electropop- subgenre

For this task I have looked at the sub genres of pop, I came across bubble gum pop, country pop, electro pop and a few more; however I have decided to explore the sub genre electropop.
I have researched more into electropop; the history, development, style of music, the target audiences and their influence of other people.

Electropop is a musical genre which combines electronic music and pop music. Electropop songs are electronic and pop songs, and are often with simple, catchy hooks and simple dance beats to the song. The sub genre became very popular during the 1980's and has still remained popular. Electropop began to appear in the late 1970's with the "robot pop" of German band Kraftwerk.

The genre has changed so much, by keeping up with the trends and younger audiences. electronic dance music is now very popular with the current audience. 

There have been many awards for artists that have produced electropop. For example calvin Harris won 2 MTV awards in 2012, one being for his music video of the year and the other one being best video of electronic single. Avicii has also won many awards regarding electronic music. 


Electropop was mostly played in clubs this is where people would hear the songs when there out, and then it would become more and more popular. Now people listen to electropop music on spotify and other music apps. 

There a different kind of magazines that are specific to this sub genre, an example is MixMag.  MixMag is a British music magazine which has aspects that focus on the sub genre electropop, which is also electric dance music. 

There are many electropop music wrists such as Lady Gaga, Kesha, David Bowie, Madonna.

The type of people that are mostly likely to listen to Electropop music are men ages 18-24.