Old pop formulas never die; they come back with different haircuts.

Similarly, their songwriting shows a remarkable lack of anxiety about current pop formulas.

Rap topped both the albums and singles charts in Billboard magazine, but it was rap that didn't even think about challenging pop formulas.

We went a lot of different ways with it instead of constantly sticking to the same structure and the same pop formula.

The show on Thursday was mixed, with some strong, innovative rock alongside music clearly modeled on current pop formulas.

Elsewhere expect the standard pop formulas such as lyrics that don't really make sense, verse-chorus-verse-chorus song structure, and some actually quite nice vocal melodies.

But those are simply ways of accessorizing standard pop formulas.

Except for the ballads, which don't escape pop formulas, the songs on "OU812" are utterly exhilarating.

Minor one-hit wonder acts were successful during this era which were also focused on a teen pop formula.

Sales were disappointing, however, and in 1982 he returned to the pop formula with another hit album, Abracadabra.