>>15140>awful pop song triggers a flight reaction. Like I have to stop it, get out of there, just unbearable. Example: this Beyonce song.lol
I don't have a good theory of pop music, or what can constitute "good" pop music (if there is such a thing). But if it's innovative (when it is innovative), it might be more in the technics of production and in aesthetics than in terms of songwriting. The songs themselves rely on formulatic hooks and structure.
Pop music is hard to seperate from its visual elements and in the sonic texture.
Here's auyghy Azalea video from 2014. An interesting thing about this is it came out just as really out-of-control SJW / woke stuff was spreading, and there were a lot of people who didn't like her, because she's a white girl trying to sound like a black girl. (The fact that she's grinding on a black guy in the video was apparently not politically progressive!) But aesthetically and sonically, I think it's good pop.