Audience Profile.

Audience Profile.

Pop Rock is a music genre which incorporates a catchy pop style and light soft lyrics, which is more of less a guitar based song, there is quite a few variations of the word 'Pop rock' going from a slow and mellow form of rock as apposed to authentic rock, the detractos of pop rock tend to say its slick and a commerical product.

The song we are researcing also as influences from new wave and synthpop, new wave is an ambiguous catagory of pop or rock, which was established in the 1970s to mid 1980's and came from ties of punk rock, it was classed as the same until it was identified as its own genre incorporating electronic, experimental music, mod subculture, disco and pop music. Common characteristics of new wave music, apart from its punk influences, it includes the use of synthesizers and electronic productions. Synthpop also known as electropop, or technopop is a genre of popular music that first became established in around the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Krautrock" of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s.

Pop Rock audience is for all ages, it has a wide range of artists which sings in this style the most recent in 2010,  Maroon 5, Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, P!nk, Demi Lovato and  Lawson, it also goes to Nickleback, matchbox twenty, Ashlee simpson, Christina Aguilera, Michelle Branch, Elton John, Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney and Wings, The Knack and Olivia Newton-John, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Stevie Nicks and Phil Collins. At the start of the decade, Queen, Bryan Adams, Tina Turner, Cher, Sheena Easton, Def Leppard, Roxette, Billy Ocean, George Michael, Phil Collins and Madonna, Shakira, Sixpence None the Richer, October Project, The Cranberries, No Doubt, Hanson, Everclear, 4 Non Blondes and Gin Blossoms and many more artists as you can tell it goes from Billy Ocean right through to Demi Lovato which is a wide spectrum which appeals to all ages.