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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
Thanks for your thoughts, I can't really tell if it doesn't make sense from a classical perspective but for me it's a great melody simply because it's so memorable. It's almost like the fact that it doesn't go where it should makes it stick in your head as if your brain were trying to fix it and complete it.
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
Thanks for your thoughts, I can't really tell if it doesn't make sense from a classical perspective but for me it's a great melody simply because it's so memorable. It's almost like the fact that it doesn't go where it should makes it stick in your head as if your brain were trying to fix it and complete it.
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That's not why it gets stuck in your head. It's the patterns and the sequence. Also the repetition.
It doesn't make sense because it doesn't follow tonal gravity. Don't know if you've ever sang solfege (do, re, mi, fa...) but if you have, think of tonal gravity as the feeling of "do". Or when Bruce says "run" in Born to Run. Now Bruce has great melodies.
Bo orn to Run
Re Do Ti Do
You can feel the "gravity" towards run or "do".
At the end of the day there are so many different types of melodies and some classical composers didn't follow rules for the sake of it or for effect. So it's all opinion. In my opinion, we as humans have made far too many accomplishments in our structure of music for us to give will.i.am any credibility.
