Indie Music And Pop Rock

"Indie" is short for "Independent" and that attitude of independence, more than anything, determines if an artist is indie or not.

Indie music has been established in the UK in the late 1960's it was first recognised by the bands 'the kinks' and 'the who'. The term indie was for sometime decribed of artists on an independant labels and the labels themselves. The 1980's was a very important decade for indie music the first indie chart was established in the UK and United States and begain to get a proper name within the music industry. Indie music has been a big input into the music industry making artists try out new things and sounds and can range from indie rock and indie pop.

"Pop rock" is a mix of pop and rock music using a catchy pop style with light lyrics, and guitar-based songs.

Pop rock has been around since 1960's when artists and bands started to me rge both of the genres pop and rock together. Pop rock has been showed by many artists in the 1970's Elton John, Paul McCathery and Rod Stewart. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music.

Whilst trying to choose our genre we wanted to explore a couple of them before we orginally came up with our idea. Our finished idea was a variety of the two we came up with we choose The Kooks who are an indie pop genre band we decided to do this because there songs are very lyrical and easy to interpretate. The Song we choose was Sway which was there thris and final song of there second album, we choose this song because its not as up beat but not too slow and we found very good ideas to fit in with the song.