I read this funny article about how the ‘Sensitive Female Chord Progression’ has infiltrated so many songs.
Link: Striking a chord – Boston Globe
Even though Beyoncé’s “If I Were a Boy” hit radio too late to be the
song of the summer, there’s still a case to be made that it’s the
perfect song to cap off the year. It’s not because of the empathetic
lyrics, or B’s heartrending, disappointed vocals. No, it has everything
to do with the four chords that underpin the song’s verse, circling
from yearning to triumph and back again, four chords that were
inescapable in 2008.
song of the summer, there’s still a case to be made that it’s the
perfect song to cap off the year. It’s not because of the empathetic
lyrics, or B’s heartrending, disappointed vocals. No, it has everything
to do with the four chords that underpin the song’s verse, circling
from yearning to triumph and back again, four chords that were
inescapable in 2008.
While some of the comments were snooty, there was a great link to the video below – a comedian talking about how Pachabel’s Canon in D has hounded him his whole life.
