Why pop music is obsessed with this one note

imagine the record companies fighting over which one will take the money this video makes lol

This is honestly the most interesting music video I think i've ever seen. You also missed "Blinding Lights" by the Weeknd too. I'm quite mad that I just realized that one of my favorite artist just mashes D and adds a synth chord progression to make crazy popular songs. Sadness.

Well, isn't that D tenacious?

The real reason is these music are marketed for dumb people.

I have always liked flipping the harmony/melody movement ratio, keeping the melody on a single or pair of notes while the chords change instead of the more traditional other way around. It tends to build a really nice tension as Andrew says. Can't fault his logic.

You’re seriously the goat for this

This messed up music for me, much like the Wilhelm Scream messed up movies.

I think the reason the supertonic is so popular is because they are trying to make the piano emulate their voices. If you play the supertonic on stressed syllables and other notes, like the C or E, on unstressed syllables, it kind of sounds like your voice. If you scansion out the lyrics like in poetry, marking out the stressed and unstressed syllables, I bet a supertonic note will occur on every stressed syllable in those songs.

I think it's too fun to move away from that trick. Instead it needs to be used more creatively. Like a musician can make an ambivalent or multivalent riff by singing one phrase over a riff where the stress and unstresses match between singer syllables and piano notes, then sing a second phrase with the same stress and unstressed pattern over that same riff, then if that riff is played later, without lyrics, it would remind us of either of those two phrases. I'm sure there's plenty more tricks like that that can be found.

Stop that and listen to Slayer

So basically they are using the easiest harmonic note because its easy and most pop music does not take any creative risks

This is from a guy in his early 60s: pop music today has no soul. This, auto-tune and Pro Tools has crushed music into a powder that is so homogenized that it's all the same. Music from the `60 and `70s all sounded different. Sure, there were genres that had similarities, but every band and artist had something different about them. It wasn't all the same chords and melodies with different lyrics it was different music. The Eagles didn't sound like Led Zeppelin or Heart or the Greatfull Dead. We didn't have every band and artist covering the same song a thousand times; everyone was an orginal. Music, unfortunately, has entered a very sad era. Hate me if you want, but go listen to music from the `60s and '70s and you'll see what I mean.
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