“Do you know what a hit song sounds like now?” radio host Zach Sang asked Meghan in a recent interview, “Mhm. I know the formula. I could teach someone the formula,” she answered confidently. “I can teach someone how to do a pop song… Structure can be taught. Everything else is what you got.”
1. The song has to be timeless.
“I think the greatest songs are the ones that are timeless,” Meghan admitted, “The ones that I can write now and in 60 years they will want to play it in their house and they will still jam to as if it was brand new — that’s a smash. That’s the first rule, timeless.”
2. Melody is everything.
“The catchier it is the more they’re going to play it. If they hate it that’s a hit, you know? Because they’re just playing it too much. Remember ’Rolling In The Deep’? The radio killed that song. That’s a smash.”
3. Appeal to the young and the old.
“The hit that spreads around the world the quickest is the one that toddlers will dance to and the one that older generations will dance to,”
4. Take music from the past and make it current.
“Everything has pretty much been done. So now all we can do is take our influences and try to make them modern and make them relatable and then better.
Not one single person on the planet will be playing All About That Bass or Lips Are Movin' in 60 years. Bye Meghan, you ain't trainoring me on how to write a pop song
Not one single person on the planet will be playing All About That Bass or Lips Are Movin' in 60 years. Bye Meghan, you ain't trainoring me on how to write a pop song
People will be playing All About That Bass for a long time.
