The status of Lagos as a global city with all the appurtenances of modernity sets the city apart from other Nigerian cities. This is evident in the effect which the city has on other urban and sub-urban cities in and outside Nigeria by way of the creativity typically characteristic of city spaces.
This research study focuses on an exposition of the relation between the production of contemporary pop music in Lagos and the novel cultural responses and orientations which such musicals generate. It would be argued that contemporary pop music made in Lagos; that is, the text of musical lyrics, the characters, styles and acts also depicted in musical videos set the tone for a pop culture within and beyond Lagos through the introduction of new concepts or popular slangs and street sayings for various functions and contexts in the public space. Thus, pop culture as proliferated by pop music made in Lagos consolidates a postmodern culture in which both the young and adults participate robustly in a variety of ways ranging from the use of certain concepts and the display of particular attitudes in the public space.
The research study employs the philosophical framework of language game and the reflective-projective theory of broadcasting and mass communication in representing the nexus between pop music and the postmodernism proliferated within Lagos and extended to other cities and towns.
Keywords: Pop Music in Lagos, Postmodernism, Language Game, Reflective-projective theory, Lagos.