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I think to say that sonic youth "love" pop music is a bit of a reach. They are aware of it yes, and they admire certain people in the pop specturm, a la madonna in her early days, but based on every single band or musical reference I have ever heard them refer to any "pop" music they listen to is in the far periphery to everything else they love.
Kim herself has described the differences between pop and rock. she states that pop music is the striving for a perfected version of a standard musical form (ballads, standards, torch songs, dance songs etc.) while rock music, true rock music (in her words) is about the search for a new sound, a new musical form, marking new territory, and she stated that sonic youht and most everything that they all love is rock, not POP.
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