john

That is precisely what viral marketing is meant to combat, spam bomber blues, but it like everything gets annoying because of the phoney social media accounts created to promote viral campaigns, that and the number of "non-friend-friends" almost everyone with a social media account has in their profile. On Songstuff we filter out a lot of drive by postings, especially anything off-topic (would you like some alligator shoes? How about free mp3 downloads?), but we do tend to leave posts made to the right section by the artist themselves (or who we believe to be the artist). Still they do get through. In terms of "play begging" etc I tend to ignore it. I am FAR more likely to listen to a song by a genuine community member. In fact I can't remember ever listening to a drive by poster. Somehow people think if they make a lot of noise that demands attention, saddly they forget that what they are trying to get is plays by potential fans, and forget to motivate them by talking to them and treating them as people.

Hi David It comes from a multi-mix up, partly due to terminology change, and from the mix up when compound forms are used. The "chorus" originally derived from the notion of "multi-voices" singing a section of the song, and was therefor applied to sections where multiple voices sung together. In classical music the massed voices in larger musical pieces are still termed "the chorus". The second meaning is the modern understanding of the section of a song called "a chorus". AAA is a description of a verse only construct. Though refrain lines can be sung by multiple voices, and using older terminology it is a chorus, but it is not the "chorus section" we know and love from "verse-chorus form" often called "AB form". Where the confusion comes is that AB is used to describe the architecture of the two main sections of the song, not the whole song. What we think of as the standard "AB form", as in verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus is in fact a compound song form Every section of "A" in AAA becomes an "AB" giving "ABABAB". Similarly if you mix AB standard form with AABA, moving the "B" in AABA to a new letter of C, then mix AB into AACA and you get what is understood to be (or named) "ABC" song form. As it is faster to understand AB and ABC typical form than to say it is AB compounded with AAA or AABA the roots of those forms are not often mentioned. 12-bar blues is another form that just describes the verse structure as AAB (where B in this case is the resolution, typically as the refrain) to get a full song model using it you need to apply a full song form such as AAA or AABA to it. To avoid confusion even further, and as the spots were claimed by the AB and ABC song forms in terms of common understanding, they just left the overall shape of the song down to the individual lol To add insult to injury, "the verse" did not used to be what we know it as now. It used to be the name for a 32 bar introduction, before you got to the main piece of music, typically AABA in structure (ie a second 32 bar section). Often conflicts in terminology seem to come down to classical musicians interpreting it one way and popular music using the term for something that it wasn't, or simply musicians in one area calling a section of music with a name that was already used for another section of music elsewhere. So no not an idiot. changing terminology, blame that. I found quite a lot of explanations online that were flawed. No doubt ours has flaws too, but I hope this explains why the article draws the conclusions it does. What is never too certain is whether to muddy the waters in the article or not to clarify why it states things the way it does. I just thought it would add confusion to outline all that history. I'd be happy to add something to this effect if you think it could lead to misunderstandings to omit it? I did go into it a bit in at least one of the articles, but not even as in depth as this explanation! lol