The song machine inside the hit factory
There's a reason hit songs offer such guilty pleasure--they're designed that way. Over the last two decades a new type of hit song has emerged, one that is almost inescapably catchy. Pop songs have always had a "hook," but today's songs bristle with them: a hook every seven...
| Main Author: | Seabrook, John (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Hook: The bliss point. You spin me round ; A continuity of hits
- First verse: Cheiron : Mr. Pop: and the Metalhead. Inside the box ; "The sign" ; Big Poppa ; Martin Sandberg's terrible secret ; Britney Spears : hit me baby ; "I want it that way"
- Chorus The money note : the ballad of Kelly and Clive. My ancestral hit parade ; The dragon's teeth ; The doldrums ; American Idol ; "Since u been gone"
- Second verse: Factory girls : cultural technology and the making of K-pop. "Gee"
- Chorus: Rihanna : track-and-hook. "Umbrella" ; "Ester Dean: On the hook" ; Stargate: those lanky Norwegian dudes ; "Rude boy"
- Bridge: Dr. Luke : teenage dream. Speed chess ; Katy Perry : altar call ; Melodic math ; Kesha : teenage nightmare
- Chorus: Spotify. The moment space
- Outro: Songworm. "Roar".