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25% passion / feeling

25% simplicity

25% catchy / memorable

25% hard work

25% luck / who you know

Bruce

(yes, I know this adds up to more than 100%…)

Auditory voodoo and earworms. Sonic fly-fishing. The hook gets me every time.

a great performer

There is without a doubt a wining formula for a great pop song! A catchy top-line with riffs and hooks that are easy to remember, major and minor switches to provide interest, lyrics that people can relate to and versus that ask questions that are answered in the chorus as well as tempo and tones that match the sentiment. However every now and again there comes a song that breaks all the rules and that is the magic of music! <3

Verse, Chorus, Verse, Solo, Verse, Chorus, Out! Say it all in three minutes or less, or figure the average time to take a ****** with a Readers Digest.

No Pop Formula

There is no formula for pop song success that has lasted through the ages of pop since the 1950s. But there have been attempts at setting up formulas during different eras that has worked for awhile—and then been broken. In the 1950s came the rise of blues chord progressions for pop hits like those of Elvis Presley. The 1960s, especially once the Beatles got under way, opened up to a greater variety of chord progressions and instruments used. Funk offered a danceable bass-heavy beat (Hi, Sly!). Bob Dylan helped pushed pop songs toward broader poetic expression than just romance themes. The 1970s brought punk—the resurgence of simple song structures with basic rock instruments and simple but harsh lyrics (thank the Sex Pistols). The late 1970s brought disco, with its highly danceable beat (thank the Bee Gees), with heavy bass and keyboards, along with New Wave, with its often rapid patter of beats (Hi there, Go-Gos!). And rap got under way (Hi Grandmaster Flash!). The 1980s mixed rock (Springsteen) with a kind of continuation of New Wave sensibilities slowed down a bit. And rap grew with its immediately identifiable rhythm and harsh street lyrics. The 1990s continued all this with the addition of house music and other forms of electronica for dancing in clubs. And since then, pop music has fragmented into a variety of forms appealing to different subcultures of musical tastes, leaning increasingly on the growing capabilities of music software (thank you NI!) on more powerful personal computers. Productions values rose with newly available equipment developments throughout all this progression. Any attempt at creating a formula during any of these eras may have worked for a few years, only to be shattered years later. 

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