Week 10 - Forum

This weeks forum was based on constructing and deconstructing music. It's a pretty general topic to have and so the presentations were all quite different. I'll focus this on one of them.

Freddie presented his on how to write a hit record. He gave us lots of different ways and formulas to write this record. His point that was by deconstructing other hit songs, you could find the golden way to write your own. I don't think that could work. If there are specific elements that are apparent in every hit song, then it would have to be hugely generic and so not very useful. Otherwise how could we explain how such different songs like Me and You by Cassie and Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd could both be hits. Then you have to define a hit. Is it something that gets number 1 for a week and then disappears, or the song that never quite hits mainstream but has cult-like following below the media line? Both are considered hits. For example, a hit on triple J might have no such title on Nova, because the audience is so different.

Overall, I thought the presentations were interesting this week. Always good.