Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.
Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.
I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music.
I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.
Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.