Talk:Orchestral pop

Orchestral pop, easy listening, Chris Nickson
In this article, Nickson is clearly describing orchestral pop in 1966 as a challenging version of easy listening: "while there's plenty that recalls the vital orchestral pop of 1966 (i.e. challenging, rather than vapid, easy listening)..." Is it the commas between challenging and easy listening that you're overlooking?, because I don't understand why you're misrepresenting the source as saying he's making a distinction between orchestral pop and easy listening as one being more challenging than the other. This source doesn't support the sentence, "In 1966, some sectors of orchestral pop were more challenging than easy-listening." Dan56 (talk) 20:48, 4 June 2016 (UTC)


 * "It's not Nickson's job to be a grammar nazi" ...He's a professional writer. There's numerous ways to read that sentence and they're all equally as valid. "Challenging easy listening, rather than vapid" / "Challenging, instead of vapid easy listening" / "Demanding music, instead of background music". There's no way to know. But in any case, deriving "all orchestral pop is easy listening" from "the 'vital orchestral pop of 1966' is easy listening" is WP:SYNTH. 1967–70 Scott Walker as easy listening? Really?--Ilovetopaint (talk) 16:03, 5 June 2016 (UTC)