series of musical notes in a song

[Gerianne]

I noticed on the radio this morning that the song had about five notes and repeated over several times.
Maybe I could write a song.
The words in songs these days are basic and simple.

[BrionnaMorgan]

I noticed on the radio this morning that the song had about five notes and repeated over several times.
Maybe I could write a song.
The words in songs these days are basic and simple.

yeah i think its easy to write a song thats educational for little kids

[sarabtrayior]

I saw something like that that said that using just the black keys could make some beautiful music... I'm happy just to listen...

[BMaston12]

I noticed on the radio this morning that the song had about five notes and repeated over several times.
Maybe I could write a song.
The words in songs these days are basic and simple.

It also seems like the music is generated from a keyboard and recorded to a song repeatedly. I was listening to Joe Walsh on Audeince and he said that a lot of music is technically generated. He does not like the lack of originality. Just hit the repeat button and pre-record tracks. Back to lip-syncing! I think you would be more original than some of the stuff I hear on the radio. Good Luck!
BMaston12

[lvstephanie]

I've been a little disappointed with some of the modern songs... Either the melody is too simplistic or the words are simple. Like right now, I'm a little annoyed with Ne-Yo's "Let Me Love You" where it sounds like he is just practicing scales that they'd teach in singing lessons. Or what really got me was Carley Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"... "I threw a wish in a well", hmmm I don't know about her, but I throw a penny into a well to get a wish out of it (I guess her way keeps the well populated with wishes). And I still can't understand how you can miss anything before it actually came into your life. If you never knew about something / someone, you couldn't miss it. You might wish you had something like it, but that is a different emotion...

Probably the biggest factor with modern music is the editing that they do with the songs. Sampling of other songs, having the singer overlap lines, etc. all takes more editing than just putting words to music. Because of the skill involved, I sometimes like mashups more than the actual songs the DJ mashes together. The really good ones can weave together several different songs to create a completely new song that actually tells a story or expresses some emotion. DJ Earworm is one of my favorites... I first heard his mashups when he started doing his year-end mashup of the top 25 songs of the year. Here is last year's (2012): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q0dsG8fTHY (notice how often "tonight" or "night" gets used by the various songs)
Some other of my favorites of his are Mama (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8o23Ko_69s) which is a hip-hop song dedicated to mothers, No More Gas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCsMnF34wns) which is a fun one about how we have insatiable appetites even while we are using up the resources that provide for those desires, and another year-end mashup (2009 - Blame It On the Pop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNzrwh2Z2hQ) that even during troubling times, has us just pick ourselves back up and look for a more optimistic future.

[ShadeTree]

That sounds like a really boring "song". I prefer music that is generated directly from musical instruments, i.e. woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings. Not that computer technology stuff, all that sounds the same to me. Like you can only get so many different sounds before you run out of combinations whereas actual musical instruments seem to be more limitless in what can be created. As far as the lyrics go, I think you might be listening to the wrong stuff then. I like songs that read more like a paragraph/short story versus five lines repeated over and over.