Anyhow, I THINK the song structure goes something like this: Intro (16 bars)-Chorus (40 bars)-X (8 bars)-Y (16 bars)-Chorus (24 bars)-Y (16 bars)-Z(16 bars)-Chorus (24 bars) The intro of the song is 16 bars which is surprisingly long these days, but at least the song jumps right into the chorus which is definitely the hot part of the song. Instead, I will use the following terminology X, Y, Z to denote certain repetitive sections within the song that are like verses. I actually had a difficult time figuring out where the sections began and ended as it doesn’t really follow a typical Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Chorus structure nor does it utilize well-defined verses or pre-choruses – to me its not clear where these sections begin or end as you cannot tell them apart based on chord progression or energy level (the song is pretty much high energy the whole way). Song Structure: This song utilizes an unorthodox song structure that I’ve never seen before and unusual section lengths. Time/Key Signature/BPM: 4/4, G major, 128 bpm Songwriters: Pineda, Allan/Riesterer, Frederick/Adams, William/Ferguson, Stacy/Guetta, David/Gomez, Jaime I sincerely hope and believe you will gain some useful insights into hit songwriting from this series (and do share if you find any insights that I missed):Ĭhart Position: No. So here we go, here is your first Hit Song Analysis. 1 charting song of the week (which may not necessarily be one that I personally enjoyed) and another high charting song during that week (one that I actually enjoyed). I will generally analyze two songs per week, usually the No. By understanding and knowingly incorporating some of these elements into our songs, it is my belief we will be able to reach new heights in our songwriting. So in the spirit of that, this series will focus on the songwriting and production techniques used in current hit songs that propelled those songs to the top of the charts. I once took a seminar with a well-regarded producer who said “The radio is my teacher”. This is the first post of an ongoing weekly series called “Hit Song Analysis”.

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