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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Four Chords That Ruined Pop Music
The meaning of life is to explore little bits of dissonance and surprise, but then always to resolve to the tonic. That's my new theory of what we should be doing in our lives. The four chords that ruined pop music are 4165 4156 1456 1546 1654. You don't see it as much these days because record labels didn't think songs would sound like singles if they didn't use that chord progression.
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