{"id":14133,"date":"2012-06-23T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14133"},"modified":"2012-06-23T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T13:49:47","slug":"running-low-on-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/running-low-on-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Low on Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ulaGjwiIbo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Driving home tonight, I heard a song for perhaps the 10th or 12h time. I typed part of the  lyrics into Google to find the title, and found out it was  &#8220;Love You Like a Love Song,&#8221; by <strong>Selena Gomez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a song I hear when my wife leaves the dance station on in my truck. I used to have a problem with this, kinda, but I don&#8217;t anymore. I think we are in a producer-driven golden age of dance music; I find many of the songs exciting and edgy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Love You Like a Love Song&#8221; isn&#8217;t one of these, but I did find something about the tune that caught my mind&#8217;s Rainman-like attention to patterns that sometimes manifest themselves in RTH posts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the lyrics. They&#8217;re mundane. But they are mundane in a way that has historical precedent in pop music. Take a look at the first two lines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every beautiful thought&#8217;s been already sung<br \/>\nAnd I guess right now here&#8217;s another one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the sound of someone struggling to write a song, nay, write a HIT SONG. This is a very particular pattern in pop history. My mind leapt to dozens of songs that had this &#8220;guess it&#8217;s all been done but i need to write a song&#8221; genesis, that were then voiced that within the finished product.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of a half-dozen right away. Most weren&#8217;t good, but some were very good.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home tonight, I heard a song for perhaps the 10th or 12h time. I typed part of the lyrics into Google to find the title, and found out it was &#8220;Love You Like a Love Song,&#8221; by Selena Gomez. This is a song I hear when my wife leaves the dance station on in <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/running-low-on-inspiration\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[666,55,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}