and when >50% of pop songs have the same 4 note progression i'm not entirely sure what would be accomplished, in the general sense. I'm not sure where i heard i

and when >50% of pop songs have the same 4 note progression i'm not entirely sure what would be accomplished, in the general sense. I'm not sure where i heard it, but it was back when i was composing nearly full time: "All notes have already been played in every order." Merely adding rests or lengthening or shortening notes or adding effects doesn't "fix" anything about the underlying problem. Meanwhile "Old Town Road" was made by "buying" the "rights" to an instrumental track that was created by Trent Reznor, but Trent Reznor had to be told that someone was using Ghosts 34. IIRC the "beat" was "bought" for less than a meal at a fast food restaurant, not from Reznor (or NIN, or Nothing Records, etc). I made $0 after spending about a decade composing, writing, arranging over 4 solo albums and an additional 6 albums with another person. One thing of note, though, was the "Napster Bad" metallica workaround on file sharing apps was to change the name of the band... to our band name. We didn't stand a chance.