Timberlake meets Michael McDonald meets a Janet "JJ" Jackson remake: Maroon 5's MAKES ME WONDER, the #1 download today, April 25, 2007

adding to your Playlist, just today: two songs at 114 beats per minute--the more songs that *you* add to the *speeds that you enjoy*--the more your options open up! Be that making a better Playlist for a sexually-charged hot-tub or a jog in the park. For example, as shown above, for the hot-tub thing, I, personally, would probably stay away from the Partridge Family--heck, who knows--it can add just that element of camp, all the while staying in time.
as advertised on iTunes
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You know you are old first of all just *being* 44 and listening to pop music--and everything seems to sound like some variation of something else. Well, that has always been such--one song evolves from another. Prolific and original songwriters such as that of a James "James" Taylor and Paul Simon have both candidly discussed songs that literally had grown out of other songs. In a 2004 interview with Jon Pareles of the New York Times, an interview available at http://www.audible.com/, Dave Matthews, the songwriter of our generation*, has professed the same writing technique. For example, how the song EVERYDAY grew out of the song #34.

This song by Maroon 5, currently #1 on the iTunes downloads list, sounds to us as thus: There is a time machine. A machine wherein a 16 year old Justin Timberlake and a 1980s Michael McDonald led Doobie "The Doobies" Brothers is asked to remake a Janet Jackson song circa 1985.

Number of beats counted=390
average time=2'5.255"
meanspeed=114.0 beats per minute
meanspace=526 milliseconds per beat

*in 1990, Rolling Stone Magazine crowned Barry Manilow "The Showman Of Our Generation," a title I think he still holds. As per this distinction in songwriting, I mean in no way, manner, or means to imply that The "Stone" has made same endorsement of Mr. Matthews as may be inferred from statement above.



Ian Schneider
April 25, 2007
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