The Avant-Garde Attracted You More Than the Pop Song Format

The pop song format is interesting in that it only works if you stay relatively close to its parameters. And so I have a fascination with all sorts of forms of music. It's very rare for pop songs to be too much longer than three minutes. The sheer volume of those sorts of things that we're exposed to inoculates us against shock, but also makes it more and more difficult to be sufficiently original.