The Four Chords That Killed POP Music. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o Thanks to Dan …
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The Four Chords That Killed POP Music!
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Thank you for this video. I started to think that I was alone in having a strong reaction of a most unique irritation when these four chords were not only being used incessantly on ballads and dance songs through American Idol (and similar shows, which I don't actually watch but have seen clips of) but also thorough a seemingly infinite amount of television commercials. It drives me nuts.
I cynically think (out of exasperation), "Wow, I wonder who thought of that chord progression for that commercial, and how was it approved with a straight face?"
And, when I tried pointing this out to others – they didn't really understand our care. I'm a musician myself and know the value in not repeating myself or others, so, I explained it this way:" Just imagine that the chord progression for" Row, row, row your boat" was used in one tv commercial after the other – every day – for ten years."
Guess what? It still didn't matter.
I–V–vi–IV will apparently live on and on as some will hold it in reverence like the 12 bar blues. (Ugh.)
So sick of this chord progression. Makes me want to jump off a treble cliff and "accidentally" land on something sharp #
After watching the Gordon Lightfoot analysis, how about a new feature called "What If" using different chords to redundant pop songs?
Pop Song Chords: They own music, they own the world, they own you. DEAL WITH IT.
This is f'ing hilarious!
If country music is three chords and the truth, pop music is four chords and a magazine writer's idea of the truth.
I feel a little bit ashamed because I have an unhealthy obsession with this chord progression since 8 years and I’m saving every song in a Am f c g playlist??
When Rick played the 4 chords on the guitar I immediately heard the band Boston: "Piece of Mind" Just goes to show, that chord progression has always been around and will probably never go away.
These chords work. People make way too much of a fuss about this.
Strong dad vibes from this video
Pop music has not changed since 1970. Rock music has and started subdividing in the late 1960s onward from psychedelic to heavy metal to punk to post-punk, goth rock, industrial, darkwave, EBM and shoegaze.
2 years later the mumble raps are taking over. And now I miss pop music.
Those songs made me look for a bucket
The problem with many of the songs (whatever genre) isn't that they use the same four chords, it's that the words that go with those chords are totally trite and irrelevant.
challenge for you Rick…do a top 20 songs that use only those four chords
That reminds me of a Frank Zappa interview where he was talking about old guys chomping on their Cigars just putting out anything in the old days.. It wasn’t until young hip guys, former “Hippies” got put in charge of music that it went downhill. The old guys put out everything because they didn’t know what was “Cool”
It's not the four chords that "kills" Pop Music, it's the uninspired and always the same sounding production.
Surely the fault lies with the song buying public …after all the record companies are only responding to what the public want to hear ….and will want to buy
Money for nothing and the chicks 4 free
Can we just find the fountain of youth so that Pink Floyd and Led Zep can be reborn??…then the world will know what true musical genius sounds like.
I coined the term ''assembly line music'' at least 20 years ago and Rick just gave a prime example..
I don't think Steely Dan ever used this chord progression….
Why don't you write a super hit then? I'm just asking. I'm genuine.
Great content again
hey Rick, i usually watch your videos over breakfast, many thanks for your content always enjoyable to watch and always learn something new, by the way my new PIN is 1456