On 4/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">spike</b> <<a href="mailto:spike66@comcast.net">spike66@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
OK that tune is stuck in your head now, right? And you can't get rid of it,<br>right? And you hate me for mentioning it? {8^D That is an example of a<br>viral tune: pleasant, something you might hear violinized and played in
<br>elevators, nice enough that you don't even need the words, not particularly<br>profound are these lyrics anyway.<br>...<br>Here is the disturbing part: Stevie called to say he loves us somewhere<br>around 1984-ish. But I cannot think of a single viral tune that was written
<br>after that one. Did we really run out of them over twenty years ago? There<br>were other good tunes, but not really the simple, pleasant, hummable,<br>violinizeable tunes like that one and the others before it. Is it just that
<br>I do not listen to the right stations? Is it possible to hum a rap... um...<br>performance? Who is writing pleasant viral tunes today? The newer stuff<br>seems more complex in rhythms and such but the melodies will never be played
<br>as background music in an elevator perhaps.<br><br>Did we already write all the good songs? Or did they just migrate over to<br>the country western stations? Or what?</blockquote><div><br>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.
<br> </div>-- Neil<br></div><br>