Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.
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Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.
When you write a song, a song has longevity.
We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.
Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.
Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.
My favorite albums are really short.