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48-519: [REDACTED] Look up diddler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Diddler may refer to: People [ edit ] Didier Casnati (born 1980; also called "The Diddler"), Italian musician Sean Combs (born 1969; also called "The Diddler"), U.S. rapper also variously known as "Puff Daddy", "P Diddy", "Diddy", "Puffy", and variations Fictional characters [ edit ] Jeremy Diddler ,

96-473: A chorus that contrasts melodically, rhythmically and harmonically with the verse . The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment. The lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions. Harmony and chord progressions in pop music are often "that of classical European tonality , only more simple-minded." Clichés include

144-476: A 19th-century fictional character that became a stock character, the origin of the word "diddle" The Diddler, a fictional supervillain created by Kevin Smith for the comic Bluntman and Chronic The Diddler, a supervillain character from the turn-of-the-millennium BBC educational TV show Megamaths The Diddler, a fictional character from the 2000s TV game show Most Extreme Elimination Challenge Diddler,

192-566: A 2013 song by Brainfeeder off ideas+drafts+loops The Diddler , a 1960 play by P.G. O'Dea See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "diddler" , "diddlers" , "the diddler" , or "the diddlers" on Misplaced Pages. [REDACTED] The dictionary definition of diddle at Wiktionary "Diddler on the Roof", from Saturday Night Live ; see Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2017–18 P Diddler And The Fearsome Foursome ,

240-592: A U.S. punk rock band All pages with titles beginning with Diddler All pages with titles containing Diddler Diddle (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Diddler . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diddler&oldid=1259780729 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

288-460: A basic format (often the verse–chorus structure ), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, urban , dance , Latin , and country . The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, although the former more accurately describes all music that is targeted for mass appeal (compare art music ) and includes many disparate styles. Although much of

336-434: A fictional character from the 1986 film Pirates Diddler, a fictional character from the 1992 film Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight The Diddler, a fictional character from The Simpsons , an alter-ego of Ned Flanders; see Riddler in other media Other uses [ edit ] Diddlers, trolleybuses operated by London United Tramways The Diddlers, a Bo Diddley cover band; see The Horrors "The Diddler",

384-399: A light entertainment and easy listening tradition. Pop music is more conservative than other music genres such as folk, blues, country, and tradition. Many pop songs do not contain themes of resistance, opposition, or politics, rather focusing more on love and relationships. Therefore, pop music does not challenge its audiences socially, and does not cause political activism. Frith also said

432-498: A pop song is to them, songs from the 1960s turned out to be the most memorable, significantly more than songs from recent years 2000 to 2015. Before the progressive pop of the late 1960s, performers were typically unable to decide on the artistic content of their music. Assisted by the mid-1960s economic boom, record labels began investing in artists, giving them the freedom to experiment, and offering them limited control over their content and marketing. This situation declined after

480-455: A separation which was "also, broadly, one between boys and girls, middle-class and working-class." The latter half of the 20th century included a large-scale trend in American culture in which the boundaries between art and pop music were increasingly blurred. Between 1950 and 1970, there was a debate of pop versus art. Since then, certain music publications have embraced the music's legitimacy,

528-416: A tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments ; and seeks to encourage dancing or uses dance-oriented rhythms. The main medium of pop music is the song, often between two and a half and three and a half minutes in length, generally marked by a consistent and noticeable rhythmic element , a mainstream style and a simple traditional structure . The structure of many popular songs

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576-472: A thriving pop music industry, most of which is devoted to Western-style pop. Japan has for several years produced a greater quantity of music than everywhere except the US. The spread of Western-style pop music has been interpreted variously as representing processes of Americanization, homogenization , modernization, creative appropriation, cultural imperialism , or a more general process of globalization . One of

624-483: A trend referred to as " poptimism ". Throughout its development, pop music has absorbed influences from other genres of popular music. Early pop music drew on traditional pop , an American counterpart to German Schlager and French Chanson , however compared to the pop of European countries, traditional pop originally emphasized influences ranging from Tin Pan Alley songwriting, Broadway theatre , and show tunes . As

672-528: A wide audience [...] since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical mus[ic], usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , ABBA , etc." Grove Music Online also states that "[...] in the early 1960s, [the term] 'pop music' competed terminologically with beat music [in England], while in the US its coverage overlapped (as it still does) with that of 'rock and roll'". From about 1967,

720-485: A young musician, Casnati was inspired by Dire Straits and The Beach Boys . While attending European School in Varese, he formed several school bands to perform at the schools parties. He recorded his first solo self produced album at the age of 15. Casnati wrote, sang and played guitar. At 18 years of age, he moved to Nice to study law, and was funding it by performing in the streets of Nice, and Nice's flower market. He

768-417: Is "designed to appeal to everyone" but "doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste". Frith adds that it is "not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward [...] and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative". It is, "provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers, and concert promoters) rather than being made from below (...) Pop

816-425: Is all the collective clubs around the world. Radio is just doing its best to keep up." Songs that talked of escapism through partying became the most popular, influenced by the impulse to forget the economic troubles that had taken over the world after the 2008 crash . Throughout the 2010s, a lot of pop music also began to take cues from Alternative pop . Popularized by artists such as Lana Del Rey and Lorde in

864-499: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Didier Casnati Didier "Didi" Casnati (born 17 June 1980) is an Italian musician, singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known as the lead singer of pop band, The Gypsy Queens . Casnati also has a past career as an actor and model. Casnati was born in Varese , Italy, to an Italian chemist, physicist, bio technologist and his wife. As

912-526: Is just the singles charts and not the sum of all chart music. The music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical , jazz , rock , and novelty songs . As a genre, pop music is seen to exist and develop separately. Therefore, the term "pop music" may be used to describe a distinct genre, designed to appeal to all, often characterized as "instant singles-based music aimed at teenagers" in contrast to rock music as "album-based music for adults". Pop music continuously evolves along with

960-554: Is largely the story of the intertwining pop culture of the United States and the United Kingdom in the postwar era. According to Grove Music Online , "Western-derived pop styles, whether coexisting with or marginalizing distinctively local genres, have spread throughout the world and have come to constitute stylistic common denominators in global commercial music cultures". Some non-Western countries, such as Japan, have developed

1008-479: Is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged". According to Frith, characteristics of pop music include an aim of appealing to a general audience, rather than to a particular sub-culture or ideology, and an emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal "artistic" qualities. Besides, Frith also offers three identifying characteristics of pop music: light entertainment, commercial imperatives, and personal identification. Pop music grew out of

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1056-430: Is that of a verse and a chorus, the chorus serving as the portion of the track that is designed to stick in the ear through simple repetition both musically and lyrically. The chorus is often where the music builds towards and is often preceded by "the drop" where the bass and drum parts "drop out". Common variants include the verse-chorus form and the thirty-two-bar form , with a focus on melodies and catchy hooks , and

1104-666: The Universal Music Group . The band recorded their debut album The Gypsy Queens , produced by Larry Klein in 2012, and their second album Lost in the music in 2014. The band is known for their all stars private parties performances, and Casnati create a new genre of performing acoustically at dinners. In February 2020, Didier Casnati & The Gypsy Queens recorded 2 singles with record producer Larry Klein at The Village in Los Angeles , I'm into Something Good , featuring Herman's Hermits Peter Noone who originally made

1152-434: The barbershop quartet-style harmony (i.e. ii – V – I) and blues scale -influenced harmony. There was a lessening of the influence of traditional views of the circle of fifths between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, including less predominance for the dominant function . In October 2023, Billboard compiled a list of "the 500 best pop songs". In doing so, they noted the difficulty of defining "pop songs": One of

1200-435: The American and (from the mid-1960s) British music industries , whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture, but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music, sometimes producing local versions of wider trends, and lending them local characteristics. Some of these trends (for example Europop ) have had a significant impact on the development of the genre. The story of pop music

1248-460: The band. In 2004 he moved to Lima, Peru, to start a solo career. He recorded the song Mal Paso with Eva Ayllon , on Jaime Cuadra's fusion Album Cholo Soy, and won the 7 th Independent Music Award, in the fusion category, the album Cholo Soy went on to be used for the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace , with 3 songs. In 2012 The Gypsy Queens got signed by Nick Raphael to London Records , of

1296-487: The birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country , blues , and hillbilly music . According to the website of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , the term "pop music" "originated in Britain in the mid-1950s as a description for rock and roll and the new youth music styles that it influenced". The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pop's "earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to

1344-770: The decade, it was common for pop producers, songwriters, and engineers to freely experiment with musical form, orchestration , unnatural reverb , and other sound effects. Some of the best known examples are Phil Spector 's Wall of Sound and Joe Meek 's use of homemade electronic sound effects for acts like the Tornados . At the same time, pop music on radio and in both American and British film moved away from refined Tin Pan Alley to more eccentric songwriting and incorporated reverb-drenched electric guitar, symphonic strings, and horns played by groups of properly arranged and rehearsed studio musicians. A 2019 study held by New York University in which 643 participants had to rank how familiar

1392-578: The genre evolved more influences ranging from classical , folk , rock , country , electronic music , and other popular genres became more prominent. In 2016, a Scientific Reports study that examined over 464,000 recordings of popular music recorded between 1955 and 2010 found that, compared to 1960s pop music, contemporary pop music uses a smaller variety of pitch progressions, greater average volume, less diverse instrumentation and recording techniques, and less timbral variety. Scientific American ' s John Matson reported that this "seems to support

1440-409: The home. By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of music television channels like MTV , which "favoured those artists such as Michael Jackson and Madonna who had a strong visual appeal". Multi-track recording (from the 1960s) and digital sampling (from the 1980s) have also been used as methods for the creation and elaboration of pop music. During

1488-414: The late 1970s and would not reemerge until the rise of Internet stars. Indie pop , which developed in the late 1970s, marked another departure from the glamour of contemporary pop music, with guitar bands formed on the then-novel premise that one could record and release their own music without having to procure a record contract from a major label. The 1980s are commonly remembered for an increase in

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1536-401: The late 20th century that became global superstars include Whitney Houston , Michael Jackson , Madonna , George Michael , and Prince . At the beginning of the 2000s, the trends that dominated during the late 1990s still continued, but the music industry started to change as people began to download music from the internet. People were able to discover genres and artists that were outside of

1584-501: The main purpose of pop music is to create revenue. It is not a medium of free articulation of the people. Instead, pop music seeks to supply the nature of personal desire and achieve the instant empathy with cliche personalities, stereotypes, and melodrama that appeals to listeners. It is mostly about how much revenue pop music makes for record companies. Music scholar Timothy Warner said pop music typically has an emphasis on recording, production, and technology, rather than live performance;

1632-508: The mainstream and propel them to fame, but at the same time smaller artists had a harder time making a living because their music was being pirated. Popular artists were Avril Lavigne , Justin Timberlake , NSYNC , Christina Aguilera , Destiny's Child , and Britney Spears . Pop music often came from many different genres, with each genre in turn influencing the next one, blurring the lines between them and making them less distinct. This change

1680-448: The manner in which pop has been disseminated", which helped to move pop music to "a record/radio/film star system". Another technological change was the widespread availability of television in the 1950s with televised performances, which meant that "pop stars had to have a visual presence". In the 1960s, the introduction of inexpensive, portable transistor radios meant that teenagers in the developed world could listen to music outside of

1728-403: The mid-1960s, pop music made repeated forays into new sounds, styles, and techniques that inspired public discourse among its listeners. The word "progressive" was frequently used, and it was thought that every song and single was to be a "progression" from the last. Music critic Simon Reynolds writes that beginning with 1967, a divide would exist between "progressive" pop and "mass/chart" pop,

1776-421: The music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music . David Hatch and Stephen Millward describe pop music as "a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, and folk music". David Boyle, a music researcher, states pop music as any type of music that a person has been exposed to by the mass media. Most individuals think that pop music

1824-802: The pop music styles that developed alongside other music styles is Latin pop , which rose in popularity in the US during the 1950s with early rock and roll success Ritchie Valens . Later, Los Lobos and Chicano rock gained in popularity during the 1970s and 1980s, and musician Selena saw large-scale popularity in the 1980s and 1990s, along with crossover appeal with fans of Tejano musicians Lydia Mendoza and Little Joe . With later Hispanic and Latino Americans seeing success within pop music charts, 1990s pop successes stayed popular in both their original genres and in broader pop music. Latin pop hit singles, such as " Macarena " by Los del Río and " Despacito " by Luis Fonsi , have seen record-breaking success on worldwide pop music charts. Notable pop artists of

1872-400: The popular anecdotal observation that pop music of yore was "better", or at least more varied, than today's top-40 stuff". However, he also noted that the study may not have been entirely representative of pop in each generation. In the 1960s, the majority of mainstream pop music fell in two categories: guitar, drum and bass groups or singers backed by a traditional orchestra. Since early in

1920-503: The reasons pop can be hard to summarize is because there’s no real sonic or musical definition to it. There are common elements to a lot of the biggest pop songs, but at the end of the day, "pop" means "popular" first and foremost, and just about any song that becomes popular enough...can be considered a pop song. In the 1940s, improved microphone design allowed a more intimate singing style and, ten or twenty years later, inexpensive and more durable 45 rpm records for singles "revolutionized

1968-449: The second single release for The Gypsy Queens Album "Reminiscing with friends". The video clip narrative was written by John Patrick Shanley , it was shot in New York and Nice . The Video Clip was a huge success achieving over a Million views in just one week. On November 3, 2023, " Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby) ". a duet between Didier Casnati and Lulu was released as

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2016-581: The song famous in 1965, and Buona Sera , as part as the Album "Reminiscing with friends" ( Sonico Productions Ltd 2022). The cover of the single was photographed by iconic Photographer Marco Glaviano in Saint Barthélemy . In December 2022, Didier Casnati & Tony Danza co-starred on the recording and music video (released October 13, 2023) of the song " Buona Sera " with cameo appearances from Michele Hicks and Nadia Farès as well as Joe Gannascoli , as

2064-399: The term "pop music" was increasingly used in opposition to the term rock music, a division that gave generic significance to both terms. While rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of popular music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. According to British musicologist Simon Frith , pop music is produced "as a matter of enterprise not art", and

2112-419: The term's definition. According to music writer Bill Lamb, popular music is defined as "the music since industrialization in the 1800s that is most in line with the tastes and interests of the urban middle class." The term "pop song" was first used in 1926, in the sense of a piece of music "having popular appeal". Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as

2160-662: The third single of the album. In 2009 Didier Casnati got engaged to Danish model Thea Christensen (Majors Models), and had a Tahitian wedding ceremony in French Polynesia , on a private island. Neither of them ever legalised their union, and their relation ended in 2011. Casnati has since been seen on different occasions in the company of several celebrities, but their relations were never public, lasting or official, and he has been single since 2015. Pop music Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and hooks , short to medium-length songs written in

2208-623: The use of digital recording , associated with the usage of synthesizers , with synth-pop music and other electronic genres featuring non-traditional instruments increasing in popularity. By 2014, pop music worldwide had been permeated by electronic dance music . In 2018, researchers at the University of California, Irvine , concluded that pop music has become 'sadder' since the 1980s. The elements of happiness and brightness have eventually been replaced with electronic beats making pop music more 'sad yet danceable'. Pop music has been dominated by

2256-453: Was epitomized in Spears' highly influential 2007 album Blackout , which under the influence of producer Danja , mixed the sounds of EDM , avant-funk , R&B , dance music , and hip hop . By 2010, pop music impacted by dance music came to be dominant on the charts. Instead of radio setting the trends, it was now the club. At the beginning of the 2010s, Will.i.am stated, "The new bubble

2304-404: Was working as a model and actor at the same time, to pay for his studies. In Nice he met Nicole Rubi, owner of the restaurant "La petite maison", who made him perform for Elton John , Joe Cocker , Bono among other superstars attending her restaurant. He formed the band The Gypsy Queens , to improve the performances at the restaurant, and being able to perform a wide range of private parties with

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