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A comment on The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’.

Re:The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’ by didibus on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:05PM (#21775774)
It'll be interesting to see the long term effect of this circular dependency between producers and consumers in arts.

Why do we like what we like? What creates a trend? Can you create a trend by observing what's trending?

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Re:The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’ by tomcam on Thursday December 12, 2019 @06:47PM (#21777798)
Yes, this has been done in the pop music world for at least 100 years. Irving Berlin analyzed top of the chart songs so that he can learn how to construct his own.
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