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The journalist clearly didn't read the quote earlier in his own piece, or twisted the meaning of it to sensationalise the article:

"Mike McCready, CEO of Platinum Blue, says: "If you look at the music that has been invented since Beethoven, all of the hit songs in every new genre conform to the same mathematical patterns."


However most of that is tripe, of course - and full of sweeping generalisms.

He might just have well said "All songs conform to the same mathematical patterns", which on some levels, they do: All songs have a beginning, an ending and stuff in the middle.

As for "Vertigo" and "The Birdie Song", they both have an intro, verses and choruses, a tune and a beat. Lots in common.


Why did he say "since Beethoven"? Is he saying that Beethoven dumbed down the hit song - or even created it?

Beethoven didn't even write songs!

And since Beethoven, we've had the awesome Schubert song-cycles - not to mention the other fabulous European composers of that time and later who wrote song cycles.

What about the popular jazz hits, the various dances of the 1920s, Music Hall and Vaudeville, the crooners of the early 1950s, Presley, the Beatles et al?

There's not much that unites the Beatles hit songs once you get past the obvious structure!


Before Beethoven, there are the brilliant baroque Italian songs that every Opera singer gets to learn, such as Giacomo Carissimi's "Vittoria, Vittoria" and Tommaso/Giuseppe Giordani's "Caro Mio Ben", and, of course, the 12th Century songs, more of which are being unearthed every day... and so it goes on.


That said, I've no doubt that this software has its use as a tool in the studio - and no doubt that people will actually have hits using it.

Some people will buy anything if the right people tell them it's good.


/end rant
    

Edited by Certif1ed - June 21 2006 at 03:31

"The only technology I would use to pick a hit is my ears. I would not listen to a computer," he said.

That about sums up my opinion on that matter.

yeah, thats all crap, and pretty much all hit songs in the past 10 years blow anyway.