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Some ideas to start off with could be vanilla essence, pop rocks, or tiny uncut figs.
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He wanted to capture Marilyn Monroe's wiggly essence, in Pop Art colors.
Concision, admittedly, is the essence of pop: its discipline, its challenge, its genius.
Connection, he explained, was the essence of pop music, according to his boss, Jimmy Iovine.
But these songs became part of the cultural canvas because they distilled a single gesture, which is undeniably the true essence of pop.
Shankman could use a little liberating himself: with few exceptions, he uses the camera stiffly; he doesn't give us the concentrated essence of pop whimsy that we want.
Drums, guitar, voices, and elation: the Beatles' "She Loves You" is the essence of pop, a too-good-to-be-true, you-won't-believe-your-ears burst of youthful hilarity.
Such irreverence toward "high" art, and the elevation of its antithesis -- as in Claes Oldenburg's 1964 "Flying Pizza" lithograph and Rauschenberg's 1977 silkscreen and collage variations on Purina feed sacks, with a wink at Picasso, Braques and Kurt Schwitters -- define the essence of Pop.
In this otherworld, which is simultaneously extremely local and completely global, Summer Camp, boy and girl, and, perhaps, others, perhaps also played by the boy and the girl, are covered, and drooled over, with as much fervour as early Roxy Music would be back in the print era, as if they have managed to locate with striking, enveloping precision the absolute essence of pop pleasure.
The Gray Vines are superb, eschewing the cotton-candy essence of pop music for the bellicose power of hard-hitting alt rock.
Granted, I'm not old enough to have experienced it at the time, but to me, The Brill Building represents the beginnings and the essence of pop music's getting supersized.
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