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Sabrina Carpenter's newest hit "Please Please Please" includes what has actually just recently ended up being a threatened species, an essential modification! And this song isn't alone … in the last few years we have seen a small resurgence in pop tune crucial changes. So today let's take a look at the handful of essential modifications that pop has actually provided us over the last few years and consider whether the crucial modification is due for a return!
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0:00 Please by Sabrina Carpenter.
1:40 Secret modifications in pop music.
2:40 Leave The Door Open by Silk Sonic.
3:30 Dynamite by BTS.
4:53 HDpiano.
5:26 Sicko Mode by Travis Scott.
7:12 Are crucial modifications coming back into fashion?
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I’m always a sucker for key changes/modulations.
Maybe it’s because it’s a new take on the melody?
same!! a key change is always a nice touch in a song imo. sometimes it adds a feeling of “finality” to a song, but i think the reason we like them so much is just what you said: it’s a new version of the melody, and we usually like new things. that’s just my opinion though
If you like key changes, there are some pretty ones in my music. 😊
No pressure, just wanted to let a key change lover like yourself know. Hehe. 🎶🎵
Can you do a video about the Music Theory of Mild High Club?
I hope so. It’s sorely missed. It gives drama, and energy to a song
can you please break down some the smile songs
LOL. No more Radiohead, it seems. Time for Radiohead 2.0!
billie eilish’s new song l’amour de ma vie uses a key change, though it’s not a single
It wasn’t a hit single, but the Taylor Swift song “Gold Rush” off of Evermore has a noticeable key change that goes from F#m in the verses to G in the choruses..
“Betty” by Taylor Swift features a key change from C to D, during the last chorus
i was waiting for someone to comment on this one!! such a good and unexpected key change
I wish David would talk about Mitski. She’s a real genius on composition and production. A lot of her songs use key changes, modulation and other technics.
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YES.
I’m going to have to assume we’re not including modulations from the relative minor to relative major (and vice versa)? Could it really be true that hit songs don’t even do that? I’d be very surprised.
Livin’ on a Prayer has to be the best truck driver gear shift there is
A bunch of songs off Owl City’s latest album, Coco Moon feature key changes in them
Trick is songs have hidden key changes
nice video as always!!
I’ve always considered one or two key changes per song, semitone up in both cases, as a “standard”. Or better said, standard in musicals’ songs…
Two (older) examples:
Prince Ali (from Aladdin)
I’ve just called to say I love you (Stevie Wonder).
I remember Taylor Swift actually using a truck driver gear shift key change in her song Betty from the album Folklore.
On a completely different note, one example of truck driver gear shift key change that really struck me is by the deathcore band Lorna Shore. It’s really unusual for the style to have that, and yet in their song And I Return to Nothingness, they do it twice back to back, first 2 semitones up and then 3 semitones up. They actually did it again in Pain Remains pt. 2, although this time only changing by 3 semitones once. And it does work really well with their emotional style of melodic deathcore.
Never thought I’d see SICKO MODE on this channel
Interesting. However, I’m surprised you didn’t show us how Please Please Please would sound had it stayed in A major.
I love the BTS roast. 😆😆😆
One of my favourite key changes is the one in “You Win Again” by the Bee Gees. I envisage that key change as like the sun coming out after seeing cloudy skies for too long, it’s so enchanting.
Also, I think we need a “How the Bee Gees use music theory” video in a similar fashion to the video you did on Coldplay