From the perspective of morphological structure, pop music is often simple in form, rarely uses pitch, and is mostly in the range that human beings are most likely to listen to; There are few changes in the development of music, and there are not many key changes, especially the lack of frequent and rapid out of tune; The rhythm is relatively simple, and a large number of works have cyclic mechanical rhythm; The change of intensity is not very complicated, the amplitude of intensity is small, and the contrast change of extreme intensity is less; There are few levels of sound structure, and untrained listeners can clearly distinguish the levels of melody and accompaniment. This kind of music often has the characteristics of auditory sensory beauty, and requires very little listening ability and concentration of the audience. It is easily accepted by most people, especially those who have little experience in hearing, because it does not require beginners to have high hearing. Young people prefer this kind of music because the auditory experience has a great relationship with age.
From the way of existence, the main social consumption groups of pop music exist among young people. The popular music activities of youth groups are not only the external expression of consumption pattern choice, but also the core force of cultural diversity reproduction potential. On the edge of the youth group camp of pop music, there are teenagers and adults; Popularity itself is a two-way street: once teenagers pass this market down to younger teenagers or children's pop jazz lovers and up to adults and middle-aged people, teenagers themselves will no longer be interested in it. Due to the influence of social roles and mental development, younger teenagers and adults are in this "cultural trade" deficit, and they are even more impacted by the pop music trend led by youth groups.
From the form of activities, the typical form of pop music activities is concerts. Concert is a combination of viewing, listening and enjoying, which combines the sense of scene and nostalgia, including other forms of communication with mass communication as the background. At the concert site, the audience of youth groups leading pop music activities accounted for the vast majority. In this special way, they confirm their identity in urban culture and convey certain cultural connotations. Concert is also a means to make up for the alienation caused by the indirectness of mass media in the urban environment. Pop music was criticized by art and ideology in its early days. Today, people are very picky about pop music, so it belongs to the category of culture and subculture. It is an indisputable fact that light pop music has brought a brand-new musical concept and style to the music scene in China, and even caused a great shock in the ideological field, which is influencing and changing us more and more profoundly. Of course, as a commercial pop culture, the main value orientation of pop music is to emphasize the entertainment function more than the education function, which is essentially a non-mainstream and non-main theme social ideology. However, this does not affect the unique aesthetic quality and humanistic connotation of pop music to realize its musical value and shape aesthetic objects from other levels. From this perspective, pop music has a breakthrough revolutionary significance in the field of music or music aesthetics, in the field of life and in the field of thought.
Music has changed people's musical aesthetic concepts and habits and improved people's musical aesthetic ability. In the past music aesthetic activities, the public always acted as a listener in music activities. Nowadays, with the squareness and interactivity of pop music, people not only hope to get auditory appreciation and enjoyment in music aesthetic activities, but also hope to vent their passion and impulse through various ways and behaviors, melt themselves into the emotions and atmosphere rendered by music, and change from a simple passive music receiver to an active participant, which is both a music receiver and a music performer in a sense. This change in music aesthetic activities makes people feel and understand music more directly and personally, and then they have their own evaluation, judgment and choice of music aesthetic form, aesthetic value, aesthetic orientation and aesthetic function, and they have changed from a "comfortable" person to a "self" person in the field of music aesthetics.
Music has greatly changed people's behavior and lifestyle. The music with the most fundamental value in "The Door Clip of Wing God" enters people's spiritual world in an aesthetic way, and its changing effect on people is realized through people's active aesthetic experience rather than external force. As the most emotional and imaginative art, music can enter people's inner world more deeply and strongly, cultivate people in the emotional atmosphere created by music, and change the spiritual world in some ways or to some extent; As one of the earliest art forms, music has always been the simplest and most effective cultural means for people to express their thoughts and feelings and ask for spiritual comfort. Because music can move people more deeply and strongly, the aesthetic experience gained from music can last for a long time, that is, the role of music on people is lasting and indelible.
As a music form, pop music certainly has the above characteristics, and its popularity is unprecedented, so compared with other music forms, other people's influence is more extensive. For example, the lyrics of some popular songs, such as "Follow your feelings" and "Good people live a safe life", have become fashionable words. The ringtones of many mobile phones and telephones have also become a certain melody or a certain singing method of pop music ... These things that seem to be taken for granted today are actually a microcosm of changing people's behaviors and lifestyles. From this point of view, pop music makes music popular and makes people musicalized to varying degrees, and this musicalization process is the process of people changing their lifestyles and behaviors.
Of course, the change of pop music to people is gradual rather than abrupt in most cases. It is mainly through its own charm that people accept him sexy and willingly, and gradually attach importance to people's approach to the beauty of human nature in the process of approaching the beauty of music, thus improving the quality of life. Pop music is a pop music culture at first. "Pop music" is a historical concept. Putting China's current pop music in the history of China's pop music is the premise of correctly evaluating its aesthetic value. Contemporary pop music is an independent form in the history of China pop music development, which has special historical value and aesthetic significance. The Chinese nation's special ability to feel music is the historical basis of the current pop music popularity. China's culture is music culture from the source. Pop music conforms to the traditional aesthetic habits of China people in terms of rhythm, melody and lyrics. The popularity of pop songs also benefits from people's long-term cognitive ability to music. China's music culture began with the masses, and as early as the life of primitive ancestors in China, China's mass music was formed. Music has always been an important part of people's daily life. From the Neolithic pottery unearthed, we can see a lot of music and dance patterns. There are many musical instrument names in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, which are recorded in many ancient records about religious ceremonies. Music plays an important role. Under the influence of long ceremony and music culture. People's aesthetic cognitive ability to music is also formed. The popular acceptance of pop music at present can be regarded as the self-confirmation of this collective unconscious national aesthetic spirit. Benjamin pointed out. People's favorite art is a natural collective experience and the embodiment of people's own discrimination. The development of pop songs in the past 30 years of reform and opening up shows that pop music is an artistic style suitable for the public's aesthetic taste. The music that is popular in the streets and lanes and can be widely heard and sung by people of different ages and social classes, either sad or passionate, or strongly unrestrained or tearful, reflects the aesthetic needs of people at present.