Pop rock is a subgenre of
rock music that uses "catchy" pop style, with light lyrics over top of "guitar-based" songs. Scholars have noted that the term "pop" and "rock" are usually depicted as opposites; the detractors of pop often deride it as a slickly-commercial commodity, whereas rock is purportedly an "authentic" and "sincere" form of music.
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