An edition of The song machine
(2015)
The song machine
inside the hit factory
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by John Seabrook
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There's a reason hit songs offer such guilty pleasure--they're designed that way. Over the last two decades a new type of hit song has emerged, one that is almost inescapably catchy. Pop songs have always had a "hook," but today's songs bristle with them: a hook every seven seconds is the rule. The song machine explores what the new hits may be doing to our brains and listening habits, especially as music services use streaming data to gather music into new genres invented by algorithms based on listener behavior. Revelatory and original, this book will change the way you listen to music.
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Popular music, Music trade, Production and direction, History and criticism, Sound recording industry, History, Popular music, writing and publishing, nyt:culture=2015-11-08, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, PERFORMING ARTS, Business Aspects, Musikwirtschaft, Popmusik, Hit, Musikbranschen, PopulärmusikTimes
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The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
Mar 01, 2021, Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing
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Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
2016, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
2015, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
0393241939 9780393241938
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Hook: The bliss point. You spin me round ; A continuity of hits
First verse: Cheiron : Mr. Pop and the Metalhead. Inside the box ; "The sign" ; Big Poppa ; Martin Sandberg's terrible secret ; Britney Spears : hit me baby ; "I want it that way"
Chorus: The money note : the ballad of Kelly and Clive. My ancestral hit parade ; The dragon's teeth ; The doldrums ; American Idol ; "Since u been gone"
Second verse: Factory girls : cultural technology and the making of K-pop. "Gee"
Chorus: Rihanna : track-and-hook. "Umbrella" ; "Ester Dean : On the hook" ; Stargate : those lanky Norwegian dudes ; "Rude boy"
Bridge: Dr. Luke : teenage dream. Speed chess ; Katy Perry : altar call ; Melodic math ; Kesha : teenage nightmare
Chorus: Spotify. The moment space
Outro: Songworm. "Roar."
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Includes index.
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