What genres (especially current pop genres) make the heaviest use of the minor key?

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also, isn't most pop music structured around 8-measure phrases rather than 12?

Also, most pop is 4/4 rather than 3/4.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't mean 12-bar blues, specifically, I was talking about the mode

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

"modal music = the blues"

what do you mean by this? blues is based on a pentatonic scale with a flat 5 and a I IV V progression with all the chords being dominant sevens.

― brains (cerybut), Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pop music of the 20th century was decidedly not modal in the sense that I understand modal music. I think Kind Of Blue when I think modal.

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― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

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― trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

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― trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 1 June 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hip-hop and straight pop often use minor keys.
See Britney Spears,
"Baby One More Time, "Oops I Did It Again?"
and Blackalicious,
"Sky Is Falling."
It's not that exotic. You may be referring to modes, like
that used by the awesome vocal line in Jay-Z's "The Bounce"
(though that song is ruined by a lame guest appearance).

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 1 June 2003 04:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pop country still uses lots of minor keys. It's a cheap trick, like divas popping up a key to add emotion to a final chorus.

― Dan I., Sunday, 1 June 2003 05:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

a cheap trick indeed, but it works. Better than the 909 snare roll.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 1 June 2003 06:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

pop country would be better if they used 808 jeep beetz.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 1 June 2003 06:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nu Metal

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight months pass...

revive

― revive, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago) link

erm... reggae? possibly

― search and delete (searchanddelete), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

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