Almost all the songs, new or old, have excellent choruses, driving fateful phrases into your head: among them in Tuesday's show were "Stridulum" ("This will all be yours"), "Avalanche" ("It all falls down"),"Shivers" ("I won't be there tomorrow") and "In Your Nature" ("If it's in your nature, you'll never win").
I Can't Stop Thinking About You has the punchy chorus and driving bass of the Police circa 1980, while If You Can't Love Me has an echo of the creepy narrator of Every Breath You Take.
"Behind These Hazel Eyes" is an uptempo pop rock song that incorporates crunchy guitars which are pulsated with driving beats and anthemic choruses; it narrates Clarkson's broken relationship with her ex-boyfriend.
With driving beats and a soaring chorus, this is perhaps the only World Cup song that could make the cross over from sports anthem to club anthem.
In the early hours of one morning, McKinnon was driving to Ocala, Florida when the chorus guitar riff to "The Downfall of Us All" came to him, sometime in September 2008.
"Losing Myself", from their third album "New York City", released last year, was a driving upbeat electro stomp, with choruses in English and verses in French.
Songs such as Radio of Lips, Blowing Fire and single The Last Thing on My Mind are driving indie-rock with big choruses and a wall of guitar and drums.
Gil Kaufman of MTV noticed that the song "soared on crunchy guitars, driving beats and anthemic, agitated choruses".
Lay Low contains simple guitar licks, fiddle flourishes on the chorus, and a lightly driving drum beat.
I said, 'Ah, I love this song,' and Max was like, 'If they would just write a damn pop chorus on it!' It was driving him nuts, because that indie song was sort of on six, going to seven, going to eight, the chorus comes ... and it goes back down to five.
