Adorno article ‘On Popular music’ describes Popular music as a drastic difference to serious music. The link between serious music to popular music can be through the characteristic of standardization with the idea that the whole culture of popular music is accepted. According to Adorno all popular music is pregiven and ‘pre-excepted’. Adorno believed that each pop song has a central structure with the same parts and to conceal this they are given pseudo-individualization. On the contrary to this Adorno believed that every detail of classical music belongs to it totally and logically. Adorno believed that popular music brainwashes people into liking it through society and it prevents people from being individuals.
‘Barbie girl’ Aqua is a great example of Popular music that is standardized. The listeners know what to expect from the song before it has started. The listener does not have to think about the lyrics to gain an idea of what it is about. Adorno would consider the song to be ‘Cheap entertainment’. The lyrics are easy to unnderstand. The song uses techniques of pseudo individualization. Lene nystrom flaunts herself posing to the camera and pouting her lips. She is giving herself giving the man I the video “You can look you can play you can say I’m always yours”. The lyrics imply sexual puns and links with the standardized image: that women are to be looked at by men who are the ones with power. Ken has a car. When a song comes out a customer believes they like it because the same underlying beat is recurring in popular music. It is familiar to the listener making them feel comfortable.
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