Nathan Sykes

Modern alternative pop is a broad, internet-era strain of pop that blends mainstream songcraft with left-of-center production, aesthetics, and subject matter.

Neo R&B is a modern evolution of contemporary R&B that blends classic soul vocal traditions with current hip-hop sensibilities and forward-looking electronic production.

Post-teen pop is a strand of mainstream and alternative-leaning pop that emerges when teen-pop artists and their audiences age into early adulthood. The sound keeps the immediacy and melody of teen pop, but deepens the subject matter and broadens the production palette with alt-pop, electropop…

Europop is a broad pop music style that developed in continental Europe and emphasizes catchy melodies, strong hooks, and danceable rhythms. It often features bright, polished production, simple and memorable choruses, and a preference for major keys and sing‑along refrains.

Pop is a broad, hook-driven style of popular music designed for wide appeal. It emphasizes memorable melodies, concise song structures, polished vocals, and production intended for radio, charts, and mass media.

A ballad is a narrative song form that tells a story in simple, singable stanzas, traditionally using quatrains in ballad meter (alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter with an ABCB rhyme scheme). Ballads typically recount dramatic events—love, betrayal, tragedy, murder, the…