Pop Music Genre

Genre is the classification of a text according to its style and content and possibly its form and manner of production. 

These  are the categories which come under genre:

* Pop (including global categories like Europop, Arabic pop, Cantopop, J-Pop and K-Pop)

* Dance

* R&B

* Hip-Hop/Rap

* Rock

* Punk

* Country & Western

* Folk

* Jazz

* Blues

* Latin

* Gospel

* Reggae

* New Age

Genre and Artist Image

Image is a key paradigm for music genre, with an artist's look categorising them before they start singing or playing. For an artist or band to truly fit a genre category, they must be represented as doing so visually, on record sleeves, publicity photos and in music videos. Visual is important for example adele has a complete different visual to niki minaj. 

Adele, whose music draws from classic pop styles of the 1960s and 1970s, is often photographed wearing classic, retro clothing that associates her with her role models Aretha Franklin or Dusty Springfield and her image represents her amazing voice and the pure personality. 

Whereas niki minajs clothing consists of low cropped tops, mini skirts and vibrant colours which potray an aggressive loudmouth fake artists. Both these sell singles but to different target audiences. These are just two examples from many different genre categories to chose from.