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- Jan 25, 2013
1) You just managed to make sound catchiness like a bad thing...
2) I teach ESL for living and do you know how easy it is to find a pop song that could be used for teaching below intermediate level? Very hard. The ones I use are almost all actually rock songs because pop ones are too difficult.
3). Actually, with pop for 99% percent of people (including myself who was brainwashed to like some of Katy Perry) it's the reverse: at first people don't like it or are meh about it but the more they listen to it the more they like it. That's why massive radioplay results in good sales of a song.
4.) The pieces that are the most stuck to my brain like cheap perfume are fragments of Carmen and Hall of the Mountin King. Always have been, perhaps because of their ubiquity. (Hey, if popularity is a qualifier, they'd qualify for pop!) Oh, and Dance Macabre ever since I heard it the first time on Smurfs when I was 10.
5). The only time that happened it was on a musical. Never felt the need on a pop song.
I guess that list's wrong from the start so no point expanding.
I could suggest this for your students:
"Feeling Good"
Birds flying high
You know how I feel
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by
You know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good
Fish in the sea
You know how I feel
River running free
You know how I feel
Blossom on a tree
You know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good