Is Art Limited?

[Hoofhurr]

An interesting accompaniment to this thread is a company that has designed algorithmic software to rate whether your song will be a hit or not. Might be able to google it but I heard about it on the radio last week. Apparently they've applied this software to many past hit music singles and have good fidelity. This lends some credibility to Vllad's argument although the counter argument might be that what the masses buy into and make hits out of probably isn't that original.

I don't often give the opposing viewpoint ammunition but here you go Vllad.

October 12, 2009 - Many of us like to believe that there's a little magic behind the making of a hit single. Take a song like "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas. That's a good song, judging by sales: It's on top of the Billboard pop chart. David Meredith, CEO of Music Intelligence Solutions, says there's no magic in that; it's math. His software, called Hit Song Science, gave the song a hit score of 8.9 out 10.

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