The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.