Friday, November 17, 2006

Pop Music Example?

As I thought of different popular bands of the current music era, I thought of All American Rejects and their very popular song "Move Along", which i have heard on the radio numerous times in the past couple of days alone..

The song is 4:02 in length and at 2:32 into it, a instrumental of piano that is much quieter than the rest of the song begins. I would argue this is the climax of the song. 242 / 152 = 1.592, which is close to the fibonacci sequence. Here in lies my question...

I feel as if an interesting topic for debate. When a noticeable difference in the speed of a song occurs, for instance a fast song that has a slow verse around the time of the climax such as Move Along, does the beginning of the slow verse mark the climax or does the end of it? At the end of the piano instrumental(which does have words sung during it, at a much slower pace than the song's previous pace) the lead singer screams loudly and marks the beginning of the fast pace of the song again, which could arguably also be called the climax. Also, does the climax have to be exclusively instrumental, with no lyrics at all?

3 comments:

BrandtE28 said...

I've been basing where the climax is on the emotion that particular moment brings me and whether I would be the most loud and pumped during a live performance. I sort of imagine myself at a concert, where am I going nuts during that song? That's the climax.

Anonymous said...

Often i feel the climax in a song like you described( fast, slow verse, then fast) is like right after the end of the slow part. theres usually a moment of hesitation, then all the instruments kick back in as it gets back to the fast part. that would be my defination of the climax.

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