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Lord knows, I love a brainless pop song.
The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
A great pop song should be felt when you hear it.
I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.
I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
A timeless pop song is the hardest thing to do as a songwriter.
Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.
When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.
All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.
I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.
I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production.
For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.
Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.
Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.
The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
Pop is like a puzzle: to write a perfect pop song, you never know, and there's so much that can happen in a second with a song.
I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.
I think pop music was going through a phase where it was like pop but dance-hall or pop but R&B. But, no, I just want a pop song.
For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.
Every single song on 'Torches' was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn't any fat on the songs; there wasn't a lot to cut.
When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.
I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.
'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.
I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face'... Oh! What a song! And 'Rolling in the Deep'... Oh!
I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's usually not a bite that most people would want to sing.
You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.
One day I'll make a rap song, the next day I'll make a pop song, the next day I'll make a rock song, the next day I'll make R&B. I don't have a pattern.
I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.
There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.
It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
Like, I wanna be the producer with the Selena Gomez top-charting pop song, and like, a top-charting Migos or Gucci song in urban. I wanna just take over everything, you know?
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
When I sing a pop song, I'm a pop singer. When I sing a country song, I'm a country singer. I've been very lucky to cross over, because by doing that, you can't be pigeonholed.
You have to ration your creativity over all your songs. You write a really cool pop song then you have to write a heavy song to balance out, then you need to think about singles.
I have the most eclectic music taste out there. I can be listening to an indie pop song just as easily as I could be listening to a Carly Simon song from the '70s to a country song.
It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.
I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.
To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.
Sometimes you want something really serious that makes you feel emotional and makes you think, and sometimes you do just want a pop song. What I love about Taylor Swift is that she offers both.
I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.
Say what you want about Maroon 5 not making music like the kind found on 'Songs About Jane,' the fact remains that they know how to write a really good pop song that highlights lead singer Adam Levine's falsetto.