"This Is Pop" is a song by the English rock band XTC from their 1978 album White Music. A rerecorded version, typeset as "This Is Pop?", was released as the group's third single.[1]
"This Is Pop" | ||||
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![]() "This Is Pop?" single cover | ||||
Song by XTC | ||||
from the album White Music | ||||
Released | January 20, 1978 (1978-01-20) | |||
Recorded | 1977 | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
Songwriter(s) | Andy Partridge | |||
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Guitarist Andy Partridge wrote "This Is Pop" as a response to journalistic terms for music genres such as "punk", which he believed were redundant of "pop".[2] The song's opening F chord was based on the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" (1964).[3]
The song title was adopted for the 2017 documentary about the band, XTC: This Is Pop.[4]
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