Dance Pop

Dance Pop Musicians:
Dance-pop just like its forbear disco, is often explored by the musical historians like a medium for a producer, as there are several songwriting teams and musicians that have arose from this music genre. The musicians like Jimmy Jam, Andre Cymone and Terry Lewis as well as Patrick Leonard, along with the DJ’s like Shep Pettibone and Jellybean Benitez, became stars with their own right because of the sleek productions on which they lavished upon the artists like Jody Watley, Madonna, and Janet Jackson. Stock Aitken and Waterman is another production team that should be noted, which sculpted the polished production for Ricky Astley, Kylie Minogue, and Bananarama’s likes. Indeed, Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers were able to completely flourish as the producers of the material for all of the newer artists with the dance pop music genre’s rise. The singer Cher, which isn’t strictly considered an artist of dance pop, had the biggest dance pop selling song ever by selling over ten million copies around the world for her dance pop music song entitled “Believe” and “Believe” is also labeled as the third ranked most successful song performed by an individual female musician across the world.

And of course, there are a couple of artists that were able to rise within the dance pop music genre in order to refute the subgenre’s notion as strictly being producer driven. Some artists such as Michael Jackson and Madonna who foes aforementioned, Kylie Minogue as well as Janet Jackson were all able to achieve some superstardom at the exact time Jody Watley since then has went on into international acclaim and has continued to garner the critical praise.

Notable Dance Pop Artists:
Some of the artists that are notable from the dance-pop music genre include: Cher, George Michael, Taylor Dayne, Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson, Rihanna, Cathy Dennis, C+C Music Factory, Cult Jam and Lisa Lisa. Madonna, Miley Cryus, Dannii Minogue, and The Pussycat Dolls were also notable artists of dance pop music as well.

Just like all of the other music genres, Dance pop is truly a very unique musical genre that is full of secret surprises. Just when you think that the music genre is calming down a bit, there is always someone new or something new coming about within the dance-pop music genre.