Ways of Developing Musical Taste in Adolescents in the Process of Mastering Vocal Works of Foreign Pop

the modern cultural preferences of children and youth pose the task for teachers of aesthetic education of students, the formation of their musical tastes in the process of teaching. This problem receives a special sound when students of foreign pop are included in the educational repertoire. On the one hand, children get the opportunity to expand their horizons, deepen ideas about the styles and genres of modern music, get acquainted with the work of famous foreign pop singers of the past and the present, master new techniques of performance, increase the level of proficiency in a foreign language, etc. On the other hand, the question arises about the correspondence of these works to the age characteristics of novice vocalists, about the content side of mastered music. Picking up a foreign repertoire, the teacher, as a rule, turns to the work of pop performers whose works are addressed to an adult listener, which requires an extremely attentive attitude to what information is contained in the words of the song.