[ SECRET POST #2443 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2443 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Sailor Moon]


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03.
[Taken]


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04.
[Hetalia]


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05.
[John and Edward Grimes/Jedward]


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06.
[Zoolander]


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07.
[X-Files]


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08.
[Amanda Palmer and Paula Deen]


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09.
[Once Upon a Time]


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10.
[Corporal Rivaille from Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan]


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Comments

[kelincihutan]

And you can sing any song in 4/4 time to this rhythm...though some fit better than others.

[pantasma]

And since most pop is written in 4/4 in F, it makes it easier to play around.

[kelincihutan]

Is most of it in F? I didn't know that.

...Geez, just when I thought my estimation of pop music could sink no lower.

[pantasma]

Seems to be. I noticed it when I started listening to DJ mixes. Talking to a DJ friend, it would take even more steps to tune everything so it fits together, but they don't all do that, let alone often. When I looked up the original songs they were all in the same key. I've found a couple that are different since, but they're mostly by indy local bands and still in the relative minor or the dominant, so the transitions are still doable if those songs are used.

Someone suggested it has something to do with chord shapes: maybe F is just easier to play chords on the full scale. Who knows? Regardless, F is a favorite key!

On the other hand, pop can be enjoyable. You can do really interesting things regardless of the key (or the fact that they're all the same). I find it more fun when they're not painfully formulaic and repetitive, or if they're making fun of the formula in some way. All music has a form (even Cage's, with his I-Ching tiles). But the reason popular music is popular is because of its hum-ability. If it's too hard to remember, people aren't going to wonder what it was called and go look it up or request it. The more writers stick to a form and frame for their writing, the more likely they are to be remembered based on our expectations within the genre.

Oookay, that got long. xP /theory