I don’t care if it is a trope, I miss key changes. Maybe because I grew up in the 80s and early 90s where it was common. But I have a fondness for songs that ha

I don’t care if it is a trope, I miss key changes. Maybe because I grew up in the 80s and early 90s where it was common. But I have a fondness for songs that had them. Some songs did them in a way that was predictable, just following the formula of others, but some did them really well. One stand-out example, to me, is how Seal closes the song “People Asking Why” (around the 3:16 mark): https://youtu.be/qq_bfcvdN-0 https://youtu.be/qq_bfcvdN-0 With his vocal range, he was one of the few that could pull something like that off.