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mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:46 am

This article breaks down how similar six country songs are. If you watch the video near the end, there's a full on six-way nickelbacking going on.

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/376145745 ... -in-common

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:54 am

mumpcake wrote:This article breaks down how similar six country songs are. If you watch the video near the end, there's a full on six-way nickelbacking going on.

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/376145745 ... -in-common

Yeah, that's quite the too-obvious mashup. I suspect you could do the same with many other genres, though.

mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 4:09 am

There shouldn't be such a thing as a too-obvious mashup. I remember the days when people used to bag on Phil Collins because "Sussudio" sounded too much like "1999". In comparison, the two songs sound like different genres next to the homogeneity that passes for songwriting today.

I have no doubt that you could do this with other genres too. Rap - for instance, I got dragged to my wife's boss's place and they had a Pandora station playing rap favorites. We were there for a few hours, and I swear that every song just sounded like "booom ta boom boom . . . . booom ta boom boom . . . ." with a different guy rapping over it.

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 4:41 am

A friend and I were discussing this video earlier today.. pretty incredible. A few of them sound more similar than the others.. but they all have a similar flow.

almost all of them had a girl that was either in the truck or was going to be in the truck at some point during the song if all went accordingly.

That almost made me spit toothpaste on my monitor.. hahaha

robotmonkey · Post by **robotmonkey** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 10:20 am

Not as formulaic though as 99% of the dance, edm, dubstep, brostep or any other genre that happens to be popular at the moment.

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 10:01 am

Gribs · Post by **Gribs** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 6:20 pm

LOL, Imvisited this particular forum to see if anyone was chatting about this.

I think that a significant fraction of all rock and pop music from the fifties until today is formulaic. Traditional classical composition theory relies heavily on codified techniques of J.S. Bach. Music theory, jazz theory, etc., are all codifications of sets of relationships and formulas.

...and Nickleback pretty much wrote, recorded, and released the same song over and over again

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 6:52 pm

My Dad wrote: That bloody pop music. It all sounds the bloody same.

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 7:02 pm

a boy wrote:But dad you don't understand! The predictable and repetitive rhythms, vulgar and unimaginative lyrical cliches, and harmonic and melodic monotony are how my generation expresses itself!!!

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 7:07 pm

Formulaic music is popular, therefore popular music is formulaic.

Gribs wrote:...and Nickleback pretty much wrote, recorded, and released the same song over and over again

see also: Coldplay

Gribs · Post by **Gribs** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 7:47 pm

farlukar wrote:Formulaic music is popular, therefore popular music is formulaic.

Gribs wrote:...and Nickleback pretty much wrote, recorded, and released the same song over and over again
see also: Coldplay

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 10:27 pm

farlukar wrote:Formulaic music is popular, therefore popular music is formulaic.

Gribs wrote:...and Nickleback pretty much wrote, recorded, and released the same song over and over again
see also: Coldplay

and a whole hell of a lot of blues

That's why I dont complain about such things, besides my own music is pretty much the same...it is what it is...rock on...up the irons and all that stuff

treebeard · Post by **treebeard** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 11:05 pm

Most things in life in fact are just slight variations of repeating cycles, and lets face it most of us measure how much we like something by how many times we can repeat doing/listening/eating/watching/ect.. that same something and still get enjoyment from it. We tend to repeat doing the things we like.

Of course being obliged to do something repeatedly regardless of how much you like it is another story and can quickly turn a love into a chore, but in general we wired like this.

Oh no, its bloody raining again...

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:29 am

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:48 am

Always has been. I have a tough time distinguishing country from pop a lot of the time because both sides have crossed over to death. I used to like some country years ago but then Shania Twain came and made it all sound like Def Leppard.

Anyways, they are all making bank and I'm at home with a cold trying to figure out how to make the phat beat in ableton.

Is country music too formulaic?