"Pop" to me = ephemeral. The music industry has its own categorization & I have mine. 🙃 I sort my own music, have never subscribed to a streaming music service. Since mp3s & then iPods I've managed my own collection. So I've learned to assign categories that work for me. Pop is not a genre to me because many types of music enter the mainstream. Yeah there's an upbeat bop connotation to "pop" but I use it to describe any genre* music that I like for a time that won't enter long term rotation. 1/