The song machine
Subtitle: inside the hit factory
By: John Seabrook
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780393241921
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Popular music; Music trade; Production and direction; History and criticism; Sound recording industry; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Hook: The bliss point. You spin me round ; A continuity of hits; title: 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"; title: 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"; title: Second verse: Factory girls : cultural technology and the making of K-pop. "Gee"; title: Chorus: Rihanna : track-and-hook. "Umbrella" ; "Ester Dean : On the hook" ; Stargate : those lanky Norwegian dudes ; "Rude boy"; title: Bridge: Dr. Luke : teenage dream. Speed chess ; Katy Perry : altar call ; Melodic math ; Kesha : teenage nightmare; title: Chorus: Spotify. The moment space; title: Outro: Songworm. "Roar."