Fallout Boy, more like Fallback Boy. That may sounds stupid, but let me explain.
Fallout Boy put out this amazing song, entitled Thanks for the Memories. It was the kind of song you would see all of the teenage girls of the time jamming out to on their portable cd players, or if they were lucky, a first generation iPod classic. All the girls wanted to see Fallout Boy in concert, hell, even I did.
With such success from Thanks for the Memories, apparently Fallout Boy thought it would be a great idea to make another song with practically the same beat and feel. Seriously, go listen to both of them right now... practically the same song.
What's up with all of these bands repeating ideas over and over again? If you're a band, be in the music industry for the sake of loving what you do...if not, leave room for other artists in the recording studio.
So I was talking with a UT student who did a paper on these two nickelback songs that were basically identical. Maybe it's a conscious decision to repeat their success, but then again, maybe it's all they're capable of. Sometimes I notice myself writing similar chord progressions. I think it's like when you write prose, or you have mannerisms of speech that you use over and over again, like "dig it" for me. I'm not trying to defend the action, but your post got me thinking.
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