This Is Pop

For a documentary that's all about Pop, not having any mention of the King of Pop is a disappointing omission.

The documentary started with such promise and had a interesting way of navigating the history of pop. However as the series went on, the subject matter became less interesting, dull and repetitive.

With a constant retelling of what's constitutes pop and what doesn't.

It just loss momentum, the first three eps was certainly the highlight of the documentary series.

But not mentioning anything about MJ, is a glaring omission, he's contribution to pop can't be overlooked.

I would just like to add that unless there is an episode each covering Madonna and Michael Jackson each at their own merit, and also on Britney Spears, Spice Girls, Prince and a number of other girl-bands especially from UK/Sweden that have had empowering women's rights messages and influences, these series would be very much incomplete and biased. Or else they simply erased all those who did not pay to be featured... Which makes this some kind of sponsored feature rather than history of pop..

I am looking forward to those episodes added to the rest. :)

This was a great series of music documentaries. Even with regards to music I don' really listen to. I hope the go on to make a second series.

I watched till brit pop and till now it is really nice documentary, it is an alternative really. I watched many documentaries about Michael Jackson or Madonna or other legends, they are truly legends guys, please over it. They don't need it to tell their names in everywhere. This documentary tries to tell something different, I had really no idea about country music or brit pop or auto tune.. Different angle of music industry. I love till 4th episode really. Last two was not for me really.

Right off the gate this documentary series starts off well by describing the rise and fall of Boyz II Men. They explain in great detail how they came up, how the highs came about and what caused the fall of their dominance. They do the same thing with episode 2 with T-Pains career and the auto tune phenomenon. I think for someone who doesn't know every single story behind Boyz 2 Men, T-Pain and the backlash against auto tune and then the big Swedish pop phenomenon, I think those first 3 episodes are amazing.

I can also say that as a swede, I appreciate when our impact in the pop music industry is rightly acknowledged. I have to say however that it would have been even better if they acknowledged the artist Robyn's impact when it comes to early Swedish pop export.

All in all the second half of this show was a bit anti-climactic at times and had a lot of moments where bits and parts of stories were brought up without deep diving into them. I wish they would have picked a handful of stories and really go into detail with them (for example in the Festivals episode). However, this is just me picking this documentary apart, I really do think that they did a great job showcasing aspects of music history that we seldom hear about. Therefore it gets a 7/10 and was really worth the watch.