This Is Pop

"This Is Pop" is a song by the English rock band XTC from their 1978 album White Music. A rerecorded version, typeset as "This Is Pop?", was released as the group's third single.

Background
Guitarist Andy Partridge wrote "This Is Pop" as a response to journalistic terms for music genres such as "punk", which he believed were redundant of "pop". The song's opening F chord was based on the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" (1964).

Legacy
The song title was adopted for the 2017 documentary about the band, XTC: This Is Pop.

Personnel
XTC
 * Barry Andrews – keyboards
 * Terry Chambers – drums
 * Colin Moulding – bass, vocals
 * Andy Partridge – vocals, guitar