pop

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Before we stage-dive into the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ contributions to pop music’s feel-good pantheon, a confession: Pretty much every entry in their post-”Californication” discography gives me hives.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

It even gave bored fingers little air bubbles to pop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Seaver likes to tell people that when he first met Day, she was doing pop sessions, but all she listened to was the dubstep music she’d fallen in love with as a kid.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The chart has long since been dubbed “Country” alone, and pop western songs are seen as outliers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

“I can’t imagine living by myself, but sometimes my pop . . . ugh. He’s in a snit about this new movie.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu