Europop

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Europop is a variant of pop music that originated in continental Europe at the beginning of the 1970s and was shaped in the following years in particular by the ABBA group and gained great popularity worldwide.

Europop was born when continental European musicians began writing pop music for a European and international music market and therefore wrote their lyrics in English instead of their mother tongue. The texts are therefore mostly written in simple, easily understandable English ( "high-school-level English" ) and the content is often undemanding. Another feature are catchy, carefree melodies that are easy to sing along to and are usually arranged in such a way that you can dance to them well.

One of the first Europop hits is Black is Black by Los Bravos , which in 1966 sold a million times over. In the 1970s, after they won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo, Abba set the style for Europop. Other well-known performers from the 1970s are Donna Summer (producer Giorgio Moroder ) and Boney M. (producer Frank Farian ). In the following years, Europop also influenced the musical development in England, where since the 1980s more and more Europop titles have been published, such as by Kylie Minogue , the Pet Shop Boys and Erasure . After Donna Summer, Boney M. and Abba had already published their first disco titles in the 1970s, Europop developed into Eurodisco in the 1980s and Eurodance in the 1990s . Well-known artists are S Club 7 , Modern Talking , Kim Wilde , Bananarama , Rick Astley and Aqua .

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Simon Frith, Will Straw, John Street: The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock . Cambridge University Press 2001 ISBN 0-521-55660-0 , pp. 95, p. 198