Challenge

[starstruck5]

Statements were made in a thread in this forum, that in effect, pop music is easy to write.

Here is the challenge then -write a hit pop song -it should have at least one hook you can't get out of your head once you have heard it -it has been said that it requires little talent -so it shouldn't prove difficult should it???

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I can't do it.

Edit:

Or maybe I could, but I'm too lazy to put forth the effort.

[unholeee]

pop music is easy to write
you dont need to put up a fight
so what do you say rookie
lets left hook it out of sight.

[perprocrastinate]

Statements were made in a thread in this forum, that in effect, pop music is easy to write.

Here is the challenge then -write a hit pop song -it should have at least one hook you can't get out of your head once you have heard it -it has been said that it requires little talent -so it shouldn't prove difficult should it???

The creativity of lyrics are not a musical factor, at least, in my opinion. The successful appeal of a song to a mass audience also does not constitute the musical quality of it, either. It shouldn't; how can the general population be expected to understand more advanced compositional techniques? In the mentioned thread, a musical standard (from my impression of the original poster) was turned into a marketing standard. How can one make a comparison with different values, different premises?

However, I would like to say that I don't think that pop music is talentless. It has its place in culture. And yeaaah, I would admit that I probably couldn't write any song for my life.

[iansinclair]

Popular music is anything but easy to write!  I know; I've done it to very mild success (which means nothing you ever heard of unless you happened to be on a subway platform in Boston, MA, USA in the late sixties...).  The number of truly successful writers of popular music is tiny (not one-hit wonders, not recyclers of songs which have been around for centuries, but new stuff) -- perhaps even less than a dozen in North America over the last 50 years or so.

[indianajo]

My nocternal brain only creates two measure riffs.  Ear Worms, I can't get rid of them for hours unless I turn the radio on.  No development or chord progression. Awful brain infections.   I actually dreamed up a 32 bar country western song at night last winter.  I hate most country western.  Pretty awful song.  You won't be hearing it here or anywhere else.  Something for my heirs to burn. someday.  
On the other hand, my waking self has created some rhyming lyrics to existing songs copyrighted by someone else.  Mostly bowderlization, but I might be able to change that. I have been at my best lyric writing while walking around the factory following pipes across the ceiling, but maybe country walks would work.  Have to, the factory moved production to a 2nd world country. 
 Preprocasternate or anybody with good riffs looking for a lyric may private message me. You have a better chance of a hit on the Powerball lottery, but who knows.    

[starstruck5]

My father once said to me that writing a catchy melody which goes perfectly with the lyrics is a bit like winning the lottery -unless you are Paul McCartney or Cathy Dennis -people of that ilk.

I became obsessed with trying to understand why some tunes were catchy and others went straight through the back of your head -

I am now working on a system which I think has great potential. It still requires that sweat Beethoven talked about -but with practise,  it does increase the probability of writing something memorable by a considerable degree -It is a shame that I hadn't discovered these ideas in my youth or even middle years -sadly I am now nearer 60 than 50 .