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Originally Posted by Sheriff Rhys Chatham
but it's the melody and hooks of pop music that make people like it. all pop songs are polyphonic.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords(homophony).
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I don't want to come across as a prick - literally speaking, you're right (poly = many; phonic = sounds [loosely]) - but the above is my understanding of polyphony, which doesn't occur in the majority of pop, which is more often than not homophonic.