Put another way, a normal modem will download a pop song from the Internet in 15 minutes.
We can only be thankful: the thought of a pop song opening Vertigo instead of Herrmann's magnificent Prelude is profoundly depressing.
From The Beach Boys and The Zombies to Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes, nothing makes a pop song sunnier than layer upon layer of vocal harmonies.
The only hint of a pop song is an orchestration of Victor Young's "Poochie, " from 1941, which appears briefly during the scene where Scottie and Judy are dancing in the Fairmont Hotel.
What is the shelf life for an investment thesis or a pop song or a new show on TV when we act as culture shredders whose switches are always set in the On position?
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Barzelay has never been afraid to turn a pop song into a mission statement: For proof, check out Clem Snide's masterful "I Love the Unknown, " which Barzelay helpfully tacks on as a bonus track to Lose Big.
Under the guidance of charismatic coach Jurgen Klopp, whose popularity has seen a pop song written about him, Dortmund's run to the final has left even the most hard-hearted of seasoned aficionados willing on the men in yellow and black.
"There's definitely an art to be able to write a song that on one level is a pop song and one that also has to tell a story and keep an audience engaged in terms of a larger narrative arc, " he says.
It's a nice thought, like a catchy pop song, and by the stunning proliferation of "How-To" guides, it's a very, very overplayed one.
Gangnnam style is a catchy pop song, but there are lots of catchy pop songs on YouTube.
No one involved in the creation of "Love Me Do" or "Dr. No" would have expected that either would be anything more than quick money spinners -- a throwaway two-minute pop song and a low-budget adaptation of a cheap paperback attempting to cash in on the Cold War appetite for espionage thrillers.
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" Byrne explains the band's appeal: "We felt it was possible to work within a kind of pop song format and kind of do what you wanted as long as you stayed within that format.
If you have a fast enough Internet connection, Napster allows you to call up a copy of almost any pop song from another user's computer, within a few seconds and without paying a penny.
Basically, Mom and Dad, "Gangnam Style" is a fun, catchy pop song by South Korean artist Psy.
Its advocates will wax poetic about audience size and time spent being entertained online, as if the Super Bowl content was the same as a new movie or pop song release.
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Such blinkered reverence is at odds with the world in which the Beatles and Bond came to stardom, when the spending power of neophyte teenagers dominated pop culture and a song or movie could be top of the pops or a box office hit one week and gone the next.
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"The kind of English taught in schools is so divorced from real life - you can't order a meal or talk about your favorite pop song" by memorizing textbook phrases.
Composer Him Sophy, who studied in Russia for 13 years after surviving the Khmer Rouge labor camps, has blended rap, religious chanting, rock, his country's ancient music, operatic styles, pop and even added a Khmer Rouge propaganda song as a cell phone ringtone in the production.
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Pop star Madonna was recognised for Masterpiece, a song she wrote for her historical drama W.E.
Christina Aguilera, the other major pop diva to release a single last week, saw her song Keeps Gettin' Better enter at number 14.
It seemed, in the mid to late 1990s, that every pop group on the planet had to cover a Bee Gees song in order to succeed.
The album went triple-platinum, and Mayer won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the song "Your Body Is a Wonderland" at last year's Grammy Awards.
Equally upbeat is "Q of T, " which finds the band embracing indie dance pop with a heavy, jumpy bassline and jittery guitars in the song's energetic chorus.
Now comes the exception that proves the rule: The leadoff track from Phish's first studio album after a four-year breakup is the strongest, most pop-friendly song the band has ever written.
On first listen, the song could be mistaken for a whimsical ditty, with its pop theme of angst-ridden love.
And pop stars Chrissie Hynde and Sir Bob Geldof have teamed up with Gilmour to record a song of support.
Nada Surf has been plugging away since the mid-'90s, beginning as an alt-rock one-hit wonder (with the novelty song "Popular") and ultimately morphing into a rare creature: an indie-pop band that traffics in uplift and empathy.
Its song, containing everything that makes pop music insipid in one tidy package, has inspired a backlash so hard that a stunned Rebecca herself has likened it to cyberbullying.
More and more singer-songwriters from the pop world seem to be hearing that siren song: The trickle of pop and rock stars turning to the stage is fast becoming a flood.
The mating song of the male has been described as beginning with a resonant rattle, continuing with a pop-like a cork being pulled from a wine bottle, followed by the pouring of a liquid out of a narrow-necked bottle and ending with the sound of knife grinding.
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