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> All popular songs have been highly formulaic for a long time.

Incredibly reductive and facially absurd considering there is no way to formulaically make a hit song.




Indeed.

Well unless you read The Manual by The KLF ;-)


Maybe not every formulaic song becomes a hit song, but every hit song is formulaic?


That's even more confused. They never said formulaic songs become popular, they said there is a formula to make popular songs. Those are different statements, and the latter is clearly not true.


> they said there is a formula to make popular songs.

No they didn't. They said all popular songs follow a formula.


Yes, a formula, not formulas




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