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An edition of The song machine (2015)

The song machine

inside the hit factory

First edition.

by

  • ★★★ 3.25 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 10 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

There's a reason hit songs offer such guilty pleasure--they're designed that way. Over the last two decades a new type of hit song has emerged, one that is almost inescapably catchy. Pop songs have always had a "hook," but today's songs bristle with them: a hook every seven seconds is the rule. The song machine explores what the new hits may be doing to our brains and listening habits, especially as music services use streaming data to gather music into new genres invented by algorithms based on listener behavior. Revelatory and original, this book will change the way you listen to music.

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Popular music, Music trade, Production and direction, History and criticism, Sound recording industry, History, Popular music, writing and publishing, nyt:culture=2015-11-08, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, PERFORMING ARTS, Business Aspects, Musikwirtschaft, Popmusik, Hit, Musikbranschen, Populärmusik
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The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
Mar 01, 2021, Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing
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The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
Oct 20, 2016, Vintage
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Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
2016, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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The song machine: inside the hit factory
2015
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Song Machine
2015-10-08, Jonathan Cape Ltd
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Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
2015, Penguin Random House
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Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
2015, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
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Table of Contents

Hook: The bliss point. You spin me round ; A continuity of hits
First verse: Cheiron : Mr. Pop and the Metalhead. Inside the box ; "The sign" ; Big Poppa ; Martin Sandberg's terrible secret ; Britney Spears : hit me baby ; "I want it that way"
Chorus: The money note : the ballad of Kelly and Clive. My ancestral hit parade ; The dragon's teeth ; The doldrums ; American Idol ; "Since u been gone"
Second verse: Factory girls : cultural technology and the making of K-pop. "Gee"
Chorus: Rihanna : track-and-hook. "Umbrella" ; "Ester Dean : On the hook" ; Stargate : those lanky Norwegian dudes ; "Rude boy"
Bridge: Dr. Luke : teenage dream. Speed chess ; Katy Perry : altar call ; Melodic math ; Kesha : teenage nightmare
Chorus: Spotify. The moment space
Outro: Songworm. "Roar."

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Includes index.

Copyright Date
2015

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Dewey Decimal Class
781.6409/051
Library of Congress
ML3790 .S382 2015, ML3790.S382 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 338 pages
Number of pages
338

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Open Library
OL27191313M
Internet Archive
songmachineinsid0000seab
ISBN 10
0393241920
ISBN 13
9780393241921
LCCN
2015022305
OCLC/WorldCat
902661497

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