Pop music can be super sophisticated if it wants to be. Think Bacharach and David or Scott Walker. The new single by The Granite Shore is in that tradition - you can hear it via the link below, and it's terrific (I confess, I'm not in the band, but guested on guitar on this one). Anyone else out there making this kind of stuff?

http://www.occultation.co.uk/Occultation%20Space/Releases/RHEA7DA006/floodaudio.html