PROMPT: Learn a pop song.
I wrote this prompt in April (as that is when I brainstormed for these) and as I wrote it down today in this here blog template, I realized that I wasn’t exactly sure what officially makes a song a pop song. So I went to Wikipedia, of course.
It derives from Rock and Roll. It’s from the 1950s. I guess it has to have a catchy hook to be a pop song; it has to have a verse chorus structure. It’s aimed at the youth market. Maybe everyone knows this already, but because I’m really out of the pop culture loop, I had to look it up.
Part of the reason I want to learn a pop song is because I am amused at the challenge of taking, say, a Madonna song and making it work on the guitar. Or maybe a Michael Jackson song. Yes. A folky version of a Michael Jackson song sounds like a good project for today.
SONG OF THE DAY: Billie Jean
I had a fun time looking up people’s acoustic versions of MJ songs on Youtube. This one impressed and amused me. PS: I have no idea who this dude is.
Nora Bonner 