Because the producer's style was "more of a European, techno, house-type feel," the group "wanted to give it that other side of crossover, and go a little bit to that pop realm".

Allmusic's Jared Johnson found that the duo on the release "stretch their legs in the pop realm and rely less on straightforward worship", but "there is little to distinguish this album from other worship projects out there".

CMT News wrote that "Go Your Own Way" represented "a clear-cut declaration of where country music finds itself today, aimed at Gen-Xers and baby boomers and drifting more into the pop realm than ever before."

The handsomely refurbished Oak Room at the Algonquin has reopened with a splendid new show by Ms. McCorkle celebrating both George Gershwin and Antonio Carlos Jobim, composers of different generations and nationalities who reached beyond the pop realm.

Mr. McDermott is from a different school entirely: the pop realm of John Denver and Jim Croce.

Instead of selling out to a larger record company and attempting to cross over into the pop realm, Ms. Krall has remained with Verve, a jazz label, and recorded only high-quality material.

He was taking a chance on working with a younger artist in the pop realm.

Not in the pop realm, but, unsurprisingly, in the world of musical theater, where a handful perpetuate the painstaking art of matching words to music.

The family says it spurned a previous approach from a California producer and promoter because his ideas would have brought them into the pop realm.

But as the singer observes in her crisply informative biographical asides, both reached beyond the pop realm.