That's Catchy

"Its a small world after all" say that 3 times in a row.  Now it's stuck in your head the rest of the day. How do they do that?  What makes a song stick in your head all day long? Just by writing that lyric down I have it stuck in my head at the moment. A lot of songs repeat certain lyrics throughout the song to emphasize their point. This can really get stuck in your head and make you either want jump out of a window, like the above lyric, or bring you back to the song to where you want to listen over and over. Usually the songs are really simple, nothing to them, but the simplicity of them can stay in your head all day long. 

I made a song several years ago called "What'z Up." (Listen Here) It was so catchy that a local DJ working for HOT 104.5 wanted the song on the radio and it aired for several weeks in 2005. When I wrote the song, I was just thinking of something to repeat that would get stuck in your head. I guess it did for a few weeks. It hit #471 out of over 1 million on the soundclick charts in 2007 several years after it was originally created. Artists use these catchy tracks to bring in the listeners and get them to listen to their real music. Take Eminem for example. "My Name Is" Eminem's first hit single that brought him to fame was a catchy track.  It brought fans of pop into rap, but if he would have come out with "Guilty Conscience" first, he might not have been so popular(I don't really believe that). Eminem is probably one of the best examples of this because he has done this on every album. The very next album he did "The Real Slim Shady," then "Without Me," "Just Lose It," "We Made You." He seems as though he has stopped this trend in his most recent album "Recovery." Most of the songs on this album are more serious and aren't silly like the others, but he has reached a point in his career where he doesn't have to do those silly songs to get attention anymore. 

What are some of your thoughts on why songs are catchy? Do you believe it works for artist's advantages?

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