How do you write a hit that goes around the world forever and never falls out of time? For example: first verse and chorus (A), second verse and chorus (A), bridge (B), chorus with key change modulated up one note (A). Composed by Boy Meets Girl for Whitney Houston, I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) has been running for 35 years. Ten years after the singer’s death, a biopic titled her biggest hit was released in cinemas.
At the same time, pop music laments the tragic loss of its most successful means of composition: bridge and modulation. The interlude of suspense build-up and the change of mood from the jump to a different key threaten to disappear. Between the 1960s and 1990s, a quarter of all hits changed key within the song. In the 21st century, modulation has been steadily declining.
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