[78-L] Pop vs popular

[Kristjan Saag]

Julian Vein quoted and wrote:
> On 21/09/11 21:29, Kristjan Saag wrote:
>> Cary likes Bing but not Amy; the kids like Amy, hardly Bing -
>> nevertheless both are pop singers.
>> Don's suggestion to use "popular" for the older generation of artists
>> and "pop" for the younger seems reasonable, but doesn't really rhyme
>> with the way the word "pop" has been used. I checked Billboard magazines
>> from 1942, 1952, 1962, 1972 and 1982 - the word "pop" (meaning
>> "popular") is used from the beginning, a little less in the 1940's but
>> the difference is small: about 10/20 per issue between 1942 and 1982.
>> Not a radical change...
>> Kristjan
>>
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> Bing could turn his hand to all sorts of material--rhythm tunes, popular
> ballads, novelties, Hawaiian, country etc. How many contemporary singers
> (sic) can do that?
>
>        Julian Vein
> __
We live in a different time. The audiences are more specialized, few 
artist would gain anything by broadening their repertoire like Bing and 
others did.
That doesn't make them less popular or less qualified as entertainers. 
Some of them even sing better.
Kristjan