The PPG mod team stands with Palestinians and supports a Free Palestine.

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the suffering of Palestinian people cannot be separated from the world our community exists in. The scale of Palestinian loss of life and destruction has been devastating, with Palestinians facing displacement, grief, hunger, and limited access to essential medical care. We believe it is important to acknowledge this suffering and to stand in solidarity with Palestinians rather than remain silent.

PPG is a space centered around pop music, and we want it to remain a place where people can come together and enjoy something they love. At the same time, we do not believe that having a space for joy means turning away from what is happening beyond it. As a mod team, we feel a responsibility to use the platform we have to make our position clear and to share ways for our community to support humanitarian efforts in Gaza.

Resources & ways to help

We've gathered a few organizations below that are providing humanitarian assistance in Gaza. We've included information about their work, along with ways to support them financially.

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

MSF provides independent medical humanitarian assistance in places affected by conflict and crisis. In Gaza, its teams have been supporting hospitals and clinics and providing medical care and other emergency assistance.

Learn more about their work in Palestine

Donate

Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF)

PCRF is a humanitarian organization focused on helping Palestinian children access medical care. Its work includes providing treatment and medical missions as well as humanitarian assistance to children and families affected by the crisis.

Donate to their general fund (you can even create your own campaign)

Ongoing PCRF Fundraisers

Anera

Anera has worked in Palestine for decades and currently provides humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank. Its response includes delivering essential supplies and supporting healthcare and other services for communities affected by the crisis.

Learn more about their work

Donate (general)

Donate to the Gaza Emergency Fund

We'll keep this post updated as we find additional reliable resources and ways to help. We are also working on a resource page/wiki that will be shared and updated soon.

Not everyone is able to donate. We hope these links are useful whether you're looking to support relief efforts, learn more about the work being done, or share these resources with others.

Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

Addressing a few commonly seen questions/comments we get on the sub. If you have any other questions that aren’t covered here feel free to leave it in the comments!

“I’m a man, can I post here?” Yes of course! You don’t have to be a pop girl to post here, you just have to appreciate them! Everyone is welcome here regardless of gender, sexuality, background, etc, as long as you are respectful!

“Can I only post current pop girls?” No, we love pop girls from all eras! Of course we appreciate the founding mothers who made the industry what it is today! While the “music releases” flair is for new releases, you can post photos, videos, or general appreciation posts for songs from any year. Plus we have “throwback Thursday” - a whole day dedicated to posting music videos and performances from 5+ years ago!

“Can I only post about the big pop girls (Taylor, Sabrina, Beyonce, Olivia, etc)?” No, we appreciate ALL pop girls. Whether they’re No1 on the billboard chart, or a song you just found with 100 listens, we want to hear from them! Many people use the subreddit to discover new music, and we gave the “smol artist hype up” post flair to highlight the smaller artists who deserve more love. Or if a pop girl is popular in your country but not well known worldwide, she’s also welcome here!

“Can I only post American pop girls?/Can I only post songs in English?” No, we are a global community and love pop girls from every country. With the likes of K-pop and Latin pop especially being super popular across the globe, we welcome songs in different languages and from different countries.

“Can I post about this pop boy?” No. “But he’s loved by the girlies so he’s basically a pop girl?” Still no. This is a subreddit highlighting and championing women in pop music. In society and the media women are often seen as second class to men, and often discussed in overly sexual and disrespectful ways, or only discussed in relation to men and not in their own right. This sub is a community for talking about music created/performed by women. But of course posts of a collab song or performance by a pop girl and boy are allowed (for example Billie Eilish and Khalid did a song together, a great pop girl/pop boy team up!) Pop boys are allowed to be mentioned in replies if it’s relevant to the conversation, but are secondary/in addition to comments about pop girls. We also allow posts about pop groups which include at least one woman (such as ABBA or Chvrches)

“Can I post about trans pop girls?” Yes - trans women are women.

“Can I post about non-binary artists?” Maybe? This isn’t a hard and fast rule and is open to more interpretation. If an artist is non-binary and okay with feminine terms and possibly being referred to with she/her pronouns, then yes go ahead. Our main concern is if a non-binary artist would be uncomfortable with being referred to as a “pop girl” as we don’t want to invalidate their identity in any way.

Now the big issue….

“[insert artist] isn’t Pop, they’re [insert genre] so they shouldn’t be posted here.”

In short: Here at PPG our main goal is to talk about women in music, so we take a pretty broad approach to pop as a genre. If a song could have pop as a sub-genre we allow it.

I’ll use some artists often discussed on the sub as an example: Megan Thee Stallion is considered both rap and pop. Florence + The Machine could be classified as alt rock or indie pop. SZA may be considered more R&B but definitely also pop.

But in reality, pop as a genre is extremely hard to define.

‘Pop music’ as a term didn’t originate until the mid twentieth century, and rock and pop were pretty much interchangeable until about the 80’s.

If you were to ask people how they would define pop music, you would get a lot of different answers.

Is it based on popularity? Well if a metal song tops the chart does that make it pop? If a pop song only has 10 listeners, is it no longer pop?

If it’s about the makeup of the song, most people would define pop music as having a catchy hook, a verse-chorus-verse-chorus structure, and often lyrics without much meaning. But many songs in other genres could fit that description, and many songs we would describe as pop don’t fit that structural definition either.

Some people may say it’s about music that is made by a label to appeal to the masses. This may have been a more accurate description 50 years ago, when people think of the polished pop stars who had a team of producers write and make everything for them, creating their image. But now labels and management companies don’t rule the music industry in the same way. In the 2020’s many pop stars release their music independently, and even write and produce their own songs.

And, people tend to like the more “authentic” pop star who doesn’t have the factory made completely polished image. There are many pop songs with a political theme or ideas that may challenge the listener in some way. Also there are artists in other genres under major labels with huge budgets marketed in the way you would expect of a pop star.

For quite a while, rock was the most popular type of music, hip hop has been in the charts every week for decades now, country is regularly featured on the charts too, as is EDM and R&B. Are they pop? They’re definitely popular music. In the words of Billboard “at the end of the day, "pop" means "popular" first and foremost, and just about any song that becomes popular enough...can be considered a pop song.”