I counted them up: 90% performed by men, 10% by women. As if men have objectively better voices. Me, I’ve grown weary of hearing so much from men over the years.
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There’s an endless run of these types of tunes. And they keep coming around because “that one” was big for a group when they were kids, so the nostalgia factor keeps them in vogue. Although I’d rather they were En Vogue.
Yeah, I hear you on that. My preference has always trended strongly towards female vocalists, which is why I have two separate Pandora stations for that (one for riot grrrl bands, and one for singer/songwriters like Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan).
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No. Maybe I have the “wrong sort” of friends but I don’t think this would work with my crew of aging goths, moshers, punks and general reprobates. No Stranglers? No Maiden? Only one AC/DC track? Where’s “Plant Clair” by the B-52s? “Holiday In Canbodia” by Dead Kennedys? “Bikini Girls With Machine Guns” by The Cramps? Not even got “Jesus Built My Hotrod”. I’m out.
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I feel the genre achieved perfection with
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/11/18/116-black-music-that-black-people-dont-listen-to-anymore/
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I had to Google: Beyond Turnt. Seems I need to get out more … right fellow humans?
Maybe the jokes not about you then?
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Why does everybody always feel the need to unleash their inner Comic Book Store guy on topics like this?
If it makes you happy,
It can’t be bad
and
whats wrong with that
I’d like to know
because here I go…
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“Hotel California” is a good song, but I can’t imagine getting turnt to it. Too mellow. “Life in the Fast Lane” is a better choice for it, but you gotta be up for line dancing.
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I’m guessing that you’re talking about White Americans with an Irish Heritage. 
I put my hand up as one of the people who cannot tolerate “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
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No escape from reality for you then, eh? 
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No, I meant white Irish people living in Ireland. Apologies for not being clearer.
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I daren’t turn my head the other way for a second without being accused of being “turnt”!
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NOTHING gets me to dance. I have exactly the inverse of the talent for “dancing”; I can actually negate dance in an area around me. It’s an interesting effect, I guess, but rough at parties.
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Nope. It is one of Journey’s best songs, but that only means I hate their other songs more.
There are a few songs I legitimately like and a few guilty pleasures (Jessie’s Girl), but overall this is a pretty boring play list.
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Yes, I agree. Actually, I hate everything Journey ever made with the fire of a trillion suns.
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I’d love to buy you a beer sometime.
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I thought the “can’t fail” progression was the I-V-vii-iii progression.
Dude, it’s BoingBoing. It’s filled with Comic Book Store guy nerd types here. (Myself included.)
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ficuswhisperer:
Instead of “can’t fail” (to make people think you’re playing some famous pop song); I should’ve noted that if you’re in a band and all of you have decided that covers are getting boring, we need to write or own “pop tune”: use those chords.
Re: Pachelbel: yea, that’s usually called the “Canon” chord progression. And it’s way longer than what you cited: I-V-vi-iii-IV-I-IV-V: it uses five of the seven chords from the major scale. Like the “Don’t Stop Believin’” progression (NB: the the first three are the same in “DSB” and Canon), it’s cloying and annoying and pandering…unless you finesse it. And there are hundreds of ways to do that. The “Canon” has the V-I ending cadence we all know from blues. It’s easily THE most “final” sounding cadence in music, at least to WEIRD-people’s ears.
“DSB” has a IV-I (“plagal”) cadence, which some musicologists think gives it an “optimistic” quality. “Louie, Louie” - which everyone can play after one day on the guitar - is I-IV-V (like the blues, the basis for a lot of jazz, and tons of rock), but it returns to IV before going home again to I…but it still sounds like a 3-chord “blues” progression. The IV-I isn’t within a rhythmically accented situation that makes you feel like it’s “optimistic”…although individual minds seem far more complex than snowflakes.
Similarly, in this famous classical cello piece, up to 20 seconds in? It’s basically a I-IV-V-I “blues”…but it’s Bach! Doesn’t sound “bluesy” at all!
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And a smattering of a few non-White, non-male nerds as well; like myself.
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