Classic pop bands unite to tour, create hits

[Behshad]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/0 ... est_entsat

[weatherman90]

Wow. Pop?

[Ehwmatt]

This is news? These bands have been touring in combos like this for the last several years. I have a Chicago/EWF DVD from at least a few years ago....

And we all know Styx and REO always tour with other bands, often each other. As for the pop moniker, maybe it's not quite accurate, especially for Chicago/EWF, but there's no shame in being "pop." Just look at the power pop genre

[Melissa]

I always thought the "pop" just meant "popular", esp. when you look at music in lots of stores, they have it labeled "Rock/Pop", and that's usually where the Journey stuff is!

I looked up "pop" music anyway just out of curiosity what it's labeled these days, funny stuff to find it has so many facets, I started reading them like Bubba in Forrest Gump when he's explaining all the different shrimp dishes :

Avant-pop - Baroque pop - Bastard pop ( ) - Bubblegum pop - Dance-pop - Girly-pop - Disco - Indie pop - Manufactured pop - Noise pop - Operatic pop - Power pop - Sophisti-pop - Space age pop - Sunshine pop - Synthpop - Teen pop
Fusion genres
Country pop - Dream pop - Electropop/Technopop- House-pop - Jangle pop (WTH is that? ) - Pop folk - Pop punk - Pop rap - Pop rock - Psychedelic pop - Urban pop

[Melissa]

Here's another one, hysterical:

pop music - music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love

[Don]

It should be classic A/C bands because that's the only chart these bands can even get on now days.