In 1988, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole called a sound studio at 3am to ask if he could come record his new idea.
Despite the time, the owner agreed because he was so polite. He showed up in 15 minutes, sang with his ukulele, and recorded ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in one take.
It’s now the most requested version of the song by far.
If you have an ‘openness to experience,’ you’re likely to get chills more than others when you listen to music.
Studies show over 90% of us have experienced chills from hearing music, but how powerfully music affects you depends on your overall personality - not your opinion or preference of the of music you’re actually hearing.
Just before he died, Freddie Mercury got to see an advance copy of the Wayne’s World headbanging scene that features ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’
According to guitarist Brian May, ‘the humor in it was quite close to our own. Because we did that kind of thing in the car, bouncing up and down to our own tracks!’
Freddie loved it, and, after his death, the film helped revive Queen in the US.
In 1988, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole called a sound studio at 3am to ask if he could come record his new idea.
Despite the time, the owner agreed because he was so polite. He showed up in 15 minutes, sang with his ukulele, and recorded ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in one take.
It’s now the most requested version of the song by far.
If you want to be more productive, listen to a video game soundtrack while you work. People who work in silence are slower and less proficient than those who listen to music, and video game music is specifically designed to keep you motivated and finishing tasks without stealing your focus.
David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Thom Yorke, Bob Dylan, and Iggy Pop have all used the same ‘cut up’ technique to write many of their songs.
Using poems or lyrics they’d already written, they cut the words apart, mixed them around, and put them back together in a different order to achieve a more poetic and mysterious sound.
In 1997, two composers created ‘The Most Unwanted Song’ by issuing a public opinion survey and compiling all the lyrical and musical elements that most people found annoying.
The song features a harp with an accordion, out-of-tune children singing about Christmas and Walmart, lots of high-pitched flutes with tubas and keyboard demos, someone yelling random political terms through a megaphone, and an operatic soprano rapping over cowboy music, bagpipes, and screaming.
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If you have an ‘openness to experience,’ you’re likely to get chills more than others when you listen to music.
Studies show over 90% of us have experienced chills from hearing music, but how powerfully music affects you depends on your overall personality - not your opinion or preference of the of music you’re actually hearing.
Just before he died, Freddie Mercury got to see an advance copy of the Wayne’s World headbanging scene that features ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’
According to guitarist Brian May, ‘the humor in it was quite close to our own. Because we did that kind of thing in the car, bouncing up and down to our own tracks!’ Freddie loved it, and, after his death, the film helped revive Queen in the US.
When Kevin Bacon goes to a wedding reception, he bribes the DJ so they won’t play Footloose.
“I go to the disc jockey and hand him $20 and say, ‘Please don’t play that song’, because, first off, a wedding is really not about me. It’s about the bride and groom. And… it’s embarrassing. ”
A study of all the #1 Billboard Hot 100 songs from 1958-2012 showed those with simple, repetitive lyrics are more prone to climbing the charts into the top 40.
This is likely due to the ’processing fluency’ theory, which states that the easier a message is to digest, the more positively people will react to it.
It’s a popular strategy for advertising, and it’s often used in stand-up routines when comedians circle back to the same punch line throughout their set.
When asked about the many people who question the meaning of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ Freddie Mercury said, ‘F— them, darling… I’ll say no more than what any decent poet would tell you if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it’s there.’
When asked about the many people who question the meaning of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ Freddie Mercury said, ‘F— them, darling… I’ll say no more than what any decent poet would tell you if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it’s there.’
A study of all the #1 Billboard Hot 100 songs from 1958-2012 showed those with simple, repetitive lyrics are more prone to climbing the charts into the top 40. This is likely due to the ’processing fluency’ theory, which states that the easier a message is to digest, the more positively people will react to it. It’s a popular strategy for advertising, and it’s often used in stand-up routines when comedians circle back to the same punch line throughout their set.