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John Mulaney: There's a Horse Loose in a Hospital

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam5/13/2018 5:04:39 pm PDT

re: #407 William Lewis

Not quite true - while certain structures are common, that is a plural for a reason. Chordal progressions as well as rhythmic considerations are also very much in play. It is common for multiple songs to use the same structure but a song that is built on the vi-IV-I-V structure like Toto’s “Africa” or Joan Osborne’s “One of Us” is still going to be very different from a song built on the I-V-vi-IV progression such as The Rolling Stones’s “Beast of Burden” or Green Day’s “When I Come Around”.

This is one of the main reasons Fake Books work after all.

This particular synchronicity is at the VIDEO level that it amazes me, not the song. That’s really where it gets almost Jungian.

I understand the chord progressions can be different. I was thinking more about the verse-chorus structure, which is pretty common among pop songs. I’m not enough of a musician to express what I mean very well, but it’s similar to how you can sing Stairway to Heaven to the tune of Gilligan’s Island (or vice versa).

But I gotta admit, hearing the Carly Mae Jepson song superimposed over the video is rather disturbing. I’m reasonably sure Glover had that in mind when he created his song and the video to go with it.