The Most COMPLEX Pop Song of All Time
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited in discussions of chord complexity and key changes in pop music.
What it is
Rick Beato analyzes a pop song he argues is among the most harmonically complex ever, breaking down its chords and key changes. It is a music theory deep dive aimed at general music fans.
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What Hacker News said
Cites bambax · 2022-04 · on “What chords do you need?”
The obligatory video is of course "Four Chords" by Axis of Awesome: [LINK] Rick Beato has kind of the opposite video about "the most complex song ever": [this video] The song in question is Never Gonna Let You Go by Sergio Mendes; plenty of videos exist of it; here's one live: [LINK]
Cites stickfigure · 2022-11 · on “The death of the key change”
Reminds me of this breakdown of "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Sergio Mendez: [this video] That song makes everything else look like amateur hour. Somehow it hit #4 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1983. I think I'll stick to bluegrass. In G.
Cites Rochus · 2023-01 · on “Pop2Piano: Pop Audio-Based Piano Cover Generation”
That's amazing, congrats to the authors. Wonder how it would perform on harmonically more complex pop songs (e.g. [this video] ).