Week 5~ Can Popular Music Ever Really Be Unplugged?

A common misconception of the word unplugged is to believe that it is acoustic and that unplugged only refers to the instrument. While this may be considered, it goes against the definition of popular music as already discussed which is the predicament. In modern terms, music needs electronics to become popular, whether in the song or to help broadcast it; exceptions to this rule include gospel choir and possibly classical music in certain situations. In the past before the introduction of amplifiers and microphones in the late 19th and early 20th Century then it is possible to say that popular music could have been achieved “unplugged” but in today’s society, it is too much of a vital tool in introducing new types of music. Without electronics in music there never would have been the discovery of different types of singing such as crooning. Electronics are also needed to broadcast a product to a larger audience, without that the music wouldn’t get heard and so would not become popular so in my personal opinion, popular music can never be unplugged.