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36 Replies to “What's the secret behind pop's biggest hits?”

  4. If you really want to know it's a child prodigy, today and adult, just one person, that has written all of them, alone.

  11. Surprised no one mentioned branding in this. People connect with songs when they can identify with something in themselves. Metal, Pop, Classical, whatever. People are drawn to the brand.

  14. I feel as a hit song usually consist of a universal message which appeals to the masses and uses a catchy chord progression which has play back value

  16. "You probably fail if you start using formulas…" yeah right XD Only an asshole who discovered a formula himself would tell you that to discourage you from using one. Keep it simple, keep it stupid enough that everybody can follow along, wrap the thing up in less than 3,5 Minutes, insert multiple hooks and catchy refrains and write easiely understandable lyrics that speek to the lowest of insticts and topics, so any and every consuming idiot gets them.
    There you go.

  24. It’s hard being creative, what do you do? Go pop and go for the cash, or work hard being original and go for glory. Like, Calvin Harris, you can’t take away his pop credentials, but it isn’t original or insightful, chords from 90’s dance with more modern beats, with an ear for a good hook – but nobody is going to be talking about him like he is Bowie or Prince in the future. And if anyone does then they need to get a life. Also, Max Marin, more hits writer then Lennon/McCartney and produced more hits than George Martin, but it’s all a bit of the same, good solid pop tunes, but nothing truly beautiful, brilliant or game changing – he is rich, I guess that is what counts in his world.

  25. The real secret is this: know four chords, play them over and over for 4 minutes, but have motherfucking good contacts in the industry. Without them your "masterpiece" will stay on your computer and go nowhere.

  26. 5:30
    It is brainwashing. That's exactly what it is. Pop is simple, consumable, repeatable songs that chant in your head like a Disney lullaby. Repetition. Over an over. Get it stuck in their head with repetitive, simple 4 measure beats and hooks, power chords tuned to the c5 octave, quick simple words, enough for them to repeat. Its genius. Makes quick cash. Let's face it. Nobody listens to those songs for more than a season. Its empty, but it's soo money.

  32. Ed Sheeran in a hypocrite. He was a major famewhore who stalked Harry Styles and Taylor Swift until he make it. He is now doing shitty pop music and complaining about fame. You wanted the bike now roll it!

  33. These days it’s all about a distorted song sounding kinda thing. Where it gets weirder by the day. And people find it as something diffrent. So that’s why. U don’t need to have a good vocal or a good instrument skill. It’s all about the song.

  36. I have to disagree, nearly every single pop song is about love, and the reason they become pop hits is not because of some "secret recipe" or because they are original but because they follow a familiar recipe that everyone already knows so they can get into the song the moment it's started because it is so similar to all of the other pop songs, so it is in fact how unoriginal and familiar the songs are that make them so popular.

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