@arcana@icedquinn@thegreatape@meso I was really shocked when I learned you could overlay a lot of pop music on top of each other and see the same beats and patterns they just swapped the instruments and a set of basically throwaway lyrics
@sun@icedquinn@arcana@thegreatape@meso I don't remember the exact details, but I recall there is a specific rhythm and cadence that humans enjoy at a primal level, and that is used ever since classical music, and then "pop music producers" got hold of it and never let it go, to the point you can get the biggest pop hits for the last 40 years and link then to each other at certain points and they will work fine as a continuous song. There were some videos on YouTube doing this some time ago.
@sun@arcana@icedquinn@meso@thegreatape oh, right, you can also look for the "four chord song", by a band called Axis of Awesome, which is them basically showing that most pop songs that hit the top of the charts use the same four chords, with just different tempo and order. It's pretty old, but I bet it still works today.