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What amuses me is that it's generally agreed to be an un-interesting song! But it's "stuck" to all of us, like a bubble-gum stain on our cultural pavement. I w
by simonsarris 11y ago
What amuses me is that it's generally agreed to be an un-interesting song! But it's "stuck" to all of us, like a bubble-gum stain on our cultural pavement.
I wonder what (and how long) it will take for a new song to unseat it.
- theseatoms 11y agoIt's not just science that progresses one death at a time.
- baddox 11y ago> What amuses me is that it's generally agreed to be an un-interesting song! How do you mean? It's not a Bach fugue, but I wouldn't really call it uninteresting. It's a more complex melody than the vast majority of songs you'll hear on the radio.
- jimhefferon 11y agoKeep in mind that it is intended for kids. It is interesting to them.
- baddox 11y agoI don't think the intended audience is relevant. I still don't see what about it is particularly uninteresting. It's all diatonic, sure, but if that's the criterion then a huge amount of music is uninteresting. The melody has a variety of intervals (including an octave), and suspensions on nearly every chord.
- dev-da0 11y agoThe issue is the perception of commonness assumes that it's obviously public domain when it's not. Another nail in the coffin of ridiculous IP trolls.
- jimhefferon 11y agoI took the comment to mean that Happy Birthday to You is not interesting compared to, say, Locatelli's Sonata in G Major. The second is simply a more ambitious work, is all.
- twerquie 11y agoAgreed, it's actually a rather difficult melody.