Listen to how she beautifully enters the opening melodic phrase of the verse. The Go Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed - YouTube I'm thinking of it in terms of G Major, for the sake of simplicity. This is a smash hit, classic New-Wave / Pop song from around 1980. Here's a much more subtle / minimalist example of the thread's theme and subject matter. Again, perhaps a side effect of being accustomed to music based on loops that can be jarringly atonal. What I mean by that is that I've heard things where I know the person writing the music was picking the chords based on the impression they got *at that moment of hearing the chord*, and *not* the sensation of what it feels like as 'the following chord'. I would tactfully suggest that, a generation having grown up on primarily atonal monophonic music probably does not perceive harmony too well except in an instantaneous-sensation aspect. The last thing sounds like 4th generation regressive post-Joni Mitchell, with a wrench thrown in by altering chords within the 'boundary' of making the oddball change have a quasi-voice leading reference to the melody.īut I couldn't listen to any of them for more than an instant or so. N.E.R.D.: sounds like someone tried to wrap chords using 'creative' voice leading around a 'melody' that is, uhm. I don't find that musical, sounds like loops from random Zappa tunes. Hudson Hawk - sounds disorganized and random, accidentally dissonant. Neneh Cherry's stepfather is Don Cherry - that kind of explains that: oddball substitutions.

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