Don’t Stop Repeating

6 February 2009 | 11:02 PM

My own limitations as a songwriter aside, the fact is writing pop music should be pretty easy. I mean, there are but a few dozen possible chords strung out across a finite audible octave range – I’m sure some brainy mathematician could come up with a surprisingly small exponential number representing all possible combination of those chords at various meters and…..oh man, I almost just put myself to sleep there for a second. Anyway, the supergroup Axis of Awesome didn’t need any calculus to figure this shit out. Instead, they just took one song – in this case, Journey’s epic power-ballad “Don’t Stop Believing” – and merely documented how its four-chord intro has permeated almost every corner of modern pop music. Check it:

Uncanny, no? You know I did an experiment like this once, too: as it turns out, if you listen closely, every Morrissey song sounds like cats fucking. What are the chances?

[Via Cityrag]

Posted by Andy in Awesome (To Me, Anyway)