Give up. You? Me? We're obsolete

[lonesome_tone]

Did anyone else actually find and listen to the song?

Very outdated sounding arrangement and totally overdramatic vocals- even for Pop/Euro standards.

[jdsowa]

Did anyone else actually find and listen to the song?

Very outdated sounding arrangement and totally overdramatic vocals- even for Pop/Euro standards.

Um. They said the song was a success, didn't they? Why don't you leave the evaluating to the folks at HSS. Thanks.

[Professor]

Let's see, what are some famous mathematical constants in music...

big label money + huge marketing team = success
equipment & operators

big stars + big scandel = big news = bigger sales

stars = sales

teen stars = vigorous sales

teen sex = big publicity = enormous sales

(sexy teen stars + old 'post-sexy' stars + open mouth kissing) x 2 = oh who cares, it's fun to watch.

Oh yeah, and then there is... 1.618:1 which is, of course, the golden ratio. And Mozart is known to have structured his music around this proportion. It also exists everywhere in nature and is very much a building block of all things.

I always liked pi better, but that's just me.

-Jeremy

[Bear]

HSS helps the labels avoid promoting the kind of songs that are destined to be duds no matter how
much they sound like hits

Awesome. Now I know who to aim my projectile turds at.

[ebianchi]

I always liked pi better...

Especially with ice cream!

[psychicoctopus]

man, and all along i thought the formula was

intro verse chorus verse chorus bridge chorus/outro

boy was i ever wrong

you left out the bagpipe solo.

[bobbydj]

Used to quite devastating effect in Mull of Kintyre and...and...uhm.

[mjau]

Damn, this just assumes that the "market" is an uncritical, passive bunch of assholes who'll buy whatever's thrown at them. If that were the case, Justin Timberlake would be a huge star right about now, and he's...

...well, nevermind.