Topic summary
Pop-trap
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Trap music.
Trap pop
"Trap pop" (also known as "pop-trap") is a fusion of trap and pop. Trap had entered the pop mainstream by the mid-2010s, and by 2019–2020 had become a "newly viable production technique for pop artists", accompanying lyrics about typical pop subjects such as fame, love, loss, and sex. Rolling Stone writers considered trap one of the biggest influences on 2010s pop music; Brittany Spanos wrote that "attempting to make a trap-pop single became requisite for a hit", with artists including Katy Perry and Lady Gaga drawing on the genre's syncopated beats. In 2024, music scholar Steven Gamble wrote that "pop music's adoption of trap's musical and visual aesthetics is both thoroughly normalized and contested online."