micropop

You know, it surprises me not at all that pop music has non 12
intervals. If you listen to blues, which is at the root of much
contemporary pop, there's micronotes galore because of the bending and
stretching that constantly goes on. As soon as one bends a note, we're
off the pitch of the scale, and somewhere else. As to the related subject
of is this then microtonal music per se, my personal feeling is that if
the bending and stretching occurs over a base scale of an instrument
tuned in 12 eq, then I don't feel like calling it microtonal, overall,
because 12 eq is our home base, and any notes which are not bent are
still in 12. Of course, this is a rather subjective perception, and maybe
there's no right answer, just gut intuitions...Hstick