| This Is Pop | |
| Cover: | This Is Pop.png |
| Caption: | "This Is Pop?" single cover |
| Artist: | XTC |
| Album: | White Music |
| Recorded: | 1977 |
| Genre: | |
| Label: | Virgin |
| Prev Title: | Statue of Liberty |
| Prev Year: | 1978 |
| Next Title: | Are You Receiving Me? |
| Next Year: | 1978 |
"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.[3]
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".[4] The song's opening F chord was based on the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" (1964).[5]
The song title was adopted for the 2017 documentary about the band, .[6]
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