heard that song, I was thinking `It can't be that blatant, can it....?'

Then again, I noticed that `One Direction' song that was played about a million times everywhere had some line about `Tonight let's GET SOME...and live while we're young', and I thought `Wow, that's unusually direct for a boy group being sold to kids...'

Ticks me off a little when it's only really young girls that listen to that crap, and here's these sexually suggestive songs that give them all sorts of bad encouragement.

And yeah, Jess Mauboy's barely hot...the kind of girl I'd prefer to have as a friend, I think!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - April 19 2014 at 05:20

There are a lot of modern prog bands that sound pop. One of them is Fractal Mirror.

Horizons wrote: Imagine Dragons is catchy but they get old quick. Once you've heard it once or twice, i get bored..

Diggs Duke was released the most original art pop / soul album in 2013.