{"genres":[{"type":"genre","id":"g.397","name":"Power Pop","href":"https://api.napster.com/v2.0/genres/g.397","shortcut":"power pop","description":"Emerging as the post-Beatles pop of the early 1970s, Power Pop is driven by infectious melodies and strong, bright guitars. Its archetypal artist is Big Star, although no one knew it at the time. In the late '70s and early '80s, bands like Cheap Trick and the Plimsouls -- whose amazing single \"A Million Miles Away\" brightened the Valley Girl soundtrack -- wore skinny ties and had a handful of hits before fading from the mainstream.
The Power Pop tradition continued in the '90s with acts like Teenage Fanclub and the Posies, as well as a host of cult favorites. The impact of Power Pop can be felt especially on the regional bar band circuit, where armies of up-and-comers pay inadvertent homage to these masters of the 3 1/2-minute pop song.","links":{"childGenres":{"ids":["g.405","g.1052","g.1053"],"href":"https://api.napster.com/v2.0/genres/g.405,g.1052,g.1053"},"parentGenres":{"ids":["g.204"],"href":"https://api.napster.com/v2.0/genres/g.204"}}},{"type":"genre","id":"g.115","name":"Pop","href":"https://api.napster.com/v2.0/genres/g.115","shortcut":"pop","description":"Pop is a catch-all term that's taken on myriad meanings over the years. In its nascent days, \"pop\" applied to commercially successful artists who won broad public interest with lighthearted fare. As the 20th century progressed, popular music gravitated to a particular sound: three minutes of bright melodies & infectious hooks. Today, pop music continues to swerve back and forth between these two aspects of its definition. Because the term essentially refers to music composed for popular appeal, the aesthetics of pop vary almost constantly according to the tastes of the time: doo-wop, disco and electronic dance music have all been pop. At the same time, artists in very un-mainstream genres (like indie rock and electronic music) often play or at least play with that quintessential pop style of bright melodies and infectious hooks. This is the place for the music that people have heard on the radio and blasted out car windows across the decades - music from Justin Timberlake to Rihanna, Diana Ross to Bee Gees, Rufus Wainwright to Selena.","links":{"childGenres":{"ids":["g.4","g.10","g.69","g.290","g.463","g.1059"],"href":"https://api.napster.com/v2.0/genres/g.4,g.10,g.69,g.290,g.463,g.1059"}}}]}