Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Essense of Pop Music

This is actually pretty funny. Pop music is very simple. Therein lies the genius.

The Chord Strike:

In case you've ever wondered what the magic formula is for a hit song, you need wonder no more. Australian musical comedy trio, Axis of Awesome, demonstrate how with one simple four chord progression, 36 hit songs (at least) have been penned.

You want to be next? Grab a guitar and do as I say: 6, 4, 1, 5, repeat = jackpot.


(I guess there is a quick f-bomb in one of these, just so you know)

6 comments:

Joanna said...

Very clever. I wouldn't have picked all of those as being essentially the same thing. Maybe i should get back into learning the guitar if i can do so much with so few chords learned!

Anonymous said...

Very entertaining. You might post a warning about the expletive (m.f.) near the end of the song for those who might forward this link to grandma.

Vitamin Z said...

Wow. I missed that one. Thanks.

z

Anonymous said...

That was hilarious!

evans426 said...

BAH! That was great...and ironic! Thanks for posting it.

Jim Coates said...

That would be great... but they messed with Neil Finn... You don't mess with Neil Finn :)