Friday 20 November 2009

4-Chord Song

This is an amazing video! It's a mash-up of a bunch of the songs that have been popular in the past couple decades - all of which use the same four chords. How much fun is this? Obviously these are just really catchy chords, as so many catchy songs have been made with the four-part combination. And it brings up the question (and this might be a bit out there, but oh well)...are we just hearing the same song over and over again? There's only so much one can do with four chords - is our understanding of music based simply in the auditory pleasure in hearing those same chords? Hmm...

3 comments:

  1. This is a very interesting video. But, I do agree with you. These days I find myself listening to music that sounds like so many other songs. I don't know whether it is a lack of creativity or just the genre and way of making music that has become so similar for different artists.

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  2. This is a really fascinating video. It is really cool the way they meshed all the songs together. You bring up a great point, because you could even argue that the hits are all just the same song. Listening to the video, it honestly did sound like it could all be the same song.

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  3. Wow! This is really cool, I honestly did not realize this! Crazy, its almost as if we are hearing the same songs over and over...

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