[extropy-chat] infinite fun but finite tunes?

[Neil H.]

On 4/14/06, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> OK that tune is stuck in your head now, right?  And you can't get rid of
> it,
> right?  And you hate me for mentioning it?  {8^D  That is an example of a
> viral tune: pleasant, something you might hear violinized and played in
> elevators, nice enough that you don't even need the words, not
> particularly
> profound are these lyrics anyway.
> ...
> Here is the disturbing part: Stevie called to say he loves us somewhere
> around 1984-ish.  But I cannot think of a single viral tune that was
> written
> after that one.  Did we really run out of them over twenty years
> ago?  There
> were other good tunes, but not really the simple, pleasant, hummable,
> violinizeable tunes like that one and the others before it.  Is it just
> that
> I do not listen to the right stations?  Is it possible to hum a rap...
> um...
> performance?  Who is writing pleasant viral tunes today?  The newer stuff
> seems more complex in rhythms and such but the melodies will never be
> played
> as background music in an elevator perhaps.
>
> Did we already write all the good songs?  Or did they just migrate over to
> the country western stations?  Or what?


For my generation (raised in the 80s and 90s), a few songs from various
Disney movies (Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Lion King, etc.) would probably
qualify as viral tunes/earworms of a sort.

-- Neil
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