“Pop Group ” the label of pop music culture development

Beautiful appearance, fashionable music, passionate youth… These iconic elements belong to an important form of western pop music performance – pop group. “Pop group” is one of the most powerful and influential expression forms of western pop music culture.After the popularity of Grunge (rock), Rap (rap) and Hip-hop (hip-hop), a new wave of idol singing groups revived and gradually swept the world from the early 1990s, and “youth idol pop” became the commercial pillar of the music industry at that time. In the course of 10 years of development, no matter boy group, girl group, or male and female groups, there are countless singing groups have failed. In terms of overall influence, the most successful singing groups are those that are known for their beautiful appearance and sweet voice. Among the new idol male singers, Take That, Backstreet Boys and Boyzone are the most representative.

Compared with the popularity of singer groups in the 1980s, super boy groups emerged in the 1990s in the music style and performance form is more unified, more powerful market appeal, they will sing group’s commercial value and performance ability to play to the extreme, continued to write a popular legend in the music industry. The mainstream music of the 1990s, led by boy bands, returned to form the backbone of the record industry.

Speaking of “Pop group”, we have to talk about the Teen Pop culture it carries and spreads. Teen Pop is a genre of popular music, which is a very controversial term. Some people think that Teen Pop music is only for fans under 21 years old, and it is a kind of love song without any content. However, the real performance level of the singer is not important, as long as the singer has attractive appearance. Critics have repeatedly lampooned the music in songs and articles as being low and uninteresting; Others say Teen Pop is one of the biggest drivers of the U.S. record economy. Since the early 1990s, male singing groups, as one of the forms of “Pop group”, have gradually fostered the growth of Teen Pop, making it the music genre with the largest income, the most fanatical fans and the most vigorous consumption in western pop music.

Early Teen Pop was pioneered and brought to the world by the Backstreet Boys, whose birth was more than a miracle. It also launched the global boy band and the term Teen Pop. The Backstreet Boys are the biggest enablers and the biggest beneficiaries.

Generally speaking, Teen Pop music is the music of musicians in their teens. If they don’t make changes after this age, they will face the dilemma of “obsolescence”, which is one of the reasons why some members of popular groups choose to go solo or split up. The same goes for the Backstreet Boys as we know them. After a four-year hiatus from 2001, the Backstreet Boys dropped out of the Teen Pop lineup with their successful 2005 album Never Gone, But a new (adult contemporary) style that was almost unrecognizable.