The opening number, "How Can I Keep From Singing?," the traditional Quaker hymn that Pete Seeger helped popularize and to which he added words, established the program's folk-pop emphasis.
On these fronts, it's fairly easy to see how lib-pop emphases might well broaden the G.O.P.'s electoral appeal (assuming that the internal coalition politics could be finessed, of course, which is no sure thing).
We thought it could be funny to combine the rural old man stereotype we get abroad with the hideous pop culture emphases we have on the language at home and to put Pól, Micheál and Síle in a world where they don't belong.
USGamers Kat Bailey was fairly positive about it despite not finding it very memorable, calling it "aggressively anime, mixing piano riffs with the odd bit of J-Pop for emphasis".
The trend away from albums and toward digital tracks has been going on for a few years, and industry insiders attribute it to pop music's emphasis on hit singles.
In Blue moved towards mainstream pop, placing heavy emphasis on electronic synthesisers.
Some songs sound generic – like early 90s indie-pop (with the emphasis on the "rock") – the otherwise engaging Aqua Profunda! sounds of second-division Britpop band Sleeper, for example.
In curating the event, the New York singer has chosen artists who he feels embrace "oestrogen-based thinking", and summarises the bill he has assembled – primarily art-pop with the emphasis heavily on the first syllable – as "mainly ecstatic female voices, with a few queens thrown in".
John Ashbery, Star Black, and Joe Brainard make collages — dense, witty, and spooky, with an emphasis on pop and Victorian materials, sexily repurposed.
Take That, Mika and Leona Lewis lead the field at this year's Brit Awards in a nominations list that puts the emphasis on pop.
But as the record companies worked out how to sell pop and rock, the emphasis fell on the lyricists and singers, who embodied rock's cult of personality.
