{"id":17623,"date":"2013-02-12T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17623"},"modified":"2013-02-13T00:52:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T05:52:25","slug":"once-and-for-all-greatest-key-change-deployed-at-the-end-of-a-song-because-its-going-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/once-and-for-all-greatest-key-change-deployed-at-the-end-of-a-song-because-its-going-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Once and For All<\/em>: Greatest Key Change Deployed at the End of a Song Because It&#8217;s Going Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time we determine\u2014<em>once and for all<\/em>\u2014the\u00a0<strong>Greatest Key Change Deployed at the End of a Song Because It\u2019s Going Nowhere<\/strong>. \u201cGreatest\u201d is defined here as \u201cyou know what? That schlock arranger\u2019s trick actually works in this song, and it\u2019s genuinely better for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this on my way into work, when \u201cLiving On a Prayer\u201d came on the radio, and I found myself waiting for the schlock key change moment near the end of the song, which occurs here (sneak ahead to the 3:23 mark):<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lDK9QqIzhwk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Is there best use of this trick? I\u2019m not sure. I need your help!<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an open-entry discussion. Make your case. We will tabulate\/assess the winner on <strong>February 28, 2013<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time we determine\u2014once and for all\u2014the\u00a0Greatest Key Change Deployed at the End of a Song Because It\u2019s Going Nowhere. \u201cGreatest\u201d is defined here as \u201cyou know what? That schlock arranger\u2019s trick actually works in this song, and it\u2019s genuinely better for it.\u201d I was reminded of this on my way into work, when \u201cLiving <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/once-and-for-all-greatest-key-change-deployed-at-the-end-of-a-song-because-its-going-nowhere\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}