I think this is a prime example of why pop music is a lot harder than you might think. It's very simplicity is what makes it so hard to pull off. It's not just marketing and promotion either (though that helps, of course). I could paint a picture that, to me, was indistinguishable from a Pollock or a Rothko, but it wouldn't be great art, and nobody would pay me thousands of dollars for it.

A lot of my professional musician friends who have spent years perfecting their art get real grumpy about the success of pop musicians. They tend to say things like 'I could do that, no problem' and yet they don't, and they certainly would if they really could.

Also, to clarify, I'm not necessarily talking about pop *stars* whose talent tends to be more along the lines of looking cool while singing passably, but the producers and song writers who make the actual music.

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"How To Write A Generic Hit Pop Song"

Methinks thy title a mite redundant.

"Generic" and "pop song"?

Yar.

*hiphop too.

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It's actually pretty catchy. Dangit

It's so generic that it was *blocked in Germany (because of the GEMA).

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I really really really want to see other performers doing covers and remixes of "Sexy When You Do That".
The song itself could produce a lot of great work if it's adapted to different styles.

If I had any ability to create such a thing I'd be on this already.

This reminded me of *related=Morris Minor & The Majors - This Is the Chorus from the 80s, it's pretty much a 2014 update.

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