Suicide's newer songs can be optimistic; one advises "Play the Dream," while "Chewy Chewy" is something like a love song (and an update of bubble-gum pop).
In doing so they entered a world where bubble-gum pop is carefully pampered: turned into a doll's house of homilies.
The difference is that Mr. Merritt responds both to bubble-gum pop and to later groups that sought to pop the bubble.
- some songs aspire to be something more than half-doubting, pumped-up bubble-gum pop.
And Smith's cultural milieu, if one could define that loosely, is one of vapid bubble-gum pop, not of the kind of dark, complex jazz that Turnage likes to reference.
The melody is that of an 1820 folk hymn from southern Austria, but the way it's introduced, as a solo piano line supported by questioning harmonies, seemed to link it with bubble-gum pop.
Milian described the sound of the album as "hip hop under-toned with nice, pop melodies", and later said the genre of the album was "bubble-gum pop".
The DJ tucked in the corner spins eclectic sounds, sometimes indie rock, other times bubble-gum pop.
As a singer, Ms. LuPone is not necessarily averse to the overly somber meaningfulness of bubble-gum pop; she does have a whiff of the self-important diva in her.
This was also applied to their music which had been described before as bubble-gum pop.