Don't bore us get to the chorus

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Do you agree with this principle?

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[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of analyzing exactly why "Welcome to the Jungle" was so good, years ago. The answer being that it had four or five different bits (hooks, riffs, whatever) that in and of themselves would be sufficient to carry a song. On one hand that suggests the answer was yes -- we loved the song because it was like a whole bunch of choruses crammed together. On the other hand, you have gorgeous songs like "Baby" by Caetano Veloso, where the chorus proper is slight, and when you realize there are no more choruses, well... I get tempted to stop the song before the end and start it over.

Whether either of these are "pop," is another question, I guess.