Awesome And Sad, All At Once
I love this:
On the other hand, it makes it seem like there’s something of a formula to new music these days. Ahh well.
(via: Kristin Hoppe)
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Not really surprising, at least to me. All you need to do this is a group of songs that:
I would venture to guess that around 25% of all rock songs could be combined with these in that way. It’s part of our culture. (Go to a Mexican restaurant, and you would probably agree that most of their songs sound alike… they use the same instruments, similar tempos and keys, etc.)
And, some groups get together and combine their hit songs, since they know that it’s easy to get a combination.
Not to say that this isn’t sad… I really like listening to different styles… but you like what you grow up on, which is exactly why some people in this world actually think that soccer is better than football.
Something a little more off the wall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0E2ssjv8PA
It also helps that all of the songs take the same general 4-chord structure: I-V-vi-IV, or E-B-C#m-A, although the V (B) is subbed for its first inversion (V6 or B/D#).
This isn’t as bad as Nickelback or Coldplay writing two songs with virtually identical forms. ‘Clocks’ and ‘Speed of Sound’ could probably be played over one other. As for Nickelback, I’m sure of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yIBCIajQoM.
I’ve been paying attention to alot of the music I hear since you posted this. The songs which have several significant changes in key, and overall mood, happen to be those I like best.
I think that’s pretty cool! I’m not sure that it’s necessarily a bad thing that all of these songs are similar in chord structure, tempo, etc. I think it’s just the result of the human brain’s predilection for like things that are familiar. And I think this extends to almost anything. This lady did a seminar at my work about saving money, and she said, “The things that we want to buy are the things that we already have. The clothes we buy are the clothes that we already have…” (etc.) Since then, I’ve paid attention when I’ve been shopping, and the clothes I like are almost always exactly the same in cut and color as the clothes that I already have. So that’s my theory!
Oops–I meant “I think that’s the brain’s predilection for things that are familiar.”