Ideology In Music

IDEOLOGY IS A BELIEF  

All musical genres have a certain 'ideology'. Often genres divide along binary oppositions or dichotomy. 

Ideology- a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

Pop and Rock are very contrasting genres so have very different ideologies. 



Pop 

• Clean
• Calmer
• Non-Sexual, A-sexual
• Euphemistic
• No drugs/drink
• Happy
• Professional
• Apolitical
• Fake, artificial 
• Money and success 

Rock

• Dirty
• Agressive
• Sexual
• Literal
• Drugs + Alcohol
• Angry
• Appear to be less competent/concerned 
• Political
• Authentic
• Making a statement

As you can tell form this quick list, Pop's ideology may initial seen as better than Rock's. However, often Pop is seen as fake and artificial and the artists often arent as 'authentic as Rock artists. 

Adding to this, recently Pop has been crossing into the Rocks Ideology. For example, Artists such as Ke$ha use lyrics which links to drugs and sex which was commonly against Pops Ideology.