"Good Vibrations" is a "majesty" of art pop by critic Ed Masley's description. Upon release, it became the group's biggest selling single. (en)
1980.0 (dbd:second)
Journalist Peter Doggett also characterized "Strawberry Fields Forever" as art pop, noting its attempt to "self-consciously exclude [...] the mass audience". (en)
* Art rock
* industrial
* list of art pop musicians
* art world
* avant-pop
* commercialism
* experimental pop
* low culture
* New Romantic
* power pop
* progressive pop (en)
What seems clearer in retrospect [...] is a distinction between the first wave of art school musicians, the London provincial r & b players who simply picked up the bohemian attitude and carried it with them into progressive rock, and a second generation, who applied art theories to pop music making (en)
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