Is there a reasonable way to play pop music on a violin?
sure. how about bars 7 and 8 of "rock with you" by michael jackson. how about "viva la vida" by coldplay. how about "at last" by etta james. how about the intro to "give your heart a break" by demi lovato. to be fair, some of these may be other instruments in the violin family, but surely some of them must be violins. and there are thousands of other songs from 1900 all the way up to the present day that use violins